Hay (Margaret “Peggie”) & Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Scottish antiquary and artist, ?1781-1851. [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 95pp. excluding blanks written in the 1750s and 30 18th & 19th century manuscript receipts from various sources loosely inserted, also ink sketch by ?Sharpe loosely inserted and with prose composition at end, original calf, double gilt line borders, rubbed, joints splitting, gilt spine, rubbed, sm. 4to (695 x 155mm.), [c. 1750 – 19th century]. *** 18th century recipes include: “To make Orange Wine”; “To pickle Kidney or French Beanes”; “To pickle Colly-Flowers”; “To make Apple Cream at any Time”; “To make tender Curds”; “To make Lady Abergraves Cheese”; “To make a thick Cream Cheese”; “A Receipt to make Gooseberry Vinegar many degrees better than any we have from abroad, and makes better punch than lemons or any other fruit”; “To make Ratafia Bisket”; “To make a Christmas Cake”; “To dry Warden Pears, and Pound Pears”; “To make a Remedy for the Stone”; “A Medicine for one that has a Cough, and is Threatened with a Consumption”; “A Cure for Sun-burning in the hands or Face” etc.