Mollard, John RECIPE BOOK manuscript, with several hundred sophisticated professional recipes, roughly organised into soups, fish, meat, poultry, vegetables, puddings, pickles, sauces, and pastries, including what is believed to be the earliest known recipe for "Twelf Cakes" (p.307), 337 pages numbered in pencil, plus blanks, 15 stubs at the front of the volume, 13 pasted slips of paper with revisions and additional recipes, occasional markings and revisions in pencil, two further slips loose, two pages of recipes in a modern hand at the end, 4to, stiff green vellum with gilt lettering ("John Mollard 1797"), gilt border and inside dentelles, gilt edges, two metal clasps, 1797, lower cover detached, significant loss at spine, rubbed
Mollard, John RECIPE BOOK manuscript, with several hundred sophisticated professional recipes, roughly organised into soups, fish, meat, poultry, vegetables, puddings, pickles, sauces, and pastries, including what is believed to be the earliest known recipe for "Twelf Cakes" (p.307), 337 pages numbered in pencil, plus blanks, 15 stubs at the front of the volume, 13 pasted slips of paper with revisions and additional recipes, occasional markings and revisions in pencil, two further slips loose, two pages of recipes in a modern hand at the end, 4to, stiff green vellum with gilt lettering ("John Mollard 1797"), gilt border and inside dentelles, gilt edges, two metal clasps, 1797, lower cover detached, significant loss at spine, rubbed
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