Download or read book Commonplace Book Containing Recipes, Original and Copied Poems, Newspaper Cuttings, and a Child's Drawings written by and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains: (1) 65 recipes written on 26 pages during the early part of the eighteenth century, from about 1720 onwards, for making large quantities of cordials, probably for the use of a large household or for commercial supply; (2) Many original and copied English poems written in the mid-eighteenth century from both ends of the book, including laments to 'Dear Polly' from friends at Exeter, Pomeroy, etc.; (3) Many child's drawings and jottings in the centre of the book, including a few Latin declensions and phrases; (4) Many nineteenth-century press-cuttings pasted on to the manuscript pages containing further English poems and historical notes, the extant dates on them being 1824 and 1830.