Recipe book, bearing the ownership inscription of the first owner and principal compiler, Susanna Hoo ("Susanna Hoo/ Her Booke/ Feb 16th 1653"), containing her recipes "To make Cleare Cakes", "To make rough red marmalade of quinces", "To make syrrup of violets", "To make Penies", "To mak Lemon Cakees" ("Take of the finest double refined sugar beaten fine and served through a tiffenie, to a poringer full of sugar...),"The Lady Darcyes choyce receipt of the liquorish Cakes ","To make gellie of hartshorne","To preserve Cherries", "To Preserve Aprecockes green", "To make mince Pyes","To make neats tonge Pyes","To make almon puddings", "To make good black puddings", "To make Rice puddings", "To make a pudding in a dish", "To make a marrow pudding", "To make a Coller of Beefee", "To make sauce for old duckes", "For young duckes", "To make Pig sauce", "Another sauce for a Pig", "A receipt of my Mothers Cheescake" ("...Let your oven be well heated set up the lid a while till the black breth be gone down then put in your cheescakes shut up your oven lid and when they are well risen and colored a little brown they are baked enough..."), "To make Good plume Cake", "To make Short cakes", "To make an excellent Sullybub", "To make snow", "To make Good Plaine Cake", "To make snow Creame", "To make Rasbery Creame", "To make Tumballs", "A good receipt to make mackerons", "To make Rasberry wine", "To Pickle Coucombors" ("...Take, 600, of the smalest Coucombers geather them in the heat of the day, so that there may be no Deue upon them, and put them into a Brine of water and salt, for 12 hours then take them out gently with your hand, that you may not bruis the prickles..."); with reversed at the end medical recipes by Susannah Hoo for ailments such as the plague, rickets, wens, insomnia, headaches, agues, toothache, bruises, jaundice, the king's evil, and the like, the first leaf of the reversed section also bearing her ownership inscription ("Susanna Hoo. oweth [sic] this booke"); with entries added to both sections in later hands for recipes such as "My father Eytons receipt to make Gosbury wine", probably by Susanna's children or their stepmother, c.70 pages, of which c.40 are cookery recipes, earlier pages unstitched and coming loose, contemporary dark brown calf, small 4to, 16 February 1653[/4]