| Description | leatherbound recipe book marked M.B. belonging to Minnie Balfour (c1848-1927), the mother of Julian, Countess of Radnor (d.1948), who continued the book; the main part contains recipes, remedies and household preparations with an index; there are many loose recipes, as well as a number of pamphlets dealing with recipes and catering under food rationing in the First World War, to do with the use of Longford Castle as a Red Cross hospital. Copy of 'Dishing The Hun with Rationed Dishes', 1918 |