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Harry Heley's book of receats : manuscript.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 26 Folder 3
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Heley, Harry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking--Early works to 1800.
- Cooking.
- Dairy cattle--Treatment.
- Dairy cattle.
- Cows--Treatment.
- Cows.
- Traditional veterinary medicine--Early works to 1800.
- Traditional veterinary medicine.
- Genre:
- Cookbooks.
- Recipes.
- Manuscripts, English -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Alastor Rare Books (Lymington, England), 2024.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (28 pages) ; 10 x 16 cm
- Production:
- England?, 1792.
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 26 Folder 3
- Summary:
- Eighteenth-century volume of some thirty three manuscript recipes, including confectionery such as sixpenny buttons, mint drops, corner cakes, muffins, wiggs and others. At the back of the volume are several remedy drinks for cows, which seem to all include ale. Example: A drink for a cow that stale blood; Take a pound of currants, hand full of yard and boiled in three pints of ale and take three or four new layds hen eggs, give her.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.
- Cited as:
- Harry Heley's Book of Receats (Misc Mss Box 26 Folder 3). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1511132246
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