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A63808	A pocket-companion, containing things necessary to be known by all that values their health and happiness being a plain way of nature's own prescribing, to cure most diseases in men, women and children, by kitchen-physick only : to which is added, an account how a man may live well and plentifully for two-pence a day / collected from The good housewife made a doctor, by Tho. Tryon.; Good house-wife made a doctor. Selections	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1694 (1694)	Wing T3193; ESTC R38375	11,872	24

Thrist to a ●onder it is the best Spoon-meat for Consumptive People that I know And though it may not be so agreeable to the Pallat at first yet a little Custom will make it familiar and pleasant Of Water-Grewel This is good for Consumptive People and is made as followeth Take a quart of Spring or River Water put to it two Spoonfuls of Oatmeal then stir it well together set it on the fire and when it is ready to boil take it off and brew it out of one thing into another then let it stand and the greatest Oatmeal will sink to the Bottom then pour it off and add Bread and Salt to it and Butter if you please then eat it when it has stood till it is blood warm This is an Excellent sort of Food Observe that Milk boiled is nothing so good as either Raw or Scalded An Excellent Food for all sorts of People ●ut more-especially for Children and sick People Take a quart of Water two Spoonfuls of Wheat-flower and two or three Eggs beat the Flower and Eggs together with a little water and when the water begins to boil stir in your Thickning and keep it stirring till it is ready to boil then take it off and put Bread and Salt to it when it has stood till it is blood warm eat it you may put some Butter to it or an Egg if you like it best This is an incomparable Food for all sorts of people it breeds good Blood opens the Passages sweetens the Blood prevents windy Distempers and griping Pains it is next to Breast-milk for Children and it is excellent for Consumptive People if they keep to it four or five months or more and eat nothing else and drinking three our four Glasses of good Ale let them use gentle Exercise and moderate Cloathing and good sweet hard Beds This and all other Spoon-meats made thin are best Flummery Is thus made Take three Spoonfuls of Oatmeal more or less and put to it a convenient quantity of water then let it stand till it begins to be sowerish then take this Water and Oatmeal and put it into a Vessel stirring it and making it boiling hot with a quick fire and when it does begin to rise brew it to and fro with your Ladle to keep it from boiling this do about four or five minutes then take it off the fire and it 's prepar'd Some eat it with Ale others with Cream Milk and the like but I think it most beneficial to be eaten with Bread only It removes Obstructions strengthens the Stomach cools the Body openeth the Passages and is excellent good for Breakfast in all hot Climates This is good more-especially for weak Stomach'd People and those whose Breast and Passages are obstructed by though phlegmy matter Another way to make Flummery Take two or three Spoonfuls of Oatmeal more or less and put to it a convenient quantity of Water and let it stand a day more or less then pour off that water and put on fresh four five six seven eight nine or ten times letting each water remain on your Oatmeal a certain time then they take it off boil it up some mix it with Cream and what they please But this way is not near so good as the former Of Bread The best sort for sick People is that which is made of Wheat-flower but not too fine dressed for then it will be dry and husky and your Leaven'd Bread is much better than that made with Yiest you may make it after this manner Take what Flower you please make a hole in the middle of it break then your Leaven in take as much blood-warm Water as will wet about half your Flower mix the Flower and Leaven well together cover it with the remaining Flower close this do in the Evening and by Morning the whole will be well Leavened then add some more blood-warm water as is sufficient and knead it up very stiff and firm the more pains you take the better when you have so done let it lie warm by some fire near two hours till the Oven is ready then bake it but let not the Oven-mouth be close stopp'd that the Air may have more or less Egress or Regress But the best way is to make it into thin Cakes and bake them on a Stone with a Wood-fire under Of Rye Barley Oats you may make Cakes after the same manner put no Salt into your Bread Of Butter Butter affords good Nourishment the best that is for the Stomach is made from May to August It 's very wholesome if eaten moderately with Bread or with Herbs Roots or the like Take good Butter and melt it thick and put it to your Herbs as you do Oyl and it eats as well and pleasant and can scarce be distinguished from Oyl this I believe a great many may have cause to thank me for all Butter ought to be well seasoned with Salt Cheese Affords good Nourishment for healthy working People if eaten with good store of Bread and a Cup of good Drink be not wanting It is altogether as nourishing as Flesh it is clean and of a stronger firmer Substance and digests a Cup of Drink better and he that lives on Bread and Cheese intermix'd now and then with flower'd Milk Water-Grewel Milk-pottage and Raw Sallads seasoned with Vinegar Salt and Oyl and drinks good sound Ale and Beer not over strong shall exceed in Health and Strength him that lives on Bread and Flesh and drinks the same Liquor Of Puddings The best way of making them is thus Take Milk and Water Wheat-flower and Eggs of each a convenient quantity and put a little Salt in beat them well together put this Batter into your Bag boil it in good store of Water your Potlid off and over a quick clear fire when boil'd sufficient take it off butter it and eat it Bak'd Puddings are not so good Of Eggs and their best way of Dressing They are an Excellent Food friendly and innocent in Operation Dress them as followeth Let your Eggs be boiled soft then break the Shell and put them into a Dish and let them stand till they are Blood-warm then with Bread and Salt only eat them A strong Stomach may eat them with Bread and Butter spread upon it not melted Or you may boil them hard then pill off the Shell and eat them with Salt Bread and Vinegar Poaching is a very good way Take an Egg a spoonful of Wheat-flower and beat it well together then put it into a Pint of Water boiling hot stir it together then take it off and eat it with a little Bread Salt and Butter and it will make an excellent Meal Eggs in a Morning supp'd off raw and Bread eaten after them is very wholsome Of Pyes Pear and Apple-pyes are wholesome and healthy Food if the Fruit be thorough ripe and made as they ought to be The best way is thus Take good Wheat-flower make it into a Paste with a little Leaven or Yeast

A Pocket-Companion CONTAINING Things Necessary to be Known By all that Values their Health and Happiness BEING A plain Way of NATURE'S own Prescribing to Cure most Diseases in Men Women and Children by Kitchen-Physick only To which is Added An Account how a Man may Live Well and Plentifully for Two-Pence a day Collected from The Good Housewife made a Doctor By THO. TRYON Licensed Octob. 25th 1693. LONDON Printed for George Conyers at the Golden Ring in Little-Britain 1694. Notable Things Of Consumptions COnsumptions are Decays of the Radical Moisture whereby the natural Heat of the Stomach is so weakened that it cannot make a due Separation of Meats and Drinks received which causes from thence to arise abundance of bad Juices or Phlegm so that no good Nourishment can be bred let the Food be never so Rich nor the Drink Cordial which all People afflicted find by Experience But these Distempers proceed likewise from various Causes As 1. From over-charging Nature with too great Quantities of Rich Food or in Others by drinking much Brandy Wine and strong Drinks which weakens the natural Heat and destroys the Action of the Stomach In Others and idle sedentary Course of Life or want of proper Exercises lying in bed too long too warm Cloathing and too soft Feather or Down Beds which proves always prejudicial to to the Health of all Persons It is caused sometimes by too much frequenting the School of Venus provoking Nature beyond her Ability and oft-times corrupts her in her very Radix Young married People as well as the most lewd are oft caught in this Snare and let this be a Caution Others by excessive Heats or Colds Surfeits and the like Accidents Some by Fevers and long Fits of sickness to some through Melancholly Grief or Trouble of Mind or Despair and Envy Some have Consumptions Hereditary which is the hardest of all to cure Now when thou findest thy self indisposed and thy Stomach to grow weak and a general Disorder to run through thy whole Body and that thy Strength decays consider what it was that caused it whether Temperance or Intemperance in Meats or Drinks in respect of the Quantity or Quality as also their Exercises and all other Extreams thou hast inured thy self to Consider further what Air thou hast lived in where the Disease was bred and by this means thou mayest guess at the Cause of thy Distemper And when this is done thou oughtest gradually to alter for the better the whole Course of thy Life not in the nature and quality of the Meats and Drinks only but in their quantity as also thy Exercises and the Air as far as the Condition of thy Life will admit thereof for change of Food Exercises and Airs work wonders If withal you betake your selves to meer simple Meats and Drinks that are easier of Concoction and generate a freer and firmer Substance I shall now set down what Food Drink and Preparations are agreeable to the Stomachs of sick and languishing Persons And first of Milk Which is an incomparable Food and the best way for weak consumptive People to eat it is Raw Take what quantity of Milk you please let it stand open to the Air one Hour or two then skimm off the Top of it and eat it with well bak'd Bread neither toast your Bread nor warm your Milk except the weather be cold and then you may make it blood warm but then do not toast your Bread You may if you please eat Bisket with your Milk but do not eat too great a quantity at once sometimes you may mix a little Water with the Milk and sweeten it with good white Sugar you may eat this three times aday if you make it your sole Food Continue this six or eight Months at least and you will find great Benefit by it for Distempers that have been many years generating cannot be cured in a moment To prepare Milk with Wheat-Flower an Excellent Way Take a quart of New Milk after it has stood five or six Hours from the time it was milk'd put to it a third part of River or Spring Water set it on a clear fire then take some Wheat-Flower and temper it with either Water or Milk into a Batter and when the Milk is ready to boyl put in your Thickning and stir it a while and when it is ready to boyl again take it off then put as much Salt and Bread to it as you please then let it cool without stirring it and it will eat much sweeter Two spoonfuls of Flower is enough for a quart of Milk and Water make it about the thickness of ordinary Milk-pottage This keeps your Body in excellent Temper neither binds nor loosens too much and it never tires nor clogs the Stomach Another way Take a Quart of Milk and a Pint of Water add to it as much Oatmeal as you please to have 〈…〉 Thickness Thin is best Set it on a 〈◊〉 fire and when it begins to boyl take it off and brew it in two Porringers eleven or twelve times then set it on the fire again and when it begins to boyl take it off and let stand a little and the large Oatmeal will settle to the Bottom then add Bread and Salt to it and eat it when it is blood warm this is an Excellent Food agrees well with weak Natures and affords firm Nourishment And if you add at any time to this a new-laid Egg or two beaten with your Thickening and put it in as aforesaid it will make a rich Dish If you would add Eggs to Milk-pottage first put your Milk and Water into your S●wce-Pan take a spoonful of ground Oatmeal and beat it up with your Egg or Eggs with either a little milk or water and when it is ready to boil stir it in as in flowr'd milk and then you need not brew it put a little Bread and Salt to all your milk meats but no Sugar be sure This is a Substantial and Friendly Food Observe that Milk is best the first half year after the Cow hath Calv'd but not so good after taking Bull or Conception Milk boil'd by it it self is not so good as when mixt with Oatmeal Flower or Water as aforesaid being not of so cleansing a quality ● the best time to begin Milk-Diet I think is about March or April Of Furmety viz. VVheat and Milk are in themselves two good things but ordered with Sugar Spice c. is not at a●l to be commended nor near so good as Milk Flower and VVater the same is to be understood of VVheat butter'd and spiced Of Boniclabber Bonic●●●●●● is made by letting your Milk stand till it sowers which will be in Twenty-fours hours if the weather be very hot It has a pleasant sowerish Taste and must be eaten only with Bread especially by Consumptive People It is Excellent against Stoppages and it 's easie of Concoction and ●igests all hard or sweet Food it cools and cleaneth the whole Body and quencheth