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RECEIPT BOOK -- "Book for Receipts 1731."
An 18th-century manuscript receipt book, 4° (237 x 185mm.) on 33 leaves containing approximately 140 recipes and remedies in at least 3 different hands, disbound in early wrappers.
Includes accounts of numerous methods of pickling (pigeons, oysters) and preserving, recipes for cakes and biscuits ("Candy Angellico", "A Syllabub", "Mountain Cream"), and brewing ("Elder Wine", "Cowslip Wine", "Snail Water"). There are also a number of remedies: "For the Bite of a mad Dog which must be done as soon as possible after the Bite...", "to Clean & soften the Hands," "A Remedy for Pimples," "A Receipt for the Scurvey" and "the famous American receipt for the Rheumatism" which "is very famous in America; a Hundred Pounds have been giving for the Receipt."
An 18th-century manuscript receipt book, 4° (237 x 185mm.) on 33 leaves containing approximately 140 recipes and remedies in at least 3 different hands, disbound in early wrappers.
Includes accounts of numerous methods of pickling (pigeons, oysters) and preserving, recipes for cakes and biscuits ("Candy Angellico", "A Syllabub", "Mountain Cream"), and brewing ("Elder Wine", "Cowslip Wine", "Snail Water"). There are also a number of remedies: "For the Bite of a mad Dog which must be done as soon as possible after the Bite...", "to Clean & soften the Hands," "A Remedy for Pimples," "A Receipt for the Scurvey" and "the famous American receipt for the Rheumatism" which "is very famous in America; a Hundred Pounds have been giving for the Receipt."