Manuscript recipe book.

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Containing numerous detailed recipes (for syrups, meat and fish dishes, preserves, sauces, cider and wine, puddings) interspersed with medicinal and cosmetic remedies, for example "To take a way Freckles", "Mr Coopers black Pectorall Lozanges", "The Snail water most excellent for the Jaundies or a Consumption", "The Italian Balsom a curious thing" and "To cure the Ricketts" ("The Livers of Rooks dryed in an Oven to a Powder and taken will doe it without any thing else...tryed by Mr Harriss of Shennington and his mother by Fivehundred with success")

266 numbered pages, mostly in a single hand, folio (320 x 205 mm.), [mid- to late eighteenth century], contemporary reversed calf, bookplates of Richard Jenkins of Salop and James Heron Watson on front pastedown, occasional minor staining, some wear to covers, rebacked