Recipe Book of Mrs Deborah Haddock

Recipe book compiled by Mrs Deborah Haddock from 1720, including culinary, medical and household recipes. The majority of the culinary recipes are written in Deborah Haddock's hand, although the section on ff.48-57 is predominantly in other hands. The medical recipes, however, are in a variety of hands, none apparently that of Deborah Haddock. Eight of the medical recipes are ascribed to named women, with one ascribed to a Doctor Blair, while seventeen women and men (particularly Mrs Hedges, Mrs How and Lady Shelburn) are named as contributors of culinary recipes. There is no overlap between the two sets of contributors. All the recipes are in English, with the exception of the recipe for pills on f.61v. f.1r Inscribed `Mrs Deborah Haddock. Her Book December the 1 one thousand Seven Hundred and twenty. 1720' f.2 Miscellaneous culinary recipes ff.3-6 Recipes for soups ff.7-12 Recipes for pies ff.13-19r Recipes for puddings ff.19v-20r Miscellaneous culinary recipes ff.20v-22r Recipes for various types of collar [lit. `collor'] i.e. boned, rolled and bound meat or fish ff.22v-26r Recipes for potted meat, fish and fowl ff.26r-28v Recipes for pickled fish and fowl ff.29-36 Miscellaneous culinary recipes ff.37-47 Recipes for desserts, biscuits, cakes etc., plus two savoury recipes on f.46 ff.48-57 Miscellaneous culinary recipes, the majority not in Deborah Haddock's hand (including several recipes for pickled nuts, gherkins etc.), plus two medical recipes on f.52 ff.58-60 Blank f.61v Recipe for `Pills for my mother from Doctor Blair' (partly in Latin) f.62 Blank f.63r Mrs Westrop's recipe for paint to make a wall `look like plain paper' ff.63v-69v Miscellaneous medical recipes f.70v Inscribed `Mrs Deborah Haddock. Her Receipt Book one thousand seven Hundred and twenty. 1720' Back cover inscribed `Kinsale Towne Districts Walls For the Months of April and May 1709'.

early 18th century

1 volume 1 volume: 230 x 165 mm., 70 ff. (some blank). Original limp vellum binding

Purchased from A.R. Heath (Rare Books and Manuscripts), Bristol, 2002.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/211.