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A 17th century and later medicinal and culinary recipe and receipt book dated 1690, 8vo, in vellum binding, the cover inscribed 'Receipt Book being a Family Collection ever since the year 1690 - HBD 1786', containing over 100 pages of manuscript entries, in a few different hands, commencing with 'to make Apricocke wine', and including 'to make Marmalade of Oranges', 'A Restorative Water by Dr Taylor', 'Lady Gray's Water', 'Chocolate Lady Fletcher's Way', 'To make Plague water', 'ffor the Kings Evill', 'My Sister Grahmes Cake', 'Receipt for a Consumption, Lady Ann Howard', 'A Preservative agst ye Plague or any other infection', 'To make a jelly of snake skins', etc., with index written at the end

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