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Manuscript cookbook containing culinary recipes written in at least two hands. Containing recipes for desserts, cakes, vegetables, meats, fish, and salads. Also contains numerous mounted newspaper clippings and printed ephemera with culinary recipes, medicinal recipes, and household hints. Additional news paper clippings, and printed ephemera with recipes laid in.
642063
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Manuscript cookbook containing mostly culinary recipes written in one hand, containing a total of 200 recipes for appetizers, meats, vegetables, rice, pasta, soups and salads. Also contains numerous mounted newspaper clippings and printed ephemera with culinary recipes, medicinal recipes, and household hints. Additional handwritten recipes on scraps of paper, clippings, and printed ephemera laid in.
642074
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Manuscripts
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
mssHM 58280
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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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Approx. 20 items: photos (many with captions affixed) ; article copies ; several printed "Recipes by Marian Manners" ; three booklets - "College of Wartime Cookery - Recipe Collection..." , "Victory Meat Extenders," (from National Live Stock and Meat Board) and "69 Ration Recipes for Meat," from Armour and Company.
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Commonplace book containing lessons on cyphering and some excerpts of poetry and personal thoughts. Also includes culinary, cosmetic, medicinal and household recipes written in a different hand, but contemporary.
642098