The front cover is inscribed "Herbert Beaver- This Book in Blank was given me by the Revd. Mr. Robert Rowe Vicar of Pilton (Somersett) July 14th, 1765". Later on the back cover it is inscribed "Edward C. Lowe, Cheltenham, Eng. Mar. 1939." There are...
An attractive cookery manuscript, written mostly in one hand. Recipes include, among others, "To make Mushroom Powder, " A Receipt to pickle White Wall-nuts," "To collor A Pigg," "To make Stoughton's Drops," "For Scotch Collops." Near the end of...
The recipes include "to colour a room green," cures for whooping cough, toothache, typhus, warts, corns, consumption, a strengthening potion, antibilious pills, and a remedy for rheumatism. There are occasional drink-related resipcies including...
This book bound in its original vellum has 168 pages of which 61 are written. (6 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.; 16 x 19.5 cm.) Recipes include: sauce for cold game, white sauce for carp, potato pudding, how to pickle beef, how to dye yellow, recipe for the gout,...
Handwritten manuscript of medical and other recipes. Emily Netuzed [?], August 1874. This book is bound in green leather, 8 vo. 184 pages, all written in one hand. (7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.; 19 x 24 cm.) The recipes include Victoria sandwiches and recipes...
This book was handwritten by Jenny Patterson and indexed. The book was dated May 24, 1880. The name E.B. Patterson is on the front fly leaf. There are numerous American recipes and an address of a New York doctor inside. The origin of the book is...