named at the start 'Mary Bland her Boocke of Repasts', and further named 'Mary Midmore har Boocke of repasts gin har by Mary Bland har Granmothar', with 144 pages written in ink in a few different hands; entries include - to make a freshe cheese, to make a shaking pudding, to drie neates toungs, to boile mutton for breakfast, to pickell samfire, to dresse the humbles of a deere, to make an outlandish dishe, to butter a rabbit, to make cracknelles, to make makerownes, to make marygould water, to make a broth to cure a consumption and the yellowe jaundies, for the toothache, for the biting of a madd-dogge or the stinging of an adder, against skalding or burning, my lord Dennys ointment, to help the emrods, etc. some pages blank, but the entries all generally legible, in a damaged contemporary leather binding
Sold for £13,000
Auction: The Library Sale, 10th Apr, 2025
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