Recipe book containing medical, chemical and household recipes and formulas, [circa 1670-1683].

Autograph manuscript, on paper, containing 72 pages of medical, chemical and household recipes and formulas. Contents include many medical recipes, such as traditional herbal washes, broths, salves, oils and pills for specific ailments, including baldness, dropsy, the bloody flux, sores, and plague. There are also several multi-purpose elixirs attributed to "Doctor Hawse" and Sir Walter Raleigh, as well as a recipe for "Laudanum Paracelsi" and several chemical preparations intended to regulate and balance the humors. Other contents include chemical formulas for various compounds and salts, including "sal naturae" and "sal ammoniak" and household recipes for varnish, ink, colored oils, cement, bronzing and gilding pigment, and marbled paper. Paston uses the standard alchemical symbols for metals and gives precise ingredient quantities, both by weight and in ratios.

Pages 73-83 contain cookery and household recipes in an eighteenth-century copperplate hand, presumably that of Anna Rogers. Some recipes attributed to publications dated 1770-1777.