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Description
Irish or English manuscript recipe book. In addition to a few cooking recipes (lemon mince pies, lemon cheesecakes), the volume contains primarily recipes for home remedies such as cold cream, lavender water, "to cure the gout," "remedy for the singultus or hiccough," eye water, various colored dyes, Dr. Budd's Billious Pills, French polish, "a good pomatum," "Dr. Capon's recipe for the gout obtained by M.E. Lythall, Esqr," and the like Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Text Title devised by cataloger Includes entries dated as late as 1863, however most appear to be from much earlier Bound in period light-blue paper covered boards [Ireland?]
Type
text
Format
61 unnumbered pages ; 14 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb42373333
Language
English
Subject
Manuscripts Cooking, English Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc Traditional medicine Cooking, Irish Ireland Great Britain
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