[Manuscript cook book and book of home remedies].
Contributors: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Published: 1677
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, English -- Washington (D.C.)
Notes: Ms., principally in one hand, with later additions by others.
Untitled; title devised from contents.
Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939 (Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy. Manuscript cookery book no. 4).
Written in Great Britain.
The recipes begin at one end of the book, the home remedies at the other, both working toward the middle. Later additions have not observed the same plan.
Some of the pages are torn away in part, some are blank.
Included is "An elegy on the death of Mrs. Lake, who died Septemb. 3, 1714" (on a bifolium which has become detached and is now laid in at one end) and a loyalist poem against the Jacobites.