Recipies, remedies - a Butler's book
Scope and Contents
This collection is a compendium of recipes, medicines and preparations, with a hand-made thumb index at the start of the volume. The recipes include a mixture for bookbinder's varnish and ingredients for constipation pills. The medical remedies are given dates in 1898. The notebook has not been completed.
The notebook has an index of 105 pages, then a further 575 pages. The recipes and remedies include these:
- - reviving leather - p.1 or p.107
- - bookbinder's varnish - p.3 or p.109
- - gold varnish - p.6 or p.112
- - brass, caring for - pp.12-16 or pp.118-122
- - constipation pills - p.52 or p.158
- - chilblains - p.55 or p.161
Dates
- Creation: 1898
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Open to bona fide researchers, but please contact repository for details in advance of any visit.
Biographical / Historical
This bound manuscript volume containing recipes and remedies is a curious survival. It is a lined notebook which has been turned into a compendium of recipes, medicines and preparations, and include a useful reference to getting 'Flower of Yarrow' from Napier's Dispensary on Bristo Place, Edinburgh - suggesting that this was produced in the city.
Extent
1 volume
Physical Location
E2009.22
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired through purchase, May 2009. Accession no: E2009.22
Processing Information
Compiled by Graeme D. Eddie, Special Collections, Edinburgh University Library.
- Title
- Collection of handwritten recipes for cleaning and polishing - a Butler's Book
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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University of Edinburgh Main Library
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Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
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