Recipe Book, 18th Century

Irish cookery book, mid 18th century.

Indexed (ff.1-12). The volume has been paginated, but the numbers do not run consecutively.

The binding is not original, the pages have been badly trimmed (cutting off some of the original page numbers). Ff.1-136v. are in the same hand, whilst ff.137-150 are in several hands. Ff.147 and 150 are not on the same paper as the rest of the volume.

The volume comprises almost entirley cookery recipes. Pasted onto the inside of the front board is a medical recipe for 'chalick in the stomach'.

Cookery recipes include:

F.19 To Make Grape Cream

F.66v To Make Lemon Mead

F.88v To Make Catchup

F.90 To Fricasse Rabbets or Chicken

F.135 To Make a Blanch Monge

F.139 To Dress Turtle

The medical recipes comprise:

F.144 For A Scald Head

F.145v To Make an Ointment for the Piles

F.146 For A Sore Throught

F.147v Borchaves recpt for a flux

F.147 Saline mixtures

F.149 Poultice for a Sore Breast

F.150v Dr James Recep for the Rumitis