Historical cookbooks to hit the auction block at Bonhams

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The collection was assembled over nearly 40 years by English hotelier Ruth Watson. FMTNews FMTLifestyle Cookbook Bonhams

Thomas Elyot’s ‘Castell of Health’ will go under the hammer during Bonhams’ upcoming Fine Books and Manuscripts. © Image Courtesy of Bonhams

Although many assume that eating healthy food on a budget is a modern preoccupation, the historical cookery books on offer at Bonhams prove otherwise. “Some of the suggestions may strike us as outlandish, but others are a good deal more sensible than the fad diets of today,” Bonhams senior book specialist Simon Roberts commented.

Elsewhere, an 18th-century collection of handwritten recipes features an eclectic variety of culinary and medicinal recipes. That is the case of a manuscript recipe book kept by the Croft family of Stillington Hall in Yorkshire, from the mid-18th to the mid-19th centuries.

 

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