Manuscript.- Cookery & Medical.- Myddelton (Mrs) [Collection of recipes], Elizabeth David's copy with her bookplate on front pastedown, manuscript, in several hands, c. 145pp. excluding blanks, 1p. with newspaper cuttings of recipes, 1p. with printed and manuscript label of "Insley Powell Cheese and Provision Merchant... R.B . Myddelton with R.M. Dymocks kind regards of Castle Street, Shrewsbury," several manuscript recipes loosely inserted, label: "Mrs Myddelton's Book" on front pastedown, original half calf, slightly rubbed, later rebacked, later label on spine, sm. 4to (206 x 166mm.), dated in text 1863.
⁂ Recipes including: "Pig Sauce"; "A very good Plum pudding"; "Beautiful Ginger Beer"; "French Bread"; "Apple Pudding"; "From Caroline. Stilton Cheese. Mrs Wilsford"; "The Devils Pot - Mrs Mather... To Two quarts of good Ale..."; "Gloucester Cheese"; "Palestine Soup"; "From the head Gardener at Trentham [Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire]"; "How to Stop Bleeding"; "For the Hooping Cough"; "For Neuralgia - fm. Miss E. Williams - Bodelwyddan [north Wales]"; "Cure for Hydrophobia - Lady Vavasour" etc.
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