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D5430 - Wright family of Eyam Hall - [14th cent]-1994
50 - Cookery books and recipes - 17th cent-19th cent
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D5430/50/3
Title
Parchment-bound recipe book inscribed 'Jane Farewell 1719' and 'Jane Wright 1728'
Date
[mid 17th cent-c1801]
Description
Recipes in several hands, some (such as directions against the plague) in a hand earlier than Jane Farewell's. The following list uses the original page numbering, which varies throughout the volume.
Page 1 To make Cabbidge Soup
Page 2 To make a Fish Soup
Page 3 To make Elder Wine
Page 4 To make nice Custards; Mrs Chaworth's Fish Sauce
Page 5 To make Excelent Curds; To make Lip Salve
Page 6 to Pickle Wallnuts; To pickle Wallnuts ye other way
Page 7 veal stakes Mrs Brough's way; A Neats Tongue Ragood [John Wright's signature underneath]
Page 8 Untitled recipe using turpentine and swine's grease; To make Ink
Page 9 To make Greengooseberry Wine Super excellent; To make a Dish of Puftins
Page 10 To prevent Infection in case of contagious Disorders; To make a Rice pudden; To make Cheese Cakes; To pickle Colly Flowers
Page 11 A Purge for a Horse [signature underneath of Miss Green of Thunder Cliff Grange near Sheffield, Yorkshire]; To make a plain Garth Cake; To make an Orange Gelly pudding; To make Ginger bread
Page 12 To make Balsome Dr Chaucey; To make Bassilican Dr Chaucey; To make Sawce for Green Geese; To make pan puddings; To make past for Tarts or mince pyes; To make a quakeing pudding
Page 13 For an old Cough on ye Lungs of an horse; To make Queen Cakes; To make French bread
Page 14 To skin[?] a Sore in a Horse's back; To make Daffyes Elixer; To make Conserve of Red Roses; To make a Carrett pudding
Page 15 [missing / number not used]
Page 16 Ginger Wine; To make a Seed Cake; To make Cowslip wine
Page 17 Ginger Wine Mrs Middleton; To make Balm Wine; To make an Orange pudding Mrs Balguys way
Page 18 Ginger Wine Mrs Middleton; To make a Light blyded pudding; To make Custards; To make a Tansey
Page 19 To make a Carrett pudding; To dry Cherryes; To make Rattefea Bisketts
Page 20 to pickle Barberryes; For sore Breasts; An Eye water
Page 21 To make Orange Wine; To make jumballs
Page 22 untitled recipe; To make Gooseberry Vinegar; To make marmalet of Quince
Page 23 Indian Pickle; To make Italian Biskitt; To make Wormpowder
Page 24 For a Cough or Violent Cold
Page 25 To make a plaister for the Wormes; For Sore Breasts
Page 26 Doctor Tourges Directions against ye plague
Page 27 A Receipt to make Mead Mrs Eccles' way; To make good Bread of soft Flour [dated 1800]
Page 28 To make little plumb Calkes Mrs Chaworth's way; To make a Rice pudding
Page 29 Wine; To make ye Yellow Salve; To make ye Eye Water; To make Wiggs
Page 30 To make Mead; To make Mead Mrs Wright's way a very bad [or Good?] one
Page 31 An Apple Pudding; To make Birch Wine
Page 32 The Method to have fine and good Malt Liquor; An Infalible cure for the Grease; To make a good Cake
Page 33 For ye Stone Gravell or Ulser in ye Kidneys, Lady Mulleneux
Page 34 For a Cold by Doctor James; To make Blackbery Wine
Page 35 Shoe Black; To make Curran Wine; To make Fritters; For Sore Breast heads
Page 36 To make Orange Wine; A rich Cordiall for a sick person
Page 37 To whiten yarn or Cloath; To make Passico; To make Shrub; To make Rason Wine
Page 38 For a Violent Strain in any Joynt;
Page 40 To cure ye most inveterate scab in Sheep; To prevent ye redwater in Lambs
[Pages 41-49 - numbers not used]
Page 50 To skin a sore back of an horse; A Trail for a fox; Ditto for the Hare; A Cure for ye Bite of any Mad Animal
[pages 51-59 - numbers not used]
Page 60 A salve for a burn or a scald; For an Astmak [Asthmatic?] Mrs Whitbey, by John Morgan
Unnumbered pages:
to make Sago puffs; To make mead
Mrs Simpson's Receipt to make an Eye Water; for a Cough in Children; A Receit to die pink colour'd Stockings
To make Diacodium; An approv'd Medicine for sore Eyes; [stockings continued]
To make Cheese Cakes; How to make German black balls; How to dye Silk, Stuff, Stockings &c. of a good Blue; A receipt for sore heels of a Horse; Another for the same; How to make Red Ink
How to keep Moths out of Woollen, Linnen or Silks; How to dy Hair or Bristles; How to Dye Purple; How to Dye Yellow; How to Dye Green; To take awa Corns; How to cure Chilblains
A Drink for a Cow when the Calf is took of [crossed out]; To pickle Walluntts of a fine Olive Green Mrs Seyward; To make Wallnut Catchup
To stew a Hare after the German Manner; For a Cough; How to make Elderberry Wine ye best sort
A Drink for a Cown when ye Calf is taken of, or at going to Grass, o when the Hide begins to grow stark[?] upon her back; Daffy's Elixir Salutis Mr Taylor
An Excellent Eye water; Dutches of Devonshires Rec't to make Tea Cakes; To make Red sealing Wax; To make Ginger-bread; To frighten Birds out of a Garden
To Pickle Wallnuts; To make Currant Wine
For a weak or consumptive person; To preserve Cherries; For a Beast over eating at a dish[?]; A very good Receipt for a Consumption
Caution regarding salting fish or flesh dated Feb 1801; Ginger Wine Mrs Redhead Manchester
For a cough in horses by Mr Hollingworth; A medicien to be given to a Cow the night after she has calv'd; Orange Marmalade; Queen Cakes; Diet Bread Cakes
Naple Biscuits; To make a Rice Cake; To make a Savoy Cake; To make a Ratafia Cake; Savoy Biscuits; Quince Marmalade; To Clairfy Sugar
Common Macaroons; To make Wine Clear; To make a Spunge Cake; Tunbridge Waters Cakes; Goosberry Vinegar
Ginger-Bread nuts; Spunge Biscuits; Milk of Roses; To Stew Red Cabbage; To Stew Beet Root
A Pickle to keep many years, yellow pickle; Scurvy & Cancer
For the Rheumatism; To Pickle Mushrooms Black; To Dye Blue & Green Miss Mower; To make Stilton Cheese
A Saline Draft; Perpetual Yeast of Potatoes
Loose:
To make Gingerbread
An Exelant L[emo]n Pudding by Mrs Barns
Untitled recipe for ink
A Restorative Jelly
Diuretic Balls for Horses
To Preserve Plants on Paper
Extent
1 volume
Level
Item
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Wright family of Eyam Hall
Administrative History
Jane Farewell married John Wright in the early 1720s
Term
Recipes
Food
Veterinary medicine
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