Manuscript.- Cookery & Medical.- Danver (Mrs Alice) [Collection of recipes], manuscript, in three hands, calligraphic title, together 147pp. (including 5pp. index), most pp. ruled in red, title soiled, some text foxed and browned (some large brown spots), original vellum, rubbed, soiled and stained, edges chipped, folio (320 x 205mm.), n.d. [c. 1750 & 1780].
⁂ Recipes including: "To make Bottle ale or Beer"; "To make Rasberry Cakes"; "To make Biskett Cakes"; "To Candy Cowslips & Elderflowrs. Archangel or Burrage Flowrs"; "To make Buttered Cream"; "To make Almond Florrendine"; "To make a Powder for Sweet Baggs"; "To make a Sack Possett"; "To cure the Sciatia or Rheumatism"; "The Powder used for ye Inflamation of the Throat"; "To make Aquacelestis"; "Water to drive out the Plague or any other Infection Whatsoever & to Cure a Feaver , Called the Feaver Water"; "For the Biteing of a Mad Dogg"; "Dr. Gascons Powder or the Bishop of Worcesters"; "An aproved water for ye Stone and Collick"; "For the Scurvy" etc.
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