Manuscript Location

New York Academy of Medicine, Rare Book Room

Place of Origin

England

Date of Composition

circa 1650 - 1700

Description

This manuscript is mostly given over to medical formulas except for pages 152 through 169, which contain twenty-one culinary recipes (written in a different hand from the medical formulas). These recipes are, in order: To make syrrop of giliflowers y^t will keep 7 yeares; To Make Elder Wine; To Make Gooseberry Wine; To Pickell coucombers; To dry a Leg of Pork; To stew a dish of pigens; To Make Marmalet of orenges; To Make Duch Waffers; To Make Pyramidis cream; To preserve hole white quinces; To Make syrrop of saffron; To Make [Tun? (252 US gallons)] of Elder (elderberry wine); To make cherey wine; To Make oreng Water; To Make cowslip Wine; To Make Elder Wine; To Make a Frigesey of Rrabets and Torkes; To make S[...]och Colops; To fregesiey chickens; To Make oyster loaves; To Make Almond Jumballs. The recipe for "Duch Waffers," or waffles, is noteworthy in being made with cooked rice rather than wheat flour, as most other early English recipes for waffles are.

The book contains approximately 480 medical recipes (467 numbered), including remedies for sores, burns, wounds, ailments of the eyes, complexion, "greene sickness," colds, and coughs. Most of the recipes are unattributed, but there are a few exceptions, such as a receipt for "Sr Walter Rawley's great cordiall."