COOKERY Manuscript receipt book of Frances Anne Bayntun Starky of Spye Park, nineteenth-century

COOKERY Manuscript receipt book containing c.180 culinary recipes, the majority written in ink by the owner, including 'Sheep's head Broth', 'Hare soup', 'Monsieur Soyer's Soup for the Poor' ('...the cost will be ¾ per quart...'), 'Restoration Broth', 'Sausages à la Molly Hodge', 'Duke of Cumberland's Pudding', 'Albert Pudding', 'Economical Pudding', 'Ginger Puffs', 'Cooling Drink', 'Primrose Vinegar', 'Tiger's Milk' ('...serve in a tankard...'), 'Queen Victoria's Cake', 'Fat Rascals' ('...served hot for tea...'), etc., some recipes attributed ('Mrs Schonberg', 'Mrs Sweet', 'Emmeline'), ownership inscription of 'Fanny Starky/ Spye Park/ 1859' in ink on inner front cover, index on lined paper at rear, c.170 numbered pages, some blank, dust-staining and marks, original paper-covered boards, worn with some loss, front board broken in two and repaired with old stitching, spine missing, binding a little loose, 4to (220 x 185mm.), nineteenth-century Footnotes: The owner of this recipe book, Frances 'Fanny' Anne Bayntun Starky (née Hunt Grubbe, 1834-1921), was the wife of John Bayntun Starky (1834-1872) of Spye Park, Wiltshire. They married in 1857, two years before she started this collection. The family was forced to leave Spye Park in 1864, after her husband accrued huge debts and lost the entire family estate and property to creditors. It is said that the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) offered £300,000 for the estate, an offer which John Bayntun Starky had refused, leading to the Prince buying Sandringham instead. The family emigrated to Australia in 1870 and Fanny returned to England in 1872 after the premature death of her husband just a month after landing. Spye Park had been in the Baynton family since the 1560s, but they only moved to a house on the site during the civil war in May 1645, after the destruction of their primary seat, Bromham House. John Evelyn described a visit to Spye Park in 1654 before the house was completed: 'We went to Sir Edward Bayntun's at Spye Park... a place capable of being made a noble seat. But the humorous old Knight has built a long single house of two low stories on the precipice of an incomparable prospect and landing on a bowling green in the park. The house is like a long barn and has not a window on the prospect side...'. He goes on to comment that after a game of bowls, the coachmen had taken too much drink, as was the custom encouraged by Sir Edward Baynton, which meant for a hair-raising ride home (see bayntonfamilyhistory.com website). Provenance: Frances 'Fanny' Anne Bayntun Starky (née Hunt Grubbe, 1834-1921); thence by descent; given to the vendor by a member of the family. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing