Receipt book for made dishes of Mrs Pennington.
Manuscript (hand not identified) recipe book bound in contemporary vellum. Divided into sections, with blank leaves left in each section for additional recipes. The first section has recipes for various meats and includes calf's-head hash, buttered chicken, veal meatballs, veal gravy as well as...
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| Summary: | Manuscript (hand not identified) recipe book bound in contemporary vellum. Divided into sections, with blank leaves left in each section for additional recipes. The first section has recipes for various meats and includes calf's-head hash, buttered chicken, veal meatballs, veal gravy as well as salted tongue and calves-hoof jelly. The second section comprises eleven pudding recipes (rice, lemon, potato, bean, etc.), custards, cheese cakes, puff pastry, syllabubs, and other desserts, including eight different cakes. The next section has seven recipes for pickling such as cucumbers, walnuts, and oysters. Next come preserves, jams, jellies, and marmalades. For liquors there are recipes for raisin wine, orange wine, and mead, as well as a cocktail called "Daffy's Elixir", a medicinal remedy made with guiuacum, licorice, caraway seeds and three pints of brandy. The final section, the longest, gives 26 medicinal recipes for ailments such as gout, convulsive fits, laxatives ("to purge children just born"), sore eyes, tooth-ache, for animal bites ("to cure the bite of a mad animal"), and a preventative for such bites ("to kill rats"). There are also formulas for varnish and dyes. |
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| Item Description: | Title from cover. On front flyleaf is pasted "Receipts, or various ways of eating pickled herrings" detached from "The complete housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion" by E. Smith, first published 1728, edition unidentified. On back flyleaf is pasted "Directions for the cleaning and management of steel-stoves and furniture" detached from unidentified publication. |