Cookery and medicinal recipes [manuscript], ca. 1688.

21 leaves ; 13 x 8 cm

Contains many cake, wine and preserve receipts, including a cake without yeast and wine made from gooseberries and one of sage. Also includes a few medicinal receipts, including "A Dyet Drink for the Greene sicknesse," "A Water for sore eyes," several salves for the breast, and "To abate [th]e swelling of [th]e throat by [th]e small pox."

Bound with: Riders (1688) British Merlin (Wing A2258B).

Bound in leather boards, with gold tooling and evidence of metal clasps.

Formerly Folger MS Add 548.

Acquired from Heath, February 14, 1969.

Manuscript Cookbooks Survey description of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.544 item 2
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Great Britain -- England.

V.a.544 item 2

MS Add 548