McGill Library
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Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Culinary recipes, with some medicinal and household
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34 leaves
File contains approximately 38 undated culinary recipes, also including some medicinal content and household preparations. Some feature attributions to the recipe's creator, for example: "Mrs. Coates recipe to make mince pye." One recipe is folded as a letter addressed to Mrs. Warde with a personal note from Mr. and Mrs. Payne. Dishes featured in the recipes include: puddings, a variety of gingerbreads, calf's head, raisin wine, orange brandy, orange syrup, ginger beer, porter jelly, buns and rolls, pickled walnuts, omelet, cocoa nibs, chutneys, and gooseberry vinegar. Medicinal and household preparations include barley water, a recipe "for washing silks and satins," and some unidentified preparations using ingredients such as rose water, myrrh, and spirits.