[Manuscript cookery book]
By: Mary Mott.
Contributors: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Published: 1679
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, English -- Washington (D.C.); 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. 333
Holograph, with 2 pages in another hand.
Untitled; title from Bitting.
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. 5).
Includes home remedies, in addition to the cookery recipes. The section of home remedies (43 p.) begins at the end of the book, the book being turned head-to-toe, and runs toward the middle; 112 blank pages separate the two sections of the book.
Inscription on flyleaf of home-remedies section: This book to be given to Mr. George Abbey at my death. Mary Kerr, 30th May 1825.
Probably written in Great Britain.