Cookery & Medical.- Hunter (Mrs, of Beech Hill, Reading) Curious old Receipt Book..., [title from label on upper cover], manuscript in several hands, 163pp. excluding blanks (including c. 14pp. "An Account of ye Alterations which I made att Haly [Heathley Hall, Hayley Green, Warfield] in Berkshire & what it cost me" and other building and planting notes), reverse entries, 1f. torn away, 2ff. with small tears, slightly browned, original green panelled vellum, blind-stamped tulip corner pieces, slightly soiled and stained, sm. 4to, 1730-67.*** Recipes include: "to keep ye Juice of Oringes Codm Cope 1730"; "A Receipt to Pickle Sparrows"; "A Lobster Pye"; "Lady Walpole's Receipt for Chicken Sauce"; "To make Mead Mrs E.L."; "Norfolk Shrub 1740"; "Lady Bolingbroks Cheese Given me by Mrs Pierse 1740 Augst 24"; "Fasting days Soop Mrs Pitt of Binfield Berks 1746"; "To make Orange Flower Bread"; "To make a sweet Jarr Mrs Masham"; "To make Profit Rols Mrs Waller 1751"; "Oyle of Charity Mr Pitt Binfield 1750 [John Pitt younger brother of William Pitt the elder]"; "1751 Mrs Waller a very good green dye"; "For Ahstma or Physick"; "For ye Gout or Rumatism Given me by Lady Harriot Cholmondly"; "the Tar Pills excellent for a Consumptive Cough Mrs Pitt Binfield"; "A most Excellent Cure for an Ague Lady Molesworth"; "Artificial Asses Milk Lady Dellawar"; "for a bad digestion Mrs Archer Jan. 18 1735 now Lady Archer"; "For ye Dropsy & this cured Genll Sutton after four times being Tapd given mt by Mrs Senhouse 23 May 1736 sister of Lady Shannon"; "Stone Horse Dung Water Mrs Kirwood Jan. 19 1736" etc.