The recipes include "to colour a room green," cures for whooping cough, toothache, typhus, warts, corns, consumption, a strengthening potion, antibilious pills, and a remedy for rheumatism. There are occasional drink-related recipes including coffee, ginger beer, wine, vinegar, and damson, elder, raspberry, and gooseberry wine, "to make chanpagne equal to foreign" as well as diffrent directions for curing hams.