This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. From dealer's description: The uniform appearance of the main body of the cookery recipes occupying the first 200 pages suggests that this section was transcribed from an existing manuscript source that included recipes from the earlier part of the 17th cent., poerhaps a cookery book owned by a relative of the transcriber. There are some indications of the identity of the woman that penned the book with references to "bro. Sa[muel] Pratt" and "sister Ester Prat." The second part of the Mss. contains a miscellany of medical preparations and further culinary recipes appearing to have been collected by the compiler herself, for in many instances the name of the supplier of the recipe and the date on which it was are noted: "a cordiall electuary for stuffing...sent me by my mother...Dec. 1675. Eighteenth-century calf, ruled in gilt, rebacked to style with marbled endpapers.
