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2 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s G a s t r o n o m y 2 0 2 1 “The Names And Virtues Of These Herbs… Were Familiar As Household Words” 2. (AVERY, Susanna) ALEXANDER, Russell George, editor. A Plain Plantain. Country Wines, Drinks, & Herbal Cures, from a 17th Century Household M.S. Receipt Book. Ditchling Sussex, 1922. 12mo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $1200. Click for more info Limited first edition, one of only 400 copies from the acclaimed St. Dominic’s Press, preserving numerous 17th-century recipes and herbal remedies. Adapted froma 1688manuscript by one SusannaAvery, APlainPlantain presents recipes and instructions for not only such dishes as potato pudding, pickled cucumbers and “a plum cake Mis Bettyson’s way,” but also such herbal remedies as “aqua composita for a consumption” and a tonic “for the stone (take it fasting twice a week if you be subject to the stone, or when the fitt is on you).” Printed by St. Dominic’s Press, “for 21 years a center of ideas and craftsmanship and wood-engraving.” A beautiful copy in fine condition.