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Cookery of the Elizabethan Period to George IV

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Description: The manuscript volume contains recipes for foods such as rice dumplings and stew'd beef, and drinks such as orange wine and beer. The volume also contains household hints such as directions to make varnish, cement, and glue, and recipes for medicines such as the Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog. Recipes are ascribed to many cooks such as Elizabeth Hammond's Orange Marmalade or Mrs. Zimmer's meal for two to three persons at a cost of four pence dated 1792. There are several handwritings. The book once belonged to Sir George Musgrave
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1792-1831.
Call number: mssHM 58280
Provenance: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Chevalier, July 11, 1951.
Dimensions: 20 cm :

Cookery

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Cookery including food recipes, some noted to be served to large groups of school children. In the back of the book are household hints and medicinal recipes

mssHM 58282

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Cookery and Household Hints collection

Manuscripts

The volume contains 220 entries of recipes for food, drink, and medicines. The medicinal recipes include remedies for bladder ulcers, palsy, dropsy, scurvy, consumption, cough and shortage of breath. Entry #49 is the recipe for Walker's ointment, given in memory of the widow of Edward Walker of Stenhill. Entry #145 is the Duke of Berwick's physician's concoction for preservation against the pestilence that his soldiers contracted when they robbed infected houses in Marseilles. The handwriting and ink are the same throughout

mssHM 58281

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An Apple a day : vegetarian cookery by doctors' wives

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Abstract: Recipes for well-balanced vegetarian diets supplied by doctors' wives are presented in a cookbook intended for use by all homemakers. Recipes that seem rich or high in calories can be readily adjusted to reduce calorie and cholesterol intake by reducing the indicated levels of such ingredients as sugar, shortening, eggs, and cream. The recipes are segregated into meal topic areas (e.g., appetizers, salads, entrees, desserts); a separate section includes European, African, Asian, Polynesian recipes. Entree recipes are exclusively vegetarian (cheese and eggs, nuts, pastas, legumes, rice, grains). Herbs and spices, calorie substitutions, measurement conversions and equivalents, tables, a protective diet plan, calorie and protein RDAs for individuals and their contents in various vegetarian foods are provided. (wz).

640562

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English cookery receipts and home remedies

Manuscripts

This manuscript includes recipes for food as well as home remedies/medicine. The author is unknown. At the top of page 10: "Pubd. in the London papers. 1767."

mssHM 81085

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The Helen Corbitt collection

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A selection from the author's previously published works features nine hundred recipes from the legendary cooking career of one of America's foremost culinary experts, in categories from appetizers to desserts, and includes her popular kitchen hints.

640812

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A book of receits

Manuscripts

Bound volume of English manuscript recipes, both for cooking and medicine, written beginning in the 17th century (in several hands). Some of the recipes are attributed to a specific person (both women and men) with a note if it was tested; in some cases, the name of the person who tested it is also provided. The manuscript is organized into four sections: medicine, recipes coming from Lady Bray, distillation, and cookery. There are four loose items in the inside front cover. About half of the volume is blank. Bound in vellum.

mssHM 84007

Cookery of the Elizabethan Period to George IV

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