Receipt book, approximately 1710-1760

An 18th-century commonplace book used to record financial accounts, poetry and then primarily for recipes and other household matters. From the names recorded in the ledger portion of the volume, it would appear that the woman whose volume this was, resided in a Puritan community. Specific places mentioned in the volume include Kensington and London. Entries written in at least two different hands.

In total, the volume contains approximately eighty recipes, written dos-a-dos fashion. Recipes include Seed Cake of London, Spirit of lemons, waffles, roast pike, sauce for mutton, cabbage lettuce pie, pickled cucumber, egg pie, pickle turnips, coller beef, coller eel, braised raspberry, elder wine, potted beef, Westphalia ham, biscuits, cowslip wine, apple tansey, balm wine, chocolate cream, raspberry cream and more. The majority of the recipes are for food dishes, however the volume does include recipes for perfume, lip salve, cough lozenges, julep for fever, etc. Many of the recipes indicate their source, e.g. Mrs. K of Loxley, etc.

Dated from internally recorded dates.