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Bound within green vellum covers, this eighteenth-century English recipe book of approximately 107 written pages is in several different hands. Approximately 82 pages of recipes are written from the front of the notebook. These recipes primarily concern sweets such as preserves, biscuits, and cakes. Additional recipes are written from the back of the notebook, mostly focusing on wines and other drinks such as milk punch, shrub, ale, and lemonade. There are many blank pages between the two sections. Many recipes are attributed, including “Almond Jumballs” from “My Grandmother Digges,” Mrs. Brandon’s "Prawlins,” “To Preserve Necterens” from “Lady Chimist,” and several wines from Aunt Turner.

Some recipes are difficult to read due to the handwriting or to ink bleed-through. An advertisement for “Richard Stoakes, Stow Maker,” of London, has been pasted in as an endpaper. A bookplate indicates that Howard C. Levis owned the manuscript at one point.