Anne Western Recipe Book
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[Library Title: [Cookery and medical recipes]]
Holding Library Call No.
oversize MSS 168Manuscript Cookbooks Survey Database ID#
208Place of Origin
EnglandDate of Composition
1716Description
This culinary and medical recipe book is written in a notebook stitched together with sheets of various sizes to make a 78-page volume, some of which is blank. It belonged to Anne Western, who signed her name and wrote the date 1716 on the front cover. She wrote much of the first part of the book; the leaves not in her hand may have been sent or given to her by neighbors and friends. It is likely that Anne Western became Mrs. Anne Johnston "At Mr. Western's" ["At Abington, Bourne Bridge, Cambridgeshire"].