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A96121	The way to save wealth shewing how a man may live plentifully for two-pence a day. Likewise how to make a hundred noble dishes of meat, without either flesh, fish, or fowl. To make bread of roots, herbs, and leafs of trees. To brew good cheap liquor, without malt or hops. To make shoes last long. To make coals last long. To save soap in washing. To save cloth in cutting out a shirt. To make coffee of horse-beans To feed cattel well, without hay, grass, or corn. To save candles. To know any one's mind by signs; if there be twenty in company, they cannot apprehend it. To order bees aright. To settle your estate with Christian prudence. To know Scripture-weights and measures. Of dreams. To cure wounds by sympathy. The way to live long. To make spring-potage. To cure all sorts of cattle for 12 d. charge. To improve land, order and cure all deseases in singing birds. To kill vermin. To brew pale ales. To make wines, and all sorts of liquor, and an easy way to fine, and order them. With divers other curious matter	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1695 (1695)	Wing W1172; ESTC R204135	45,191	78

of the Blood begets a Stomach purges by Urine sometimes by Stool the excellency of this Herb would be too tedious to mention Smallage-Gruel cleanseth the Blood opens Obstructions gets a good Stomach and is good against Shortness of Breath Ground-Ivy or Ale-hoof-Gruel is a great Cleanser of the Bowels and Stomach wholsom for all People the sick and those that are well Sage-Gruel is excellent against most Distempers so is Gruel made of Penniroyal or Spinage An excellent Food for all sorts of People but 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 or 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 Of FLUMERY It 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 prepared 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 tough phlegmy Matter 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 Yest you may make it after this manner Take what Flower you please make a hole in the middle of it break then your Leven in take as much blood-warm Water as will wet about half your Flower mix the Flower and Leven well together cover it with the remaining Flower close this do in the Evening and by Morning the whole will be levened Then add as much 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 th●… on a Stone with a Wood-fire under Of Rye Barley Oats c. 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 wholsom if eaten moderately with Bread or with Herbs Roots or the like Take good Butter and melt it thick and put it to your H●rbs as you do Oil and it eats as well and pleasant and can scarce be distinguish'd from Oil This I believe a great many may have cause to thank me for All Butter ought to be well seasoned with Salt Of CHEESE 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-gruel Milk-potage and raw Sallads seasoned with Vinegar Salt and Oil and drinks a Cup of good sound Ale or Beer not over strong shall exceed in Health and Strength him that lives on Bread and Flesh and drinks the same Liquor 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 peel 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 wholsom Of PYES Pear and Apple-pyes are wholsom and healthy Food if the Fruit be t●orough ripe and made as they ought to be Th● b●st way is thus Take good W●eat-flower make it into a Paste with a little Leven or Yeast with Milk and Water or a bloo●-warm Water only then put in yo●… Apples or Pears and if you please add some Carr●way or Fennel-seeds In baking let the Oven stand almost open that some Air may come in When baked draw them and cut holes in the top that the sulphurous Atoms and the fiery Vapours may pass away eat them not hot for they are much better cold Apples raw and ripe eaten with Bread sometimes are wholsom and so are Peaches Plumbs Gooseberries Currans Apricocks and the like very good Food eaten with Bread sometimes And observe by the way that hot Bread ought not to be eaten for it is very injurious to the Health and your Bread ought to stand two days before you eat it Of OIL It is of a brave nourishing clean Nature and friendly to most Constitutions It is very proper to be eaten with Herbs and Fruit. Bread and Oil makes a delicate Breakfast or Supper for it cleanseth the Passages breeds good Blood and is easie of Concoction With Fish it is very good more especially with Salt-fish for it allays the fierce keen property of the Salt and sweetens the lean Body of the Fish for these purposes it is better than Butter Observe That toasted Bread is not

forth excellent Mushrooms A bread may be made of the Rape or Navew being first scorched after sodden then baked Bread is made of Panick or of Millet whose Seed even in a small quantity arises greatly in Substance Bread and Drink may be made of Lentils Bread made of Flower of dry Beans is strong in Nourishment and may be corrected of his Taste by adding Cummin-seed Of DRINKS 1. Water it self is an excellent Drink or take a Spoonful of ground Oatmeal and incorporate it into a quart of clear Water pouring it out of one Vessel or Pot into another fifteen or twenty times and its excellent against Gravel Stone Scurvy or most other Distempers whatever In Winter make it blood-warm or I think it better if just boiled into a thin Gruel 2. Another Gather the tops of Heath whereof the usual Brushes are made and dry them and keep them from moulding then you may at all times brew a cheap Drink which is very wholsom for the Liver and Spleen if you put a little Liquorice into it it will be much pleasanter and also a little Treacle 3. Another Water and Vinegar is a pleasant Drink or a quart of Water and five or six Spoonfuls of Aqua Composita a small quantity of Sugar a little Borrage or a branch of Rosemary all brew'd together 4. How to Brew good and wholsom Beer without any Hops at all Take Wormword that is either cut down in the Leaf before it is Seeded or being Seeded that is cut into short pieces whereby there may be an equal mixture of the whole bulk together for you must note that the Seeded tops are much stronger and more oily than the rest of the leaves or stalks Make first a Decoction of four ounces of Hops with nine gallons of Water which is the proportion that some Brewers in some sort of Drink do use and when you have gotten out by Ebullition the full strength and virtue of them keep the same apart and begin likewise with some small proportion of Wormwood to the like quantity of Water as before and when you have bestow'd as much time and fire herein as you did about the Hops you may taste each of them by it self and if you find it to exceed the first in bitterness then begin with a less proportion of Wormwood and so reiterate your work until you have equally matched the one with the other then you may safely proceed by the Rule of Proportion to a Barrel and so to a Tunn and on to a whole Brewing Many Persons put Broom into Beer instead of Hops Some say that Centaury Artichoke leaves or Aloes Hipatique will perform the same Platt's Jewel-house pag. 1 3. 5. To Brew without Hops Take Sage Tamarisk tops of Pine or Firr Bartholine commends it to Brew withal as much better than Hops for it is reckon'd excellent against the Scurvy boil'd in your Liquor 6. Herbs that will serve in Brewing as well as Hops and for many Constitutions much better As Balm and Penniroyal Mint Tansie Broom Wormwood Centaury Carduus Eye-bright Sage Betony Dandalion and good Hay Note That you gather these Herbs in their proper Seasons and dry for they are not near so good if used Green if you infuse Broom Wormwood Carduus or any other that exceeds in bitterness let them not lie in your Wort above half an hour but a quarter of an hour is enough if you put in a good quantity 7. Instead of Malt the Liquor of Beech is commended for making an excellent wholsom Drink 8. Potatoes rightly ordered makes good Beer or Bread 9. Take a quart of fair Water a spoonful of Vinegar or Aqua Composita and a spoonful of Sugar and add if have it some Borage or Rosemary and brew them well together 10. Another Take a bushel and a half of good Wheat-bran and a gallon of Molossus and some Ginger add Water to it and it will make a barrel of good Table-beer Houghton's Collect. No. 94. Vol. 4. Another excellent Drink Take a quart or 2 or 3 of Water and some white Sugar and Nutmeg brew them well together and it makes a pleasant and wholsom Drink A spoonful of Treacle and a quart of Water mix'd is excellent tasted Drink and is good against Coughs To restore to Health Consumptive People COnsumptions are a Decay of the Radical Moisture whereby the natural heat of the Stomach is so weakned that it cannot make a due Separation of Meats and Drink 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 so 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 an 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 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 marryed 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 some through Melancholy 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 〈◊〉 through thy whole Body and that thy strength decays consider what it was that caused it whether Temperance or Intemperance in Meats or Drinks ●n respect of the Quantity or Quality as also thy 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 easy 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

to behold but very profitable if well managed in order to which I shall briefly give directions If you have no Stock of Bees but must be obliged to purchase them you must be sure to carry them gently in a Sheet between two Persons on a Pole in the Night-time that they be not disturbed nor their Combs disordered or put out of frame and the best time to remove them is in April not carrying them from a pleasant to an unpleasant place least through that dislike they leave you nor must you open them after you have placed them in your Garden till you find them at rest which you may do by the Cessation of their noise and humming and be sure so to place them that the Hives mouth may stand towards the Rising-Sun observing that the Air and Waters as well as Herbs Trees and Flowers about them be very wholsom for those they most delight in are Rosemary Cassia Thyme Savory Sage Violets Lavender Balm Marjoram wild Thyme Saffron Bean-flowers Mustard-seed Flowers Pinks Melilot Poppies Roses c. And those they dislike which often makes them leave their Masters and wander are Wormwood wild Cucumbers Cornels Elms Spurge Lawrel Southernwood and all bitter Herbs and Trees delighting most in Valleys near pleasant purling Streams and the best Honey is extracted from Thyme the second best from wild Thyme and the third from Rosemary though there is good Honey where none of these grow In the beginning of April the Bees look out and begin to work and if they stand in a pleasant place they will work so cheerfully that they will afford Honey three times in the Summer viz. about the latter-end of May the latter-end of July and the latter-end of August if the Summer be temperate tho' if you would have them subsist well in Winter to take their Honey in May and July is sufficient If it happen that by reason of a young Brood the Hive be over-charged which by their clustering about the mouth of it and their great noise of humming you may plainly discern prepare a new Hive in readiness rubbed with sweet Herbs and observe the coming forth of the young Bees for several days from eight of the Clock till twelve in the Morning lest coming out on a sudden and taking the Wing they bid you farewel and if they delay to come forth you may with Galbanum and Rosin drive out the whole Stock and if there happen to be two Master Bees they will divide and settle apart and so you will have opportunity to Hive them and in Winter if their Stock of Honey fail you must put in Honey Sugar Raisins Figgs c. gently with a slite Cane and cover them with warm Housings of Straw and they will greatly encrease to your Profit Lessius his Directions for a right Course of preserving Health DIvers have written on this Subject but they charge Men with so many Rules so much Observation and Caution about quantity and quality of Meats and Drinks about Sleep Air Exercise Blood-letting Purging and the like that it makes it perfect Slavery to perform what they enjoyn And Men on the other hand will please their own Mind and eat of every thing they best like to their fill so that neither Precepts nor Observations signifie any thing at all for matter of benefit Hereupon they bid adieu to all Physicians or Counsel and leave all to Nature eating perhaps two or three times a day without restraint in measure or quality of Foods but as their Appetite leads them on so fall to business instantly neither can they be perswaded to Purge at fitting Seasons or before Diseases oppose them supposing all well when they feel nothing to the contrary Here upon their Bodies in time are filled with ill Humours which are increased by length of time and become putrified and of a malignant Temper so that upon every light occasion of Heat or Cold Wind or Weather extraordinary Labour or any other Excess they are inflamed and break out into mortal Sickness and Diseases Many People beside my self have found benefit by the Observations following which consists in a Right ordering the Dyet and in a ●ertain Moderation of our Meat and Drink such a moderation I mean as brings Strength and Vigour both to Mind and Body So that what is here intended will furnish Religious Persons with such a way and manner of Living that they may with ●ore Ease Cheerfulness and Alacrity apply themselves to the Service of the Great God for it is scarcely to be believed what Alacrity and inward Consolation they find that addict themselves to Sobriety What is meant by a Sober Life and what is a fit measure of Meat and Drink I call that a Sober Life or Dyet which sets bounds both to Meat and Drink so that a Man must not Eat nor Drink more than the Constitution of his Body allows with reference to the services of the Mind and this I term an Orderly Regular and Temperate Life or Diet this will also reach unto Care in ordering all other things such as immoderate Heat or Cold overmuch Labour and the like through Excess whereof there grows any Inconveniency in Body Health or disturbance in the Operation of the Mind Now this measure is different according to the diversity of Constitutions and Ages For one kind of proportion belongs to Youth another to Consistency a third to Old-Age the Whole and the Sick have also their several measures as also the Phlegmatick and the Cholerick because that in these Constitutions the Nature and Temper of the Stomach is very different Now the measure of the Food ought to be exactly proportioned as near as may be to the quality and condition of the Stomach and that measure is exactly proportioned which the Stomach hath such power and mastery over as it can perfectly concoct and digest in the midst of any Employment that is of Body or Mind which withal sufficeth to the due nourishment of the Body I say in the midst of any Employment of Mind or Body because that a greater measure is requisite to him that is occupied in Bodily Labour and continually exercising the Faculties of the Body than to him that is always in Studies Meditation and other like Exercise of the Mind For half so much commonly serve● their turn who are imployed in Study and Affai●… of the Mind as they that apply themselves to Bodily exercise tho' equal Age and Temper might otherwise perhaps require an equality in both their Dyets Now the difficulty lies in finding out this measure the non-observance whereof causes Catarrhs Coughs Head-ach pains in the Stomach Fever and the like which many People will hardly believe but lay the fault on Wines ill Air Watching too much pains-taking and other like outward causes but questionless they are in the wrong for its a want of a due measure in Eating and Drinking that causes these before-named Distempers and its impossible that any one certain measure should be