[Manuscript home remedies and cooking recipes]

Irish or English manuscript recipe book. In addition to a few cooking recipes (lemon mince pies, lemon cheesecakes), the volume contains primarily recipes for home remedies such as cold cream, lavender water, "to cure the gout," "remedy for the singultus or hiccough," eye water, various colored dyes, Dr. Budd's Billious Pills, French polish, "a good pomatum," "Dr. Capon's recipe for the gout obtained by M.E. Lythall, Esqr," and the like

• 18--

• Hall, James M.

61 unnumbered pages ; 14 cm

text

Bound in period light-blue paper covered boards

Includes entries dated as late as 1863, however most appear to be from much earlier

Title devised by cataloger

• Great Britain
• Ireland

• Cooking, English
• Cooking, Irish
• Manuscripts
• Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc
• Traditional medicine

• text

• English

Mms: 991000073629706535

[Ireland?]

Public domain (US)

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2024-07-19