COOKERY -- 'Receipt Book', manuscript on paper, [early 18th-century], 2° (365 x 232mm), 87 folios, including 5 blanks, comprising 50 folios of recipes, 28 folios of remedies and index, written in a neat 18th-century hand in brown ink, the first three folios with added recipes on versos in a different hand (occasional light spotting, a few leaves with sections excised). Early 18th-century green stained vellum, the covers tooled in gilt with central ruled panel with floral cornerpieces (short split at foot of spine, slightly scuffed). Provenance : 'Miss E. S. James' (inscribed on front flyleaf); Dr Robert James (armorial bookplate pasted inside upper cover, ?James family of Otterburn). Early 18th-century cookery and domestic medicine: an interesting compilation of receipts. The recipes include Damask Powder, 'to rague a breast of veal', 'Dutch Biskett', and 'Green pease Soop, very good'. The medicinal remedies range from a conserve for a cough to 'yellow jaundise' and include 'the best walnutt water of life', treatments for burns and ricketts, preventions against plague, and numerous preparations such as 'tooth powder'.
COOKERY -- 'Receipt Book', manuscript on paper, [early 18th-century], 2° (365 x 232mm), 87 folios, including 5 blanks, comprising 50 folios of recipes, 28 folios of remedies and index, written in a neat 18th-century hand in brown ink, the first three folios with added recipes on versos in a different hand (occasional light spotting, a few leaves with sections excised). Early 18th-century green stained vellum, the covers tooled in gilt with central ruled panel with floral cornerpieces (short split at foot of spine, slightly scuffed). Provenance : 'Miss E. S. James' (inscribed on front flyleaf); Dr Robert James (armorial bookplate pasted inside upper cover, ?James family of Otterburn). Early 18th-century cookery and domestic medicine: an interesting compilation of receipts. The recipes include Damask Powder, 'to rague a breast of veal', 'Dutch Biskett', and 'Green pease Soop, very good'. The medicinal remedies range from a conserve for a cough to 'yellow jaundise' and include 'the best walnutt water of life', treatments for burns and ricketts, preventions against plague, and numerous preparations such as 'tooth powder'.
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