[Recipe book]; [manuscript].; Receipt book

142 Vinegar Plant Three and a half pints of water to half a pound of moist sugar. / or lp sugar, and a little treacle/ let it stand six weeks in a rather warm place - [run?] off and bottle for use. Mrs Horsley.

Pornatium Spermaceti 1/2 oz. Disolve it in a basin on the hot. Stir in gradually 2 oz of Caster oil [?] 2 oz of the best olive oil with any scent you please. Beat it till it has the appearance of light soft ointment - the more beaten the better Miss Howe

Cream Cheese To two thirds of new milk put one third of buttermilk. Put it in a pan mug for three or four days near the fire if the weather is cool / if warm, it does not dignify/ till the curd [used?]. Put it in a sieve, and take the curd. Put it to the fire again, and then take what rises, and add to the other. Put it in a shape with holes in it, be muslin. It will be ready in three or four days. Mrs Gentte Brown

Camp Dish

1 lb of salt pork, or any kind of salted or fresh meat _ a teacupfull of rice _ a teaspoonful of salt _ one of brown sugar _ one of pepper _ sliced onion _ celery _ carrot _ turnip _ or any other vegetable _ /fried _ just? _ and suffivient water to stew all well togethr. Monsieur [Joyes?]

An excellent Plum Cake

Beat 1 lb of fresh butter with a strong wooden fork until it resembles cream _ add 1 lb of sifted sugar, + milk [thin?] very com: =pletely. Have ready the whites of 10 eggs beaten. + pour them into the butter and sugar_then add the yolks of 8 eggs, all well beaten, + beat them all up for about 10 minutes. Take 1 lb of flour_ 2 oz of pounded + sifted spices_ [?]_cloves_mace_ cinnamon_nutmeg + allspice_ + [?] them by degrees all into the other ingredients_ Then beat the cake 10 minutes longer. [Have?] the oven ready, add 1lb of currants_ 1/2 lb of stoned raisins chopped_4 oz of sliced almonds + a large glass of brandy. Bake the cake in a

144 hot oven. When sufficiently baked let the oven cool and afterwards put in the cake and allow it to [?] = main Several hours to dry. Mrs Brown The Vicauage

Ginger Cakes Two eggs a good or ginger and half a pound of Sugar beat them for some time then add a teaspoonfull of baking powder [?] [?] Small cup of milk then one pound of flour Mix it well and bake on 2 [?tin hi] small cakes. J.K.

A Very good Cake if to be very rich 8 oz[ounces] butter Take three eggs 5 ounces of butter and about 8 [?] of sifted white sugar - Put the butter in 2 basins before the fire till half melted then beat it to a cream. Beat the eggs yolk and white separate When the butter is ready beat in the sugar then the eggs and a little candied [?Am] and chopped almonds with half a pound of currants and Add 12 ounces of flour and mix it well - a small spoonfull of baking powder in nearly half a cup of milk [?to] be added before the [?flour] - Bake in a basin.

Treacle Cake or Parkin 10 lbs [pounds] oatmeal - 1 lb [pound] Sugar 2 oz [ounces] of Ginger 9 lbs[pounds] Treacle - 1/2 lb [pound] of Butter. Bake in thick Cakes

Baking Powder 8 oz [ounces] Carbonate of Soda - 8 oz [ounces] of Common Salt - 6 oz[ ounces] of Gastaric Acid. To be kept from the air and the damp. Mrs Gentle Brown

Gingerbread Pudding 6 oz [ounces] flour - 6 ditto treacle - 4 ditto suet 1 egg and ginger to taste - The rind of a lemon chopped very fine /as also must be the [?s] a teaspoonful of baking powder - Mix well together and boil or steam 5 hours.

A Pickle for Beef - Pork [?] 4 Galls[?gallons] of Water - 1 1/2 lbs[pounds] Brown Sugar 2 oz[ounces] Salt [?peter] - 8 lbs[pounds] Common Salt - the whole boiled gently together and well and simmer. When no more Skum sited take the [?liquor] off the fire and let it stand till quite cold. Put the meat

146 into a proper vessel & pour the Pickle over so as to cover it completely. It should be boiled every 2 or 3 months, & about 2 oz. of sugar & 1 lb of salt added & well skimmed. This Pickle is in= =comparable {"incomparable" underscored} for Beef-Tongues or Hams. {"Hams" underscored} When taken out, they should be well dried, cleaned & floured - put in [rice?] paper bags & hung in a dry warm place. - [Mrs.?] Hughes - The Pottages

Sponge Cake 1 lb of sugar sifted - 3/4 lb Flour well dried - the grated peel of a Lemon - 7 eggs, leaving out 2 whites Boil the sugar in a quarter of a pint of water - pour it boiling over the eggs - stirring it well - whisk them quickly 20 minutes. Stir in the Flour, but do not beat it after the Flour is in. Two or three Bitter Almonds grated would be an improvement. Bake in a slow oven [??] [Mrs.?] Clegg.