Reference
SM/E49
Title
Recipe book covering both cookery and medicinal matters:
Date free text
c.1760s - 1770s
Production date
From: 1760 To: 1770
Scope and Content
To make gingerbread cakes
To make a seed cake
To make a pound cake
To make little cakes
1)To cure chapped nipples in sucking
2)To prevent suppuration of women's breasts
3)For childrens coughs
4)For an abcess or dropsy in the breast or even for a consumption
5)To prevent abortions in ye first month
To make currant jelly
To make rasberry jam
6)For anxiety of heart
7-8)For apthee or small ulcerations of the mouth
9) For a diabetes & Lask
'These nine prescriptions have been proved and confirmed by time & tryal by J Cook'
To make Raisin wine
To make currant wine (page torn)
For an anasara or skin dropsy
For a scorbutic or dysentery or bloody flux (page torn)
To pickel walnust black
To pickel girkins or French beans
To pickel red cabbage
An Oxford pudding
To make sausages
To cure ye Itch
To make currant wine
Quince Marmalade
To make catsup
To make French bread
To make Blanc Monge
To make hams
To refine 60 gallons of beer
To cure beer when stale
To cure a horse of a clap in the back sinew
To pickle two hams
To make ye wormwood draughts
To make a belsom for wounds
To cure an ague
Another
A cure for a strain in a horse
To make black basillico
To pickel onions
To make mead
For ye mange
Outward application
To make ink
Spirits of Salamoniack for tumations on ye Body apply it by rubbing it on.
Sirrup of garlick for a nervous cough
Another for a common cough
To dye purple
For ye worms
To make Blacking ball
For ye scurvy
To make Dutch beef
To make Cowslip wine
To make calves feet jelly
To make tincture of Rhubarb
To make stuffing foe stewed pigions
To make Rice Florentine
Fluxhams Tincture of the Bark
A Cure for the Garget in Hogs
A Salve for sore lips or nipples
For ye Hooping cough Dr Ratcliff
A Eye Water
For a dry Husky Cough
To make Black Caps
Sauce for Wild fowl or Ducks
Sauce for a Boil'd turkey
Sauce for Boiled chickens
How to make gravy in haste
Stuffin' for a boil'd turkey
Sauce for a boil'd turkey
To Roast an Hare
To stop bleeding
A certain cure for hiccoughs
To make Blomange
A Drink for a horse for a cold
For ye Mallenders
For a burn
For a consumption
Another
To take out a thorn
For convulsions in children
For ye strangles in horses
A clyster for a horse in a fever
A drink for ye yellows & staggers
For ye Farcin
A Poultice for a strain in ye fetlock joint
For ye prick of a thorn
For a quitter bone
A drink & plaster for ye Farcy
Copper as water (a very dangerous poison)
For ye canker
For a blood spavin or swell legs
A receipt for ye mange in a horse
Green ointment for wounds
For ye gorget or murrain in cows sheep and other animals
For ye head gorget
For ye murrain of all kind of animals
For loosness or flux in cows
For ye skitin or loosness in sheep
For Deafness
For a humour in the eyes
To make a collr: Strangeways drops
A receipt for bitters
For the scurvy
The repeller for a saddle gaul
To make diet bread
Butter of Antimony
For hystericts fits
An Antidote for persons who has eaten berries of Deadly Nightshade
An effectual glyster for looseness
For the heart burn
A universal balsam to dress sores with
To make the red water
Restorative Jelly
For a consumption
For the same
For ye ague
Exent
No. of pieces: 1
Level of description
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