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Hannah Ffarington cookbook
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Hannah Ffarington was born in England in 1778.
She was the second wife of William Ffarington of Shawe Hall, Leyland, Lancashire. They married in 1803. William came into possession of Shaw Hall after the death of his father, James Ffarington in 1800. In 1813, William Ffarington became high sheriff.
In 1837, their son, James Nowell Ffarington (1813-1848) became the owner. He hired architect Anthony Salvin to largely reconstruct the estate and renamed it Worden Hall. He married Sarah Esther Touchet in 1847, but died in 1848, leaving Worden Hall to be run by his sisters, Susan Maria and Mary Hannah (1815-).
Hannah Ffarington died in 1833.
Sources:
Ancestry.com. Lancashire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1911 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Bowden. "Worden Hall and Park, Leyland." Lancashire Past, 22 Dec. 2018, lancashirepast.com/2017/09/02/worden-hall-and-park-leyland/.
Lancashire Archives; Preston, England; Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers; Reference: DRB 2/148A
"Townships: Leyland." Bho: British History Online, www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp10-17. Accessed 2 June 2026.
"Worden Hall, Leyland." Red Rose Collections from Lancashire County Council, redrosecollections.lancashire.gov.uk/view-item?i=239588&WINID=1780401716854. Accessed 2 June 2026.
This cookbook contains around 230 recipes and was written and compiled by Hannah Ffarington in Lancashire, England between 1806 and 1827.
The volume is bound in quarter leather with marbled paper boards. There are several recipes pasted in, both newspaper clippings and handwritten by others (p. 46-47, 58, 60, 62, 65-67, 128, 143-146, 150, 154-155).
The recipes in this volume are mostly culinary, and many are attributed to other individuals. There are several cost-effective and economical recipes. Several of the recipes are crossed out, some with notes such as "not good" (p. 14). At the end of the volume are lists of dishes for certain courses (p. 156-159) and an alphabetical index (p. 160-178).
Examples of recipes in this volume include ratafia (p. 6), currie Mrs. Maccory (p. 11), crocketts Mrs. Maccory (p. 16), posset (p.23), Prussian soup – the Queen brought this to England (p. 25), to smoak hams the Westmoreland way Miss Hubberty (p. 40), economy bread Reverend F. Haggitt (p. 47), capata a Sicilian tart (p. 57), excellent biscuits Mrs. Hoskinson Golden Hill (p. 61), Everton taffy (p. 63), agras [agraz] (P. 71), a macaroni pie Maltese dish (p. 73), Chinese method of making tea (p. 88), to candy angelica (p. 107), soup Lorraine (p. 111), soup à la bonne femme (p. 113), wings of fowls à la St. Lawrence (p. 113), a bride's pie (p. 138), meat lozenges (p. 147), and Indian sauce (p. 150).
Sold by Bonhams (London, England) as part of the collection of Ruth Watson, 2020 August 19, lot 46.
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- University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
- Finding Aid Author
- Kelin Baldridge Smallwood
- Finding Aid Date
- 2026 June 2
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