| Description | loose recipes, remedies, potions and preparations for (among other things) ink, a bilious complaint, the preservation of cauliflower, elderberry wine, pot pourri, scurvy, a jelly containing snails and worms (for use as a cough medicine), gape in chickens, many for gout, raspberry jam, worm medicine, a turpentine glyster (enema), brimstone whey, gall stones (donated by Princess Augusta), garlic bales for horses with coughs, amber garters for the cramp and a recipe for pea soup from the workhouse in Mount Street, which the writer hopes is the same as the previous one but cannot be certain as "the cook being dead and the Master run away". Probably compiled by successive Countesses of Radnor, one of the earliest being dated 1758 and later ones from 1811. There is also an 1860 letter from a dressmaker about patterns and a joke about Banks in the Bible. Interleaved prescription with instructions for the countess of Radnor, 1832 |