MANUSCRIPT - CULINARY & MEDICINAL RECEIPTS

Recipe book, bearing the ownership inscription of "Sarah Turner" and the date "1658", 1658 to c.1755

Recipe book, bearing the ownership inscription of "Sarah Turner" and the date "1658", containing culinary and medicinal recipes written in several hands by members of the Turner family, running to the mid-eighteenth century, prefaced by an index ("Cakes", "Jellyes", "Creames", "Marmoletts", "Preserves", "Pickles", "Dryed sweetmeats", "Plasters & Poulteses", "Purges", "Diet Drinkes etc", "Chirurgery Waters"); with recipes "To make Gumballs", "To make Jelly of Pippins","To make ye Spanish Natas", "Snow Creame", "hasty podding", "To make black Hoggs pudding", "To make brick Cheese", medicinal receipts including "A water to cure all manner of wounds & sores be they new or sore & stinking", "Snaile Water", "Dr Stevens water", "Diet drinke for a Consumption", "To make Cock Ale", "The Italian Balsome", "A Cordiall water from Mrs Hudson", ("...good to expel the plague, meazells, smalepox, or any other infectious matter... good for women in labour..."), "To purge wormes and Slyme in Children", "A secret & rare thing to prevent miscarrying", "To make Inke", some naming the source of the recipe ("Mrs Cowell", "Mrs Bridgrat", "L. Willughby", "Mrs Robinson"), interspersed with lively notes and doodles incorporating various (presumably family) names (Sarah, Dorothy, Jane and Robert Turner, Anna and Elizabeth Meek, Jane Birchley), menu plans, accounts ("work done for Charls Price... for plowing for his beans... for making of sider..." dated 1743), a slip of paper with the account for Mr Birchly and George Woodyate ("one pound of sugar...one pound of rice... spice... starch...") pinned to the last page, some pages inverted, inside covers covered with names and pen trials, 342 numbered pages, some pages excised and some with losses, contemporary limp vellum, title "Receipt Booke/ 1658" in ink on upper cover, stitching coming loose, soiled, 4to (180 x 140mm.), 1658 to c.1755