Cookery, Medical and Veterinary.- Duckering (Mary) [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 1796-1826.

Cookery, Medical and Veterinary.- Duckering (Mary, of Tothby, Lincolnshire) [Collection of recipes], manuscript, in several hands, 73pp. excluding blanks, several ff. working loose, a few ff. cut with loss, browned, hinges weak and split, ink signature of Mary Robinson (a direct descendent of Mary Duckering) and ink inscription of Frederick Duckering Cooke describing the manuscripts descent to 1904, original vellum, soiled, worn, lettered direct on upper cover: "Receipt Book", lacks most of spine, sm. 4to, 1796-1826.

⁂ "Miss Mary Duckering married Dr John Robinson at Tothby or Alford. Their daughter Elizabeth married Frederick Cooke, my father and her's book came into my hands March 1904. Frederick Duckering Cooke at Derby."

Recipes include: "Ipswich Almond Pudding"; "Bread and Butter Pudding"; "Ratafia Pudding"; "Muffins"; "Another way to make Pig Sauce"; "Brain Cakes"; "Bullace cheese [Wild plum]"; "for the Hooping Cough"; "Mustard Whey Recipe for Rheumatismetc.