Receipt book kept by Eliza L. Pinckney includes formulas for making medicines to treat croup, fever, dropsy, and other conditions; recipes for cheese cake, puddings, currant wine, orange marmalade, jelly, oyster soup, and other foods; instructions for preparing meats and rice, and preserving and pickling foods; and a formula "To make the hair grow."
Black-and-white engravings depicting the golden calf (Exodus 32:7); sacrifice during the consecration of Aaron and his sons (Leviticus 8:14); and spies returning from the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:26). Drawing and engraving by Georg David Nessenthaler. From Biblia, das ist: Die ganze Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments by Johann Caspar Ulrich, published Zurich Conrad Orell und Comp.