(Food History) Philip James, ed. A Butler's Recipe Book, 1719. Intro. by Ambrose Heath. Africa and positivity

and positivity

like the Stuffed Bitter Melon

and amarettis to award-winning original creations such as the Sacher and Reus pastries

sacred fare

small scrape to cloth at upper front cover

(Food History) Philip James, ed. A Butler's Recipe Book, 1719. Intro. by Ambrose Heath. Africa and positivityIllus. with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Cloth backed pink boards. First Edition. Cambridge: University Press, 1935. A collection of recipes written out in an elegant manuscript hand by a butler named Thomas Newington, for his mistress in Brighton, described by him as "the Palladium of Many Noble Familyes." The recipes include instructions on how to kill and roast a pig, how to spitchock eels, how to make "a friggace of rabbetts," etc. Minor