Mrs Crocombe’s Manuscript

Appears in
How to Cook The Victorian Way with Mrs Crocombe
How to Cook The Victorian Way with Mrs Crocombe

By Annie Gray and Andrew Hann

Published 2020

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by Annie Gray

This is Avis Crocombe’s manuscript book as written. It was probably started in the late 1860s, when Avis was first appointed cook (or cook–housekeeper), and seems to have been kept until the Edwardian period or possibly a little later. Most of it is in her hand-writing, with a few entries uncertain and the last few pages definitely written by someone else.

The commentary is intended to give a bit of context to the recipes, many of which have been tested by our team of professional chefs. It is a mixture of cooking notes (if the recipe is not already included in the book as a modernised version), historical titbits and generally interesting facts.