[Manuscript cook book].
Contributors: Fowke, Mrs., 18th cent.; Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Published: 1700
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, English -- Washington (D.C.)
Notes: Ms., principally in one hand, with additions, insertions, and mounted pieces by others. Two pieces are addressed to a Mrs. Fowke.
Untitled; title devised from contents.
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. 18).
Probably written in Great Britain.
Interspersed with the recipes are occasional home remedies (not indexed).
One quire appears to have previously formed part of a cash book and includes a leaf dated for that purpose "November 1787."
Pages were numbered 1 through 35 by an early writer; additional pages were prefixed later and a renumbering was carried to p. 21; the numbering is continued from p. 35 to the end (p. 115) in modern pencil.
Includes index to the earliest recipes.