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Monks find antique cookbook hidden in abbey

An antique list of recipes found at an abbey in Somerset has been turned into a cookbook. Dating from 1793, the list was discovered in the archives of a library in a Benedictine monastery: Downside Abbey at Stratton-on-the-Fosse. The recipes were used by monks more than 200 years ago to …

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