Recipe book, [ca. 1730-1760]

Description

Title: Recipe book, [ca. 1730-1760]
Creator: Bullock, Rachel
Abstract: Manuscript recipe book, in a single hand, containing medical and culinary recipes. Medical recipes include remedies for "a cancer on the breast," consumption, whooping cough, palsy, "yallow janders" (jaundice) and convulsions, as well as one for "Plague, feaver, smallpox or measells" and two for "Jesuits bark" for ague. Cookery recipes include sweetmeats, wines and cakes; pickles and relishes; and baked dishes, puddings and roasts, including whole hog puddings and hams. The volume ends with a few additional cookery recipes in an early 19th century hand
Description: Ownership inscription on recto of front flyleaf, with partial index of recipes on verso.
Binding: contemporary parchment.
Author possibly identified as Rachel Bullock (1699-1765) of Dynes Hall, Great Maplestead, Essex, England.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Hunter Rare Books on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2005.
Extent: 1 20 x 16 cm v. (110 p.) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Recipes
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Bullock, Rachel.
Subject (Topic): Cooking, English
Medicine
Recipes
Subjects: Bullock, Rachel
Cooking, English
Medicine > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Recipes > Great Britain

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Citation: Rachel Bullock, Recipe Book. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.