Eighteenth-Century Pages

There is no title to this section of the book, and no folio numbers, A number of the pages are set out in two or more columns. The internal evidence shows that the entries were written in the 1760s,with the latest date in 1764, and that the writer was living in or near Newcastle at the time.

Image no 275; To make surfett water from Mrs Jane Youngs writing; From Mr Thomas Youngs writing
Image no 276; Surfett Water Herbs & Roots; Domestic notes including accounts, with dates in spring 1763
Image no 277; To make Lipsalve; To make Pancakes; Lipsalve ingredients and prices; Jelleys ingredients and prices; For a Soar Throat ; To prevent taking a Cold or Feaver
Image no 278; Mr Thomas Youngs own Handwriting for Surfett Water; List of collectors of hearbs
Image no 279; How to make a Plumb Cake
Image no 280; Sore Throat remedy; For a Cold or Feaver; Plumb Cake ingredients and prices; Bitters for Cold
Image 281; To make a rice cake; Rice Cheese Cakes; for the Flux (dated Oct 20, 1756); for Consumtion (dated Nov 29, 1756); to make Fish Sause.
Image 282; Portagees Ointment; To make Lipsalve
Image 283; To make Bitters.
Image 284; Pumatum; Hyra Pycre; Hearbs to put into Two Gallons of New Ale for the Spring
Image 285; Hearbs to put into (Two Gallons of New Ale) for the Spring; (dated March 25 1759)
Image 286; Take Conserve of Hipps; Take groundivy; A Receipt to make Goosberry Wine
Image 287; To Pickle Rocksamphire; To Pickle Kidney Beans; To Pickle Oysters and Cockles
Image 288; To Pickle Red Cabbage; To Pickle Cowcumber; To Pickle Girkins
Image 289; To make a Plumb Cake without yest
Image 290; Expence of the Plumb Cake as of the other side of this leaf (dated Aug 31, 1759)
Image 291; Ingredients for a Plumb Cake
Image 292; To Pickle Rock Samphyre; To make Fish Sauce; To make a Pudding for a Hare; Pumatum.
Image 293; To make ???; To make French Fretters; For a Dumpling (dated Feb 29 1764); Syrrup of Elders; For to Drink every Morning in the Spring
Image 294; To Pickle Onions; A Water for Soar Eyes; Turpintine Drops for the Wind.
Image 295; A Dyet Drink for the Scurvey; For Removing a Pain – or Scurvy
Image 296; For Curing Weak and Sore Eyes. (recipe dated Nov 12 1763); An Infallable Remedy for the Present Cold. (Dublin Gazette. March 19^th 1764. London Chronicle); Cold; Cold.
Image 297; Said to be an Infallable Receipt for the Cure of Deafness (Universal Magazine July 1764), White Saint Newspaper. Medicine for Mad Dog Bite
Image 298; To Pickle Samphire; To take Meldew out of Linnen; Mountain Wine
Image 299; Plague Waters; Book the Compleat Huswife or Accomplish’d Gentlewoman’s Companion
Image 300; To make a Possett with Ale – King Williams Possett
Image 301; blank page
Image 302; Mrs Thompsons Receipt for Dropsy; To Make Raisin Wine (dated April 13, 1764); From Mrs Littlejohns Penrith; Cordial for a Cold
Image 303; An Easy, Short and Certain Method of treating persons bitten by mad Animals
Image 304; For a Stranguary; Mary Threlkelds Cure for the Asmay
Image 305; Receipt for a Plaster or Sear Cloth for all sorts of pains; Strains or Sores
Image 306; For the Scurvey; For a Cold Dr Ratcliffs Receipt ; For a Cold; For a Scurvey or Dropsy
Image 307; For the cure of cold; For a dropsy; To make a lip salve
Image 308; To Cure a Dropsy; To Make Ink
Image 309; To cure a Pimpled Face; For a Scurvey and Dropsey
Image 310; A Green Ointment
Image 311; To pickle Nasturtium-Buds; A Cake; A Cake; A Drink
Image 312; To make a Puff Paste; Paste for Pasties; To Make a Brown Bread Pudding; Pancakes; Broth; Rice Pudding
Image 313; Strong Broth; Gravy Soop; Butter’d Loaves; To make Raisin Wine
Image 314; A Veal Pye; Collar’d Beef and Brawn; Scotch Collops; Veal fry’d with butter
Image 315; To make Strong Broth; A Calfs Head Hash
Image 316; Barley Pudding ; A Water to Strengthen the Sight; A Purging Gentley; Mary Thirkelds Bottle for purging
Image 317; Cherry Brandy; To Make Cowslip Wine
Image 318; To Make Mead
Image 319; A Receipt Against the Plague. This, and the story of the ‘ four murderers’, relate to a scare of 1764, when there was an epidemic of plague in Balkan and Levantine ports, and there were fears that it might be imported with cargoes from those areas. A recipe called ‘Thieves Vinegar’ was offered as a prophylactic, with the idea being that thieves could use it to rob the houses of plague victims with impunity (Foods of England)
Image 320; Blank
Image 321; Another for the Bite of a Mad Dog
Image 322; To make Plague Waters
Image 323; To make Surfeit Waters
Image 324; Oatmeal Pudding; for Jelly; A Cordial; Water Gruel; A Drink for a Sick Person
Image 325; Pudding; Dumplings; Apple Dumplings; Orange Pudding; My Wife Orange Pudding; Cough
Image 326; Prune Porrigde; Hodge Podge; Beef Broth; Pease Porridge; Pease Porridge
Image 327; Barley Gruel; Oatcakes; Furmity; Pancakes; Butter Wheat; Tansey; An Oatmeal Hasty Pudding; Fritters
Image 328; Cold; for the Stranguary; Soar Throat; for the Stranguary; Dropsy
Image 329; NCastle Plumb Cake; Assembly Cake (dated March 17, 1765)
Image 330; To make Dafy’s Elixir
Image 331; King Charles the Second’s Surfeit Water; To make the true Daffy’s Elixir
Image 332; To Drink; for Pimples; for Dropsy; for a Cold; for a Cough
Image 333; Strong Broth; To Make Fine Milk Punch
Image 334; Calf Foot Jelly
Image 335; To make Saragossa Wine, or English Sack; Cherry Brandy
Image 336; To make Carraway Brandy; Collick; Ringing; Pimples in the Face; A Water to Strengthen the Sight; Stomach Cough; Redness in the Face
Image 337; Lime Water; for the Scurvey
Image 338; To make Strong Beer
Image 339; To make Elder Ale; An Opening Drink; To make Hungry Water; Milk Water
Image 340; A Purging Diet Drink in the Spring; to make an Oatmeal Caudle; To make Syrop of Garlick
Image 341: To make a Fever Water; Carraway Brandy; A Fine Purge; For the Gripes; Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dogge.
Image 342; A Rare Mouth Water; To Cure the Dropsy; To Cure a Pimpled Face and Sweeten the Blood.
Image 343; For the Scurvey/Mary Thirkels Scurvey Bottle; For the Cramps; For the Collick.
Image 344: An Excellent Receipt for the Cure of Colds; Pimples on the Face; To make Ebulum or Earby Drink.
Image 345: Barley Water; A Rye Bread Pudding.
Image 346: To Cure the Dropsy, Rheumatism, Scurvey, & Cough of the Lungs.
Image 347: Receipt for Colds; Recipe for a Sore Throat.
Image 348: An Infallible Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
Image 349: For a Dropsy; For the Gripes; Stay a Loosness.
Image 350: To Prevent the Cure of Plague.
Image 351; Admirable Tincture for Green Wound
Image 352; To make Orange Wine with Raisins
Image 353; Purging Diet Drink
Image 354; Professors Boerhaave & Osterdykes’s Regimen Prescribed for the Gout (Boerhaave and Osterdyke were seventeenth-century Dutch physicians (see People and Places) and this regimen is copied from The Compleat Housewife (see image 357)
Image 355 Professors Boerhaave & Osterdykes’s Regimen continued
Image 356; For the Gout
Image 357; The Compleat Housewife or Accomplished Gentlewoman’s Companion (this is a copying out of the title page of this book, by Eliza Smith).
Image 358; Shrub; For the Dropsy and Scurvy
Image 359; To make a Drink; To make a Hard Biscuit
Image 360; To make Red Balls
Image 361; Biting of a Mad Dog; A Good Seed Cake; Mountain Wine; To make Stitche Water
Image 362; To make Gripe Water; For a Cough Settled on the Stomach
Image 363; To Make Cowslip Wine; To make Orange Wine
Image 364; To Cure a Pimpled Face, and Sweeten the Blood; A Remedy for Pimples; For the Scurvey or Dropsy; For the Teeth
Image 365; The Saffron Cordial; For a Cough Settled in the Stomach; A Drink to Preserve the Lungs
Image 366; To make Raisin Wine; To make Small White Mead;
Image 367; To Make a Strong Mead
Image 368; To Make Hiera Picra
Image 369; A Receipt that cured a Gentleman who had a Long time Spitt Blood; For the Jaundice; A Draught for a Feaver
Image 370; Stuffing in the Lungs; For the Strangury; For a Good Purge; For Costiveness
Image 371; For the Collick; A Bitter Draught; For a Swelling in the Face
Image 372; For a Cold; Lipsalve; For a Cold; for a Cold Or Ratchills Recept
Image 373; For a Dropsy; Powder for the Teeth; Water to Strenthen the Sight
Image 374; The Bruise Ointment; An Electuary for a Pain in the Stomach
Image 375; An Opening Drink; For a Pain in the Stomach, or Heaviness of Heart
Image 376; To Make Orange Wine; For a Pain in the Stomach
Image 377; To Make Elixir Proprietatis; Colde Winter
Image 378; To Stay a Loosness; An Excellent Remidy for Agues
Image 379; A Rare Mouth Water ; Lozenges for the Heart Burne; For the Tooth Ache; To Cure the Tooth Ache
Image 380; A Drink to Preserve the Lungs; A Water to Strenthen the Sight
Image 381; Cock Water for a Consumption; Cockwater; Consumption.
Image 382; Consumption; Rue Water good for the fits of the Mother.
Image 383; To make Denzill Onslows Surfiet Water; Electuary for a Pain in the Stomach.
Image 384; To stew a neck of veal.
Image 385; lists of ingredients for various recipes; dropsy.
Image 386; Buttered Loaves; Bite of Mad Dogs.
Image 387; Receipt for a Plaister or Soar Cloth, for all sorts of Pains, Strains, and Sores.

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