She knew how to boil-down meat to make a gluey substance that could be used as an early form of stock cube.

She gathered these techniques together in a book of sweet and savoury dishes that included a separate section for medicines.

[citation needed] Her recipes, which she called "Receipts", were kept in the library of her daughter, Susanna Jennens, at Weston Hall.

This house was passed through the female line until it came into the possession of Sacheverell Sitwell, whose wife Georgia discovered the book.

[3] More than 200 years after Blencoe's death, her recipe book was published, in 1925, accompanied by an eight-page introduction by Saintsbury.