Food History

Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts

by Mary Eales

Mary Eales called herself confectioner to the late Queen Anne, and her receipts were first printed in 1718; this is the edition of 1733. It is a book of sweet things: preserves, candied flowers, creams, cakes and one of the earliest English recipes for ice cream. Each receipt is short and sure of itself, as if written by someone who had made it a hundred times.

The librarian

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Reading time

About 1 hr 10 min

Where to find it

On the Food History shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #20735. In the public domain in the United States.