Recipe book compiled by John Cockburn Ross

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Recipe book compiled by John Cockburn Ross. The book contains recipes including for Ketchup, Coffee, Gingerbread, Asparagus, Beech and Stilton Cheese, Ink, Pickled Mushrooms, Snails and Onions, recipes for preserving eggs, and cures for Seasickness, Scarlet Fever, Toothache, Asthma, Rheumatism, Gout, Epileptic Fits, Jaundice, Damp Walls, Sheep Rot and Ringworm and advice on escaping from fire, hints for exercise, cleaning marble, cleaning cotton, gardening and making linen waterproof.

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