1734 A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick, and surgery
This particular book got my attention for many reasons,
just the fact that a women was published in 1734
Her name Mary Kettilby
Published 1734, this is 5th edition, containing 300 hundred recipes are included for the "good wives", mothers & nurses of the 17th Century.
The last section is devoted to home remedies entitled
"A Collection of Receipts & In Physick & Surgery
with the aspect of home remedies of the 1700's.
Please be advised that the remedies presented in this chapter could be hazardous.
1734's Turkey Recipe
Eighteenth Century Soup
And for Dessert
1700's Remedy for Cough
I hope this has peaked your interest!
Download here for enjoyable historical reading
https://archive.org/stream/acollectionabov00kettgoog#page/n249/mode/2up
Somethings are not so new
Thanks you a lot for bring us this old book jewel.
You get a 0.1SBD tip.
(Please, look at the intention, not the quantity)
Regards !!
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Welcome to steemit @happilyretired! Just had a look at your posts and envy you for those wonderful books - thank you so much for sharing them with us here on steemit! Got my today's upvotes on all of them and a follow + resteem!!!! Cheers from the Seven Mountains in Germany
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I will make sure to catch them :-) Loved the upper case on all nouns in the English back in 1734! I think I will try to make some print-outs on paper of those books - what a treasure you have there! I did a post of my old cookbooks, but they are sort of brandnew compared to yours lol