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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66847	The queen-like closet; or, Rich cabinet stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying & cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. By Hannah Wolley.	Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.; Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670. Second part of the queen-like closet.	1670 (1670)	Wing W3282; ESTC R221174	130,957	433

THE QUEEN-LIKE CLOSET OR RICH CABINET Stored with all manner of RARE RECEIPTS FOR Preserving Candying Cookery Very Pleasant and Beneficial to all Ingenious Persons of the FEMALE SEX By HANNAH WOLLEY LONDON Printed for R. Lowndes at the White Lion in Duck-Lane near West-Smithfield 1670. Licensed Nov. 16 1669. Roger L' Estrange THE QUEENE-LIKE CLOSET RICH Or CABINET TO THE TRULY VERTUOUS AND My much Honoured Friend M rs GRACE BUZBY Daughter to the Late Sr. HENRY CARY Knight Banneret and WIFE to Mr. ROBERT BUZBY Gentleman and Woollen Draper of LONDON Madam YOur Kind and Good Acceptance of my Endeavours in Work for You and that Esteem You have for what else I can do make me bold to present this Book to You which by that time You have perused I doubt not but You will deem it worthy of the Title it bears and indeed it was never opened before If it may yield You any Delight or Benefit I shall be glad for as You have a true Love and Esteem for me so I have a very great Love and Honourable Esteem for You and shall always be Your most Observant Servant HANNAH WOLLEY To all Ladies Gentlewomen and to all other of the Female Sex who do delight in or be desirous of good Accomplishments Ladies and Gentlewomen I Presume those Books which have passed from me formerly have got me some little credit and esteem amongst you But there being so much time past since they were Printed that methinks I hear some of you say I wish Mrs. Wolley would put forth some New Experiments and to say the Truth I have been importun'd by divers of my Friends and Acquaintance to do so I shall not give an Apish Example every Day or Week to follow ridiculous and foolish Fancies nor would I be too like the Spaniard always to keep in one Dress I am not ashamed nor do I disown what I have already Printed but some of you being so perfect in your Practises and I very desirous still to serve you do now present you with this Queen-like Closet I do assure you it is worthy of the Title it bears for the very precious things pou will find in it Thus be seeching your kind Acceptance of this Book and of my earnest Desires to you I take my Leave but shall always be to all who have esteem for me Their Faithful and Humble Servant HANNAH WOLLEY LAdies I do here present you you That which sure will well content A Queen-like Closet rich and brave Such not many Ladies have Or Cabinet in which doth set Iems richer than in Karkanet They only Eies and Francies please These keep your Bodies in good ease They please the Taste also the Eye Would I might be a stander by Yet rather I would wish to eat Since bout them I my Brains do beat And 't is but Reason you may say If that I come within your way I sit here sad while you are merry Eating Dainties drinking Perry But I 'm content you should so feed So I may have to serve my need Hannah Wolley THE Ladies New Closet OR RATHER Rich Cabinet I. To make Aqua Mirabilis a very delicate way TAke three Pints of Sack three Pints of White Wine one quart of the Spirit of Wine one quart of the juice of Celandine leaves os Melilot-flowers Cardamom-seeds Cubebs Galingale Nutmegs Cloves Mace Ginger two Drams of each bruise them and mix them with the Wine and Spirits let it stand all night in the Still not an Alembeck but a common Still close stopped with Rye Paste the next morning make a slow fire in the Still and all the while it is stilling keep a wet Cloth about the neck of the Still and put so much white Sugar Candy as you think fit into the Glass where it drops II. The Plague-Water which was most esteemed of in the late great Visitat●●● Take three Pints of Muskadine boil therein one handful of Sage and one handful of Rue until a Pint be wasted then strain it out and set it over the Fire again Put thereto a Peniworth of Long Pepper half an Ounce of Ginger and a quarter of an Ounce of Nutmegs all beaten together boil them together a little while close covered then put to it one penniworth of Mithridate two penniworth of Venice Treacle one quarter of a Pint of hot Angelica Water Take one Spoonful at a time morning and evening alwaies warm if you be already diseased if not once a day is sufficient all the Plague time It is a most excellent Medicine and never faileth if taken before the heart be utterly mortified with the Disease it is also good for the Small Pox Measles or Surfets III. A very Soveraign Water Take one Gallon of good Claret Wine then take Ginger Galingale Cinamon Nutmegs Grains Cloves Anniseeds Fennel-seeds Caraway-seeds of each one dram then take Sage Mints Red-Rose leaves Thyme Pellitory of the Wall Rosemary Wild Thyme Camomile Lavander of each one handful bruise the Spices small and beat the Herbs and put them into the Wine and so let stand twelve hours close covered stirring it divers times then still it in an Alembeck and keep the best Water by it self and so keep every Water by it self the first you may use for aged People the other for younger This most excellent Water w 〈…〉 ●rom Dr. Chambers which he kept secret till he had done many Cures therewith w●●●t w●●●forteth the Vital Spirits it helpe●● the inward Diseases that come of Cold the shaking of the Palsie it helpeth the Conception of Women that are barren it killeth the Worms within the Body helpeth the Stone within the Bladder it cureth the Cold Cough and Tooth-ach and comforteth the Stomach it cureth the Dropsie and cleanseth the Reins it helpeth speedily the stinking Breath whosoever useth this Water it preserveth them in good health and maketh seem young very long for it comforteth Nature very much with this Water Dr. Chambers preserved his own life till extreme Age would suffer him neither to go nor to stand one whit and he continued five years after all Physitians judged he could not live and he confessed that when he was sick at any time he never used any other Remedy but this Water and wished his Friends when he lay on his Death-Bed to make use of it for the preservation of their Health IV. To make Spirit of Mints Take three Pints of the best white Wine three handfuls of right Spear-mint picked clean from the stalks let it steep in the wine one night covered in the morning put it into a Copper Alembeck and draw it with a pretty quick fire and when you have drawn it all take all your Water and add as much Wine as before and put to the Water and the same quantity of Mint as before let it steep two or three hours then put all into your Still and draw it with a soft fire put into your Receiver a quantity of Loaf-Sugar and you will find