[Manuscript cookery book, written and compiled by Charlotte H. Hughes].
Charlotte H. Hughes
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1858
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3140276
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],75,[69]p. . 20cm.. Not indigenous. A ruled [quarto?] notebook containing a collection of recipes and household remedies. Signed and dated on inside front cover "Charlotte H. Hughes 1858". Pages numbered in manuscript. Index on front endpapers. Most recipes have a note of the person giving the recipe to the writer. Recipe on p. 50 dated "Augst 15th 1874". At the back, and with the book reversed, are notes of traders and suppliers, mostly with London addresses. The final recipe is on p.[1] of the second unnumbered sequence. Manuscript price on front flyleaf: "£2". Laid loose inside is a sample card from Dickins & Jones, Ltd., London, with a piece of "fine lawn lace trimmed" as used for handkerchiefs.. Binding: Bound in vellum, possibly with faint traces of manuscript letters on the spine.
Makers and roles
Charlotte H. Hughes