Page one reads "Records of pasley, and preserbes, wax work and Limning & fruits Artificial." The recipes are typically late 17th and early 18th century with many cream puddings and sauce type of sweet dishes. There are interesting pies of every description from whole turkey to mince meat. It has several turkey tart recipes, where the turkey meat is mixed with different berries, gooseberry being the most frequently used. It has a whole chapter on fruit recipes using apples, pears, plums, apricots, and syrups "of any sort of berries." The whole book was written by the same hand, most likely at the same time.