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Domestic Cookery. Jane Lymburner, 1817

 Item — Volume: IR 1

Dates

  • Creation: 1817

Extent

From the Collection: 10.50 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Materials Specific Details

Owned by Jane Lymburner, Bellfast. Dated Jan. 2, 1817. Included are recipes for cooking and medicinal needs. There is an interesting cross selection of recipes such as plum cake; a very fine cake; a very good common cake; a seed cake, another; common bread; common cake; very good pound cake; Queen's cake two ways; little white cakes; tea cakes; Shrewsbury cake; little short cakes; Benton tea cake; very good common plum cake; another sort of biscuit; another sort hard biscuit; plum cake; sugar cake; ginger bread; flat cakes that will keep well in the house; plain and crisp biscuit; a biscuit cake; crack nuts; water cakes; sponge cake; another without butter; wafers; turnbridge cakes; gingerbread; another sort; buns; French rolls; Brentford Rolls; excellent rolls; Yorkshire cake; a minute pudding; puddings; snowball; quick made pudding; a cup cake; pickling cucumbers; apple pudding; plain baked pudding; custard pudding; rice custard; minced pie; preseve raspberries; common biscuit; whipt cream; plain boiled pudding; rich cake; currant jelly; currant wine; raspberry giam; preserve plums; preserve currants; a custard; millet' pudding; apple dumplings; pancakes; baked apple pudding; apple pudding; to pickle cabbage; preserve goosberry; goosberry or currant pie; pickle onions; pickle French beans; chees cakes; custard pudding; apple sauce; onion sauce; icing for tarts; damson pudding; make sauce for pudding; raspberry wine; make bunes.

Other recipes written in a different hand by Jennet Locke of Bellfast, dated Oct. 2, 1827 are: measure cake; fritters; slap jacks; cake; currant jelly dated: Jennet Locke 1859; to cure ham; liniment dated John L. Locke 1849; liniment for sprains bruises and rheumatism and pain in the limbs and for cholick J. Locke, Belfast 1849.

Also includes newspaper clippings with advertisements.

Physical Description

Original wrappers, hand sewn at edges.There are 86 pages, of which 56 are written. handwritten inside cover, Bellfast, J. Lymburner Jan the 2 1817 Multiple layer paper covers, chipped on edges

Dimensions

4 x 6 1/2 in.; 10 x 16.5 cm

Repository Details

Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository

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