Description
This 140-page book is written in a number of different hands. The front of the book, and its bulk, is given over to recipes for food or drink, many of which are signed by the persons who transcribed them. The back of the book contains 36 pages of recipes for medicines and household preparations, including a "drink for prevention of cholera," which is noted as being from The Times, 1866. A partial table of contents to the volume is written on the inside front cover and on the front fly leaf. A complete index to the contents is available in a database at the library.
Ownership of this manuscript is attributed to Mrs. T. Keyworth on the basis of a number of laid-in items in which she is mentioned. These include a postcard addressed to "Mrs. Keyworth, Cottesford Place, Lincoln, [England]"; a portion of a letter beginning "My dear Mrs. Keyworth"; and a prescription for "Mrs. T. Keyworth," which is signed in Nottingham and includes the embossed seal of a chemist in Lincoln. Some of the paper is watermarked "HOLDSWORTH / PHILLIPS," indicating that it came from the Warfleet Mill, Devon, ca. 1821.
See also
"Mrs. Keyworth English Receipt Book, ca. 1790-1816" in the University of Minnesota collection, which possibly may have been compiled by the same individual.
