[Manuscript cookery book, 1687-1763].
Contributors: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Published: 1687
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, English -- Washington, D.C
Notes: Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib., p. 94
Ms. book of recipes and home remedies in several hands.
Untitled; title from Bitting.
"This is my deare wives booke. Tho. Cole"--Prelim. p. [1].
Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939 (Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy. Manuscript cookery book no. 6).
Written in Great Britain.
Bound in before the 1st text leaf is an unpaged quire of 6 leaves (on different paper) containing an index dated at Cowes, Aug. 1687.
Inserted at various points (where gaps in the pagination have been left) are quantities of leaves, letters, and slips of various sizes, some dated (from 1763 to 1875). The binding and one of the 2 clasps have broken under the strain.