Manuscript Location

Library of Congress, Rare Book/Special Collections Reading Room (Jefferson LJ239)

Place of Origin

England

Date of Composition

likely early 18th century

Description

This recipe book of around 150 written pages is written in at least three hands. One of the later hands wrote the inscription on the front flyleaf: "Betty Elsley's book."  The paper watermark suggests that the book was compiled in the early eighteenth century.