This recipe book contains some 360 recipes--culinary, household, and medical--written clearly on about 210 pages. 4to. Recipes include: Pomade Divine-Beef Marrow one pd. & half cleansed from veins strings and Blood put it into an Earthen Vessel filled with spring water for three days changing the water night and morning. Then take it and squeeze it dry & put it into a pint of Rose Water for twenty four hours; To make Thieves Vinegar- Take of Rue Sage Wormwood Mint Rosemary & Lavender of each one handful ...with this preparation wash your mouth rub your loins and temples every day snuff a little up your nostrills when you go into the air & carry a spunge dipt in the same to smell at upon occasion-or when near any Person that is affected; Yeast as is made in Persia; To make Furmety; Mother Eve's Pudding- Lady Lucy Bridgeman (in rhyme); Inespressibles-Boil three Eggs very hard, cut them in two...; Mr. Porter's Receipt for Whiting the outside of House; Cracklins for Tea (very good-Miss Porter; To Make Treacle Beer; Cure for the Cholera Morbus-Take a soft cork & brown it thoroughly in the fire when it ceases to Blaze mix, it up on a plate with a little milk & water or anything more agreeable to the Palate; purifying Dwellings-Dr. J.C. Smith's recipe ...for the recipe ...for the discovery of which that gentleman received a grant of 500 English pounds from Parliament ...etc