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"Book of Receipts for Cookery and Pastry 1732 & c.": pencilled signature of Sarah Tully, Lady Hoare. Indexed<br>
The volume is continued in several different hands. Some Indian connection is suggested by recipes for "kebobs" '"pilau", "currie powder" and there is some evidence for European travel or contacts.<br>
Pasted to the inside front cover: Unrecorded advertising broadside, printed in English in Venice, for the famous theriaca fina or Venice treacle, a honey- or molasses-based composition thought efficacious against poisoning, sold at the "Aquila Nera" [At the Sign of the Blak Eagle] in the Merceria San Salvatore.<br>
Medical, household, veterinary and culinary recipes: including "To make a Triffell with Apricocks"; "To make Chocolate as prepared for the King"; Metheglin; "An Excellent rect. for ye heartburn brot from Italy by the Duke of Shrewsbury"; "Mr Porter's Receipt for Nervous disorders"; "Directions for Mr Hoare to mend his Blood"; "A Cure for  the Jaundice", attributed to Dr Porter of Essex; "A Loyn of Mutton Kebob'd"; "Dr Radcliffe's Specifick for the Cholick"; "A Tincture for the Gout or Cholick in the Stomach" also ascribed to Dr Radcliffe; "Fromage Fondu" (initialled "RH"); "Dr Boerhaave's Tincture for Rheumatism or colds attended with pains in the Bones" (also ascribed to "Dr Borehave", "For a Consumptive Cough or Spitting"); "Dr Porter's Nervous Electuary"; "Hierapicra"; "To make a Pilau after the East Indian manner"; several medical prescriptions ascribed to Dr Harrington; several treatments for disorders of horses; "For the Worms. Mrs Masham"; "Mrs Masham's universal Purge"; "For an obstruction in the liver. Mr Burton"; "Artificial Asses Milk... Dr Mead"; "To make India Pickle"; "To make mackrony' [macaroni] - including "Parmason cheese"; "Currie Powder"; numerous recipes for eels; several of Dr Aldridge's prescriptions

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