Discover the recipes for Mrs Rooke’s Very Good Plum Cake and Lady Harbord’s Marigold Cheese. Learn how to preserve gooseberries as green as they grow’ and make Sir Theodore Colladon’s Peach Flower Syrup. Feast on Lady St Quintin’s Dutch Pudding and Mrs Eall’s Candied Cowslips. Then wash it all down with Lady Strickland’s Strong Mead or some Right Red Dutch Currant Wine. These are just some of the delightful Georgian recipes found in the receipt books of Sabine Winn, the eighteenth-century Swiss-born wife of Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet Nostell of the impressive Palladian mansion, Nostell Priory in Yorkshire. Using centuries-old cookbooks, newspaper clippings, old family recipes and contributions from noble friends, Lady Winn created a wonderfully eclectic collection of mouth-watering dishes that are presented in this new volume for modern readers to enjoy. Mistrustful of English doctors, Sabine’s receipt books also contain scores of remedies for a whole series of complaints, such as: The Best Thing in the World for Languishing Spirits or Fatigue after a Journey; Mrs Aylott’s Excellent Remedy for Colic; Aunt Barrington’s Cure for Pleurisy; An Approved Medicine to Drive the Scurvy or any other Ill Humour out of a Man’s Body; and A Diet Drink to Cure all Manner of Hurts and Wounds. AUTHOR: Michael J. Rochford runs the genealogy and history research company Heir Line Ltd. His 2016 book Wakefield: Then & Now (Pen & Sword) was praised by Who Do You Think You Are? magazine for its ‘lively stories with fascinating detail’. His follow-up, Tales from the Big House: Nostell Priory (Pen & Sword), which first introduced us to Lady Winn and her receipt books, was published in 2018. The Family & Community Historical Research Society said ‘it is fitting that the quality of workmanship displayed inside [Nostell Priory] is matched by Rochford’s book’. Renowned Yorkshire-born illustrator Peter Brears is a prolific writer of history books (All the King’s Cooks, 2011, Traditional Food in Yorkshire, 2014), a museum consultant, historic house expert, and TV food historian (If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home, 2011). Author, designer and genealogist Caroline Rochford (Great Victorian Inventions, 2014, In a Guardsman’s Boots, 2016) of Heir Line Ltd, holds a first-class honours degree in Graphic Arts & Design from Leeds Metropolitan University. 50 b/w illustrations
