Receipt Book, English, 17th century

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Manuscript book of culinary and medical recipes, in at least two hands and with signatures inside cover of Ann de la Bere and Hester de la Bere.
54ff., contents as follows: 
f.1r: title page, "The Land of Promise Flowing With Milk & Hony....", relating to following scriptural material.f.1v: medical recipes.
ff.2r-12v: scriptural material. 
ff.12v-40r: recipes, mixed culinary and medical.
ff.40v-53r: recipes, mixed culinary and medical, written the other way up from the back of the book. 
ff.53v-54r: scribbles and handwriting experiments, including signatures of Ann de la Bere Hester de la Bere and Christian Rutter. 
f.54v: note on weights and measures.

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