| Description | Of Hester Washbourne (later Soame) of Pytchley, Northants. It includes recipes for calves’ feet jelly, Queen cake, punch, cheese cakes, cracknell, rich plum cake, baked pudding, cowslip wine and ratafia biscuits, as well as methods of preserving artichokes and various kinds of fruit. It includes remedies for colic, dropsy, consumption, bruises, convulsions, the stone, coughs, colds, etc., together with instructions for the preparation of ‘snail water’. |