Cookery and medicinal recipes of M.W [manuscript], ca. 1700-ca. 1850.
Description
1 v.
Scope and content
In several hands. The original table of contents arranges the recipes under several heads: Receipts of Cookery, Wines and distilled waters, etc, Pickles, Confectionery, Physick and surgery. At the end are a few menus. At the beginning is a receipt to make a Jacobin. The author's initials appear on the spine.
Note
[19], 1-21, 30-69, 80-176 leaves; 196-203 p.; 204-25 leaves; 206-207 p.; 208-251 leaves. Leaves 22-29, 70-79 torn out; p. 206 torn. Leaves removed between leaves 214 and 215, 218 and 219, 221 and 222, 223 and 224, 225 and 226, 244 and 245. 8 scraps in envelope at back.
