A transcription of the Manuscript recipes. The date and name I have taken from the back of a recipe stuck in towards the end of the book. I guess it was originally started about 20 years sooner. It is well written throughout, but going very brown and is very worn with insect damage at the stitching. The writing noticeably matures as one gets into the book and then starts to get shakier as though through infirmity or age and then changes to a different hand. The recipes were not working copies as there are no food splashes on any of the pages. I surmise that it was a reference book kept by the cook, added to sometimes by the lady of the house and also with recipes given by other people. I am beginning to get to know the woman who wrote the recipes, she must have said "tis" quite often  and "em" instead of them. She spelt as she said; for instance Separate is spelt 'seperate' - I say it that way.

Throughout I have tried to use her punctuation, her use of Upper Case in words and her spelling .  She used the long 's'  for instance "goodneƒs", but I have not put those in as it is a great distraction to modern reading, although one gets used  it very quickly.