Manuscript Location

Folger Shakespeare Library, Manuscripts

Place of Origin

England

Date of Composition

book begun ca. 1613, recipes ca. 1725

Description

This manuscript is in two parts. The front of the book comprises poems, commentaries, a record of family baptisms, 1662-1684, documents pertaining to wills and bequests, and other matters. This material dates from the early seventeenth through the early eighteenth centuries. The back of the book, written from the back cover proceeding toward the center, includes approximately 20 written pages of culinary, household, and medical recipes that were probably compiled around 1725. The culinary recipes are few. They include potted beef, gooseberry vinegar, and elder wine.

Of possible interest to culinary historians are references to the Fettiplace and Ingoldsby families (Part I, leaves 4, 48 and Part II, leaves 1-5) and an inventory of Sir Edmund Fettiplace's goods, 1613 (Part II, leaf 1). Edmund Fettiplace (d. 1613) was a cousin of Richard Fettiplace, whose wife Elinor compiled a 1604 manuscript cookbook that was partially published, with copious annotations, by the English writer Hillary Spurling, in 1986.