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COOKERY and MEDICINE

10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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COOKERY and MEDICINE

Household economy book, written in a variety of hands, mostly appearing to date from the mid-to-late eighteenth century, containing culinary and medical recipes, the majority carrying attributions, the cookery recipes including “To make New College Puddings”, “To Make a Mutton Pye to be like Venson”, “Lady Russels Custard”, “A Receipt to make Lemmon Sylabubs”, “To make Honycomb Cream”, “To Make White Quince Marmalad Jellyed with whole Lumps in it”, “To make Almond Jumballs”, “To Make Orange Bisckets”, “To Make White Quince Marmalad according to the Portugall Fashion”, “To pickle Broom Buds”, “To make Pulloo after the English way”, “To make it affter the Moores way”, etc.; the medical recipes including: “A Constant Daily Wash for your Teeth & Extreem good one”, “for strong Convoultion fits”, “To make the Hair grow Extreemly Thick”, “A good thing to Rase the Spirit”, “The horse Dung Diet Drink”, “To make Hysterick water”, etc., some 400 pages, contemporary calf, covers coming loose, thick 4to, [mid to late 18th century]

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