<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Recipe book, [circa 1750].</dc:title><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Manuscript recipe book, in two or three hands, containing approximately 180 cookery recipes, including instructions for various pickles, sauces and preserves; for stewing, roasting and baking meat, poultry and fish; and for numerous cakes and biscuits. A few recipes are attributed to Lady Sophia Egerton and "Mrs. Breton."</dc:description><dc:description>In English.</dc:description><dc:description>Ownership inscription on verso of front flyleaf: Mrs. Lochmere's Book.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: contemporary full parchment.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>