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18th century manuscript receipt and remedy book

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Title: 18th century manuscript receipt and remedy book
Author: **
Description: 41 manuscript pages; 62 blank leaves. 7½x6, original full vellum "Old Recipe Book" in ink on front cover in an early hand.Includes numerous recipes for a wide variety of dishes including bread, preserves, almond butter, fish balls, 'Fricacey of Rabbets or Chickens', pickled vegetables, mince 'pyes', black pudding, etc. Also includes a number of elixers and cures including balms, salves, powders, syrups, etc. and notably "An Anti-pestilential Preservative" and "A Most Excellent Medicine Against the Plague. Copy from the London Journal 22d July 1721".
Heading: (Receipt and Remedy Book)Place Published: No place
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Date Published: No date, but after 1721