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- Receipts by P.O., 1805. 61 pages of handwritten recipes plus 6pp. index. 19 x 16 cm., original notebook of half green vellum, marbled paper covered boards originally sold by Rowe, Stationer of Temple Bar. 95 cookery recipes and a few for the household. Brewing recipes include one for 54 gallons of beer with 5 bushels of malt. There are recipes for dishes done in a unique preparation, like potted lobster, seed cake, custard, puff paste, force meat balls, onion soup, turtle soup with oysters. Other recipes include "Allamode Beef," "Busbridge Puddings," preserved Barberries, a fish sauce with horseradish and sweet herbs, India pickle, stewed cucumbers, walnut ketsup, Carrack using Indian Soy, Nun’s Biscuits, solid syllabubs, herb soup, and "Woodlark’s Paste."
- Date Created:
- 1805-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Beer, food, and home comfort: domestic collections at WMU
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- Selections from the nineteenth-century domestic guide, The Housekeeper's Guide, includes the title page and Chapter XIV: Beer, Wine, &c. (pages 387-423) featuring sections on home brewing, wine making, hot liquor drinks. Recipes for cheap beer, carrot beer, ginger beer, currant or gooseberry wine, green gooseberry wine, orange or lemon wine, grape wine, raisin wine, metheglin or mead or honey wine, English sherry or malt wine, ginger wine, parsnip wine, cowslip or clary wine, elder wine, damson or black cherry wine, birch wine, essence of ginger, cherry brandy, raspberry brandy, ratafia, noyeau, curacoa, capiliaire, sherbet, etc.
- Date Created:
- 1838-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Beer, food, and home comfort: domestic collections at WMU
- Notes:
- Selection from the eighteenth-century cookbook Family Magazine, includes the title page and pages 88-94, featuring the section The Complete Family Brewer. It discusses how to choose a good malt, hops, water, and brewing vessels. Mashing, brewing, and preserving beer is discussed in detail, followed by recipes for strong beer, China ale, “Alderberry-beer” or ebulum, and an improved, and excellently wholesome Purl, a wormwood ale.
- Date Created:
- 1741-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Beer, food, and home comfort: domestic collections at WMU
- Notes:
- Selections from the 1907 edition of Mrs. Beeton's Every-day Cookery, includes the cover and a hop beer recipe on page 417.
- Date Created:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Beer, food, and home comfort: domestic collections at WMU
