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Recipe miscellany

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Description: A collection of remedies, culinary and household recipes, this manuscript volume appears to be a fair copy with later annotations in the hand of Mrs. Holmes (whose name appears on the upper pastedown), dating from the last half of the nineteenth century. The recipes in the volume range from suckling pig and marmalade to furniture oil and the remedies include how to bleach freckles and make a gargle for a sore throat. Also enclosed is a manuscript originally laid into the volume and now placed in a mylar sleeve; it is a recipe for pomatora, from approximately 1675-1725, and on the verso is an autograph note addressed to "Mrs Jobber."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: Approximately 1860.
Call number: mssHM 83317
Creator: Holmes

Recipe book on gynecology and pediatrics

Manuscripts

Manuscript is a compendium of "home remedies" concerning obstetrics and complications of pregnancy, as well as diseases of young children. The recipes include: inducing birth, when the baby in utero is weak, how the mother should be cleansed after wards, causes of miscarriage, care of the breast, and others. Also included are general recipes for post-partum mothers (often involving wine); newborn children who refuse to sleep; against children's "plague;" night sweats; coughs; screaming; headaches; chicken pox or measles; and both "red" and "white" dysentery. The volume was probably written in south Germany. Written in German cursive in brown ink on paper; bound in contemporary red-stained velum with remains of ties.

mssHM 83499

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Receipt book

Manuscripts

This volume is a British mid-18th century medical and culinary receipts manuscript containing 46 pages of receipts in one hand and 42 pages of manuscript letters (loosely inserted). The letters were exchanged between women, many of whom were Catholic, and contain remedies for a variety of medical issues such as breast cancer, a sore eye, and more. Two of the letters were written by midwife Tryphena Barker and deal with childbirth.

mssHM 84024

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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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Cookery of the Elizabethan Period to George IV

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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Receipt book : culinary, cosmetic, medicinal and household recipes

Manuscripts

These two manuscript volumes of recipes were begun by Mrs. Elizabeth Nicolls in the last quarter of the eighteenth century and completed, amended and altered by a number of successive owners and users over the course of more than half a century. Volume 1 (1776-approx. 1815) and Volume 2 (1781-approx. 1827), are written in several hands, with numerous tipped-in manuscript notes, letters and pasted-in newspaper clippings; original vellum over pasteboards, with some damage to spines and corners. Also included, in a separate envelope, are additional leaves originally laid into the volumes and a small envelope with a lock of "Harry's Hair" (9 pieces).

mssHM 83318 (Vols. 1-2)

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Wiliam L. Smith notebook

Manuscripts

The notebook contains lecture notes from 1857. It includes lecture from five lecturers including Alva Curtis, Doctors Stockwell, Powers, Courtney, and Brown. There are also recipes for poultices and other remedies.

mssHM 74823

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