[Cookery manuscript of the 17th [sic] century].
Contributors: Dolben, Elizabeth, Lady, 1690 or 91-1730.; Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Published: 1700
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
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. 126
Ms., in several hands.
Untitled; title from Bitting.
Bitting incorrectly ascribes writing to Lady Elizabeth Dolben (Bitting: "Dolbens"), based on caption found on page numbered 135: The Lady Dolbens advice to her niece. The book was however probably written by members of the Mulso or Dolben families in Finedon, Northamptonshire (cf. note at foot of page numbered 166, "This receipt was given by Lucatello to my Grandmother Mulso."
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. 9).
If Lady Dolben is correctly identified in the ms., it could not have been written in the 17th cent. as Bitting asserts.
Three of the additions are dated 1806, 1850, and 1852.
The ms. has been rebound so that the original paging now runs: 135-166, 169-176; 3-36; 67-102. Between the three major sections (Phisick, Preserving, and Cookery; contrary to Bitting, there is no section captioned "Wines") and at end there have been added unpaged sections of new recipes, sometimes mounted on stubs.