Medical and culinary recipes : manuscript.

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Dodd, William, 1729-1777, addressee.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Formulas, recipes, etc--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Formulas, recipes, etc.

Self-care, Health--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Self-care, Health.

Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Traditional medicine.

Genre:

Recipes.

Manuscripts, English -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Alastor Rare Books (Lymington, England), 2024.

Physical Description:

4 items (4 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 26 cm

Production:

Norfolk, U.K., circa 1750.

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 26 Folder 4

Summary:

Four homely remedies and cookery recipes, in manuscript written by different hands. One addressed on verso to the Rev. W. Dodd at Acle.

Contents:

John Burby's fine black salve for weakness in the back or strains or bruises any where the body or leggs

Lady Grivors receipt for convulsions

A Powder for the sickness

Christmas Pies ; Lemon Syllabub.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Cited as:

Medical and culinary recipes (Misc Mss Box 26 Folder 4). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1512369076