The Sussex Recipe Book

A collection of culinary receipts and others, for ailments of man and beast and dealing with houseshold matters. This book has three sections – from a 17/18th century household book
formerly in the library of Arundel Castle, from Susannah Stacey of East Chiltington, and finally, a selection from various sources.

The book is illustrated with fifty-eight 18/19th century engravings.

Contents include: Arundel Household Book – cakes, puddings, medical remedies, wines, preserves, pickles and sauces, soups and stews.

Susannah Stacey – food for the poor, directions to servants, pot-pourri, pickles preserves and candies, vegetables and herbs, cullis, sauces and eggs, puddings and savouries, creams and syllabubs.

Miscellaneous – savouries, fish, puddings, stews, food for Christmas. Bolster pudding, potato and cheese cakes, bacon pudding, mock pork pie, Windmill Hill thin biscuits, coager cakes, military pudding, Ripe tart, pond pudding, Chiddingly hot pot, pippin pye, rose petal jam, apple marmalade, rice and apple pudding, mackerel pudding, Claversham rissoles, ten-to-one pie, partridge pudding, Hastings gurnet, gingerbread.