Helyar family recipe book : manuscriptHelyar familycirca 1650-1740.engManuscript recipe book, on paper, in at least three hands, containing a collection of mostly medical recipes compiled by three generations of the women of the Helyar family of Coker Court in Somerset. Recipes include "strengthening potions," cordials and syrups; "medisins," including remedies for plague, rickets, consumption, toothache, and rabies; and a number of treatments for women, including herbal mixtures to be taken while nursing and poultices for sore breasts. A small number of culinary recipes offer directions for preserving fruit and flowers. Many recipes are attributed to family members or neighborsThe Helyars of Coker Court were a Somerset gentry family, descended from William Helyar (1559-1645), Archdeacon of Barnstaple and a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I, who purchased Coker Court in 1616. Contributors to the family recipe book include Rachel Wyndham Helyar (1621?-1697); her daughter-in-law Joanna Hole Helyar (died 1714); and Joanna's two daughters, Rachel Helyar, Lady Coryton (died 1711), and Johanna Helyar (died 1767).In English.Title devised by cataloger.Laid in: copies of recipes sent to various members of the Helyar family.Binding: contemporary full parchment over boards; blind-ruled.