Series 2 > Household book of Lady Grisell Baillie

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THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Bills of Fare]
5 June (1720) Mr. Wallop 1 and 8 at table
1. Early broth with lambs head
2. a chean rost mutton
3. a dish turbet
4. Chickens, hair, peas and cold toung
Deseart
Milk, strawberies, Sillibubs
June 21st. Earle of Staires 2 and eleven at Table 3
Scots Broth
Remove of Turbet and broild salmond
muton collups Pigen py chickins boyld
Boyld Lamb and French beans
2 Turkic poults.
Mushrooms Peas
Cheries Tart
Lobsters cream loafs,
a goose.
Desert and
Cream Jellies strawberies
Cheries swetmeats allmond-cream
Lemon Cream
1 John Wallop, afterwards first Earl of Portsmouth, at this time M.P. for
Hampshire, and a Lord of the Treasury. He was created Baron Wallop and
Viscount Lymington on II June 1720, a few days after the date of this dinner.
s John Dalrymple, second Earl of Stair, famous both as a general and as a
diplomatist. At this time he must have just returned from his brilliant embassy
to Paris. He married Eleanor, Viscountess Primrose, daughter of the second
Earl of Loudon, and widow of James, first Viscount Primrose. The curious
phantasmagoria of the death of her first husband in Rotterdam seen by her in
Edinburgh was the origin of Sir Walter Scott’s ‘ My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror,’
and the circumstances of her marriage with Lord Stair were almost as peculiar.
3 This Menu is not in Lady Grisell’s hand.