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Herbert Beaver Cookbook, 1765

 Item — Volume: US 4

Dates

  • Creation: 1765

Extent

From the Collection: 10.50 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Materials Specific Details

It includes recipes for: Clear Starching for Book Muslin; whipt Sullibulbs; Mrs. Smokes Suet Pudding; Boiled Ground rice pudding; Scotch Collops; Stew Carp; Thin Pancake; Ragout of Breast of Veal; White Sauce for Carp or Tench; To Pot Salmon; Apple Pudding to Bake; trifle; bread & butter pudding; Snow Cream; Lemon Pu'dding; good Rice Pu'dding; Mrs. Beavers way to make Walnut Catchup; To Collar Eela; To Ash a Calf's Head; balls of Gravy; fry Lamb stakes [note they salt and pepper the steaks first]; To make a Pea Soop; A very fine Lip salve equal to the Famous Pomande Divine; Powder for Cleaning the Teeth; To Pickle white Cabbage; To make Calves Feet Jelly; To Pot Beef; Pectoral for a Cough; To Make Spring Juces; To make an Electory for the Scurvy; To make Brimstone Diet Drink; To make Daffys Elixer; A Cordial for the Gout & Cholic; To preserve Oranges; To Make Orange Marmalade; Lemon Cheese Cakes; pickle Musherooms; pickle Girkins; receipt for a Cough; Cure for a Sore Mouth; Cure for a running Sore; pickle Walnut Green; German Puffs; To Preserve Cucumbers Equal to any India Sweetmeat; To Do Brandy Fruit; To make Ice Creams; A Diet Drink; Prussian Cake; a Cake; Storghions Drops; Cure for a sore Mouth; India Pickle; Almond Cheese Cakes; Plumb Pudding; A Purging Electury; A Calomel Purge for Children; Mince Pye's; Paste for the Teeth; Cure Ham; A receipt for a wound in the Leg given me, by an Old Soldier; Mrs. Millard Receipt for a Burn 55 or inflamatory Sore Leg & c.; Mrs. Millard Receipt for a Sore Breast & c. & c.; cheap and excellent soap for Family with the supposed expence; Rice Pudding; A Recipe of the famous Dr. Pitcairne for the Hooping Cough; Water called L'Eau Albine; Receipt for a Cough; Recipes for Ague; Elegant and Efficacious Nutritum; Goulard's Wash; Cure for Rhumatism; Method of destroying the putrid smell which meat acquires during hot weather; receipt for a Cancer or Tumour; A Seed Cake; ointment for Scorbutic Complaint; Sticking Plaister; Recipe of Dr. Malone's for a Cold; Approved receipte for the Stone and Gravel; very fine tooth powder; Recipe for my plumb pudding; To make Blacking; To clean Teeth; Lip Salve; Mrs. Handford's Salve; drying Ointment; recipe for worms; Tincture to preserve the Gums & Teeth; a saline Draught; for preventing the Fly in Turnips; To make Scorbutic Juices; To make Bacon; Reciept for Worms; A Safe Emetic for an Adult or Grown Person: Milk of Roses; Another Receipt for Milk of Roses; Cucumber Catchup; another Receipt for Milk of Roses; Dr. Andrson's Receipt to pot Butter; Gingerbread buttons; Dr. Cook ...for purging; Mrs. Arthurs Recipe for my Draughts; For Epileptic Fits; for Eruptions in the Face; Potatoe Yeast; Pickle Salmon; For Contractions of the joints; for a broken Shin; To Make Tartar; for a Dropsy; Lavender Water; for a sore Leg; for Chilblains; for a Cough. Acquired from John Waite Rare Books, November 2000, whose description is used above.

Physical Description

The front cover is inscribed "Herbert Beaver- This Book in Blank was given me by the Revd. Mr. Robert Rowe Vicar of Pilton (Somersett) July 14th, 1765". Later on the back cover it is inscribed "Edward C. Lowe, Cheltenham, Eng. Mar. 1939."

Also included: Bookplate "Homer L. Calkin Memorial Fund"

Repository Details

Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository

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