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  • This cookery book was compiled by the residents of Llangollen in 1911 in order to raise money for the local bazaar. A selection of recipes from the book are shown in the following pages.
The Llangollen Cookery Book (1911) [front cover, image 1 of 17]
  • In writing her cookbook it was the wish of Augusta Hall (Lady Llanover, 1802-96) to provide a cookery manual for young women who had no prior knowledge of the subject, and to preserve some of the Welsh recipes with which she was familiar.
Extract from proof copy of Lady Llanover's cookbook, 1867 [image 1 of 11]
  • This recipe book, dated 1776, was compiled by Ann Phelps of Withybush House in Rudbaxton parish, Pembrokeshire. It includes a range of delicacies, sweet as well as savoury, together with snippets of household advice (such as how to clean steel stoves and a recipe for furniture polish). The author noted her recipes in an old execise book and the early pages include printed mathematical tables as well as a series of mathematical calculations in manuscript form. Withybush House, the author's home, was associated with the Martin/Phelps family from the seventeenth century until it was purchased by William Owen (builder and architect) during the nineteenth century.
Recipe Book owned by Ann Phelps of Withybush House, 1776 (mathematical tables, etc) [image 1 of 46]
  • This is a volume of recipes, herbal remedies and household hints, compiled during the mid-nineteenth century (c.1845) and owned by Lady de Rutzen of Slebech Hall (near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire). It contains an interesting assortment of recipes, including 'calves feet jelly', 'hare soup', goosebery wine and the intriguingly-named 'Staffordshire Yeomanry Pudding'. The herbal remedies include cures for 'corns', 'gnat bites' and 'sea sickness' as well as a medicine which was believed to alleviate whooping cough. Among the 'household hints' we find advice on the cleaning and varnishing of pictures, how 'to take spots out of Marble', how to 'prevent water penetrating boots or shoes', as well as recipes for homemade soap and the removal of iron mould from linen. Prior to the advent of modern, manufactured products, housekeepers and housewives had to devise their own cleaning agents, often using 'recipes', such as these, which had been handed down through the generations.
Recipe Book owned by Lady de Rutzen, Slebech Hall, c.1845 [image 1 of 31]
  • Humphrey Jones tells his parents that he has very little news to report since he only goes out to deliver medicines two or three times a week. At the end of his letter, he gives his mother two recipes for 'Pickle for Meat'.
Letter from Humphrey Jones, apprentice chemist in Chester, to his parents in Llangollen, 6 October 1850 [image 2 of 3]