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Extracts from the Lydiard Kitchen Recipe Book, 1704 -1890

Extracts from the Lydiard Kitchen Recipe Book, 1704 -1890
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Part of a wider research article by Deputy the Hon. John Tooke Kirby. The recipes were copied by him in 1937 from a Lydiard Park kitchen book begun in Elizabethan times.

Tooke Kirby kept his horses stabled at Lydiard and had access to the Library where he records that several old recipe books were on the shelves, the bulk of the collection having already been dispersed by sale.

Recipes include Ham in Hades(1850), Boiled Oysters (1704), Alderman's Walk (1710) and Grandfather's Bloater (1890), a favourite of Lord Bolingbroke which was cooked for him over the fire in the Library.


Years:
1985
1704-1890
Creator:
Deputy the Hon. John Tooke Kirby d1985
Type:
Research Report Article
Taken from:
Report No. 18
Owner:
Friends of Lydiard Park
Reference:
Report 18 (1985), pp. 25-26
Copyright:
Friends of Lydiard Park
Credit:
Friends of Lydiard Park
Last updated on:
Friday 30th June 2023

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