Receipt Book, English, 17th century

Manuscript book of culinary and medical recipes, in at least two hands and with signatures inside cover of Ann de la Bere and Hester de la Bere.

54ff., contents as follows:

f.1r: title page, "The Land of Promise Flowing With Milk & Hony....", relating to following scriptural material.f.1v: medical recipes.

ff.2r-12v: scriptural material.

ff.12v-40r: recipes, mixed culinary and medical.

ff.40v-53r: recipes, mixed culinary and medical, written the other way up from the back of the book.

ff.53v-54r: scribbles and handwriting experiments, including signatures of Ann de la Bere Hester de la Bere and Christian Rutter.

f.54v: note on weights and measures.

Contains the following recipes: For an aggue For ye bloody flux cont; A watar good against for ye stone A water good against the plague smale pox or Measells, surfits or any other infection; A receipt to make a Cordiall wate# Clary water for the back and stomak; Clary water for the back and stomak How to make Aquamirabilis A hott surfit water; To make black Cherrie water; A Medicine against the Plague Measles small Pox surfits, &r; For the Rickets For the Rickets; Anointment for the rickets Goody barns receipt For An inward Bruse; An Aproved medisene for the falling sicknes or convolltion fitts; To make amber cakes good for fitts or consumtion For ye Jandes The Drinke for the Ricketts mis sands receipt; The Oyntment To Make Juce of Licorice; An exellent Cordiall water; To Make short Cake To Make Almon Cakes To Make French Macaroons; To make a Cake How to make biskett bread; A receipt how to mak Macaroons How to make Suggar Cakes A receipt to Make Cowslipe wine; To Make a Cake Mrs. Pophams Receipt To mak a cake my Lady Jenkinsons way; To make the sope sud possett To make a Laid tarte Ann Delabear; To make a Carroway Cake To make Jambals For a fistula, or any old or new sore; A receipt off Snaile watter A Receipt for the worms To make the Julipe; To anoynt the Navell and Belly To Make Cordiall balme water To Make a pudding in a legg of mutton To make a Calfs foot Pudding; The best way to make red cherrie wine To make wigg pudings To make biskets; To make portingall cake To make Jumbals To make cakes; Doctor Freemans excellent receit to make a water to break the stone fetch it away & procure much ease to ye partie; if it be well and rightly used; Doctor Willis his water for sharpness of urine Pill by Doctor Bates; For wind in guts or Stomack For an Ague For the green sickness To candy Angelica To make biskett rings; To pickle kidny beans To make cutletts To rost a hare To pott Venison or beeff; To pickle Cucombers To Make Goosberry wine To ice a Cake To make sasagges To make raison wine; To make pufes To make apricoke cakes; A Receipt to make red cherry Brandy For a sting For a perl in the eye For the Bloodey flox To make wigs; For the speedy delivery in childbirth An undoubted water for the cure of a Fistula To pikell larg Coucombers To make Elderbury water; A drink for the Scurvy Docter cox bitter drink for an ague A medicine for a Looseness For the micarryeing of ye young and to prevent gripes; A good salve for the kings evill or any green wound A receipe to make Collonell Thompsons Pill To Make fresh Cheese; For the thursh in a childs mouth To make ginger Breed For the wormes Dr Bolard resait for a hecktick feavour; Lucantella or ye Lady Ropers balsome For the worms my coses stephens resept; A diett drinke for the scurvy My sister nealls salve; For a weak body Another Blacke Cherrie water For a burne; To make Oyle of Eggs For a dropsie For the passion of the heart; An excellent apoved medicine to cure spots or Ruhmes in the eyes An exellent powder for ye yellow Jandies; My Ant Coderingtons red powder A drying plaister A salve for a green wound For a lusness; For heat and rednes in the face or to fetch of tane To make Elixir Proprietatis; The milkwater for feavour For A dropsey A glister to ease colicke pains; A receipt for the tooth ake My Lady Pooles receipt of ye red powder

Circa 17th century

1 volume 1 vol. bound in contemporary vellum; some damage to ff.1 & 54.

Purchased from Christie's, May 1998.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

In addition, a microfilm copy is held as AMS/MF/221.

Hashmarks (#) are used in the list of recipes to indicate where the indexers were unable to read the original text.