Culinary and medicinal recipe book [manuscript], 18th and early 19th century.
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Title
Culinary and medicinal recipe book [manuscript], 18th and early 19th century.
Created/published
England, 18th and early 19th century
Description
1 volume (86 leaves) ; 24 x 19 cm
Summary
Contains 239 culinary recipes (214 numbered, with first 213 in contents list at start, then 25 unnumbered) and 125 medicinal and household recipes (109 numbered and listed in contents at start, then 16 unnumbered).
Note
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Title devised by Folger cataloger.
Date based on handwriting styles. Place of production based on language of the text.
Foliated by Folger staff.
Title devised by Folger cataloger.
Date based on handwriting styles. Place of production based on language of the text.
Foliated by Folger staff.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England, -- production place.
Call number
272188 MS
Folger-specific note
Ordered from: Christopher Edwards, D9527, 2021-09-17, purchased at Bonhams London, "Fine Books and Manuscripts". 15 September 2021", Lot #8.
From dealer's description: "COOKERY Manuscript culinary and medicinal recipe book, containing some 320 receipts written in several hands, many with donor identified, including "To make little fryed Puddings", "To pickle Pidgeons", "To make Oyster Sasages", "To make Chesecakes of Custard Meat", "To hash a Carp", "To make a very good Spanish Butter", "To pickle broom buds" ("...hang up close covered a good hight from ye fire..."), "To Dry Hams like Westphalia", "To dress sham Turtle, very good", "Soup for poor people", with c.109 medicinal receipts reversed, including "To be taken 6 weeks before a Lying in", "Mrs Bakers bitter Draught", "Mrs Ritches receipt to make palsie water", "Histerik Water", "To make the Old Countess of Darby's Red Cordial Powder for feavours agues measles small pox, gripes and looseness", "For the Stone or Gravel" ("...take the Pestle of a deer, dry it..."), "Lady Northampton's Receipt for the Wind", with indices, 170pp, dust-staining and other marks, edges frayed, contemporary green vellum, worn, 4to (235 x 184mm.), eighteenth century. Footnotes A note entitled "A Family Treasure" and dated 1956 inserted in the volume gives an indication of provenance: "This book of recipes & prescriptions was evidently handed down to the Ewens of Dedham 1780? It was obviously compiled by the Northamptons, Comptons & Greenes & via the Marlingford Norfolk connection to Mr Ewen... Mrs S. Mellish was responsible for many of the receipts... perhaps a housekeeper... No. 50 tells of an ointment made from kidney mutton & yellow moss 'which the sun breeds & grows close on the Tiles of a House'...".
From dealer's description: "COOKERY Manuscript culinary and medicinal recipe book, containing some 320 receipts written in several hands, many with donor identified, including "To make little fryed Puddings", "To pickle Pidgeons", "To make Oyster Sasages", "To make Chesecakes of Custard Meat", "To hash a Carp", "To make a very good Spanish Butter", "To pickle broom buds" ("...hang up close covered a good hight from ye fire..."), "To Dry Hams like Westphalia", "To dress sham Turtle, very good", "Soup for poor people", with c.109 medicinal receipts reversed, including "To be taken 6 weeks before a Lying in", "Mrs Bakers bitter Draught", "Mrs Ritches receipt to make palsie water", "Histerik Water", "To make the Old Countess of Darby's Red Cordial Powder for feavours agues measles small pox, gripes and looseness", "For the Stone or Gravel" ("...take the Pestle of a deer, dry it..."), "Lady Northampton's Receipt for the Wind", with indices, 170pp, dust-staining and other marks, edges frayed, contemporary green vellum, worn, 4to (235 x 184mm.), eighteenth century. Footnotes A note entitled "A Family Treasure" and dated 1956 inserted in the volume gives an indication of provenance: "This book of recipes & prescriptions was evidently handed down to the Ewens of Dedham 1780? It was obviously compiled by the Northamptons, Comptons & Greenes & via the Marlingford Norfolk connection to Mr Ewen... Mrs S. Mellish was responsible for many of the receipts... perhaps a housekeeper... No. 50 tells of an ointment made from kidney mutton & yellow moss 'which the sun breeds & grows close on the Tiles of a House'...".
Folger accession
272188