| Description | divided into five sections: the first listing various food recipes from the early 18th century, carried on in various hands until 1861 when newspaper cuttings are pasted in, dealing with a variety of cures and preparations, including varnish for pictures, pond linings, snake bites, fire-proof dresses, destruction of crickets and rats, baits for angling, correspondence about the cleaning of the Steel Chair and designs for a crayfish trap; the second section is to do with medical preparations, including the prevention of miscarriages and the making of cherry wine "good for the rising of the lights"; the third section is for food preservatives, including Manus Christi sugar; the fourth is two pages of cakes and the fifth is in the rear of the book, dealing with fruit wines |