The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie

A great Victorian hostess's private recipe collection, gathered from the cooks, ambassadors and country houses of a lifetime — never meant for publication, and published after her death exactly as she kept it, attributions and all.

This site is the complete 1909 book The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie, page by page as originally printed — period spelling, remedies and opinions included. About this edition →

The Recipes

Original Preface

7 recipes

Soups And Broths

1 recipe

Sauces For Fish

4 recipes

Sauces For Meat

2 recipes

Sauces For Poultry And Game

4 recipes

Sauces For Vegetables

2 recipes

Stuffings

1 recipe

Fish

2 recipes

Game

4 recipes

Mutton And Lamb

2 recipes

Veal

1 recipe

Poultry

2 recipes

Meat Pies, Puddings And Soufflés

1 recipe

Eggs

1 recipe

Vegetables

1 recipe

Sweet Dishes

5 recipes

Sweet Puddings

1 recipe

Sweet Sauces

4 recipes

Dessert Cakes

7 recipes

Bread

3 recipes

Confectionery

3 recipes

Beverages

1 recipe

Domestic Recipes

1 recipe

Appendix

3 recipes

Index

144 recipes

The Receipts

8 recipes

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Bread, Grissini, Porridge and Rolls

Bagshot Daily Loaf. (Mrs. Sherwood. 1860.) Take, to make this bread, rather less than 4 lbs. of well dried and sifted flour. Put…

Dishes (Orange syrup sauce)

Orange syrup sauce for puddings 329 Podagra sauce, see Podagra pudding, under

Meat Mutton (German sauce for Blanquette de)

German sauce for Blanquette de veau 54 Half glaze, see Demi-glace Horseradish sauce No. 1 for boiled beef Danish 55 No. 2 for…

Poultry (For Pike see also Pike baked)

for, Pike, see also Pike, baked, under Fish for tomatoes, see Stuffing for artichoke bottom for turkey No. 1 80 No. 2 for turkey…

Soups and Broths (General directions for soups)

General directions for soups 1 Memo, about soups: How to clarify soup; how to vary soups; Use for bones, &c. Soups, Garnishings…

Fish (Adelaide sandwiches see)

Adelaide sandwiches, see Anchovy sandwiches No. 2 82 crusts Devils 81 sandwiches No. 1 82 sandwiches No. 2 82 savoury 82 toast or…

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