Hand-written book of recipes and remedies

Hand-written volume of recipes, remedies, arithmetic exercises and commonplaces.

The book comprises two parts, beginning at opposite ends of the volume. At the front, f.1v comprises a crossed-out section on the power of habit, after which ff.2r-25v are made up of household, medical and culinary recipes (chiefly the last). Ff.26r-77r are blank. After this, ff.77v-92r (working from the other end of the book) comprise arithmetic exercises, moral sentiments, jokes, proverbs, resolutions and quotations apparently assembled by W. Ogdon of Derbyshire and dated between 1878 and 1884.

The recipes at the front of the volume are as follows:
f2r: Inlaid woods; bronzing with powder
f2v: Mock bronze; stencilling on gold; to clean white marble; to frost glass
f3r: Fruit salt; butterscotch
f3v: Ginger wine; cheesecake
f4r: Indigestion; cough mixture; inflammation in the eyes
f4v: Whooping cough; indigestion pills; liver complaint
f5r: Cough mixture; sprains; liver complaint; inflammation in the eyes
f5v: Orange marmalade
f6r: To prevent croup; butterscotch
f6v: notes on cleaning and polishing metals and glass; recipe for French polish
f7r: Pikelets
f7v: pikelets (continued)
f8r: Hair restorer; to frost windows; good for deafness
f8v: Cleaning china; fried fish; use of turmeric to clour buns
f9r: To dry flowers and foliage; rheumatism; furniture polish
f9v: To cure rabbit skins; etching on iron
f10r: Salve for burns; making a plaster out of a rag; asthma
f10v: Inflammation of genital organs; a drink called "Prince of Wales (Longlife)"
f11r: Mother Seigel's Syrup
f11v: Blood purifier; lemon pie
f12r: Shortcrust pastry
f12v: Bath buns
f13r: Marmalade
f13v: To test the purity of water
f14r: Toffee balls; to clean gilt frames; lime juice and glycerine for the hair
f14v: Cleaning gentlemen's silk ties; rabbit skins
f15r: Walnut stain for floors; novel newspaper holder; tracing paper
f15v: To transfer print or engraving to glass; to transfer engraving or print to paper
f16r: Cement for meerschaum; to grow mushrooms
f16v: Hot cross buns; ice cream to freeze
f17r: Ice cream (recipe ascribed to Mr. Faure of Leeds)
f17v: Ice cream recipe no.2; flavouring for ice cream
f18r: ice cream flavours continued; water ice
f18v: water ice continued; frozen custard
f19r: Gripe water for babies; hot peas
f19v: Orange marmalade
f20r: Orange jelly
f20v: Cough mixture; influenza
f21r: Icing sugar; rice cake
f21v: Scones; brandy snaps; Paris buns; milk cakes; almonds for tarts
f22r: Shortcake; macaroons; parkin; Shrewsbury cakes; Omskirk gingerbread; scones
f22v: Dundee cake; Prussian buns; Genoa cake; Swiss buns; baking powders; Mantham gingerbread
f23r: Current bread; seed cakes; icing sugar; treacle; rice cakes
f23v: Christmas cake; raspberry sandwiches; sultana cakes
f24r: constipation; for sores, pimples and boils; Zam-Buk (a patent medicine)
f24v: Elliman's embrocation; Heard's salve; Wincarnis
f25r: Ginger wine; furniture polish; general pick-me-up
f25v: phosphorene (two recipes)

late 19th century

1 volume

Purchased on e-Bay, December 2015.

The provenance of this volume is uncertain, but a few details suggest an origin in the north of England or the north-east Midlands: the section of the book given over to arithmetic is noted as belonging to W. Ogdon of Wirksworth, Derbyshire (whose handwriting suggests that he or she is a child) whilst among the recipes cited is one attributed to a Mr. Faure of Leeds. The ownership inscription from W. Ogdon is dated 1878.