Recipe and medical book

Details

ID

ms38783

Title

Recipe and medical book

Description

Family manuscript recipe book in several hands, kept by Edwards family of Henlow Warden.


Numerous records of making mead, vinegar and grape wine, and of salting hams, with dates and quantities.


Cookery part 259pp, medical remedies 74pp.


Recipes include:


p1r Mead
Artificial Asses Milk (Nurse Harding)
p1v Gloucester jelly for weak people
To keep eggs a good while
p2 Ginger bread (Aunt Upwood Feb 12 1752)
p3 Grace made a cheese, 28 June 1783
Gallons of mead made the same as last year, with instructions
p4r A custard pudding (Aunt Madox)
Harthorn jelly (Aunt Madox)
p4v To make a tongue
Hams
p5r. To make a bread pudding (Aunt Upwood)
Rice pudding (Aunt Upwood, 1752)
p5v. To cure a ham
p6r. Pickled onions (Aunt Upwood)
p6v. To cure Ham (Mrs Upwood junior)
p7r. Cheese cakes
Portugal cakes
Mead
p8. To pickle walnuts black
p9r. To make Green Pease Soop (My Cozen Forster)
p9v. To make blanch mangi
p10. To make blanqmonque (Miss Week)
A pretty dish
p11. To cure beer that is turning sour
p12. To make Lemon Cakes (Miss Farrer)
p13. Vegetables that should cook green
p14. To make Mince Pyes [Pies] (Sister Harvey)
Pancakes (Grandmother Cochayn)
p15. Napkin cream cheese (Mrs Birch)
To pickle a round of beef (Mrs Birch)
p16 To make Goosberries Vinegar ( Mr Hase)
p17 Mutton fritters (Mrs Birch)
p18 To make red Quince Marmalade (Lady Torrington)
p20 To make white Marmalade (Lady Torrington)
p22 To make net dumplings (Mrs Hasfield)
p24 To make musroon Katchup [mushroom ketchup] (Aunt Day)
p26 A Nothing Pudding (Mrs Portuce)
p28 To make Biscakes
p30 To pot beef (Mrs Portuce)
p32 To make a Plumb Cake (Sister Harvey)
p34 To Collar Beef (Sister Coxe)
p35 Harrico of Mutton (Miss Edr)
p36 Harrico of Mutton (Mrs Smyth)
p38 To pickle Port (taken out of the Art Cookery)
p40 The Brother Cake (Mrs Smyth)
p42 Sister Cake (Mrs Smyth)
To make Cherry Jam (Mrs Smyth)
p43 Breakfast Cakes
p44 Bath Buns (Mrs Smyth)
p46 To make Lemon Cheesecakes (Mrs Smyth)
p47 German puffs (DH)
Lemon pudding
p48 To make an Orange Pudding (Mrs Low of Henlow)
p50 Wheat Harvest Cake, 12 August 1757
p51 Raspberry vinegar (Mrs Dagley)
p52 To make vinegar (Dr Pittman) [p52]
Recipe for chapped hands
p54 To make dough nuts
To make Bath Bunns
p56 To make a Pickalilly (Mrs Harvey, Ickwell)
p58 To make sugar kowle cakes, 16 July 1767 (Miss World)
p59 Syllabub
A trifle
p60 To make a hen's nest
p61 To make currant wine (Mrs Reeder)
Redcurrant wine (Mrs Upwood)
p62 To make couran wine (Mrs Upwood junior)
p64 Stewed eels (Mrs Hatfield 1774)
p66 Green pea soup
p68 Hartshorn jelly
p70 To stew a briscuit of beef (Mrs Porteus)
p72 Fish sauce
Stengthening broth
p74 To make green pease soup without meat (Mrs Hatfield)
p76 To make almond soup
p78 To make gravy soup
p80 Grape wine (Mrs Edwards, Henlow)
p81 Making gallons of mead without the lemon, 1784, more made in 1786
p82 Quantities of vinegar and grape wine made, with recipes, 1783, 1784, 1786
p83 Rose pomatum (Miss Bagge)
p84 Rosemary pomatum (Mrs West, 22 August 1787)
p85 To clean plate (Mrs Birkbeck)
p86 Made grape wine and salted hams, 1787, 1788
p87 Purple water
Lavendar water
p88 made grape wine and mead, 1788-1790
p89 Quantities of grape wine made, 1792-1794
p90 To make damson cheese (Mrs Mancell)
p92 Northampton Pudding (Mrs West)
p93 Cheesecakes without curd (Mrs U)
p94 Lemon Cheesecakes (Mrs Cockayne)
p95 To stew carp or tench (Mrs U)
p96 To make an Irish Stew (Miss Humberstone)
Gravy for stewing Carp (Miss Humberstone)
p98 To make wiggs or cakes
p100 To preserve Cucumbers (Miss Edwards) [p100]
To make raisin wine (Miss Humberstone)
Rich ginger wine (Mrs Cockayne)
To make Lemon Cheesecakes (Miss Humberstone)
To bottle damsons
To bottle Gooseberries
To bottle ginger wine (Mr Ed Harvey)
To make ginger bread (Miss Humberstone)
White currant wine (Miss Humberstone)
Good and cheap food for the poor
Pigs feet and ears
Custard (Mrs Braithwaite)
Caget or Dutch Flummery (Miss Edwards)
Imperial cream (Mrs Edwards, Henlow)
Lemonade (Mr Edwards)
Orange Posset or honey comb cream (Miss Edwards)
To Collar Eels
To make green pea soup (Mrs Up)
Currant or raspberry rum
To make a pyramid of sugar (Mrs Braithwaite)
To stew mushrooms (Mrs Braithwaite)
To pickle all sorts of flowers for garnish (Mrs Braithwaite)
To pickle oysters (Mrs Braithwaite) [p124]


To pot Lobsters
To make mackeroons
Italian Cheese
A Venison Pasty
Macaronie cheese


Medical recipes include:
Fryer’s Balsam
Lemon Draughts
For a Hooping Cough
For the Jaundice
For the Piles
Spermaceti Draughts
To make Syrup of Poppys
For the Bite of a Mad Dog
For Children’s sore Mouths or the Thrush.

Collection

Individual Manuscripts and Small Collections

Parent record

Individual Manuscripts and Small Collections Parent record level Collection

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Date

[1747 - 1859]]

Admin history

Family of Edwards of Henlow Warden:
Elizabeth Hanbury (d.1807) married George Edwards (1700-1750) in 1738, 2 daughters, Frances and Elizabeth, and one son, George (1741-1809)


Owned by Mrs Elizabeth Edwards [nee Hanbury] of Henlow Warden and Henlow Llanthony. Contributors include other family members and local family friends, including Lady Webster, Lady Ongley, Mr Moffat, apothecary in Shefford, Mrs Portuce [Porteus], Aunt Day, Mrs Upwood, Mrs Braithwaite, Mrs Harvey of Ickwell, Mrs Smyth.


The names and places suggest the volume was compiled in Bedfordshire around Henlow and Ickwell. The right hand pages are usually written in an older and neater hand often with dates in the 1750s, the left have a rougher more modern (19th c) hand.


Cousin Talman: Richard Edwards married Mary Talman in 1747
Grandmother Cockayne: Elizabeth Edwards b.1662 who married J Cockayne of Astwick
Aunt Madox: Elizabeth's sister Katharine Edwards b.1675 married T Madox

Archival history

Inscribed 'ME Edwards - 1796' at one end, 'ME Martin 4 November 1795' in the same hand at the other end.

Physical description

Some loose pages, foxed and browned, broken in two, later endpapers, 19th c calf binding, rubbed, upper joint broken, spine creased.

Extent

• 1 volume, 333pp

Department

Special Collections - Archive Collections

Record level

Item

Credit line

Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, ID: ms38783