Elizabeth Moxon

Along with the numerous recipes for "soops, made-dishes, pastes, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made-wines, &c" she offered month-by-month menu plans for lunch, supper etc.

[3] It sold well, and from the second edition in 1743 it was marketed in London as well as Yorkshire, and was probably the first cookery book with provincial origins to make the move to the capital.

By this time it is believed the rights belonged to Griffith Wright[1] whose family went on reprinting the book until 1790.

Customers of earlier editions were told they could buy their copy from the author in Pontefract.

A blue plaque for Elizabeth Moxon was unveiled at Pontefract Town Hall in 2019 as part of the Forgotten Women of Wakefield project and will be hung at her former home on Finkle Street.