Included is an index with 11 pages of menus or Bills of Fare. This manuscript recipe book is inscribed "Miss Caldwells Book, August the 13 1757," later the property of Catherine Sparks and Jane Sparks, 1790. It contains some 110 18th century recipes in several clear hands on about 120 leaves (mainly rectos) including a wide variety of pies, puddings, pastries, meat & fish dishes, soups, cakes, sweets, preserves, home-made wines, etc. Recipes include: mutton stake pye, an arty-choak pye, a neats tongue pye, an orange pudding, a carrot pudding, a tanzey pudding, an amblett, almond flummery, an olio, alm and soop, an eell soop, sturgeon of a turkey, to make mangoes, to pickle barberrys, a sack possett, whipp sillybub, a plum cake, a ratifia cake, naple biscakes, a bog-berry tort, a codling tort, etc. Also contains some doodles (facing pg8 12, 83, & 104 for example). Diagrams of how to lay out meals on final pages.