William Verrall's Cookery Book

First published in 1759. One of the most lively and immediate of the 18th-century cookery books. William Verrall's dictation to an amanuensis shows well the life-style of the gentry in an English county town and in the country around. Verrall was a pupil of M de St Clouet, the Duke of Newcastle's cook, and later became a well-known innkeeper renowned for his sophisticated food.