Irish Manuscript Recipe Book.  A small quarto volume. (17 x ...

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Irish Manuscript Recipe Book.  A small quarto volume. (17 x 20 cm).  With recipes, fifty two pages, in a neat forward-slanting hand belonging to Catherine FitzGerald, wife of Robert Smithwick, inscribed on front endpaper 'Mrs. Robert Smithwick's Recipe Book / Williams / Fort 1831'. Pencil inscription on front blank.  The recipes included are: Apple Jelly [Ash Hill]; To Preserve Lemon juice; Pickle Mushooms; Pigs head Collar; Lemon Cream; Blancmange; Green Peas Soup; Apple Fritters; Beef Collar; Custard Fritters [a pretty dish]; India Pickles; Napes Biscuit; Dieppe Pudding; Potatoe Pudding; Rabbit Soup; Ginger Cordial; Ginger Wine; Currant Jelly; Small Rice Cakes; Macaroni; Cream Lard; Lobster; Hung Beef; Curry; Transparent Pudding; Cherry Brandy; Carrot Soup; Plum Pudding; Stewed Tongue; Sauce for a Stew; Orange Marmalade, etc. Loosely inserted is Sydney Smith's recipe for a salad dressing, dated March 1878. Half red goatskin on worn papered boards. Circular engraved label of B. O'Brien / Bookseller & Stationer / George Street / Limerick on front pastedown.      250-350  Catherine FitzGerald was the wife of Robert Smithwick of Ballygawsey, County Limerick, Resident Magistrate. She was the daughter of Rev. Robert FitzGerald. She died in 1870