Directions for using the patent digester in families, by John Spottiswood, Carron Warehouse, Adams's Square, South Bridge, Edinburgh, who has all sizes for sale, of the finest annealed & tinned kind.
Spottiswood, John,merchant in Edinburgh.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
180-?]
Caption title.
Trade flyer for an early version of a pressure cooker: "The great importance and utility of this valuable utensil to the public in general, in producing a larger quantity of wholesome and nourishing food, by a much cheaper method than has ever been hitherto obtained, is a matter of such serious and interesting consideration, as cannot be too earnestly recommended to those who make economy in their families an object of attention."
Paper watermarked 1799, Spottiswood is recorded at this address in an 1805 Edinburgh post office directory.
With manuscript notes on the verso.
Pressure cooking
Scotland Edinburgh.