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Medical & Cookery recipes

Description: Cookery recipes, including a few medical items; circ. 1700, with some additional matter dated 1720 and 1727. Among personal names attached to particular recipes are Mrs Bates, Mrs Burbidge and Mrs Meymott for seed-cakes (ff. 7, 9); Mr Turner and 'Lady Herness' for gooseberry w...

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Corporate Author: Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) (digitiser.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2019.
Series:AM Scholar: Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
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Summary:Description: Cookery recipes, including a few medical items; circ. 1700, with some additional matter dated 1720 and 1727. Among personal names attached to particular recipes are Mrs Bates, Mrs Burbidge and Mrs Meymott for seed-cakes (ff. 7, 9); Mr Turner and 'Lady Herness' for gooseberry wine (ff. 19, 20); John Thorpe, 1720, for several items (ff. 24-25). One recipe is entitled 'The Countice of Carnarvans (sicCake' (f.10).Among the medical prescriptions are Dr Cromwell's snailwater (f. 4), Dr Chambers 'water ' Wh longe Preserved his Life and did Curemany' (f. 20), Dr Clark's eye water (f. 23), and Dr Porter's vomit (f. 23). Paper; following ii + 28. Folio. Early XVIII century Presented by Miss E. Isabel Yorke.
Item Description:Add Ms 45931.
Physical Description:1 online resource.