Ann Castle’s Recipes and other entries.
Some words and letters are difficult to read, so I make no claim to the accuracy of these articles but spelling has been kept to the original wherever it is legible.
A Remedy for the Ague
30 Grains of Sulpher Quinine
One table spoonful water
10 drops of Oil Vitoral shake it well then add one pint water.
Take a dram glass full three times a day
A Remedy for Sprains & Bruises
4 Ounces of extract of Ledd
1 Ounce of Camphor
1 Ounce of Vitorel
1 Quart Vinegar
2 Quarts water
A Remedy for Bowells
1d Magnesia 1d worth Rubarb
1d Laudnum 1d worth escseni of Peppermint mixed with Pint Spring water
Arcceat for making Table Beer
To make five gallons requires one gallon of good malt
Quarter of pound of hops three pounds of good moist sugar
Soak the malt and hops together all night in a gallon and half of water
Put five gallons of water in the copper next morning to which add the soaked malt and hops let this boil a hour then strain it through a sieve on the sugar when blood warm
Stir in a table spoonful of yeast
Let this remain all night skim it in the morning and put it in the cask after working the usual way bung it up it will be fit for use in ten days or a fortnight
For Sprains
1d Spirit Turpentine
1d Spirit Camphor
1d Opedildock
1 Wortshorn
For Piles
The Electuary
Take flower of Brimstone
Two drams Lenative electuary one ounce powder & nitre a dram and syrup enough to make a Electuary
A teaspoon full to be taken two or three times a day as required
Crittenden Ointment
¼ lb of soft soap
¼ lb of Treacle
½ oz Beeswax
1/2oz Honey
Table spoonful of Sweet oil
Tea Spoonfull of best Brandy
Mrs Butchers Remedy for the Bowell Complaint
1 oz of tincture of Rhubarb
16 drops of Laudenem
7 drops Oil Peppermint
2 teaspoonfulls of the mixture in 2 teaspoonfulls of Best Brandy in a wine glass filled up with warm water to be repeated every two hours if necessary
Account Ann Vidgeons goods
2 Mahogny Dining Tables & 2 Mahogny Chairs
Mahogny Night comode
Swing looking Glass
6 Tumblers & 2 Decanters
2 Tea Trays Bread tray & snuffer & stan
1 ½ Dozin knives & Forks
1 Dozin knives 7 forks small 2 large baking tins, bell mettle skillit Horn lantern
2 Copper tea Kettles 3 Glazed Saucepans
1 Feather Bed Bolster & s Pillows
2 Bed Steds Beds & beding 2 work boxes & little stan & Easy Chair
Reciet for a pain in the back
1d Turpentine
1d sweet Niture
1d Fryers Batsone
1d Spirit Camphor
Herysupulus Cure
Sugar Led 1
½ gill vinegar Strength 24 in 1 ½ pints of water for Lotion
two Lemmons 2oz Cream Tartar
4 pints of boiling water with sugar
Niter in water with sugar ½ glass
Drink as much satap as will lay on sllped every other morning
For Bowells complaint
2 Tinter Rhubarb 15 drops Laudnham
3 Drops Oil peppermint 1 Teaspoon full red Lavender for a Dost for Adult
Whats so tall to reach the pole
Or grasp the occian with a span
& must be measured by my soul
the mind is the standard of a man
Remedy for Dropsy
Centaury Cliners white mustard juniper berries
Raspberry leaves & senna of each 1oz steeped in quart of water
take wine glass full 4 times a day
For Medison
2oz Salts 1 ** Senna ½ Caraway seeds
2oz Rasins Bruised 2oz Loaf sugar
small quanley Ginger bruised
put them all in a jug and pour on pint and half boiling water
cover up by the fire for some time then strain and bottle them
take a wine glass fasting
Remedy for Janders
2d worth casteel Soap
2d Do Creametarter
2d Do Ruebarbe
2d Do Syrip Saffran
2d Do Saffran
made into pills
Cream Oils
2d Opellildock
2d Spirits Turpintine
1 Horts horne
Wineglass best Vinegar
One new laid egg
2 Camphoralles Spirit wine
Holloways Ointment
Good home made lard and Rosin simmerd till a good substants when cold
Reciet for Indyection & Liver
2 of Jention Root 2d Do Woormwood
2oz of caraway seeds put in a quart of water
simmer then for 2 hours when cold had 6b. of Red Lavender and ½ Pint Best Brandy
take a wine glass full every morning fasting
For Sprains
The wite of Egg & a peace Alum the size of a walnut stird together till in a jelly
Rub well & bind a peace of rag wet with the jelly on the part spraind
& you will soon find relief
Recipt for Asma
2 oz Best Honey 1oz Castor Oil
mixt together 1 Teaspoonfull night & morning
Reciept for Reumaticon
One raw egg ½ Pint Best Vinegar one oz of Turcumtime ¼ oz of Camphor
¼ oz Spirits wine put in a Bottle & shook for ten minutes for the pain in the Head rub behind the ears & the nad of the nack rub three or four times a day
Mr Frenches Oils
1d worth Best wite Veneger
1 Spirits wine
1 Sperits Campher
1 Sweet Oil
1 Upediwock
1 Spirits Terpentine
1 Hortspoon
White of an Egg
Mr Holloways Ointment
Half Pound of Hogs Lard 1d Rosin simmered together