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Handwritten extracts from the readings of a clergyman. Includes recipes such as "against setting of cold about ye head & stomach" as well as recipes to prepare various colors including sea, russet, blood red, purple, etc. Digitization funded by a grant from the Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy. Every page has been digitized in its original order, and repaired when possible. If most of a page was missing, the surviving piece was digitized in its original location in the volume. These images were taken after the volume was repaired, but before it was rebound. Reverend Francis Dane, son of John and Frances (Bowyer) Dane, was born 20 November 1615 and was baptized in Bishop's Stortford, England. He matriculated at King's College, Cambridge in 1633 and emigrated to Massachusetts with his parents in 1636. He married first Elizabeth Ingalls (d. 1676), second in 1677 to Mary Thomas (d. 1688/89); married third in 1690 to Hannah Chandler. Francis Dane was pastor of the North Parish in Andover, Massachusetts, beginning in 1649. In January 1682, the congregation hired Reverend Thomas Barnard and stopped paying Dane's salary. Dane petitioned the General Court and the parish was required to split the annual salary between the two pastors. Francis Dane died 17 February 1697 in Andover, Mass.