40. Cookery/Medical.- Recipe Book, manuscript in several hands, 123pp. & 7pp. index, one or two recipes loosely inserted, first quire working loose, foxed and browned, original gilt panelled green vellum, soiled, covers a little splayed, g.e., sm. 4to, [early eighteenth century].
est. £300 – £400
Recipes include: “To Make Duch Pancakes”; “For the Dropsy”; “To make the right snail Pomatum”; “A Batter Pudding”; “To make a Cocknells Pye”; “To Pickle Samphire”; “My Lady Pembertons Rec.t to prevent miscarriage”; “To Boyle a Turkey”; “A dyet Drink for a Cancer in the brest or any other part of the Body”; “A Receipt for ye Kings Evill”; “A Receipt for sweetening the blood”; “Doctor Slayers receipt for a scrophulous humour”; “To make Cream of Cheries”; “Against a Consumption”; “To make White Puddings” etc.