Collection of Cookery and Household Hints, ca. 1780.

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Collection of Cookery and Household Hints, ca. 1780.

Collection of Cookery and Household Hints, ca. 1780.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540510

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.

1 volume, 21 cm., 156 pages.

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