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COOKERY BOOK - 18TH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF RECIPES, entitled 'A Book of Receipts for Cookery etc', Elizabeth Smith, 1729/30. 45 pages, 4to, including 4-page index in two columns, blanks and 29 pages, 4to, in different hands, tipped in (some light soiling, hinges cracked, a few leaves partially detached, tipped in leaves torn at margins). Contemporary vellum, yapp edges (soiled).
A COLLECTION OF COOKERY AND MEDICINAL RECIPES. 163 recipes (127 bound in, a further 36 tipped in) for cakes and biscuits, preserving fruit, custards and cheesecakes, puddings, various gravys, 'a calves head hask', 'to make catchup', pickling; also medicinal remedies, liquid balsam which can be used for a variety of ailments from cholic to haemorroides, also 'wound or nail in a horses foot', a remedy for scurvy, a remedy for a putrid dysentery' taken from the Kentish Gazett. The recipes on the tipped-in pages are attributed to various sources including 'Mrs Harcourt', 'Mrs Cooke, Hasefield', 'Lady Filmer', 'Miss Scott' and 'Lady Molloy', to whom is attributed the recipe for 'A cure for the bite of a mad dog brought from the East Indies by Sir Charles Cobb who has cured 2 persons with this medicine after they have had the symptoms of madness'.
A COLLECTION OF COOKERY AND MEDICINAL RECIPES. 163 recipes (127 bound in, a further 36 tipped in) for cakes and biscuits, preserving fruit, custards and cheesecakes, puddings, various gravys, 'a calves head hask', 'to make catchup', pickling; also medicinal remedies, liquid balsam which can be used for a variety of ailments from cholic to haemorroides, also 'wound or nail in a horses foot', a remedy for scurvy, a remedy for a putrid dysentery' taken from the Kentish Gazett. The recipes on the tipped-in pages are attributed to various sources including 'Mrs Harcourt', 'Mrs Cooke, Hasefield', 'Lady Filmer', 'Miss Scott' and 'Lady Molloy', to whom is attributed the recipe for 'A cure for the bite of a mad dog brought from the East Indies by Sir Charles Cobb who has cured 2 persons with this medicine after they have had the symptoms of madness'.
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