Emma Jane's Tunstall recipe book

It is 1873, Jane Betsy and her daughters are living at Tunstall. Emma Jane buys a book for recipes and remedies, above.

At the house my mother and I visited in 1991, we saw the initials of the boys scratched on the glass and carved into the bricks at the side of the house.
   By 1873, only Harry remained. All Jane Betsy's other sons either died in infancy or of typhoid or consumption.
     Two years previously, the 1871 census reveals Jane Betsy is running the farm of 312 acres and employing 9 men and 2 boys.
    From the letters sent to her and from memories shared with me by my aunt and my mother, their grandmother, Emma Jane is a practical sort of person.
   She buys a little book and starts to put in recipes for cooking, preserving and remedies for ailments. Only a third of the book is filled. She probably ceased collecting recipes and remedies when they moved to 1, Albion Terrace, Heigham at some time in  1875, where EmmaJane's sister Henrietta Louisa died. According to my mother and my aunt, Emma Jane went to work for Jarrolds at that time. Her sister Laura was working in the shop too, it was a mourning drapers department according to the 1881 census and she boarded there. The music lessons the youngest, Rosa May was taking, according to Harry's Letter, were likely to be at Heigham. Tunstall is a remote place for a music teacher to access for music lessons.
    The first recipe in the book is for red cabbage, in effect, sauerkraut. There  is one for gingerbread and pickled walnuts, baking powder, little white cakes, Lemon gin, curd cheese cakes, raspberry vinegar, pickle cauliflower (from Mrs Hunting), ginger beer, tomato sauce, calves feet jelly, mince meat, water vinegar, cooked eels, pickled mushrooms (from Mrs Boult) and lemon syrup (from aunt Skinner, Eliza Charlotte, Jane Betsy's sister who married James Pollard's brother John Pollard).
   The remedies include one for eyes and ring worm (above). Emma Jane's remedy "For the Spasms" includes "brandy tincture of opium" and advises to go to bed. There is a tincture for a cough which includes friars balsam and another one which includes balsam of sulphur. There is a remedy for "violent coughs and colds". Something intriguing called "Spermaceti Ointment" Remedies for scurvy and rheumatism.
   The recipe for blackening doesn't say if it is to be used for shoes or stoves. It is quite complex.
   Scalds, wound salves, bruises all have remedies and there are several for sore throats which usually include putting a paste made with all sorts of things, including "pork lard" on the throat overnight. A weak chest or throat remedy includes "six eggs, six lemons tied down for three days, strained and added to three quarters of a pint of rum. This to be taken by the table spoon, early in the morning or when feeling exhausted."
    Emma Jane's hair grease recipe has two beef marrow bones, half a pound of pork lard, 1 shilling flask of salad oil, 1 shilling worth of castor oil, 2d worth of palm oil, 2 oz of cantharides, a quarter of an ounce of bees wax 6d essence of Bergamot. One table spoon full of best rum. It all has to be beaten together and strained through muslin.
    Recipes for hair wash follow this one includes brown Windsor soap, another Castile soap.
   Inside the book is a cutting from a newspaper of some verses by Marriane Farningham entitled "Our Rest". Perhaps put in there by Emma Jane in 1875 when her sister Henrietta Louisa died. There are no other entries into the book. It was put away, forgotten about and kept.