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Although its exact origin is unknown, this vellum-bound manuscript recipe book likely dates back to the early 19th century. Most of the recipes are for desserts and jellies (e.g. orange tarts, plumb cake, apricot jam, etc.), but recipes for non-sweets (green pea soup, soy sauce, girkins, etc.) and a few cough remedies are also included. The handwriting ranges from very crude to a near perfect calligraphic hand. A selection of the recipes are signed and names include Mary Dawson, M. Moore, N.B., and S. Lowels.
Browse the pages of the book below.
Ink tests, pencil additions, and signatures including Mary Dawson's.
Recipes for Plumb Cake and Lemon Cream.
Recipe for "Stew'd Pears."
Recipe for Lemon Cheesecake. Written upside down is an address and date: July 28. 1801.
A recipe to "Make a Ham in the Manner of Westphalia" by Mrs. W.
Recipe for Green Pea Soup.
Recipe for Italian Flummery.
Recipe for Soy Sauce.
Recipe for Little Plumb Cakes.
Recipe to Preserve Girkins.
Recipe for girkins continued from page 9. Recipe for Apricot Cheese.
Recipe for Marrow Pudding.
Recipe for Carrot Pudding and a crossed out recipe for Spice Cakes.
Recipe for Orgeat.
"To make Ozgeat a second Way." A variant spelling of orgeat from the previous recipe.
Recipe for White Soup.
Recipe to Preserve Strawberries Whole.
Recipe for Lemon Posset.
Page filled with ink tests and writings.
Recipe for Flummery (here spelled "Flumery").
Recipes for "Juces."
Recipe for Rice Cakes.
Recipe for Orange Tarts.
An additional recipe for Orange Tart.
Recipe for Mince Meat.
Recipe for Lemon Posset.
Recipe to Pickle French Beans.
Recipe for Apricot Jam.
Recipe for Burnt Cream.
Recipe for Orange Jelly.
Recipes for Cambridge Milk Punch and Orange Tarts.
Recipes for Brown Orange Jelly and for "Boild Apple Pudding."
Recipes for Baked Apple Pudding and Fried Potatoes.
Recipe for Muffin Pudding with Dried Cherries.
Recipe for Orange Wine.
Part of a recipe for girkins.
Recipe for Tea Cakes and Sugar Cakes.
Recipe for Eggs à L'Aurore and an additional egg recipe.
Recipe "For a Ham" and for Orange Cream.
Recipes for White Gingerbread, Spice Bread, and Oatmeal Flummery (here spelled "Flumery").
Recipes for Ox Cheek Brawn, Spice Cakes, and Lemon Cheese Cakes.
Recipe for a cough remedy, a cake recipe, and recipes for Boiled Rice Pudding and Common Baked Rice Pudding.
Recipes for Bark Infusion and Orange Marmalade.
An additional recipe for Orange Marmalade and a recipe for Apple Pudding.
Recipes for Orange Shrub and Orange Pudding.
Recipe for Amber Drops.
Recipes for Ginger Wine and Vermicelli.
Remedy for a "Hooping Cough" [i.e. whooping cough] and a recipe "To colour Blomanche" [possibly blancmange].
Recipe for Orange Jelly.
Recipe for Asparagus Soup.
Recipe "To pickle Mackerel called Caveach."
Recipe for Red Elderberry Wine.
Page containing several iterations of the name "John Branch."
