[RECIPE BOOK]. Manuscript compendium of recipes for foods and medicines in various hands [England, 18th century], many with the names of their contributors. 258 pages, 4to, contemporary vellum, minor wear; minor browning and staining. The two groups of recipes are bound "dos dos", the food recipes with a table of contents. Entries include: No. 23. "to stuff & roast a buttock of Beef"; #81. "To stew a dozen Pidgeons without Gravy"; No. 159 "To bake an Ox Cheek" etc. The medicines include: "For the Bite of a Mad Dog from Mr. Lane"; "An Infalliable Oyntment for the Biles"; "Poor Dear St. John's Polbahher very famous Laudenum Pills", "An Infallible Cure for a Horse's Cold", etc.

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[RECIPE BOOK]. Manuscript compendium of recipes for foods and medicines in various hands [England, 18th century], many with the names of their contributors. 258 pages, 4to, contemporary vellum, minor wear; minor browning and staining. The two groups of recipes are bound "dos dos", the food recipes with a table of contents. Entries include: No. 23. "to stuff & roast a buttock of Beef"; #81. "To stew a dozen Pidgeons without Gravy"; No. 159 "To bake an Ox Cheek" etc. The medicines include: "For the Bite of a Mad Dog from Mr. Lane"; "An Infalliable Oyntment for the Biles"; "Poor Dear St. John's Polbahher very famous Laudenum Pills", "An Infallible Cure for a Horse's Cold", etc.