The Judge’s Circuit Soup

This receipt was included in an old coverless exercise book sent by a B.B.C. friend. It possesses no name but evidently, from the following entry and other internal evidence, belonged to a Worcester cook and caterer probably during the first half of the 18th century.

‘This dinner,’ runs the record, ‘we — my daughter and I —dres’t under the Town Hall for the Corporation of Worcester; we had everything that could be had for money that was nice, and was praised by all the Gentlemen as