Manuscript receipt book (4 resultados)

72pp ms. on 36 4to leaves; one leaf removed, one with half cut away vertically. Bound with a few blank leaves in contemp. marbled paper boards; crudely rebacked in paper, worn but sound. Signature of 'M. Dighton' on leading f.e.p. A nice collection of well written mid-Victorian culinary receipts. Savoury dishes include: 'to harico mutton or lamb', 'to roast woodcocks and snipes', 'to hash fowls', 'Indian hash', 'summer pease soup', and 'frigasee'd lobster'. 'To poach eggs with toast', as always, makes poaching an egg sound easy. Sweet dishes include: 'Mrs Pullan's cake', 'Dutch cream', 'white syllabubs', 'lemon pudding' and 'apple fitters', amongst many others. Unusually, there are two pages, written dos-a-dos, noting the best way to preserve ingredients, from vegetables to cheeses, meat and beer. 'Vegetables will keep best on a stone floor, if the air be excluded - meat in a cold dry place, so does salt - candles cold but not damp - dried meats such as hams &c. &c. the same.'. …

117pp., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper; in contemporary worn vellum binding, with metal clasp, with marbled endpapers. Two sequences of receipts, starting at different ends of the volume, one (rather more businesslike) later than the other. In addition to the total of 117pp. of receipts, each of the two sequences has its own thumb index. Both sequences are written out in medical Latin, with notes in English (for example, after the recipe for 'Cement for Electrical Machines': 'Melt the Resin & Wax together then add the ochre & Plaster paris previously dried, powdered & mixed'). The earlier sequence covers 55pp and in addition to titles in Latin includes recipes for 'Tooth Powder', 'Hair Oil', 'Cough Syrup', 'Horse Medicines', 'Blistering Ointment', 'Ointment for Blemish', 'Lip Salve', 'Scent for Jars', 'Cow Drench', 'Amalgam', 'Blacking', 'Russells Pills', 'Cold Cream', 'Marking Ink', 'Ginger Beer', 'Beet Top Liquid', 'Soda Powders', 'Pungent Scent', 'Mange Ointment', 'Lotion for Bugs', 'Godfreys Cordial', 'Liniment for Sprains in Horses', 'Liquid for Brass', 'Goulard Ointment', 'Salt Lemon', 'French Polish', 'Composition for Balloons', 'Mastic Varnish', 'Almond Paste', 'Steel Preserver', 'Water Proof India Rubber Polish', 'For Browning Gun Barrels', 'Tooth Ache Drops', 'Powder for Wounds & cracked Heels', 'Pomade', 'Black Ink'. The second sequence covers 62pp., and is somewhat more serious, with the few headings including 'Syphilis', 'Mixture for Rheumatism' and 'Stimulating Liniment' (but also entry for 'Currie Powder', dated 1848), section entitled "Medicine for children", c.24pp. (including an ascription to Astley Cooper, a treatment for "gravel"), whooping cough, 'after scarlatina', ''for the head', 'Apply with a camel hair pencil', diarrhoea & dyspepsia', etc. etc. Description of treatment for 'Hooping Cough' begins: 'To a child one year old, give one grain of finely pulverized alum 3 times a day, upon an empty stomach in a little sugar & water till the Cough is removed which it usually is in a fortnight. | To a Child two years old give 2 grains each dose & so increasing one grain for every year but not exceeding 20 or 25 grains for each dose for an Adult. | Milk diet except in case of Infants to be avoided as much as possible & attention to be paid to the state of the bowels.' Very few clues to the author's identity. Occasional references include: 'Mrs Foot', 'Mrs. O Brien's Child 8 years', 'Dr Collins', 'Dr Reece', 'Dr Barnes' and 'Dr Greville'. Three cuttings laid down on p.43 of the first sequence: 'Remedy for the Rheumatism, Sprains, or Bruises', 'Ointment for Wounds, Sores of all kinds, and Chilblains', and 'Dr. Blake's remedy for Tooth-ache'. Tipped-in onto an endpaper a printed article relating to 'Maticò, or the Peruvian Styptic'. Note (on medicine for children, perhaps relevant): "Since pediatrics is a modern specialty, dating at best from the mid- or late nineteenth century [.]". This makes the substantial section on 'medicine for children" pioneering.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. First Edition. [47]p (excluding blanks). Full vellum, smooth back, manuscript name to spine and name and date to upper cover. Covers soiled, ink stain to head of lower cover, corners bumped, rubbed. Internally lightly browned, a few page corners turned, a few pen trials and mathematics to a few of the blank pages and lower pastedown, several pages excised or partly excised. With the name Theophilus Clements and the date of March 8th 1815 to upper cover, and another name and later (1857) date to front pastedown. A collection of various recipes, receipts and medical receipts, predominantly in the same hand, but with others as well. The receipts include 'To clean brass and copper', 'To take rust from iron', 'Blacking', and 'To Distroy (sic) Mice and Rats'. The recipes are mainly for cakes and wine, including 'Raspberry Vinegar', 'Calf's Foot Jelly', 'Black Currant Wine', 'To Preserve Cucumbers', 'Ginger Cakes, 'Shrewsbury Cakes', 'Blancmanges', 'Arrow Root Pudding', 'Ginger Wine', 'Orange Wine', 'Rich Plumb (sic) Cake', 'Apple, Potatoe (sic), and Lemon Cheesecakes', 'Bread Without Yeast', 'To Preserve Rhubarb', 'Currant, Gooseberry, and Raspberry Wine', and 'A Very Good Cake'. The medical receipts include a remedy for 'Weakness and Decline', 'Bitters for a Weak Stomach', 'Receipt for the Dropsy', 'For a Cough', 'Chilblains', 'A Cure for Boils', 'For a Sprain', 'Excellent Pills for a Headache', 'Cure for Piles', 'Remedy for Rheumatism, Lumbago', 'Whooping Cough', a 'Cure for Cholera', and an 'Ointment for Cancer', which involves the green leaves of broad beans. A few manuscript recipes are loosely inserted, from elsewhere, including one for a 'Lemon Sponge', a 'Marrow Pudding', and an 'Elder Wine' Size: 4to. Manuscript.…

1811, 1812. Record book of a saw mill (unnamed) which lists owners of logs, sale of logs, amount of lumber cut, prices, etc. Densely written in ink manuscript. All entries have "x" through them. 20p., original stringbound wraps. Becoming disbound. A bit hard to read; messy.