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MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOK. A 56-page folio manuscript (335 x 215mm), containing approximately 70 recipes and remedies, in a late 17th-century hand with a few early 18th-century additions at end (first 3 leaves defective, the second almost completely lacking, other leaves torn, a few with slight loss, lightly browned), contemporary wrappers (worn, lacks lower cover).

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MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOK. A 56-page folio manuscript (335 x 215mm), containing approximately 70 recipes and remedies, in a late 17th-century hand with a few early 18th-century additions at end (first 3 leaves defective, the second almost completely lacking, other leaves torn, a few with slight loss, lightly browned), contemporary wrappers (worn, lacks lower cover).

拍品專文

The varied collection of recipes and remedies include "To souse a Pigg", "How to make a Sack Possett", "To Make Milk Coffee", "Receit: for a Soare Throat", "To Make Sherbett", "To make balls for cleaning of Shoes" and "Mrs Christian's Plague Water". The whole work has been indexed and paginated in the same hand.