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[Receipts for] kitchen and household use, some 100 years old in the Matthey and Goodall Families. Written by various hands from about 1750 to 1900, which is the date of a pencilled note on the treatment of boils on fol. 111. This is intialled 'E.M.' (i.e. Edward Matthey [1837-1918]) and dated 9/12/1900. The receipts at the beginning are mostly cookery receipts, but those from fol. 70 onwards are medical. There are numerous inserted receipts by different hands, both cookery and medical, many pasted in. Among those on fol. 50 is an estimate, dated 1 February, 1866, sent in by H. Chaplin, cook and confectioner of 2 Upper Baker St., London, for the wedding breakfast for Marie Matthey. It involved a meal for 24 persons at 12/6 per head, without wine. The title given above is from a label pasted on to the spine, and written by Edward Matthey: the upper part is missing.

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