MANUSCRIPT - CULINARY AND MEDICINAL RECEIPTS

Eighteenth century recipe book bearing the ownership inscriptions "Joanna Ellison/ Her book 1745" and latterly those of "Edw. Atherton" of Market Drayton, mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth century

Eighteenth century recipe book bearing the ownership inscriptions "Joanna Ellison/ Her book 1745" and latterly those of "Edw. Atherton" of Market Drayton, (who exorts "Stail not this Book for fear of shame/ for hear you see the owners name") and "M. Cooper", including culinary, medicinal and household recipes written in several hands, "To make Wiggs" ("when you have dryed two pounds of flower, mix in half a pound of sugar..."), "To make a Tansey", "To make Catch-up" ("This is exceeding good in fish sauce... you may put in two, or three spoonfulls, according to the bigness of your dish, more, or less"), "To make Everton Toffey", "To make strong broth when in hast", "To pot larks or any other fowls", "To make a pudding in a hares belly", at the end of the book some pages devoted to medicinal recipes "Powder for the teeth to fasten them and make them white", "The bitter draught", "A most excellent drink" ("...good against the common plague, but also against the sweating sickness, the small pox, meazells and surfites... it is better than the beaser-stone...this hath been proved...") and some household tips ("To Dye a French Yellow", "To wash Black Silks", "To clean Pictures", "To print Callicoe or Linin"), accounts ("Thos Vaugan to John Walker... 1 peck superfine Early peas...") and "A Cattalogue of my Books in October ye 11 1726" in a childish hand, mostly written on recto only, beginning with an index and with miscellaneous jottings interspersed throughout, 68 numbered leaves, modern quarter calf, most of original calf sides laid down on covers, 8vo (180 x 110mm.), , mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth century