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Cookery.- Recipe book

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manuscript in several hands, c. 350pp. of recipes and c. 50pp. juvenile arithmetical exercises, some pp. torn, some with loss, all loose, some soiling and browning, remains of original vellum binding, defective, sm. 4to, [seventeenth/eighteenth centuries]; sold not subject to return.

***Despite its condition there is much of interest in this collection. Recipes include: "Popes Posset Mrs. Hawarth"; "Birch Wine"; "To Put a Pig in Jelly"; "To Make an Artificial Church"; "Calves foot flomery"; "To Make Clouted Cream"; "To Stue a Hare Mrs Mary Gill"; "Lady Allin's Water"; "Elder berry Wine"; "Marmalett" etc..

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