Household and medicinal recipe book, some recipes dated, some headed with name of contributor Note: The pages of this volume were not originally numbered. Page 1 'arrived at Geneva the 2d of April' followed by a recipe of the bite of a mad dog; loose recipe: to make tincture of Rhubarb Page 2 Doctor Cook's Recipe for the Gout, daged 1769 Page 3 To make Cowslip Wine; for the Worms Page 4 Elder Wine Page 5 To make Currant Jelly; to boil up Gooseberrys Page 6 To make Rasbery jam; Doctor Hall's prescription for Juice of Fumitory Page 7 A very good Recipe for Physick; for the Scurvy Page 8 For the Worms; for the Rickets Page 9 Neats Tongues; a moderate dose of physic for a child about 9 years old Page 10 Orange Wine Page 11 A Cow drink soon after she has Calved; a Pound Cake Page 12 Veal Cutlets; Good Liquid Blacking Page 13 Lamb tender'd Page 14 To make Ketchup Page 15 to Stew Mushrooms; to make blackball; sauce for a partridge Page 16 To make Jumballs Page 17 To make Mince Pyes [mince pies]; To make Custards Page 18 To make a potatoe Herrico[?] Page 19 To make Cheese Cakes Page 20 To preserve Cherries; a cure for a man who had run two or three rusty nails two inches into his foot from the London Magazine, April 1752 Page 21 To make Elder Wine Page 22 Metheglen[?] Page 23 To make nice Custards; To make a Seed Cake; to take fruit sains out of linen etc. Page 24 To make a Tansey; to make a light boil'd pudding; Fritters Page 25 Tea Cakes Ds Devonshire [Duchess of Devonshire]; Gingerbread; Rice Pudding Page 26 Paste for Tarts of Mince Pyes; For a Weak or Consumptive person; Liquid Blacking Page 27 Balsam or Burnt[?] Flower; Page 28 For a sore Throat; For the Ague; Stone and Gravel Page 29 For a Consumption Page 30 Small Pox, dated 1793 Page 31 Dutchess of Devonshire's Rec't for Tea Cakes; Extract of Malt for a Cough or spitting of Blood Page 32 To make Stale Ale Mild and Wholesome Page 33 Raisin Wine Mrs Traffords' way Page 34 To make Pickel to keep many years - yellow pickle Page 35 Browning for sauce Page 36 Cure for the Falling Sickness by an Eminent Physician (also a specifi in the cure of the Worms) Page 37 For sore Eyes Page 38-9 Perpetual Yeast of Potatoes; Soft Pomatum Page 40 Cure for the foot halt in Sheep; remedy for unsound flour; to make pomatum Page 41 Caledonian Marmalade [with loose original] Page 42 Longsough[?] in Cows; a cow hide bound Page 43 An Emulsion of a Cold; Soft Pomatum Page 44 Hard pomatum; fora contracted sinew Page 45 For the Gout in the Stomach; paint cheap Page 46 Gingerbread (the Junr Mrs Sisum's way); account of remedy for consumption taken by Grace Baston and George White of Goncliff[?] dated 1792 Page 47 Gooseberry Vinegar Page 48 Miss D Downes's rec't for Scurvy; For Rheumatism Page 49 Gingerbread Nuts; Tainted Meat; To Keep Eggs 12 Months Page 50 Poultice for Gatherings or Swellings Page 51 To Extract the Essence of Flowers Page 52 Cheese Cakes Page 53 Cheese Cakes' For burn or scald; French Bread Page 54 A Custard pudding; Gingerbread; Another [gingerbread] Page 55 Wiggs; to keep moths out of woolen, linen or silk Page 56 For a Cough in Children; For a Consumption (from Derby Mercury May 11th 1786) Page 57 To make Custards; A pancake pudding; Distill'd Vinegar Page 58 An excellent Oatmeal pudding; pickle Mushrooms Page 59 to Pickel Walnuts Page 60 to Pickel Kidney beans Radish Cods Elder buds and Ash keys; to keep Bacon 7 yrs without seasting[?] Page 61 for the Collick; a good receipt for a strain Page 62 To Collar Beef; A Cow Drink when there appears sings of the Long sough Page 63 A Receipt for a Cough Loose: To make Ginger Wine; a Physic for Mrs Wright 1769-[1790s]