COOKERY & MEDICINE - IRELAND

Manuscript notebook containing c.300 culinary and medicinal receipts, ownership inscription of Dorcas Price of Hollymount, [late seventeenth/early eighteenth century]

Manuscript notebook bearing the ownership inscriptions "Mrs Dorcas West/ Mrs Dorcas Price/ her book 1688/ Mrs Dorcas Price/ her book of Resets this year 17[0]..." and "Madam Dorcas West/ her Booke Anno Domini 1681" on the front inside board, containing some 300 culinary and medicinal receipts, written in several hands, including "For the scabb in sheep", "The Princes Royalls cordiall water", "To make Aquamerabilis", "A plaster for ye worme" ("...nothing better for ye Wormes than to annoynt ye Childs navel and ye pitt of his stomack..."), "Dockor Burgess his recept against ye Plague", "for sore niples", "A salve to heal any sore new or old", "An excellent receipt against melancholy", "A Cordiall Watter of Sir Walter Ralighleighs" ("...take a gallon of strawberrys & putt thme in a quarte of Aquivitae..."), "The Salve of ye Red hill in Armenia", "For ye Cancer" ("...This has cur'd 3 women of ye Cancer in their breasts that ye Author knows of..."), the culinary receipts reversed, "To make red rose cakes", "To make a cake Mrs Brices way", "To make the cream of creames", "To make white metheglin", "To make very good sasages", "To make an extraordnery great cake", "To make a Chicken Pye for the winter", "To boyle Plovers", "My Lady Orrary's receipt to Pickell Melons", some attributed ("Lady Norton", "Old Mrs Rider", "sister Anne Wooleseley"), c.115 pages, additional 90 blank, dust-staining, marks, stains and small tears, edges frayed, some pages loose, some pages roughly excised, old repairs, original ruled calf, worn with loss, calf detached from front board and spine, 4to (198 x 150mm.), [late seventeenth/early eighteenth century]