Manuscript culinary and medicinal recipe book, containing some 320 receipts written in several hands, many with donor identified, including "To make little fryed Puddings", "To pickle Pidgeons", "To make Oyster Sasages", "To make Chesecakes of Custard Meat", "To hash a Carp", "To make a very good Spanish Butter", "To pickle broom buds" ("...hang up close covered a good hight from ye fire..."), "To Dry Hams like Westphalia", "To dress sham Turtle, very good", "Soup for poor people", with c.109 medicinal receipts reversed, including "To be taken 6 weeks before a Lying in", "Mrs Bakers bitter Draught", "Mrs Ritches receipt to make palsie water", "Histerik Water", "To make the Old Countess of Darby's Red Cordial Powder for feavours agues measles small pox, gripes and looseness", "For the Stone or Gravel" ("...take the Pestle of a deer, dry it..."), "Lady Northampton's Receipt for the Wind", with indices, 170pp, dust-staining and other marks, edges frayed, contemporary green vellum, worn, 4to (235 x 184mm.), eighteenth century
Manuscript culinary and medicinal recipe book, containing some 320 receipts written in several hands, many with donor identified, including "To make little fryed Puddings", "To pickle Pidgeons", "To make Oyster Sasages", "To make Chesecakes of Custard Meat", "To hash a Carp", "To make a very good Spanish Butter", "To pickle broom buds" ("...hang up close covered a good hight from ye fire..."), "To Dry Hams like Westphalia", "To dress sham Turtle, very good", "Soup for poor people", with c.109 medicinal receipts reversed, including "To be taken 6 weeks before a Lying in", "Mrs Bakers bitter Draught", "Mrs Ritches receipt to make palsie water", "Histerik Water", "To make the Old Countess of Darby's Red Cordial Powder for feavours agues measles small pox, gripes and looseness", "For the Stone or Gravel" ("...take the Pestle of a deer, dry it..."), "Lady Northampton's Receipt for the Wind", with indices, 170pp, dust-staining and other marks, edges frayed, contemporary green vellum, worn, 4to (235 x 184mm.), eighteenth century
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