- Title
- Recipe book
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- Creator
- Ann Charlotte Frescheville (ca. 1640-1717)
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- Description
- Contains 177 pages of recipes written in a beautiful, clear hand with the name of each in a capitalized heading over the text. A full index lists the following: 19 cake recipes; 93 sweetmeats, including wine and sack; 28 waters; 163 perfumes and 'phisicall' recipes with salves, plaisters, and other excellent things; and 63 cookery recipes. The last section was written with the book reversed. Several of the recipes are titled with the name of a person, presumbly the one that gave it to Lady Frescheville. Lady Frescheville was Ann Charlotte, the wife of John, who was created Baron Frescheville of Stavely in 1665. She was the daughter of Sir Henry de Vic, and was born around 1640 in the Channel Islands. Her father served in several posts under King Charles II. In 1666, Ann Charlotte de Vic married John, Lord Frescheville, as his third wife. His home was at Staveley in Derbyshire. (Part of the house still stands.) Lord Frescheville was appointed governor of York shortly after this marriage. Lord Frescheville had daughters, but no sons. Because of this, he sold his estate to the Earl of Devonshire, and thus his wife inherited money when he died. She then moved to London and served as a lady-in-waiting to Princess (later Queen) Anne. Lady Frescheville died in 1717 and was buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Index to the recipes in the front of the volume. Bound in full red morocco with a gilt coronet and the initials A*F on both covers, within gilt rules and marble end pages; slight scuffing; staining on the upper quarter of pages in the first half of the volume.
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- Format
- ["manuscript"]
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- Subjects
- ["Recipes","Cooking, English--Manuscripts","Home economics--History--17th century","Therapeutics--History--17th century"]
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