White-wine 2 Pound of Sugar and of Cinamon Ginger long Pepper Mace not bruised Grains Galingal Cloves not Bruised of each 2 penny Worth Bruise every kind of Spice a little and put them together in an Earthen Pot for a day then Cast them through your Bags 2 or three times as you see cause and so Drink it 15. To make Almond-Butter Take your Almonds and Blanch them and beat them in a Mortar very small and in Beating put a littlâ— Water when they are beaten pour in water into two pots put half into one and half into another put Sugar to them and stir them let them Boyl a good while strain it and so dish it up 16. To preserve Quinces red Pare your Quinces and core them take as much Sugar as they weigh put to every pound of Sugar 1 quart of Water boyl your Quinces very Leisurely close Covered turn them to keep them from spotting when they are very tender and well coloured boyl the Syrup till it will button on a dish and so put your Syrup to them 17. To pickle Cucumbers Wash them and dry them in a Cloth take Water Vinegar Salt Fennel-tops some Dill-tops and a little Mace make it sharp enough to the taste boyl it a while and take it off and let it stand till cold then put in the Cucumbers and keep them down close and within a week they will be fit to eat 18. To Candy Pears Plumbs Apricocks clear as Amber Take your Apricocks or Plumbs and give every one a cut to the Stone in the Notch then cast Sugar on them and bake them in an Oven as hot as for Manchet close stop let them stand half an hour then lay them one by one upon Glass-plates and so dry them In this manner you may Candy any other Fruit. 19. To preserve Oranges Take a pound of Oranges and a pound of Sugar Peel the outward Rind and the inward white skin off then take juice of Oranges and put them into the juice and boyl them half an hour and take them off 20. To make Oyl of Violets Set the Violets in sallad Oyl and strain them then put in other fresh Violets and let them lye twenty days then strain them again and put in other fresh Vioets and let them stand all the year 21. To make Cream of Quinces Take a roasted Quince pare it and cut it into thin Slices to the Core boyl it in a pint of Cream with a little whole Ginger till it taste of the Quinces to your liking then put in a little Sugar and strain it and always serve it cold to the Table 22. To make a March-Pane Steep 2 pound of pickled Almonds one day and 2 nights in fair Water and Blanch them out of it then beat them well in a Morter and bedeck them with Rose-water put it to your Almonds so many pound of Sugar beat it with your Almonds then make fine Crust of Paste and sprinkle it with Rose-water and Sugar then spread the Stuff on it and bake it at a very soft fire always bedewing it with Damask Water Civet and Sugar and lastly with a gut of Dates gilt or the Kernels of Pine-apple and so set it forth 23. To make Almond Milk Boyl French s Barly as you boyl it cast away the water till you see the water leave to change Colour as you put in more fresh water then put a bundle of Strawberry leaves and as much Cullumbine leaves and boyl it a good while then put in beaten Almonds and strain them and then strain it with Sugar and Rosemary then strew some Sugar about the dish and send it to the Table 24. To preserve Apricocks or Pears Plumbs when green Take the fruit and scald them in water and peel them scrape the spungy substance off the Apricocks or Quinces boyl them very tender taking their weight in Sugar and as much water as to cover them boyl them very Leasurely then take them up and boyl the Syrup till it be thick and when they are cold put them up with your Syrup into your preserving Glasses 25. To pickle French Beans Take your Beans and string them boyl them tender take them off let them stand till they are cold put them into pickle of Beer Vinegar Pepper Salt Cloves and Mace with a little Ginger 26. To make an Excellent Jelly Take 3 Gallons of Water boyl in it a knuckle of Veal and Calves feet slit in two with all the fat clean taken from between the claws let them boyl to a very tender Jelly keeping it clean scum'd and the edge of the pot always wiped with a clean Cloth that none of the scum may boyl in strain it from the meat let it stand all night the next morning take away the top and the bottom and a quart of this Jelly half a pint of Sherry Sack half an ounce of Cinamon and as much Sugar as will season it 6 whites of Eggs well beaten mingle all these together then boyl it half an hour and let it run through your bag 17. To make Aqua Mirabilis Take of Cloves Galanga Cubebs Mace Cardamums Nutmegs Ginger each 1 dram juice of Celandine half a pound Spirit of Wine 1 pint White-wine 3 pints infuse them 24 hours and draw off a quart with an Alembik 28. Dr. Stevens 's Water Take of Cinamon Ginger Galanga Cloves Nutmegs Grains of Paradise seeds of Annis Fennel Caraways of each 1 dram herbs of Time Mother of Time Mint Sage Penny-royal Pellitory of the Wall Rosemary Flowers of red Roses Cammomile Origanum Lavender of each one handful infuse them 12 hours in 12 pints of Gascoign Wine then with an Alembick draw away 3 pints of the strong 29. To make good Cherry Wine Take the Syrup of Cherries and when it hath stood while bottle it up and tye down the Cork and in short time it will be pleasant Wine 30. To make Wafers Take a pint of Flower a little Dram the yolks of 2 Eggs a little rose-Rose-water with some searced Cinamon and Sugar work them together and bake them upon hot Irons 31. To preserve Grapes Stamp and strain them let it settle a while before you wet a pound of Sugar or Grapes with the Juice stone the Grapes save the Liquor in the stoning take them off and put them up 32. To pickle Purslain Take Purslain and pick it into little pieces and put it into a pot or Barrel take a little water Vinegar and Salt to your taste it must be pretty strong of the Vinegar and Salt and a little Mace and boyl all these together And pour this Liquor boyling hot into the Purslain and when it is cold tye it close down and in a Week or two it is fit to eat 32. To preserve green Walnuts Boyl your Walnuts till the water taste bitter then take them off and put them in cold Water and peel off the Bark and weigh as much Sugar as they weigh and a little more water than will wet the Sugar
set them on the fire and when they boyl up take them off and let them stand 2 days and then boyl them again once more 34. To preserve Currants Part them in the tops and lay a laying of Currans and a laying of Sugar and so boyl them as fast as you do Rasberries do not put them in the Spoon but Scum them boyl them till the Syrup be pretty thick then take them off and let them stand till they be cold and put them in a Glass 35. To make Goose-berry Cakes Pick Goose-berries and put them in an earthe Pitcher and set it in a Kettle of water till they be soft then put them in a sieve and let them stand till all the juice be out and weigh the juice and as much Sugar as Syrup first Boyl the Sugar to a Candy and take iâ— off and put in the juice and set them in the press till they be dry 36. To make excellent Broth. Take a Chicken and set it on the fire and when it boyls Scum it then put in a Mace and a very little Oatmeal and such herbs as the party requires and boyl it well down and bruise the Chicken and put it in again and it is good broth And to alter it you may put in 6 Prunes and leave out the Herbs or put them in as you please and when it is well boyled strain iâ— and season it 37. To make Angelets Take a quart of new Milk and a pint of Cream and put them together in a little Runnel when it is come well take it up with a spoon and put it into the Vate softly and let it stand 2 days till it be pretty stiff then slip it out and Salt it a little at both ends and when you chink it is salt enough set it a drying and wipe them and within a quarter of a year they will he ready to eat 28. To make Jelly of Harts-horn Take 4 Ounces of shavings of Harts-horn of the inside and 2 Ale-quarts of Water put this in a Pipkin and boyl it very gently till it come to a quart the Harts-horn must be steeped 3 or 4 Hours first afterwards put a little into a Saucer till it be cold and if it jellieth it is boyled enough then being warm take it off the fire and strain it hard through a Cloth and set it a cooling till it be a hard Jelly then take 2 whites of Eggs and beat them very well or with a sprigg of Rosemary or Birch but not with a spoon till a Water come in the bottom then put these beaten Eggs and the Water thereof into a Skillet and all the Jelly upon it with 3 Spoonfuls of damask Rose-water and a quarter of a pound of Sugar and when it boyls stir and lay it pretty well then strain it through a Cloth and let it cool And of this take 4 spoonfuls in the morning fasting and at 4 a Clock in the Afternoon and this is excellent good for the weakness in the Back 39. To preserve Damsons Red or Black Plumbs Take their weight in Sugar and Water enough to make a Syrup to cover them so boyl them a little therein being close covered turning them from spotâ—ing let them stand all night in their own Syrup then set them upon a pot of seething Water and suffer your Plumbs to boyl no faster than the Water under them and when they are both sweet and tender take them up and boyl the Syrup again till they be thick then put 〈◊〉 your Plumbs and it together in your Preserving â—â—aâ—â—es 40. To make Rosemary-water Take Rosemary and the flowers in the midst of May before the Sun rise strip the Leaves and the Flowers from the stalks take 4 or 5 Elecampane Roots and a handful or 2 of Sage and Roots together till they be very small then take 3 Ounces of Cloves and so much of Mace and half a pound of Anniseeds and beat all these Spices every one by themselves then take the Herbs and the Spices and put thereto 4 or 5 Gallions of good White-wine then put in all these herbs and Spices and Wine into an earthen pot and put the Pot into the ground about sixteen days then take it up and distill it with a very soft fire 41. To make Pomatum Take fresh Hogs suet cleansed from the films and washt in White-wine one pound and as much sheeps suet washt in White-wine then take about 16 Pomwater apples cleansed and boyled in Rose-water add to these Rose-wood Sassafras Roots of Orrice Floreirtine of each six Drams of Benzoin Storax Calamita half an Ounce of each and so make it into an Oyntment 42. To make Oyl of sweet Almonds Take dryed sweet Almonds as many as you please beat them small and put them in a hempen cloth and without fire by degrees press out the Oyl 43. An Excellent Water against fits of the Mother Take Briony-roots Elder berries ripe drest at a gentle heart in a Furnace and cleans'd from their stalks of each 2 Onnces leaves of Mugwort Bittany Peatherfew Nep Basil Penny-royal Rue Sabine all dryed in the Sun of each half an Ounce peels of Oranges the out-side dry'd and Ounce and a half Mirrh Castoreum of each 3 drams Saffron 1 dram pouder them and steep them 8 days in 2 quarts of the Spirit of Wine then strain them through a very quick Hair-strainer keep the Liquor in a glass very well stopt 44. To make Syrup of Wormwood Take Roman Wormwood or Pontick Wormwood half a pound of red Roses 2 Ounces Indian Spike drams old White-wine and juice of Quinces of each 2 pints and a half bruise them in an earthen Vessel 24 hours then boyl them till half be Wasted strain it and put to the straining two pounds of Sugar and boyl it to a Syrup 45. To make Conserve of Quinces Take 3 quarts of the juice of Quinces Clarified boyl it until two parts be wasted then put to it 2 pounds of white Sugar then boyl them to the thickness of Honey 46. To make Syrup of Poppies Take the heads and seeds of white Popy and of black of each 50 drams Venus hair 15 Licorice 5 drams Jnjubes 30 drams Lettice seed 40 drams add of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a fine rag of each 1 dram and a half boyl them in 8 pints of Water until half be wasted strain it and to 3 pound of Liquor put thereto Perides and Sugar of each 1 Pound boyl them to a Syrup 47. To make Honey of Roses Take of white Honey despumed fresh juice of red Roses one pound put them into a Skillet and when they begin to boyl throw into them fresh red Rose-leaves picked 4 pounds and boyl them till the juice be wasted always stirring it then strain it and put it up in an earthen Pot. 48. To make Syrup of Lemons Take of the juice of Lemons purified by going thro' woolen strainer with crushing 3 quarts and a half â—nd of white Sugar
then put them into Boxes for use 67 To make Sugar Plates Take serced Sugar and make it up in a paste with Gum-Dragon steeped in Rose-water and when you have brought it into a perfect Paste rowl it as thin as e're you can and then print it in moulds of what fashion you please let them dry 68. To make Pomander Take half an Ounce of Benjamin and as much Storax and Labdanum with 6 grains of Musk and as much Civet and 2 grains of Ambergreese and one dram of sweet Balsam then ronl it up in Beads as big or as little as you please and whilst hot make holes in them for your use 69. To make Conserve of Damsons Take ripe Damsons and put them into scalding Water and half an Hour after set them over the fire till they break then strain them through a Culender and let them cool then strain them through a piece of Canvas from their stones and skins then set them over the fire again with a good quantity of red Wine so boyl it stirring it till it be thick and when it is even boyled enough put in a Convenient proportion of Sugar stir it well together and put it into your Gally pots 70. To Bake Oranges Peel the Bark off and boyl them in Rose-water and Sugar till they are tender then make your Pye and â—et them whole in it and put the Liquor they were boyled in into the Pye season it with Sugar Cinamon and Ginger 71. To preserve Peaches Take a pound of your fairest and best coloured Peaches and with a wet linnen cloth wipe off the white coar of them then parboyl them in half a pint of White-wine and a pint and a half of running Water and being parboyld peel of the white skin of them and then weigh them take to your pound of Peaches 3 quarters of a pound of refined Sugar and dissolve it in a quarter of a pint of white-wine and boyl it almost to the heighth of a Syrup then put in your Peaches and let them boyl in the Syrup a quarter of an hour or more then put them up and keep them all the Year 72. To preserve Goosberries Take Goose-berries or Grapes or Barberries and take somewat more than their weight in Sugar beaten fine lay one laying of Fruits and another of Sugar till all are laid in your preserving Pan then take 6 spoonfuls of fair Water and boyl your Fruits therein as fast as you can untill they be very clear then take them up and boyl the Syrup by it self till it be thick when they are cold put them into Gally-pots 73. To preserve Angelica Roots Wash the Roots slice them very thin and lay them in Water 3 or 4 days change the Water every day then put the Roots into a pot of Water and set them in the embers all night in the morning put away the Water then take a pound of Roots 4 pints of Water and 2 pound of Sugar let it boyl and Scum it clean then put in the Roots which will be boyled before the Syrup then take them up and boyl the Syrup after they will ask a whole days work very softly at St. Andrew's time is the best time to do them in all the Year 74. To make Syrup of Quinces Take of the juice of Quinces clarified 3 quarts boyl it over a gentle fire till half of it be consumed scum it and add to it three pints of red Wine with four pound of white Sugar boyl it to a Syrup and Perfume it with a dram of Cinamon Cloves and Ginger of each 2 Scrupels 75. To make Walnut Water Take of green Walnut a pound and a half Garden Radish-roots 1 pound green Asarabacca 6 Ounces Radish-seeds 4 Ounces bruise them and steep them in 3 pints of White-wine Vinegar for 3 days then distil them in a leaden Still till dry 76. To make treacte-Treacte-water Take of the juice of green Walnuts 4 pound juice of Rue 3 pound juice of Carduus Marigolds and Balm of each 2 pound green Petasits Roots 1 pound and half Roots of Burrs 1 pound Angelica and Masterwort of each half a pound Leaves of Scordium 4 handfuls old Venice-treacle and Methridate of each 8 Ounces Canary 6 Quarts Vinegar 3 quarts juice of Lemons 1 quart digest them 2 days either in Horse-dung or Bath the Vessel being close shut then distil them in Sand in which you may make a Theriacal extraction 77. To make Syrup of Cinamen Take of Cinamon grosly bruised 4 Ounces steep it in White-wine and small Cinamon-water of each half a pound 3 days in a glass by a gentle fire strain it and with a pound and a half of Sugar boyl it to a Syrup This Syrup refreshes the vital Spirits and cherisheth the Heart and Stomach helps digestion and cherisheth the whole Body exceedingly 78. To make Syrup of Citron-Peels Take of fresh yellow Citron Peels 5 Ounces the berries of Cherms or the juice of them brought over 2 drams spring water 2 quarts steep them all night boyl them till half be consum'd take off the Scum strain it and with 2 pound and a half of the whitest Sugar boyl it into a Syrup let half of it be without Musk but Persume the other half with 3 grains of Musk tied up in a Bag. 79. To make Syrup of Hartshorn Take of Harts-horn 3 handfuls Polypodium of the Oak the roots of both sorts of Bugloss barks of the roots of Capers and Tamaris of each 2 Ounces Hops Dodder Maiden-hair Balm of each 2 handfuls boyl them in 5 quarts of spring-water till it comes to four strain it and with 4 pound of Sugar make it into Syrup according to Art 80. An everlasting Oyl Perfume for Gloves Take Benjamin two Ounces Storax and Calamint each an Ounce the 2 first must be finely beaten by themselves then take a pound of sweet Almonds and mix it with the Storax and Benjamin upon a Marble stone then put it into an earthen pot with more Oyl then put in your Cloves poudered so let it stand close covered and when you will perfume a pair of Gloves take a little fair Water in a spoon and wipe your Gloves fine with it take another spoon and dip it in your Oyl and rub it on your Gloves and let them dry 81. An excellent water for a Consumption Take 3 pints of Milk and one pint of red Wine 24 yolks of Eggs beat them very well together then add so much white-bread as will drink up the Wine put to it some Cowslip Flowers and distill them Take a spoonful of this Morning and Evening in Chicken or Mutton Broth and for a Month it will cure any Consumption 82. To make Barley Water Take a penny-worth of Barley a penny-worth of Raisins of the Sun a penny-worth of Anniseeds an half penny-worth of Licorish about 2 quarts of water boil all together till half be consumed then strain it when it is cold drink it your Licorish must be sliced into small pieces 83.
into the Rinds or Fruits 128. To make Leach Lombard Take half a pound of blanched Almonds 2 ounces of Cinamon beaten and Searced half a pound of Sugar beat your Almonds and strow on your Cinamon and Sugar till it come to a Paste then roul it and print it as aforesaid 129. To make rare Damask-water Take a quart of Malmsey-Leaves or Malmsey 1 handful of Marjoram as much Basil 4 handfuls of Lavender 1 handful of Bay-leaves 4 handfuls of Damask-Rose-Leaves as many red Roses the Peels of 6 Oyanges or else one handful of the tender Leaves of Walnut-trees half an Ounce of Benjamin Calamus Aromaticus as much Camphire 4 drams Cloves an ounce Bildanum half an Ounce then take a pottle of running Water and put in all these Spices bruised into your water and Malmsey together in a Pot close stopped with a good handful of Rosemary and let them stand for the space of 6 Days then Distill it with a soft Fire and set it in the Sun 16 Days with 4 Grains of Musk bruised this Quantity will make 3 quarts of Water 130. To make Wash-halls Take Storax of both kinds Benjamin Calamus Aromaticus Lapdanum of each alike bray them to pouder with Cloves and Orris beat them all with a sufficient quantity of Soap till it be stiff then work them like Paste and make round balls thereof 131. To make a Musk Ball. Take Nutmegs Mace Cloves Saffron and Cinamon of each the weight of Two-pence and beat it to fine Pouder add as much Mastick of Storax the weight of Six-pence of Lapdanum the weight of Ten-pence of Ambergreese the weight of Six-pence and of Musk 4 Grains dissolve and work all these in hard sweet Soap till it come to a stiff Paste and then make balls thereof 132. To make Imperial Water Take a Gallon of Gascoign Wine Ginger Galingal Nutmegs Grains Cloves Anniseeds Fennel-seeds Caraway-seeds of each one Dram Sâ—ge Mint red-Roses Time Pellitory Rosemary Wild Thyme Camomile and Lavender of each a handful then beat the Spices small and the Herbs also and put altogether in the Wine and let it stand so 12 Hours stirring it divers times then Distill it with a Limbeck and save the first Water for it is best Of a Gallon of Wine you must not take above a quart of Water This water Comforteth the vital Spirits and Helâ—eth the Inward Diseases that come of Cold as the Palsie and Contraction of Sinews it also Killeth Worms and Comforts the Stomach it Cureth the Cold Dropsie helpeth the Stone and stinking Breath and maketh one seem Young 133. To make Verjuice Gather your Crabs as soon as the Kernels turn Black and lay them a while in a Heap to Sweat then Pick them from the Stalks Blacks and Rotteness then Crush and beat them all to pieces in a Tub then make a Bag of Course Hair-cloth as big as your Press and Press it as long as any Moisture will drop out having a clean Vessel underneath to receive the Liquor then Tun it up in sweet Hogs-heads and to every Hogs-head put 6 Handfuls of Damask Rose-leaves then bring it up and spend it as you have occasion 134. To make dry Sugar Leach Blanch your Almonds and beat them with a little Rose-water and the white of an Egg and then beat it with a good quantity of Sugar and work it as you would work a piece of Paste then Roul it and Print it only be fare to strew Sugar in the Print for ferr of Cleaving to 135. To make fine Jumbals Beat a pound of Sugar fine then take the same quantity of fine wheat Flower and Mix them together then take 2 Whites and 1 Yolk of an Egg half a quarter of a pound of Blanched Almonds then beat them very fine all together with half a pound of sweet Butter and a spoonful of Rose-water and so work it with a little Cream till it come to a stiff Paste then â—oul them forth as you please you may add a few fine dryed Anniseeds finely Rub'd and strewed into the Paste with Coriander-seeds 136. To make Spirit of Roses Bruise the Rose in his own Juice adding thereto being Temperately Warm a Convenient Proportion either of Yeast or Ferment leave them a few days to Ferment till they get a strong and Heady smell near like to Vinegar then distill them and draw so long as you can find any scent of the Rose to come then distill it again so often till you have purchased a perfect Spirit of the Rose You may also Ferment the Juice of Roses only and after Distill it 137. To make Syrup of Elder Take Elder Berries when they are Red bruise them in a stone Morter strain the Juice and boyl it away to almost half Scum it very Clean take it off the Fire whilst it is Hot put in Sugar to the Thickness of a Syrup put it no more on the Fire when it is Cold put it into Glasses not filling them to the Top for it will work like Beer 138. To make Oranges of Water Take 2 quarts of the best Malaga-Sack and put in as many of the Peels of Oranges as will go in Cut the White clean off sleep them 24 Hours then still them in a Glass-still and let the water run into the Receiver up on fine sugar Candy You may still it in an ordinary Still 139. To make a Cordial of great virtue Take a pint and a half of the strongest Ale as may be gotten 20 Jordan Almonds clean Wiped but neither Wash'd nor Blaunch'd with 2 Dates Minced very small and Stamped then take the Pith of Young Beef the length of 12 Inches lay it in Water till the Blood be out of it then strip the Skin off it and stamp it with the Almonds and Dates then strain them altogether into the Ale boyl it till it be little Thick give the party in the Morning 6 Spoonfuls and as much when he goeth to Bed 140. An excellent Surfeit-Water Take Cellandine Rosemary Rue Pellitory of Spain Scabious Angelica Pimpernel Worm-wood Mugwort Bettony Agrimony Balm Dragon and Tormentile of each half a pound shred them somewhat small and put them into a narrow Mouthed Pot and put to them five quarts of White-Wine stop it close and let it stand 3 Days and Nights stirring it Morning and Evening then take the Herbs from the Wine and distil them in an ordinary Still and when you have distilled the Herbs distill the Wine also wherein is vertue for a weak Stomach Take three or four spoonfuls at any time 142. To make Syrup of Sugar-Candyed Take Sugar-Candied and put it into a clear Bladder and tie it but so that it may have some Vent then put it into a bason of Water so that the Water come not over the top of the Bladder and cover it with a Pewter Dish and let it stand all Night and in the Morning take of it with a Licorâ—se-stick 143. To make an Excellent Syruâ— against the Scurvey Take of the Juice
Plantain water be all in and then boyling up as before let the Patient drink thereof warmed hot or how else he likes it I never yet have found it fail of Curing 41. For Curing of Deafness Take Herb of Grace and pound it then strain it and take two spoonfuls of the Juice and put thereto one spoonful of Brandy-wine and when it is well evaporated dip therein a little Black wool or fine Lint being first bound with a silk thread and put it into your Ear. 42. For the Scurvy Take half a peck of Sea-scurvy-grass and as much Water-cresses of Dwarf-Elder Roman Wormwood Red sage Fumitory Harts-Horn and Liver-wort of each one handful wash the Water-cresses and dry them well the other Herbs must be rubb'd clean and not washed then add one Ounce of Horse-Raddish and a good handful of Madder Roots beat these with the Herbs and strain the juice well out for the last is best then set it on a quick fire and scum it clean then let it stand till it is setled and when it is quite cold bottle it up and keep it in a cold place you must take four or five spoonfuls with one spoonful of Syrup of Lemons put into it each Morning fasting and fast one hour after it 43. To Procure Conception Take of Syrup of Mother-wort Syrup of Mugwort half an Ounce of spirit of Clary 2 drams of the Root of English snake-weed in fine powder one dram Purslain-seed Nettle-seed Rochet-seed all in subtle powder of each two drams Candied Nutmegs Eringo-roots Satyrion-roots preserved Dates Pistachoes Conserve of Succory of each 3 drams Cinamon Saffron in fine powder of each a scruple Conserve of Vervain Pine-apple Kernels picked and peeled of each 2 drams stamp and work all these Ingredients in a Morter to an electuary then put it into Gally-pots and keep it for use Take of this Electuary the quantity of a good Nutmeg in a little Glass full of White-wine in the Morning fasting and at four a Clock Afternoon and as much at night going to Bed but be sure do not use violent exercises 44. For a sore Breast not broken Take Oyl of Roses Bean-flower the Yolk of an Egg a little Vinegar temper all these together then set it before the Fire that it may be a little warm then with a Feather strike it upon the Breast morning and evening or any time of the day she finds it pricking 45. To heal a sore breast when broken Boyl Lillies in new Milk and lay it on to break it and when it is broken Tent it with a Mallow-stalk and lay on it a plaister of Mallows boyled in sheeps Tallow These are to be used if you cannot keep it from breaking 46. For a Consumption Take a pound and half of Pork Fat and Lean and boyl it in water and put in some Oatmeal and boyl it till the heart of the Meal be out then put to it two quarts of Milk and boyl it a quarter of an hour and give the Patient a draught in the Morning Afternoon and Evening and now and then some Barley-water 47. For the Falling-sickness Take powder of Hartshorn and drink it with Wine and it helpeth the Falling Evil. 48. For the Tooth-Ach Take Featherfew and stamp it and strain it and drop a drop or two into the contrary Ear to the pain and lye still half an hour after 49. For a Wen. Take Black-soap and mix with unslaked Lime made 〈…〉 50. For the Wind. Take the Juice of Red Fennel and make a Posset of Ale therewith and drink thereof 51. For the Dropsie Take two Gallons of New Ale then take Serwel Calamus Aromaticus Galingale of each two Penny worth of Spikenard four Penny-worth stamp all together and put them into a bag and hang it in the Vessel and when it is four days old drink it Morning and Evening 52. For a scald Head Wash thy Head with Vinegar and Camomile stampt and mingled together there is no better help for the Scald or grind white Hellebore with Swines Grease and apply it to the Head 53. To make Plague-Water Take a handful of Sage and a handful of Rue and boyl them in three pints of Malmsey or Muscadine till one pint be wasted then take it off the Fire and strain the Wine from the Herbs then put into the Wine two penny-worth of long Pepper half an ounce of Ginger and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs all grosly bruised and let it boyl a little again Then take it off the Fire and dissolve it in half an ounce of good venice-Treacle and a quarter of an ounce of Methrido and put to it a quarter of a pint of strong Angelica water so keep it in a Glass close stopped for your use This Water cureth Small-Pox Measles surfeits and Pestilential-Feavers 54. A precious Eye-Water Take of the best White-wine half a pint of white-rose-white-rose-water as much of the Water of Celendine Fennel Eye bright and Rue of each two ounces of prepared Tutia six ounces of Cloves as much sugar Rosate a dram of Camphire and Aloes each half a dram wash the Eyes therewith 55. A Cordial Julep Take water of Endive Purslain and Roses of each 2 ounces sorrel water half a pint Juice of Pomegranats and for lack thereof Vinegar 4 ounces Camphire 3 drams sugar 1 pound boyl all these together in the form of a Julep and give 3 or 4 ounces thereof at a time 56. To make Green Oyntment Take a pound of Swines Grease 1 ounce of Verdigrease half a scruple of Sal Gemmae this oyntment may be kept 40 years it is good against Cancers and Running sores it fretteth away dead flesh and bringeth new and healeth old Wounds put it within the Wound that it fester not 57. For Fits of the Mother Take a brown Toast of four Bread of the nether â—rast and wash it with Vinegar and put thereto Black-soap like as you would butter a Toast and lay it under the Navil 58. For Rickets in Children Take of Fennel-seeds and Dill-seeds but most of the last boyl them in Beer and strain it and sweeten it with Sugar and let the Child drink often Probatum 59. For the Shingles Take the Green leaves of Colts-foot stamped and mingled with Honey apply it and it will help 60. To heal a Fistula or Vlcer Take Figs and stamp them with Shoâ—-makers Wax and spread it upon Leather and lay it on the Sore and it will heal 61. For a Woman in Travail Take 7 or 8 leaves of Bettony a pretty quantity of Germander a branch or two of Penny-royal 3 Marygolds a branch or two of Hyssop boyl them all in a pint of White wine or Ale then put into it Sugar and Saffron and boyl it a quarter of an hour more and give it to drink warm 62. To make a Woman be soon delivered the Child being dead or alive Take a good quantity of the best Amber and beat it exceeding small to powder then searce it through a fine
into a pint of good White-wine put them into the Herbs with 3 spoonfuls of Honey and 5 spoonfuls of the Water of a Man-child that is sound mingle all together and boyl them over the Fire and when it is boyled strain it through a Cloth and put it into a Glafs and stop it well and close till you use it and when you need it put a little thereof into the sore Eyes with a Feather but if it be dry temper it with White-wine and it profiteth much all manner of sore Eyes This water was used by King Edward the Sixth 87. My Lord Dennies Medicine for the Gout Take Burdock leaves and stalks cut them small and stamp them very small then strain them and cleanse them and when you have so done put them into Glasses and put pure Oyl of Olives on the the top of them and stop it stop it from the Air and when you would use it for the Gout pour in into a Porringer and warm it and wet Linnen Cloths in it and apply it warm to the grieved place warming your Cloths one after another as they grow cold that are on 88. Dr. Steven's Sovereign Water Take a Gallon of good Gascoin Wine then take Ginger Galingale Cancel Nutmeg Grains Cloves Anni-seed Carraway-seeds of each a dram then take Sage Mint Red Roses Thyme Pellitory Rosemary Wild Thyme Camomile Lavendar of each a handful then bray both Spices and Herbs and put them all into the Wine and let them stand for twelves hours divers times stirring them then distil in an Alembick but keep that which you distil first by it self for that is the best but the other is good also but not so good as the first This Water comforteth the Vital Spirits and helpeth inward diseases which come from Cold it helps Conception in Women that are Barren and killeth Worms â—n the Body it cureth the old Cough and helpeth the Tooth-ach it comforteth the Stomach and cureth a stinking breath it preserveth the Body in good liking and makes them look young 89. The Water called Aqua Mirabilis and Pretiosa made by Doctor Willoughby Take of Galingales Cloves Mace Cucubes Ginger Cardanum Nutmegs Mellilot saffron four ounces and beat all these into powder Agrimony water the quantity of a dram and somewhat more then take of the juice Celendine half a pint and mingle all these together with a pint of good Aqua-Vitae and 3 pints of White-wine put all these together in a Still of Glass and let it stand all Night then distill it with an easie Fire This Water dissolveth the swelling of the Lungs without any Grievance and helpeth and comforteth them being Wounded and suffereth not the Blood to putrifie he shall never need to be let Blood that useth this Water it suffers not the Heart to burn nor Melancholly nor Rheum to have dominion above Nature it also expelleth Rheum and purifieth the Stomach 90. To make Allom-Water Take a pound of Allom and beat it to powder then take a Gallon of clean Water and set it on the fire letting it boyl till all the Allom be melted then take it off the Fire and when it is cold put it into a Glass and keep it for use 91. To make an Excellent Electuary called the Electuary of Life Take Scorlegio Morre Gentiana Grandoret and Jalaim of each a little quantity stamp them and mingle them with Honey that hath been well boyled on the Fire and scummed clean This is excellent for Sickness in the Stomach or pain in the Belly Heart or Head or for those that are bitten with any Venomous Beast or poysoned it must be taken in water 3 or 4 spoonfuls at a time in the Morning fasting if the Disease be of any long standing he must drink it fifteen days together and he will be whole 92. Against Heat of the Liver Take Fennel Endive Succory Plantain of each alike distil them with Red Wine and Milk and use it every Morning nine spoonfuls at a time with a draught of Wine and Sugar or else five spoonfuls thereof alone 93. For swooning fits For swooning and weakness of the Heart in Fever and Sickness or if it come from other Cause stamp Mints with Vinegar and a little Wine if the Patient have no Fever then toast of bit of Bread till it almost burnt and put it therein till it be well soaked then put it in the Nose of the Patient and rub his Lips Tongue Gums Teeth and Temples and let him chew and suck the moistness thereof and swallow it 94. A Water for the Eyes to make a Man see in forty days who hath been blind seven Years before if he be under fifty Years of Age. Take smalledge Fennel Rue Betony Vervain Agrimony Cinquefoyl Pimpernel Eye-bright Celandine sage of each a quartern wash them clean and stamp them do them in a fair Marshing-pan put thereto a quart of good White-wine and the powder of thirty Pepper-corns 6 spoonfuls of live Honey and 10 spoonfuls of the Urin of a Man Child that is wholesome mingle them well together and boyl them till half be wasted then take it down and strain it and afterwards Clarifie it and put it into a Glass Vessel well stopt and put thereof with a feather into the Eyes of the Blind and let the Patient use this Medicine at night when he goeth to Bed and within forty days he shall see It is good for all manner of sore Eyes Wild-Tansie-water iâ— good for the Eye-sight and eating of Fennel-seed iâ— good for the same 95. For a Web in the Eye The Leaves of White-honey-suckles and Ground Ivy of each a like quantity ground together and put every day into the Eye cureth the Web. Or else Salt burnt in a Flaxen-cloath and tempered with Honey and with a Feather anointed on the Eye-lids killeth worm that annoy the Eye-lids 96. For the moist Scabs after the small-Pox Take Lapis Calaminaris Letharge of Gold and Silver of each two drams Brimstone and Ceruse two ounces bring all these into a fine Powder and then beat then in a Morter with so much Barrows-grease as is sufficient to make it up in an Oyntment and anoint the places therewith Evening and Morning 97. To bring down the flowers Take of Alligant Muscadine or Claret a pint burn it and sweeten it well with Sugar put thereto two spoonfuls of Sallet-Oyl then take a good Bead of Amber in powder in a spoon with some of the Wine after it take this Evening and Morning 98. To stay the flowers Take Amber Coral Pearls Jeat or each alike grind them to a fine powder and serse them take as much as will upon a six pence with Conserve of Quinces and drink a draught of New Milk after it Use this every Morning 99. To Cure Corns Take Beans and chew them in your Mouth and tye it fast to your Corn and it will help Do this at Night 100. To make Oyl of Roses Take red Rose-leaves a good quantity and stamp 'em
Boyl half a peck of Oats in a quart of Water till its dry then anoint your Hands with Pomatum and after they are well Chased hold them within the Oats as hot as you can endure them covering the bowl wherein you do your hands with a double cloath to keep in the stem of the Oats do this 3 or 4 times and it will do 51. To take away Pock-holes or Spots in the Face Wet a Cloath in White-Rose-water and set it all night to freeze in the winter then lay it upon your Face till it be dry also take 2 or 3 Poppies the reddest you can get and quarter them taking out the Kernel distil them in a quart of Red-Cows-Milk and with the water wash your Face 54. An excellent Beauty Water used by the D. of C. Take of white Tartar 2 drams Camphire 1 dram Coperas half a dram the whites of 3 or 4. Eggs the juice of a couple of Lemons Oyl of Tartar 4 ounces and as much Plantain-water white Mercury a penny-worth 2 ounces of bitter Almonds beat all these to powder and mix them with the Oyl and some Water and then boyl it upon a gentle Fire strain it and so keep it when you use it you must rub your face with a Scarlet cloath and at Night wash your face with it and in the Morning wash it off with Bran and White-wine 53. Against a stinking Breath Take a handful of Wood bine and as much Plantain bruise them very well then take a pint of Eye-selt and as much water with a little Honey and Allom keep all these waters together in a Glass and wash your mouth well therewith and hold it in your Mouth and it will destroy all Cankers and Cure a Stinking Breath and preserve the Teeth from Rottenness 54. To Procure an Excellent Colour and Complection to the Face used by the C. of S. Take juice of Hyssop and drink it in a Morning fasting half a dozen Spoonfuls in Ale warm it will procure an excellent colour is good for the Eye-sight destroyeth Worms and is good for the Stomach Liver and Lungs 55. To keep the Teeth white and kill Worms Take a little Salt in a Morning fasting and hold it under your Tongue till it be melted and then rub your Teeth with it 56. To procute Beauty an Excellent Wash Take 4 ounces of Sublimate and one ounce of Crude-Mercury and beat them together exceeding well in a Wooden Mortar and Wooden Pestle you must do it at least 6 or 8 hours then with often change of cold Water take away the Salts from the Sublimate change your Water twice every day at least and in 7 or 8 days it will be dulcified and then it is prepared lay it on with Oyl of white Poppy 57. A beauty-water for the face by Madam G. Take Lye that is not too strong and put 2 peeâ—s of Oranges and as much Citron-peel Blossoms of Camomile Bay-leaves and Maiden-hair of each a handful of Agrimony 2 or 3 ounces of barly-straw chopt in pieces a handful as much Fenugreek a pint of Vine-leaves 2 or 3 handfuls of Broom-blossoms put all these into the lye and mingle them together and so wash the Head therewith put to it a little Cinamon and Myrrh let it stand and wash your face therewith every Evening It is good to wash the Head and to comfort the Brain and Memory 58. Against stink of the Nostrils Take Cloves Ginger and Calamint of each a like quantity boyl them in White-wine and therewith wash the Nose within then put the powder of Piritrum to provoke one to sneeze If there be Phlegm in the head you must purge the Head with Pills of Colchie or of Hiera-picra Or if the stink of the Nose come from the Stomach Purge first 59. To make the Hands white To make the Hands White and Soft take Daffodil in clean Water till it grow thick and put thereto powder of Centarium and stir them together and put thereto raw Eggs and stir them well together and with this Oyntment anoint your hands and within three or four days using thereof they will be white and clear 60. A sweet Water for the Hands Take of the Oyl of Cloves Mace or Nutmegs 3 or 4 drops only and mingle it with a pint of fair water stirring them a pretty while together in a Glass having a narrow Mouth till they are well mingled together and it will be very sweet water and will cleanse and whiten the Hands very much 61. For Heat and Worms in the Hands Bruise a little Chick-weed and boyl it in running water till half be wasted away and wash your Hands in it as hot as you can suffer it for the space of six days and it will drive away the Heat or Worms in the Hands 62. To make the Nails grow Take wheat-flower and mingle it with Honey and lay it to the Nails and it will help them 63. For Nails that fall off Take Powder of Agrimony and lay it on the place where the Nail was and it will take away the Aching and make Nails grow 64. For Cloven Nails Mingle Turpentine and Wax together and lay it on the Nail as it groweth cut it and it will heal 65. For Nails that are rent from the flesh Take some Violets and stamp them and fry them with Virgins Wax and Frankincense and make a plaister lay it to the Nail and it will be whole 66. Another Anoint your fingers with the ponders of brimstone Arsnick and Vinegar and you shall find great ease 67. For Stench under the Arm-holds First pluck away the Hairs of the Arm holes and wash them with White-wine and rose-Rose-water wherein you have first boyled Cassia Lignum and use it 3 or 4 times 63. For the Yellow Jaundice Take the Juice Wormwood and Sorrel or else make them in Syrup and drink it at Morning 69. To take away Warts from the hands or face Take Purslain and rub it on the Warts and it maketh them fall away also the juice of the Roots of Rushes applyed healeth them 70. To smooth the skin from Morphew and Freckles Anoint the Face with the Blood of a Hare or Bull and this will take away Morphew and Freckles and smooth the Skin 71. For taking away Spots in the face after the Small-Pox Mix the juice of Lemons with a little bay-salt and touch the spots therewith oftentimes in a day for it is excellent good 72. A good Oyntment for the same Take Oyl of sweet Almonds Oyl of White Lillies of either one ounce Capons grease Goats tallow of each 4 drams Litharge of Gold one dram and a half Roots of Briony and Ireos of either one scruple Sugar-Candy white one dram make powder of all those that may be brought into powder and searce them then put them all in a Mortar together beat them together and in the working put thereto Roses Bean-flower and white lilly-Lilly-water of each a good spoonful put in by little and little and so work
them together till they become an Oyntment anoint your face and hands with it every Evening and in the Morning wash it away in water boyled with Barley Wheaten bran and with the seed of Mallows 73. A beauty water Take of Bean-flowers 6 handfuls Lemon-water one pint Lilly-roots 8 ounces Bean-flower a pound Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each one ounce distill all these together and wash the face therewith 74. Another Approved Take of distilled Turpentine 2 pound frankincense 3 ounces Mastick Dragon's-blood of each half an ounce powder them and mix them with Turpentine-water and distill them again then take of fresh hogs-grease melted one pound 2 drams of Cloves 3 Nutmegs Gold one dram Silver 2 drams powder them finely and distill them in an Alembick 75 To take away freckles and scars in the face Take of Aque-vitae four times distilled 3 parts the tops of Rosemary-flowers 2 parts steep them together a day and a night in a vessel well stopt then distil them 76. To make the face fresh and ruddy Use the Shavings of Brazeel-wood dissolved in Rose-water with a little Camphire added thereto and you will find it very effectual to make a good Colour and Complection 77. To make the face Youthful Take 2 Calves feet River-water 9 Quarts boyl them till one half be wasted then add 1 pound of Rice the Crumb of a Penny-loaf softned in Milk fresh Butter whites of Eggs with their shells mix them all and boyl them and distil all the water from them to which add at last Camphire and Sugar each a little and it will be excellent 87. A Water to whiten the Skin and take away Sun-burn Take of rain-Rain-water the juice of unripe Grapes each a like quantity boyl them together till one half be consumed then whilst it boyls add so much juice of Lemons as was boyled away before when it is boyled then take it off and add 4 whites of Eggs after it is cold and keep it for use 79. To clear the face Take of Lilly-roots roots roasted under the Ashes one pound bruise them in a Mortar to which add Sugar-Candy 3 ounces make an Oyntment to apply to the Face 80. To take away Ring-worms in the face Take of Vinegar of Squills 2 ounces Aloes the juice of sower Dock Oyl of Tarter of each 3 drams make a Leniment 81. An Oyntment for beautifying the face Take of Citron Oyntment fresh made 3 ounces sweet Almonds very well bruised flower of Beans of each 1 dram the bone of the Fish sepia Harts-horn Barley-flower each two drams incorporate them all with Honey 82. Another excellent beautifier Take of Pomatum 2 ounces Citron Oyntment 4 Ounces mix and anoint the Face therewith Night and Morning and afterwards wash your Face with bean-flower-Bean-flower-water 83. An Oyntment to illustrate the face Take the Oyl of the Marrow of a Hart 2 ounces Oyl of Gourd-seed 1 ounce Goats-fat washt Turpentine each half an Ounce new Wax 3 drams melt them by the fire then add Mastick Borax burnt each two drams mix them and make an Unguent with which anoint the face at Night and in the Morning wash it off with bran-bran-water 84. To Curl the hair Take a quantity of Pine-Kernels burnt and beat to powder mix them with Oyl of Myrtles make an Oyntment therewith and anoint the Head 15. To make the hair black Take the juice of Red Poppy the juice of Green Nuts Oyl of Myrtles Oyl of Costomary each one part boyl it a while and anoint the Hair therewith 86. An Excellent beautifier for the face used by the Venetian Ladies Take of burnt Tartar half a pound powder it and dry it as they do Salt then take that Salt and put it within the whites of Eggs boyled 87. To cure a Red face Take 4 ounces of Peach-Kernels Goard-seed two Ounces bruise them and make an Oyl to anoint the Face Morning and Evening 88. To increase the hair Take the Seeds of Marsh mallows a sufficient quantity boyl them in common Oyl with which anoint the Hair Also the Oyl of Earth-worms doth increase the Hair 89. To make the Breasts small Take of Roch Allom powdered and Oyl of Roses of each a like quantity mix them together and anoint the Breasts therewith 90. To take away the wrinkles of the face Take Oyl of Turkey-millet and the decoction of the Berry of the same and it will mollify and consolidate Wrinkles Also Oyl of Nuts is very good for the same 91. To cleanse the Body and make it comely Take of Sage Lavendar-flowers Rose-flowers each two handfuls a little Salt boyl them in Water or in Lye and make a Bath not too hot in which bathe the Body 2 hours before Meat 92. A Sweet-scented Bath for Ladies Take of Roses Citron-peels Citron-flowers Orange-flowers Jasimine bays Rosemary Lavender Mint Penny-royal of each a sufficient quantity boyl them together gently and make a bath to which add Oyl of Spike 6 drops Musk 5 grains Ambergrease 3 grains sweet Asa 1 ounce let her go into the bath 2 hours before Meat 93. To make the body fat and comely Take of Milk and Spring-water each one pint boyl them together till the Water be consumed then add Sugar of Penedies fresh Butter each one ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds newly drawn half an ounce give them one boyling more and so let it be taken betimes in a Morning fasting and sleep upon it 94. To starch Tiffanies or Lawns You must soap your Tiffany on the Hems or Laces only with brown Soap then wash them very well in 3 Lathers pretty hot and let your last Lather be made thin of the Soap do not rince them nor wring them hard then dry them over brimstone and keep them all the time from the Air for that will spoil them then make your Starch of a reasonable thickness and blue it as you please and to a quarter of a pound of Starch put as much Allom as a Hasel-nut boyl it very well and strain it and while it is hot wet your Tiffanies with it very well and lay them in a Cloth to keep them from drying then with your hands clean and dry them then hold your Tiffanies to a good Fire till they be thorough hot then clap them and rub them between your Hands from the Fire till you see they be very clear then shape them by a piece of Paper cut out by them before they are washed and Iron them with a good hot Iron and then they will look Glossy like new Tiffany And so you also starch Lawns only remember to Iron them upon a Cloth wetted and rung out again and turned on the wrong side and instead of Starch you may sometimes use Gum Arabick in Water and when it is dissolved wet the Lawns in that instead of Starch and hold them to the Fire as afroesaid clapping and rubbing them till they are very clear 95. To make clean Gold and Silver Lace You must pull off your Lace from your Garment and being laid
Wet the same and so boyl it to a Candy-heighth then dry the pulp upon a Chasing-dish of Coals then put your syrup and the pulp so hot together and boyl it always stirring it till it will lye upon a Pye-plate as you lay it and that it run not abroad and when it is somewhat dry then use it but put to it the pulp of Apples 178. To make Cream of Coddlings First scald your Codlings and so peel off the Skin then scrape the pulp from the Core and strain them with a little Sugar and Rose-water then lay your pulp of Codlings in the middle of the Dish and so much raw Cream round it as you please and so serve it 179. To make Sugar of Roses Take of Red-rose-leaves the whites being cut off an Ounce dry them in the Sun speedily put to it a pound of white Sugar melt the Sugar in rose-Rose-water and Juice of Roses of each two Ounces which being consumed by degrees put in the Rose-leaves in pouder mix them put it upon a Marble and make it into Lozenges according to Art 180. To make a Cream Tart. Cut the Crust of a Manchet and grate it small and mix it with thick Cream and some sweet Butter then take 24 Yolks of Eggs and strain them with a little Cream putting thereto a good quantity of Sugar mix these very well and set it upon a small fire and so let it boyl till it be thick then make 2 sheets of Paste as thin as you can and raife the sides of one of them the heighth of one of your fingers in Breadth and then fill it and cover it with the other sheet then bake it half a quarter of an hour then put Sugar on it and so serve it 181. To make Poppy-water Take of red Poppies 4 Pound put to them a quart of White-wine then distil them in a common Still then let the distil'd water be poured upon fresh Flowers and repeated 3 times to which add 9. Nutmegs sliced Red Poppy-flowers a Pugil white Sugar two ounces set it to the Fire to give it a pleasing Sharpness and Order it according to your Taste 182. To make Mathiolus Bezoar's Water Take of Syrup of Citron-peels a quart and as much of Dr. Mathiolus great Antidote with 5 pints of the Spirit of Wine five times distill'd over put all these in a Glass that is much too big to hold them stop it close that the Spirit fly not out then shake it together that the Electuary may be well mingled with the Spirit so let it stand a Month shaking it together twice a Week for the Electuary will settle at the bottom after a Month pour off the clear Water into another Glass to be kept for your use stopping it very close with Wax and Parchment else the Strength will easily fly away in Vapours 183. To make Marmalade of red Currans Take the juice of red Currans and put it into a pretty quantity of white Currans clean pickt from the stalks and Buttons at the other end let these boyl a little together have also ready some fine Sugar boyl'd to a Candy-height put of this to the Currans according to your Discretion and boyl them together till they be enough and bruise them with the back of your spoon that they may be as thick as Marmalade and when it is Cool put it into Pots You need not stone the whole Currans unless you please 184. To make a Syllabub Take a pint of Verjuice in a Bowl milk the Cow to it then take off the Curd and take sweet Cream and beat them together with a little Sack and Sugar put it into your Syllabub-pot strew Sugar on it and serve it 185. To make pleasant Mead. Put a quart of Honey to a Gallon of Water with about 10 sprigs of sweet Marjeram and half so many tops of Bays boyl all these well together and when it is Cold Bottle it up and in 10 days it will be ready to Drink 186. To make Steppony Take a Gallon of conduit-Conduit-water a pound of blew Raifins of the Sun stoned and half a pound of Sugar Squeese the juice of 2 Lemons upon the Raisins and Sugar and slice the Rhinds upon them boyl the Water and pour it boyling hot upon the Ingredients of an earthen Pot and stir them well together so let it stand 24 Hours then put it into Bottles having first let it run through a strainer and set them in a Cellar or other Cool place 187. To make Syder Take a peck of Apples and slice them and boyl them in a Barrel of Water till the third part be Wasted then Cool your Water as you do Wort and when it is Cold you must pour the Water upon 3 Measures of grown Apples Then draw forth the Water at a Tap 3 or 4 times a Day for 3 Days together then press out the Liquor and Tun it up when it hath done working stop it up close 188. To make Cock-Ale Take 8 Gallons of Ale then take a Cock and boyl him well with 4 pound of Raisins of the Sun well stoned 2 or 3 Nutmegs 3 or 4 Flakes of Mace half a pound of Dates beat all these in a Morter and put to them 2 quarts of the best Sack and when the Ale hath done Working put these in and stop it close 6 or 7 Days and then Bottle it and a Month after you may Drink it 189. To make a Caraway-cake Take 3 pound and a half of the finest Flower and dry it in an Oven one pound and a half of sweet Butter and Mix it with the Flower very small that none of it be seen then take 3 quarters of a pint of new Ale-Yest and half a pint of Sack and half a pint of New Milk with 6 Spoonfuls of Rose water and 4 Yolks and 2 Whites of Eggs then let it lye before the fire half an hour or more and when you go to make it up put in 3 quarts of Carawey-Comfits and a pound and half of Biskets Put it into the Oven and let it stand an hour and half 190. To make Strawberry-wine Bruise the Strawberries and put them into a Linnen-bag which hath been a little used that so the Liquor may run through more easily then hang in the Bag at the Bung into the Vessel Before you put in your Strawberries put in what quantity of Fruit you think good to make the Wine of a hgh Colour during the Working leave the Bung Open and when it hath Worked enough stop your Vessel Cherry-wine is made after the same Fashion but then you must break the Stones 191. To make a Cordial Water of Clove-gilly-Flowers Put Spirit of Wine or Sack upon Clove-gilly-Flowers Digest it 2 or 3 Days put all in a Glass-body laying other Clove-gilly-Flowers at the Mouth of it upon a Cambrick or Boulter-cloth that the Spirit rising and passing through the Flowers may Ting it self of a beautiful Colour add a head with a Limbeck and Receiver Then Distil the
them in a Sieve by the Fire and make Pouder of them and Temper it with Oyl-Olive and Anoint the place where the Hair should grow also take the Oyl of Tartar and warm it and Anoint any Bald-Head therewith and it will Restore the Hair in a short time 5. To make the Hair Fair. Take the Ashes of a Vine Burnt of the Knots of Barley-Straw and Licorice and Sow-bread and Distill them together in Fair Water and wash the Head with it also sprinkle the Hair while it is Combing with the Pouder of Cloves Roses Nutmegs Cardamum and Galingale with Rose water also the Head being washed with the Decoction of Beech-Nut-Trees the Hair will become Fair. 6. To make the Hair Grow Take Hasle-Nuts with Husks and all and Burn them to Pouder then take Beech-mast and the Leaves of Enula Campana and stamp the Herb and them altogether then Seeth them together with Honey and Anoint the place therewith and strew the Pouder thereon and this will make the Hair Grow 7. To take away Hair Take the Juice of Fumitory mix it with Gum-Arabick then Lay it on the place the Hairs first Plucked out by the Roots and it will never permit any more Hair to Grow on the place Also Anoint your Head with the Juice of a Glo-worm Stamped and it hath the same Virtue 8. For the falling of Hair Take the Ashes of Pidgeons-dung in Lye and wash the Head therewith also Walnut-leaves beaten with Bears-Suet restoreth the Hair that is plucked away 2. To make the Face fair Take the Flower of Beans and distill them wash the Face with the Water 10. For cleansing the Skin If the Face be washed with the Water that Rice is sodden in it cleanseth the Face and taketh away Pimples 11. A Water to Adorn the Face Take Eggs cut in pieces Orange-peels the Roots of Melons each as much as is sufficient in a large Vessel with a long Neck distil it by an Alimbeck with a strong and careful Fire 12. To Beautify the face Take of Cuckow-pintle a prety Quantity Bruise the thick parts with Rose-water dry them by the Sun 3 or 4 days then pouring more Rost-water on it use it 13 To make the face look Youthful Take two Ounces of Aquavita Bean-flower-water and Rose wateâ— each 4 Ounces Water of Water-Lillies 6 ounces mix them all and add to them one dram of the whitest Tragacanth set it in the Sun 6 days then strain it through a fine Linnen Cloath Wash your Face with it in the Morning and do not wipe it off 14. A Water to take away Wrinkles in the face Take of the Decoction of Briony and Figgs each a like quantity and wash the Face with it 15 An excellent Water called Lack Virginis or Virginis Milk to make the face Neck or any part of the Body fair and White Take of Alumen Plumosi half an Ounce and also add thereto of Camphire one Ounce of Roch-Allom one Ounce and a Dram Sal Gemmi half an Ounce of White Frankincense 2 Ounces Oyl of Tartar one Ounce and a half make all these into most fine Pouder and mix it with one quart of rose-Rose-water set it in the Sun and let it stand 9 days often stirring it then take Lethagge of Silver half a pound beat it fine and Searse it then Boyl it with one pint of White-wine Vinegar till 1 third be Consumed ever stirring it with a Stick while it Boyleth then distill it by a Philter or let it run through a Jelly-bag then keep it in a Glass Vial and when you will use those Waters take a drop of the one and a drop of the other in your Hand and it will be like Milk which is called Laâ— Virginis wash your Face or any part of your Body therewith it is most precious for the same 16. To take away Sun-burn Take the Juice of Lemon and a little Bay-Salt and wash your Face or Hands with it and let them dry of themselves and wash them again and you shall find all the Sun-burn gone 17. To make the face fair Boyl the Flowers of a Rosemary in White-wine with which wash your Face 18. To Clear the Skin and make it White Take fresh Boars grease and the white of an Egg and Stamp them together with a little Pouder of Bayes and therewith Anoint the Skin and it will clear the Visage and make it White 19. To take away freckles in the face Anoint your Face with Oyl of Almonds and drink Plantain-water or Anoint your Visage well and often with Hairs Blood 20. To Smooth the Skin Mix Capon 's grease with a quantity of Sugar and let it stand a few days close Covered and it will turn to a clear Oyl with which Anoint your Face 21. To Blanch the face Take the Pulp of Lemons and take out the Kernels and put to them a quantity of fine Sugar Distill these and keep the Water to wash your Face every Night 22. To take away the Holes or Pits in the face by reason of the Small-pox For helping of this Accident I have tried many things and the best means I have found is to Wash the Face one day with the distilled water of strong Vinegar and the next day with the Water wherein Bran and Mallows have been Boyled and continue this 20 days or a Month together 23. For the Redness of the Hands or the face after the Small-pox Take Barley Beans Lupines of each one Handful bruise them all in a Morter grosly and Boyl them in 3 pints of Water till it grow thick like a Jelly then strain it and Anoint the Face and hands three or 4 times a day for 3 or 4 days together and then Wet the Face and Hands as often with this Water following 24. Another Take Vine-leaves 2 Handfuls Bean-flower Dragon Wild Tansie of either one Handful Camphire 3 Drams 2 Calves Feet the Pulp of 3 Lemons a pint of Row Gream Shred the Herbs small as also the Lemons and Break and Cuâ— the Calves-feet small then mix them together and distill it in a Glafs-Still and use it Also the Water of May-dew is excellent good for an high Colour or Redness in the Face 25. For Pimples in the face Wash your Face with Warm Water when you got Bed and let it dry Then take the white of an Egg and put it into a Saucer and set it upon a Chafing-dish of Coals and put it into a piece of Allom beat it together with a Spoon till it become thick then make a Round Ball and therewith Anoint the Face where the Pimples are 26. For Morphew or Scurf of the face or Skin Take of Brimstone beaten into Pouder 2 Ounces mix it with as much black Soap that stinketh and tye the same in a Linnen-cloth and let it hang in a pint of strong Wine-Vinegar or Red-Rose-Vinegar for the Space of 8 or 9 Days and wash the Scurf dipping the Cloth in the Vinegar Rubbing it therewith and let it dry of it self 27. For
heat and swelling in the face Boyl the leaves or blossoms of Rosemary either in White-wine or fair water and use to wash thy hands and face therewith and it will preserve thee from all such inconveniences and also make both thy face and hands very smooth 28. For a Red face Take Brimstone that is whole and Cinamon of either of them an even proportion by wight beat them into small powder and searse it through a fine cloath upon a sheet of white Paper to the quantity of an ounce or more and so by even proportions in weight mingle them together in clean clarified Capons grease and temper them well together till they be well mollified and put to it a little Camphire to the quantity of a Bean and so put the whole Confection into a Glass and use it 29. To take away Pimples Take Wheat-flower mingled with Honey and Vinegar and lay it upon them 30. An Excellent Oyntment for an inflamed Face Take an ounce of the Oyl of Bays and an ounce of Quick-silver and put them in a Bladder together with a spoonful of fasting spittle and then rub them well together that none of the quick-silver be seen take this Oyntment when it is made and anoint the face therewith â—nd â—t will heal it well and fair Proved true 31. For a rich face Take 3 yolks of Eggs raw as much in quantity of fresh butter or Capons grease without salt Camphire two penny worth Red Rose-water half a pint two Grains of Civet and boyl all these together in a Dish then strain them through a clean Cloath and set it to cool and take the uppermost and use it 32. To make the Skin white and clear Boyl two ounces of French Barly in three pints of Conduit water change the water and put in the Barley again and do this till your Barley do not discolour the Water then boyl the last three pints to a quart then mix half a pint of White-wine therein and when it is cold wring the juice of 2 or 3 good Lemons therein and use it for the Morphew heat of the Face and to clear the Skin 33. An excellent Pomatum to clear the Skin Wash Barrows-grease or Lard oftentimes in May dew that hath been clarified in the Sun till it be exceeding white then take Marsh-Mallow-roots scraping off the out-sides make thin slices of them and mix them set them to macerate in a Balneo and scum it till it be clarified and will come to rope then strain it and put now and then a spoonful of May dew therein beating it till it be thorough cold in often change of May-dew then throw away that dew and put it in a Glass covering it with May-dew and so keep it for your use 34. To take away Spots and freckles from the face and Hands The Sap that issueth out of a Birch-tree in great abundance being opened in March or April and a Glass Receiver set under it to receive it This cleanseth the Skin excellently and maketh it very clear being washed therewith This Sap will dissolve Pearl a Secret not known to many 35. To take away freckles and Morphew Wash your face in the wain of the Moon with a Sponge Morning and Evening with distilled water of Elder-leaves letting it dry on the Skin you must Distil your Water in May. This I had from a Traveller who hath cured himself thereby 36. To make the Teeth White and Sound Take quart of Honey and as much Vinegar and half so much White-wine boyl them together and wash your Teeth therewith now and then 37. A Dentifrice to whiten the Teeth Take of Harts-horn and Horses teeth of each 2 ounces Sea shells common Salt Cypress-Nuts each 1 ounce burn them together in an Oven and make a powder and work it up with the Mucilage of Gum Tragagant and rub the Teeth therewith 38. To make the Teeth as white as Ivory Take Rosemary Sage and little Allom and Honey and boyl them together in fair Running water and when it is well boyled strain out the fair water and keep it in a Glass and use it sometimes to wash your Mouth and Teeth therewith and it will make them clean Also wash your Teeth with the Decoction of Lady Thistle-Root and it will cleanse and fasten the Teeth and the sore Gums make whole also the Root of Hore-hound drunk or chewed fasting doth quickly heal the Gums and maketh the Teeth clean Strawberry-leaves also cleanseth the Teeth and Gums a sure and tryed Experiment 39. To make the Teeth White Take one drop of the Oyl Vitriol and wet the Teeth with it and rub them afterwards with a course Cloth altho this Medicine be strong fear it not 40. For a stinking Breath Take two handfuls of Cummin and stamp it to powder and boyl it in Wine and drink the Syrup thereof Morning and Evening for fifteen days and it will help Dâ—â—red 41. To make Breath sweet Wash your Mouth with the Water that the Shells of Citrons have been boyled in and you will have a sweet Breath 42. To sweeten the Breath Take Butter and the juice of Featherfew and temper them with Honey and take every day a spoonful Also these things sweeten the Breath the Electuary of Aromaticks and the peel of Citrons 43. To cleanse the Mouth It is good to cleanse the Mouth every Morning by rubbing the Teeth with a Sage leaf Citron peels or with powder made with Cloves and Nutmegs forbear all Meats of ill Digestion and raw fruits 44. For running in the Ears Take the juice of Elder and drop it into the Ear of the party grieved and it cleanseth the Matter and the Filth thereof also the juice of Violets used is very good for the Running of the Ears 45. For Eyes that are Blood-shot Take the roots of Red Fennel stamp them and wring out the juice then temper it with Clarified Honey and make an Oyntment thereof and anoint the Eyes therewith and it with take away the Redness 46. To make the Hands White Take the flower of Beans of Lupines of Starch-Corn Rice Orice of each six ounces mix them and make a powder with which wash your hands in Water 47. A delicate Washing-ball Take 3 ounces of Orice half an ounce of Cypress two ounces of Calamus Aromaticus 1 ounce of Rose-leaves 〈◊〉 ounces of Lavender-flowers beat all these together in a Mortar searsing them through a fine searse then scrape some Castle soap and dissolve it in Rose-water mix your powders therewith and beat them in a Mortar then make them up in Balls 48. For the Lips chopt Rub them with the Sweat behind your Ears and this will make them smooth and well coloured 49. To prevent marks of the Small-Pox Boyl Cream to an Oyl and with that anoint the whales with a Feather as soon as they begin to dry and keep the Scabs always moist therewith let your face be anointed almost every half hoâ—r 50. To take away Child-blains in hand or feet
their Legs and Breast-bones and raise your crust of the best Paste lay them in a Coffin close together with their bodies full of Butter and then lay upon them and underneath them currans great Raisins Pruans cinamon sugar whole Mace and sugar whole Mace and salt then cover all with good store of Butter and so bake it then pour into it White-wine Rose-water sugar cinamon and Vinegar mixt together with the Yolks of 2 or 3 Eggs beaten amongst it and so serve it 140. To make Almond-Water Take blanched Almonds beaten in a Mortar very small puting in now and then one spoonful of Cream to keep them from oyling Then boyl as much Cream as you please with your beaten Almonds together with a blade of Mace and season it with Sugar then strain it and stir it till it be be almost cold and then let it stand till you serve it and then Garnish your Dish with fine Sugar scraped thereon 141. To make an Almond-Pudding Take a Pound of Blanched Almonds and beat them small put therere some Rose-water and Ambergreese often thereinto as you beat them then season it with Nutmeg and Sugar and mix them with grated â—read Beef-fuet and 2 Eggs and so put it into a dish tying a Cloth round about and boyl it 142. To make Water Gruel Take a Pottle of Water a handful of great Oatmeal Pickt and beat in a Mortar put it in boyling when it is half enough put to it 2 handfuls of Currans washed a Faggot or 2 of sweet Herbs 4 or 5 blades of large Mace and a little sliced Nutmeg let a grain of Musk be infused a while in it when it is enough season it with Sugar and Rose-water and put to it a little drawn butter 143. To stew sausages Boyl them a little in fair water and salt and for sauce boyl some Currans alone when they be almost tender pour out the Water from them and put to them a little White-wine Butter and sugar and so serve it 144. To make a Rare Fricacie Take young Rabbits young Chickens or a Rack of Lamb being cut one Rib from another and Parboyl either of these very well in a Frying-pan with a little Water and Salt then pour the Water and Salt from it and fry it with sweet Butter and make sauce with 3 Yolks of Eggs beaten well with 6 spoonfuls of Verjuice and a little shred Parsley with some sliced Nutmeg and scalded Goosberries when it is Fryed pour in the Sauce all over the Meat and so let it thicken a little in the Pan then lay it in a Dish with the sauce and serve it 145. To make an Oatmeal-Pudding Take a pint of Milk and put to it a pint of large Oatmeal let it stand on the Fire till it be scalding hot then let it stand by and soak about half an hour then pick a few sweet Herbs and shred them and put in half a Pound of Currans and half a pound of Suet and about 2 spoonfuls of Sugar and 3 or 4 Eggs these put into a bag and Boyled do make a very good Pudding 146. To make an Almond Tart. Raise an excellent good Paste with 6 Corners an Inch deep then take some Blanched Almonds very finely beaten with Rose-water take a pound of Sugar to a pound of Almonds some grated Nutmeg a little Cream with strain'd Spinage as much as will cover the Almonds Green so bake it with a gentle heat in an Oven not shutting the door draw it and stick it with a Candied Oringe Citron and put in Red and White Muskadine 847. To Boyl Pidgeons with Rice Boyl your Pidgeons with Matton-broth putting sweet Herbs in the bellies then take a little Rice and boyl it in Cream with a little whole Mace season it with Sugar lay it thick on their breasts wringing also the Juice of Lemon upon them and so serve them 148. To Barrel up Oysters Open your Oysters take the Liquor from them and mix it with a reasonable quantity of the best White-Wine-Vinegar with a little Salt and Pepper then put the Oysters into a small Barrel and fill them up with this Pickle and this will keep them 6 Months sweet and good and with their Natural Taste 149. To make a Cowslip Tart. Take the blossoms of a Gallon of Cowslips Mince them exceeding small and beat them in a Mortar put to them a handful or 2 of Grated Naples-bisket and about a pint and half of Cream boyl them a little on the Fire then take them off and beat in 8 Eggs with a little Cream if it do not thicken put it on the Fire till it doth gently but take heed it Curdels not season it with Sugar Rose-water and a little Salt Bake it in a dish or little open Tarts it is best to let your Cream be cold before you stir in the Eggs. 150. To Bake a calves head to be eaten cold You must half boyl a fair Calves-head then take out all the bones on both sides and season it with the aforesaid Seasoning and Lard it with Bacon and a little Lemon-peel then having a Coffin large enough not very high nor thick but make it Four-square lay on some Sheets of Lard on the Top and butter when it is bak'd and cold fill it with clarified butter 151. To make Pear-Puddings Take a Cold capon or half Roasted which is much better then take Suet shread very small the Meat and Suet together with half as much Grated bread two spoonfuls of Flower Nutmegs Cloves and Mace Sugar as much as you please half a pound of Currans the Yolks of 2 Eggs and the White of one and as much Cream as will make it up into a stiff Paste Then make it up in Fashion of a Pear a stick of Cinamon for the stalk and the Head of a Clove 152. To make a Hotch-Pot Take a piece of Brisket of Beef a piece of Mutton a Knucle of Veal a good Cullender of Pot-herbs half Minced Carrots Onions and Cabbage a little broken boyl all these together untill they be very thick 153. To make a Tart of Medlers Take Medlers that are Rotten then scrape them and set them upon a chafing-dish of Coals season them with the Yolk of Eggs Sugar Cinamon and Ginger let it boyl well and lay it on Paste scrape on Sugar and serve it 154. To make a Lemon Caudel Take a pint of White-Wine and 2 pints of Water and let it boyl put to it half a Manchet cut it as thin and as small as you can put it in with some large Mace then beat the Yolks of 2 Eggs to thicken it then squeeze in the Juice of half a dozen of Lemons and season it with Sugar and Rose-water 155. To make an Italian Pudding Take fine Manchet and cut it in small pieces like Dice then put to it half a pound of Beef-suet Minced small Raisius of the Sun Cloves Mace Dates Minced Sugar Marrow Rose-water Eggs and Cream mingle all these together put them in
THE Accomplisht-Ladys Delight In Preserving Physick Beautifying and Cookery TO ALL Ladies and Gentlewomen Ladies THough there have been many Books Extant of this kind yet I think something have been Deficient in them all I have therefore adventured to make another which I suppose comprehends all the Accomplishments necessary for Ladies in things of this Nature For you have here 1. The Art of Preserving and Candying all Fruits and Flowers as also of making Conserves both Wet and Dry and also the preparing of all sorts of Syrups Jellies and Pickles 2. Here are some Excellent Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery for Curing most Diseases incident to the Body Together with some Rare Beautifying Waters Oyls Oyntments and Powders for Adorning the Face and Body and to cleanse it from all Deformities that may render Persons Vnlovely 3. You may have here a Guide to all manner of Cookery both in the English and French Mode with the preparing all kind of Sallets and Sauces proper thereunto 4. Directions for making all sorts of Pyes Pasties Tarts and Custards with the Form and Shape of many of them to help your Practice â—ith Bills of Fare upon all Occasions 5ly and Lastly The Lady's Diversion in her Garden Containing A handful of Choice and Novel Curiosities and Observations relating to Plants and Flowers Together With brief Directions for the Nice Adorning Balconies Turrets and Windows with Flowers or Greens every Month in the Year So that in the whole I hope it may deserve the Title of the Accomplish'd Ladies Delight and may Acquire Acceptance at your Fair Hands whereby you will very much Encourage and Oblige Ladies Your very Humble Servant And Admirer T. P. The Art of Preserving and Candying Fruits and Flowers as also of making all sorts of Conserves Syrups and Jellies 1. To make Quince Cakes BAKE your Quinces in an Oven with some of their own Juice their Cores being cut and bruised and put to them then weigh some of this Juice with some of the Quinces cut into small Pieces with their weight in Sugar and with the Quinces some quantity of the Juice of Barberries take the clearest Syrup and let it stand on the Coals 2 or 3 Hours let them Boyl a little on the Fire Candy the rest of the Sugar very Hard and put them together stirring it while it is Cold and put it into Glasses 2. To make Conserve of Barberies When the Stalks are pickt off Boyl them in fair Water till they Swell and be very soft then Bruise them in a Mortar Strain them and Boyl them by themselves then take for every Pound of them 2 Pound of Sugar and Boyl them together but not too long for then it will Rope 3. To make Conserve of Roses Take the Buds of red Roses and Slip away the white Ends then Slip the rest of the Roses as small as you can and beat them fine in a Marble Morter and put to every Pound of Roses three Pound and a half of Sugar then but it up in a Gally-pot and set it in the Sun for a Fortnight 4. To Make Cinamon Water Take a Quart of White-Wine a Quart of Rose Water a Pint of Muscadine half a Pound of Cinamon Bruised lay the Cinamon to Steep in the Wine 12 Hours stirring them now and then afterwards put them into an Alembick and Still them with a gentle Fire and you may draw off from it three Pints But if you will not have it Strong instead of Muscadine â—ut in so much Rose-water or White-wine 5. To preserve Quinces White Take to every Pound of Quince a Pound and a Quarter of Sugar Clarifie the Sugar with the white of an Egg Core your Quinces but not too much put this Sugar and Water and Quince being Raw together and so make them Boyl so fast that you can see no Quince forget not to turn them take off what Scum you can keep them Boyling thus till they are enough 6. To preserve Raspices Take the Fairest well Coloured Raspices Pick off their Stalks very Clean then Wash them Besure not to Bruise them Weigh them to every Pound of Raspices put 6 Ounces of hard Sugar 6 Ounces of Sugar-Candy Clarifie it with half a Pint of fair Water and 4 Ounces of Juice of Raspices being Clarified Boyl it to a Weak Syrup then put in your Raspices Stirring them and let them Boyl till they are enough 7. To make Mackroons Take Almonds Blanch them Beat them in a Morter with Serced Sugar mingled therewith with the white of Egg and Rose-water then Beat them altogether till they are as Thick as Fritters then Drop it upon your Wafers and Bake it 8. To preserve Cherries Take some of the Worst Cherries and Boyl them in fair Water and when the Liquour is well Coloured Strain it then take some of the best Cherries you can get with their Weight in Beaten Sugar then lay one laying of Sugar and another of Cherries till all are laid in the Preserving Pan then pour a little of the Liquor of the Worst Cherries into it Boyl your Cherries till they be well Coloured then take them up and Boyl the Syrup till it will Button on the side of the Dish and when they are Cold put them up in a Glass Covered Close with paper until you use them 9. To make Conserves of Oranges Lemons Pippins Boyl any of these Fruits as you would do to make Paste thereof and when it is ready to Fashon upon the 〈…〉 it into your Gally-pots and neveâ— dry it and this is all the Difference betwixt Conserve and Paste and this serves for all hard Fruits as Pippins Oranges and Lemmons 10. To make Symballs Take fine Flower dry'd and as much Sugar as Flower then take as much whites of Eggs as will make it Paste put in a little Rose Water with a quantity of Coriander-seed and Anniseed then Mould it up in the Fashion you will Bake it in 11 To make Syrup of Clove-gilly Flowers Take a Pound of Clove-gilly-flowers the White being Cut off Infuse them a whole Night in a Quart of fair Water then with 4 Pound of Sugar dissolved in it make it into a Syrup without Boyling 12. To make Syrup of Violets Take of Violet Flowers fresh and pick a Pound put them into clear Water Boyling 1 Quart shut them up close together in a New Glazed Pot a whole day then press them hard out and in 2 Pound of the Liquor Dissolve 4 Pound and 3 Ounces of white Sugar take away the Scum and make it into a Syrup without Boyling 13. To make Marmalade of Quinces Take a Bottle of Water and 4 Pound of Sugar let them Boyl together when they Boyl Scum them Clean take the Whites of 2 or 4 Eggs and beat them to Froth put the Froth into the Pan to make the Scum rise Scum it Clean take off the Kettle and put in the Quinces and stir them when Boyled enough put them into boxes 14. To make Hippocras Take a Gallon of
Dr. Deodate's Drink for the Scurvey Take Roman Wormwood Carduus Benedictus Scurvey-grass Brook-lime Water-creeses Watertrifoil of each 1 handful Dodder Cetrach Scolopendria Burrage Bugloss Sorrel Vervain or Speedwell of each half a handsul Elicampaine Root one Ounce Raisins of the Sun 3 Ounces slices of Oranges and Lemons of each 13 insuse these in a double glass with so much White-wine as will make a pint and a half of liquor when done 84. A Conserve to strengthen the Back Take Eringo roots and conserve them as you do Damask white and red Roses in every respect the pith being taken out one pound and a half of Sugar is enough for every pound of Roots with 3 pints of Water stew them closely at first as you do your Roses if you add to them 5 or 6 grains of Ambergreese beaten to fine pouder it will be much more Cordial 85. An excellent Aqua Composita for a Surfeit Take a handful of Rosemary a root of Enulacampane a handful of Hysop half a handful of Tyme 6 handfuls of Sage as much Mint and as much Penny-royal half a handful of Hore-hound 2 Ounces of Liquorish well bruised and as much Anniseeds take two gallions of the best strong Ale and all the herbs aforesaid and wring them asunder and put them into an earthen pot well covered and let them stand a day and a night from thence put it into a brass pot and set it on a fire and let it stand till it boyl then take it from the fire and set your Limbeck on the pot and stop it close with paste that there come no air out of it and still it out with a soft fire add to it a little Red Fennel 86. To make Balm-water Take 4 gallons of strong stale Ale half a pound of Liquorish 2 pound of Balm two Ounces of Figs half a pound of Anniseeds one Ounce of Nutmegs shred the Balm and figgs very small and let them stand steeping 4 and 20 hours and then put it in a still as you use Aquavitae 87. To pickle Broom-buds Take Broom-buds put them into linnen bags and tye them close then make some brine with vvater and salt and boyl it a little let it be cold then put some brine in a deep earthen pot and put the bags in it and lay some vveight on let it lie till it look black boyl them and put them in Vinegar a Week or 2 and they will be fit to eat 88. To make good Rasberry-wine Take a Gallon of Sack in which let 2 Gallons of Rasberries stand steeping the space of 24 hours then strain them and put to the Liquor 3 pound of Raisons of the Sun stoned let them stand together 4 or 5 days being sometime stirred together then pour off the clearest and put it up in Bottles and set it in a cold place if it be not sweet enough you may put Sugar to it 89. To make excellent Hipprocas in an instant Take of Cinamon 2 Ounces Nutmegs Ginger of each half an Ounce Cloves 2 Drams bruise these small then mix them with as much Spirit of Wine as will make them into a paste let them stand covered in glass the space of 6 days in a cold place then press out the Liquor and put it in a glass A few drops of this Liquor put into any Wine giveth it a gallant relish and Odour and maketh it as good as any Hippocras whatsoever in an instant 90. To make Artifical Malmsey Take 2 Gallons of English Honey put into it eight Gallons of the best Spring water set these in a Vessel over a gentle fire when they have boyl'd gently an hour take them off and when they be cold put them into a small Barrel or Runlet hanging in the Vessel a bag of Spices and set it in the Cellar and in half a year you may drink of it 91. To make Artificial Claret-wine Take 6 Gallions of water 2 Gallions of the best Cyder put thereto 8 pound of the best Malaga raisins bruised in a Morter let them stand close covered in a warm place the space of a Fortnight every two days stirring them well together Then press out the Raisins and put the Liquor into the said Vessel again to which add a quart of the juice of Rasberries and a pint of the juice of black Cherries cover this Liquor with bread spread thick with strong Mustard the Mustard the Mustard-seed being downward and so let it work by the fire side 3 or 4 days then turn it up and let it stand a Week and then bottle it up and it will taste very pleasant far better than our Common Claret 92. Ta make Spirit of Ambergreese Take Amber-greese 2 drams of Musk a dram cut them small and put them into a pint of Wine close up the Glass Hermetically and digest them in a very gentle heat till you perceive they are dissolved then you may use it 2 or 3 drops or more if you please of this spirit put into a pint of Wine gives it a rich Odour or if you put 2 or 3 drops round the brims of the Glass it will do as well half a spoonful of it self or mixt with specifical liquor is a rich Cordial 93. An Excellent sweet water Take a quart of Orange-flower water as much Rose water 4 Ounces of Musk Willow seeds grosly bruised or Benjamin 2 Ounces of Storax an Ounce or Labdanum 6 drams of Lavender flowers 2 Pugils of sweet Marjoram as much of Calamus Aromaticus a dram distill all these in a Glass Still in Balneo the Vessel being very well closed that no vapour breathe forth Note that you may make a sweet water in an instant by putting in a few drops of some distilled Oyls together into some Rose-water and brew them all together 94. Dr. Burge's Plague water Take 3 pints of Muscadine and boyl in it Sage and Rue of each a handful till a pint be wasted strain it and set it over the fire again put thereto a dram of long Pepper Ginger and Nutmeg of each half an Ounce being all bruised together into some rose-Rose-water and brew them all together 95. To make Syrup of Hysop Take of Hysop 1 handful of Figs Raisins Dates of each an Ounce boyl these in 3 pints of water to a quart then strain and clarifie it with the whites of a Eggs and 2 pound of Sugar and so boyl them to a Syâ—â—â— and being boyled enough keep them all the year 96. To make Rosa-Solis Take Liquorish 8 Ounces Anniseeds and Carraway of each an Ounce Raisins ston'd and Dates of each 3 Ounces Nutmegs Ginger Mace of each half an Ounce Galingal a quarter of an Ounce Cubebs 1 dram Figs 2 Ounces Sugar 4 Ounces bruise these and distill them with a Gallon of Aquavitae as the rest when it is distilled you must colour it with the Herb Rosasolis or Alkanet Root 97. To make Museadine Comfits Take half a pound of Musk Sugar beaten and searced then take Gumdragant steeped
of Garden Scurvey-grass Brooklime and Water-cresses of each 6 Ounces and after it hath stood till it is clear take 16 Ounces of the clearest and put to it 4 Ounces of the Juice of Oranges and Lemons make it a clear Syrup with so much fine Sugar as will serve the turn 144. To make Syrup of Roses When your Liquor is ready to boyl put as many Roses as will be well steept into it cover it close and when the Roses are throughly White then strain it and set it on the Fire again and so use it 13 times and to every pint of your water or Liquor you must put a pound of Sugar and let it stand together steeping for the space of one Night then Scum it clean and seethe it over a quick Fire a quarter of an Hour then take some whites of Eggs and beat them well together take off your Pot and put in the Whites and then set it on the Fore again and let it boyl a good while then let it run through a Jelly-bag till it will stand still upon your Nail 145. To make a comfortable Syrup Take a handful of Agrimony and boyl it in a pint of Water till half be Consumed then take out the Agrimony and put in a good handful of Currans and boyl them till they are ready to break then strain them and make a Syrup of them then set it on a Chafing-dish of Coals and add thereto a little white Saunders and Drink it hot or cold 146. To make Almond Caudel Take 3 pints of Ale boyl it with Cloves and Mace and slice Bread in it then have ready beaten a pound of Almonds blanched and strain them out with a pint of White-wine and Thick the Ale with it sweeten it if you please but besure scum the Ale when it Boyls 147. To Caudy Cherries Take your Cherries before they be full Ripe take out the Stones put Clarified Sugar boyled to a height and then pour it on them 148. To make rose-Rose-water Take a pint of endive-Endive-water 2 Ounces of Saffron finely beaten then sleep it therein all Night the next day boyl it and strain out the Safron then with Sugar boyl it up to a Syrup 149. To make Syrup of Saffron Stamp the Leaves and first distill the Juice being squeezed out and after distil the Leaves and so you may dispatch more with one Still than others will do with 3 or 4 and this Water is every way as Medicinable as the other serving very well in Decoctions and Syrups c Though it be not altogether so pleasing to the smell 150. To make Suckets of Green-Walnuts Take Walnuts when they are no bigger than the largest Hasel-Nut pare away the uppermost Green but not too deep then boyl them in a pottle of Water till the Water be boyled away then take so much more fresh Water and when it is boyled to the half put thereto a quart of Vinegar and a pottle of Clarified Honey 151. To make white Leach of Cream Take a pint of sweet Cream and 6 spoonfuls of Rose-water 2 grains of Musk 2 drops of Oyl of Mace and so let it boyl with 4 Ounces of Ising-Glass then let it run through a Jelly-bag when it is Cold slice it like Brawn and so serve it out This is the best way to make Leach 152. To preserve Pome-citrons You must take a pound and a half of Pome-Citrons and cut them in Halves and Quarters take the Meat out of them and boyl them tender in fair Water then take 2 pound of sugar Clarified and make Syrup for them and let them boyl therein a quarter of an Hour very Gently then take them up and let your Syrup boyl till it be Thick then put in your Pome-Citrons and you may keeep them all the Year 153. To pickle Clove Gilly Flowers for Sallats Take the fairest Clove Gilly-Flowers clip of the Whites from them put them into a Wide-mouthed Glass and strew a good deal of Sugar finely beaten among them then put as much Wine Vinegar to them as will throughly Wet them tye them up close and set them in the Sun and in a little while they will be fit for use 154. To make Leach of Almonds Take half a pound of sweet Almonds and beat them in a Morter then strain them with a pint of sweet Milk from the Cow then put to it one grain of Musk two spoonfuls of Rose-water 2 ounces of fine Sugar the weight of 3 Shillings in Isinglass that is very white boyl them together and let it all run through a Strainer then still it out and serve it 155. To Candy Marigolds in Wedges the Spanish Fashion Take of the fairest Marigold Flowers 2 ounces and shred them small and dry them before the Fire then take 4 ounces of Sugar and boyl it to a Height then pour it upon a Wet Pye-plate and between hot and cold cut it into Wedges and lay them in a sheet of White-paper and put them in a Stove 156. To Candy Eringo Roots Take your Eringo's ready to be Preserved and weigh them and to every pound of your Roots take of the purest Sugar you can get 2 Pound and Clarifie it with the whites of Eggs exceeding well that it may be as clear as Christal for that will be best it being Clarified boyl it to the height of Mauus Christi then dip in your Roots 2 or 3 at once till all be Candyed and put them in a Stove and so keep them all the Year 157 To Candy Elecampane-Roots Take of your Fairest Elecampane Roots and take them clean from the Syrup and wash the sugar off them and dry them again with a linnen Cloth then weigh them and to every pound of Roots take a pound and 3 quarters of sugar Clarifie it well and boyl it to a height and when it is boyled dip in your Roots 3 or 4 at once and they will Candy very well and so stove them and keep them all the Year 158 To make Cinamon Sugar Lay pieces of sugar in close Boxes amongst sticks of Cinamon or Cloves and in a short time it will have the taste and scent of the spice 159. To make a Trifle Take Cream and boyl it with a cut Nutmeg add Lemon-peel a little then take it off Cool it a little and season it with Rose-water and Sugar to your Taste put this in the thing you serve it in then put in a little Runnet to make it come and serve it up 160. To Candy Barberies First preserve them then dip them quickly into warm Water to wash off the ropy Syrup then strew them over with searced Sugar and set them into an Oven or Stove 3 or 4 Hours always turning them and casting more fine sugar upon them and never suffer them to be cold till they be dryed and begin to look like Diamonds 161. To make Cream Apricoks First boyl your Apricocks with Water and Sugar till they are Tender and afterwards boyl them in Cream then strain them
and season it with Sugar 162. To make Quince Cream Take a roasted Quince pare it and cut it into Thin slices to the Core boyl it in a pint of Cream with a little whole Ginger till it taste of the Quince to your liking then put in a little sugar and strain it and always serve it cold to the Table 163. To Preserve Barberries Take one pound of Barberries pickt from the stalks put them in a pottle Pot and set it in a brass pot full of hot Water and when they be Stewed strain them and put to them a pound and a half of Sugar and put to them a pint of Red Rose-water and boyl them a little then take half a pound of the fairest Clusters of Barberries you can get and dip them in the syrup while it boyleth then take the Barberries out boyl the syrup while it is Thick and when cold put them in the glaâ—ses with the Syrup 164. To make Cullice Take a Cock and dress him and boyl him in White-wine Scum it clean and clarifie the Broth being first strained then take a pint of sweet Cream and strain it and so mix them together then take beaten Ginger fine Sugar and Rose-water and put them altogether and boyl it a little more 165. To make a Cordial strengthning Broth. Take a Red-Cock strip off the Feathers from the Skin then break his Bones to shivers with a Rolling pin set it over the Fire and just cover it with Water put in some Salt watch the scuming and boyling of it put in a handful of Harts-horn a quarter of a pound of blue Currans and as many Raisins of the Sun stoned and as many Pruans 4 Blades of large Mace a bottom Crust of a white Loaf half an ounce of China-Root sliced being steeped three Hours before in warm-Warm-water boyl 3 or 4 pieces of Gold strain it and put in a little fine Sugar and Juice of Orange and so use it 166. To make Sugar-Cakes Take one pound of fine Flower one pound of Sugar finely beaten and mingle them well together then take 7 or 8 Yolks of Eggs then take 2 Cloves and a pretty piece of Cinamon and lay it in a spoonful of Rose-water all Night and heat it almost Blood-warm Temperate it with the rest of the stuff when the Paste is made make it up as fast as you can and bake them up in a soft Oven 167. To take spots and stains out of Cloths Take 4 ounces of white hard Soap beat it in a Morter with a Lymon sliced and as much Roch-Allom as an Hasel-Nut Roul it up in a Ball Rub the stain therewith and after fetch it out with Warm-water if need be 168. To make Cucumbers Green You must take 2 quarts of Verjuyce or Vinegar and a Gallon of sair Water a pint of Bay-salt and a handful of Geeen Fennel or Dill boyl it a little and when it is cold put it into a Barrel then put in your Cucumbers to that Pickle and you may keep them all the Year 169. To make Cakes of Lemons Take of the finest double refined Sugar beaten very fine and searced through fine Taffany and to half a porringer of Sugar put two spoonfuls of Water and boyl it till it be almost sugar again then grate of the hardest Rinded Lemon and stir it into your sugar put it into your Coffins and a Paper and when they be Cold take them off 170. To make Black Cherry Wine Take a Gallon of the Juice of Black-Cherries keep it in a Vessel close stopped till it begin to work then filter it and an ounce of Sugar being added to every pint and a Gallon of White-wine and keep it stopped for use 171. To make Rose Vinegar Take of Red-Rosebuds gathered in a dry time the whites cut off then dry them in the shade 3 or 4 Days one pound of Vinegar 8 Sextaries set them in the Sun 40 days then strain out the Roses and put in Fresh and so repeat it 3 or 4 times 172. To make Syrup of Vinegar Take of the Roots of Smalledg Fennel Endive of each 3 ounces Anniseeds Smalledg Fennel of each one ounce Endive half an ounce clear Water three Quarts boyl it gently in an Earthen Vessel till half the Water be Consumed then strain and Clarifie it and with 3 pound of sugar a pint and a half of White-wine-Vinegar boyl it into a syrup This is a gallant syrup for such whose Bodies are stuffed either with Phlegm or tough Humours for it opens Obstructions or stopping both of the stomach Liver spleen and Reins it cuts and brings away tough Flegm and Choler 173. To make Syrup of Apples Take 2 quarts of the juice of sweet-scented Apples and the juice of Bugloss Garden and Wild of Violet leaves and Rose-water of each a pound boyl them together Clarifie them and with 6 pound of very fine sugar boyl them into a syrup 174. To make the Capon-water against a Consumption Take a Capon the Guts being pull'd out cut it in pieces and take away the Fat boyl it in a close vessel in a sufficient quantity of spring-Water Take of this Broth 3 pints of Burrage and Violet-water a pint and half White-wine one Pint red Rose-leaves two drams and a half Burrage-flowers Violets and Bugloss of each one dram pieces of bread out of the Oven half a pound Cinamon bruised half an ounce Still it in a glass Still according to Art This is a Sovereign Remedy against Hectick Fevers and Consumption Let such as are subject to those Diseases hold it as a Jewel 175 To make Elder Vinegar Gather the flowers of Elder pick them very clean dry them in the sun on a gentle heat and to every quart of Vinegar take a good handful of Flowers and let it stand in the sun a Fortnight then strain the Vinegar from the Flowers and put it into the Barrel again and when you draw a quart of Vinegar draw a quart of Water and put it into the barrel Luke-warm 176. To maka China Broth. Take an ounce of China-root clipp'd Thin and steep it in 3 pints of Water all Night on Embers Covered the next day take a Cock-chicken clean Pickt and the Guts taken out put in it's belly Agrimony and Maiden-hair of each half a handful Raisins of the sun stoned one good handful and as much French Barley boyl all these in a Pipkin close covered on a gentle Fire for 6 or 7 Hours let it stand till it be cold strain it and keep it for your Use Take a good Draught in the Morning and at 4 in the Afternoon 177. To make paste of tender Plumbs Put your Plumbs into an Earthen pot and set it into a pot of boyling Water and when the Plumbs are dissolved then strain the thin Liquor from them through a Cloth and reserve that Liquor to make Quiddany then strain the pulp through a piece of Canvas and take as much sugar as the pulp in weight and as much water as will
208. To make Lozenges of Roses Boil Sugar to a hight till it is Sugar again then beat your Roses fine and moisten them with the Juice of Lemons and put them into it let it not boyl till your Roses are in but pour it into a Pye-plate and cut it into what sorm you please 209. To make Conserve of Bugloss-Flowers Pick them as you do Burrage-Flowers weigh them and to every ounce add 2 ounces of Loaf-Sugar and 1 of Sugar-Candy beat them together till they become very fine then set it on the Fire to Dissolve the Sugar and when it is so done and the Conserve Hot put it into your Glasses or Gally-pots for your Use 210. To Pickle Lemon and Orange-peel Boyl them with Vinegar and Sugar and put them up into the same Pickle you must observe to Cut thâ—â— into small Thongs the length of half your Lemon being pared it is a Handsome Winter Sallet boyl them first in Water before you boyl them in Sugar 211. To make Goose-berry Paste Take Goose-berries and Cut them one by one and Wring away the Juice till you have got enough for your Turn boyl your Juice alone to make it somewhat Thicker then take as much fine Sugar as your Juice will sharpen dry it and then beat it again then take as much Gum-dragoon steeped in Rose-water as will serve then beat it into a Paste in a Marble-Morter then take it up and Print it in your Moulds and dry it in your Stove when it is Dry Box it up for your use all the Year 212. To wake Suckets of Letuce-stalks Take Letuce-stalks and Peel away the out-side then Parboyl them in sair Water and so Boyl it to a Syrup and when your Syrup is almost cold put in your Roots and let them stand all Night to take Sugar then boyl your Syrup again because it will be Weak and then take out your Roots 213. To make Musk Sugar Bruise 4 or 5 Grains of Musk put it in a piece of Cambrick or Lawn lay it at the bottom of a Gally-pot and strew Sugar thereon stop your pot close and all your Sugar in a few days will both smell and Taste of Musk and when you have spent the Sugar lay more Sugar thereon which will also have the same Scent 214. Do Preserve Roses or Gilly-Flowers-whole Dip a Rose that is neither in the Bud nor Over-blown in a Syrup consisting of Sugar double Refined and Rose-water boyled to its full Height then open the Leaves one by one with a fine smooth Bodkin either of Bone or Wood then lay them on Papers in the Heat or else dry with a gentle Heat in a close Room Heating the Room before you set them in or in an Oven then put them up in Glasses and keep them in dry Cup-boards near the fire 215. To make Syrup of Mint Take the Juice of sweet Quinces and between sweet and sour the Juice of Pomegranates sweet and between sweet and sour of each a pint and Half dryed Mint half a pound red Roses 2 ounces let them lye in sleep one day then boyl it half away and with 4 pound of Sugar boyl it into Syrup according to Art 216. To make Honey of Mulberries Take the Juice of Mulberries and Black-berries before they be Ripe gathered before the Sun be up of each a Pound and Half Honey 2 Pound boyl them to their due Thickness 217. To make Syrup of Purslain Take of the Seed of Purslain Grosly Bruised half a Pound of the Juice of Endive Boyled and Clarified 2 Pints Sugar 2 Pound Vinegar 9 Ounces Infuse the Seeds in the Juice of Endive 24 Hours afterwards boyl it half away with a gentle Fire then strain it boyl it with the Sugar to the consistence of a Syrup adding the Vinegar towards the latter end of the Decoction 218. To make Honey of Raisins Take of Raisins of the Sun cleansed from the stones 2 Pound steep them in 6 Pints of Warm Water the next day boyl it half away and Press it strongly then put 2 Pints of Honey to the Liquor that is pressed out and boyl it to a Thickness It is good for a Consumption and to loosen the Body 219. To make a Syrup of Comfry Take the Roots and Tops of Comfrey the greater and the less of each 3 handfuls red Roses Bettony Plantain Burnet Knot-grass Scabious Colts-feet of each 2 handfuls press the juice out of them all being green and bruised boyl it scum it and strain it add to its weight of Sugar and make it into a Syrup according to Art 220. To Pickle Quinces Boyl your Quinces in Water till they be soft but not too violently for fear of breaking them when they are soft take them out and boyl some Quinces pared quartered and cored and the paring of the Quinces with them in the same Liquor to make it strong and when they are boyled that the Liquor is of a sufficient Strength take out the quartered Quinces and parings and put the Liquor into a Pot big enough to receive all the Quinces both whole and quartered and put them into it when the Liquor is thorough cold and keep them for use close covered 221. To make Plague water Take a pound of Rue of Rosemary Sage Sorrel Celandine Mugwort of the Tops of red Brambles Pimpernel wild Dragon Agrimony Balm Angelica of each a pound put these Compounds in a Pot fill it with White-wine above the Herbs so let it stand 4 Days then distill it for your use in an Alimbeck 222. To make clear Cakes of Quinces Prepare your Quinces and Barberries as before and then take the clearest Syrup and let it stand on the Coals 2 or 3 Hours then take the weight of it in Sugar and put near half the Sugar to the juice and so let them boyl a little on the Fire and then Candy the rest of the Sugar very hard and so put them together stirring it till it be almost cold and so put it into Glasses 223. To make all sorts of Comfits and to cover Seeds or Fruits with Sugar You must provide a Bason very deep either of Brass or Tin with 2 Ears of Iron to hang with a Rope over an Earthen Pan with hot Coals then provide aâ— broad Pan for Ashes and put hot Coals upon them and another clean Bason to melt your Sugar in or a Skillet as also a Ladle of Brass to run the Sugar upon the Seeds together with a slice of Brass to scrape away the Sugar from the Bason that hangs if there be occasion then take some of the best and fairest Sugar you can get and beat it into Pouder cleanse your Seeds well and dry them in the hanging Bason put a quarter of a pound of Seeds whether Anniseeds or Coriander-seeds to every 2 pound of Sugar and that will make them big enough but if you would have them bigger add the more sugar which you must melt thus put 3 pound of Sugar into your Bason adding to it
quantity to these Powders infused cut off the black tops of the great Claws of the Crabs the full weight of the rest Beat these all into a fine Powder and searce them through a fine Lawn Searce To every ounce of this Powder add a dram of Oriental Bezoar make all these up in a lump or mass with Jelly of Hartshorn and colour it with Saffron putting thereto a scruple of Amber-Grease and a little Musk finely powdred and dry it in the Air after they are made up into small quantities you may give to a Man twenty Graints and to a Child twelve Grains It is excellent against all malignant and pestilent Diseases French Pox Small Pox Measles Plague Pestilence Malignant or Scarlett Fevers and Melancholly twenty or thirty Grains thoreof being exhibited in a little warm Sack or Hartshord Jelly to a Man and half as much or twelve Grains to a Child 19. For the Falling Sickness or Convulsions Take dung of a Peacock make it into Powder and give so much of it to the Patient as will lye upon a Shilling in a little Succory-water fasting 20. For the Pleuresie Take the round Balls of Horse-dung and boyl them in a pint of White-wine till half be consumed then strain it out and sweeten it with a little Sugar let the Patient drink of this and then lye warm 21. To prevent Miscarrying Take Venice Turpentine spread it on black brown Paper the bredth and length of an hand and lay it to the small of her back and let her drink a Caudle made of Muscadine putting into it the Husks of about 20 sweet Almonds dryed and finely poudered 22. For the Worms in Children Take Worm-seed boyled in Beer and Ale and sweetned Clarified Honey and then let them drink it 23. For the Whites Take white washed Turpentine and make it up in Balls like Pills then take Cinamon and Ginger and roul the Balls in it and take them as you would do Pills Morning and Evening 24. For a dry Cough Take Anniseed Ash-seeds and Violets and beat them to Powder and stamp them of each a like quantity then boyl them together in fair water till it grows thick then put it up and let the Patient take of it Morning and Evening 25. To make Vnguentum Album Take a pint of Oyl-Olive and half a pound of Diaculum Anniseeds a pretty quantity and put them together and put thereto a pound of Ceruse small grounded boyl them together a little and stir them always till it be cold and it is done 26. To destroy the Piles Take Oyl of Roses Frankincense and Honey and make an Oyntment of them and put it into the Fundament and put Myrrh unto the same and use often to anoint the Fundament therewith and let the Fume thereof â—o into the Fundament 27. For the Canker Take a handful of unset Leeks with the roots and a small quantity of Yarrow and boyl them in White-wine till they be very soft then strain and clarifie them and let the Patient drink thereof Morning and Evening blood warm 28. For the Itch. Take the Juice of Penny-royal the Juice of Savin the Juice of Scabius the Juice of Sage the Juice of Pellitory with some Barrows grease and Black Soap temper all these together and make a Salve for the Itch. 29. For the King 's Evil. Take 2 ounces of the water of Broom Flowers distilled and give it in the Morning to the Patient fasting and iâ— will purge the Evil Humour downwards and wasteth and healeth the Kernels without breaking them outwardly 30. To break an Imposthume Take a Lilly Root and an Onion and boyl them in Water till they be soft then stamp them and fry them with Swines grease and lay it to the Imposthume as hot as the Patient may suffer it 31. For biting of a Mad Dog Stamp large Plantain and lay it to the grieved place and it will cure the Sore 32. The Green Sickness Take the Keys of an Ashen-tree dryed and beaten to powder and take of Red Fennel of Red sage Marjoram and Bitony and seeth them in Running water from a pottle to a quart then strain them and drink thereof a good draught with Sugar Morning and Evening luke-warm 33. For Deafness Take Wild-Mint mortify it and squeeze it in the Hand till it reâ—â—teth juice then take it with its juice and put it into the Ear change it often this will help the Deafness if the Person hath heard before 34. For the Dropsie Take a Gallon of White-wine and put into it a handful of Roman Wormwood and a good piece of Horse-radish and a good quantity of Broom Ashes tyed in a Cloth then take a good Bunch of Dwarf Elder beat it in a Morter and strain out the Juice and put into the Wine when you will drink it but if the Elder be dry you must steep a good quantity in the Wine Take of this half a pint Morning and Evening 35. For a Sprain in the Back or any other Weakness Take a quarter of a pint of good Muscadine a spoonful of Madder incorporate them well together then give it to the Patient to drink for three Mornings together and if need requireth you may use it often in a day this will strengthen the back exceedingly 36. An Excellent Remedy for sore Eyes Take a Gallon of pure Running Water and eight drams of White Copperas and as much of fine White Salt mix them together and let it simper half an hour over a slow Fire and then strain it for use 37. Catholicon a most excellent Cordial Take half a peck of Ripe Elder Berries pick them clean and let them stand two-or three days in an Earthen pan till they begin to hoar or mould then bruise and strain them and boyl the Liquor till half be consumed then putting a pound of Sugar to every pint of Liquor boyl them to Syrup 38. A Medicine for an Ague Take a quart of the best Ale and boyl it to a pint and let the Party take it and then let the Patient lye down upon a Bed and be covered warm when the first sit grudges and let a Bason be ready to vomit in 39. Another for an Ague Take a large Nutmeg and slice it and so much Roch-Alom beaten to powder and put them both into one pint of White-wine and incorporate them well together and let the Patient take one half thereof about half an hour before the Fit and then walk a-pace or use some other Laborious Exercise and when the fit begins to come take the other half and continue Exercise Both these I have known to cure to Admiration 40. For a great Lax or Looseness Take one quart of New Milk and have ready one half pint of distilled Plantain water and set your Milk over the Fire and when your Milk by boyling rise up take two or three spoonfuls as occasion shall be to allay the rising and when it rises again do the like and so in the like manner till the
piece of Lawn and so drink it in some Broth or Caudle and it will by God's help cause the Patient to be presently delivered 63. For Infants troubled with wind and Phlegm Give them a little pure sugar-candy finely bruised in saxifrage water or scabrous water in a spoon well mingled together 64. A most excellent Medicine to breed their Teeth easily Take of pure Capons Grease very well clarify'd the quantity of a Nutmeg and twice as much of pure Honey mingle and incorporate them well together and anoint the Childs Gums therewith three or four times a day when its Teething and they will easily break the Flesh and prevent Torments and Agues and other Griefs which usually accompany their coming forth 65. For Agues in Children Take a spoonful of good Oyl of Populeon and put thereto 2 spoonfuls of good Oyl of Roses mingle them well together and then warm them before the Fire anoint the Childs Joynts and Back also his Forehead and Temples twice a day Chasing the Oyntment well in 66. To cause a young Child to go to stool Chafe the Childs Navel with May Butter before the Fire then take some Black Wool and dip it in the Butter and lay it to the Navel and it will procure a stool this is also good for one in years that can take no other Medicine 67. For Worms in Children Take of Myrrh and Aloes very finely powdered of each a Penny-worth and put thereto a few drops of Chymical Oyl of Wormwood or savine and a little Turpentine make these up into a Plaister and lay it to the Childs Navel 68. To help one that is blasted Take the White of an Egg and beat it in a Mortar put to it a quarter of an ounce of Coperas and grind them well together till it come to an Oyntment and therewith anoint the sore Face and it will ease the pain and take away the swelling and when it is well nigh whole anoint the place with a little Populeon and that will make the skin fair and well again 69. An Excellent salve Take a pound of Bees-Wax a pint of sallet-oyl three ounces of Red-Lead boyl all together in a new earthen Pipkin keeping it stirring all the while till it grows of a darkish Colour then keep it for use or make searcloaths of it while it is hot It is most approved against any Pain sore scald Cut Burn to streâ—gthen the Back or remove any old Ach whatsoever 70. A Julep of Doctor Trench for the Fits of the Mother In the time of the year distill Black Cherry-Water Piony flower-water Cowslip-water Rue of Herb-grace-water then take of the Waters of Cowslip Black Cherries Piony Rue of each an ounce and add to them water of Castor half an ounce of cinamon-Cinamon-water one dram Syrup of Clove-gilly flowers three drams mix all these together and take two spoonfuls at a time of it as often as you please 71. For a Tympany Take a handful of the blossoms of Marygolds stamp them and strain them and give the juice thereof to the Patient in a draught of Ale fasting 72. To provoke Terms a good Medicine Take Wormwood and Rue of each one handful with five or six Pepper-corns boyl them all together in a quart of White-wine or Malmsey strain it and drink thereof 73. For the Bloody Flux Take a great Apple and cut out the Core and put therein pure Virgins Wax then wet a Paper and lap it therein then rake it up in the Embers and let it roast till it be soft then eat of it as your stomach will give leave 74. For a Rheumatick Cough or Cold. Take a pint of Hyssop-water Syrup of Gilliflowers Syrup of Vinegar Syrup of Maiden-hair Syrup of Coltsfoot of each an Ounce mingle all together and drink it when you please 75. To kill a Fellon Take an Egg and roast it hard and take out the Yolk thereof then roast an Onion soft and beat the Yolk and the Onion together and lay it the sore and it will kill the Fellon 76. For the white Flux Take the powder of the flower of Pomegranates and drink it in Red Wine 77. For the Red Flux Take Sperma Ceti and drink it and truss up your self with a piece of black Cotten 78. For the Cancer in a Womans breast Take the Dung of a Goose and the Juice of Celendine and bray them well in a Morter together and lay it to the sore and this will stay the Cancer and heal it 79. For an Ague in the Breast Take Grounsel Dasie-leaves and Roots and course Wheat sifted make a Poultess thereof with the parties own Water and lay it warm to the Breast 80. For bleeding at the Nose Take Bettony and stamp it with as much Salt as you can hold betwixt your two Fingers and put it into your Nose 81. For spitting of Blood Take Smallage Rue Mints and Bettony and boyl them well in good Milk and drink it warm 82. To stanch the bleeding of a Wound or at the Nose There is no better thing than the powder of Bole-Armoniack to stanch the bleeding of a Wound the powder being laid upon it or for the Nose to be blown in with a Quill Or take the shavings of Parchment and lay it to the wound and it stancheth and healeth 83. To make the Gascoign Powder Take of Pearls white Amber Harts-Horn Eyes of Crabs and White Coral of each half an ounce of black thighs of Crabs calcined two ounces to every ounces of this powder put in a dram of Oriental Bezoar reduce them all into a very fine powder and searce them then with Harts-horn Jelly and a little Saffron 〈◊〉 therein make it up into paste and make therewitâ— Lozenges or Trochises for your use Get your Crabs for this powder about May or September before they be boyled dry your Lozenges in the Air not by Fire nor Sun 84. For the Megrim or Imposthume in the Head Take four penny weight of the Root of Pellitory of Spain a farthing weight of spikenard and boyl them in good Vinegar and when it is cold put thereto a spoonful of Honey and a Saucer-ful of Mustard and mingle them well together and hold thereof in your mouth a spoonful at once and use this eight or nine times spitting it out continually 85. For Pain in the Ears Take the juice of Wild Cucumbers and put it into the Ears and. it assuageth the Pain Also put the Wood of Green Ash in the Fire and save the Liquor that cometh out at the end and put it into the Ears it causeth the pain to cease and amendeth the Hearing Also beat the juice of Wormwood and drop it into the Ears 86. A precious Water for the Eye-sight made by King Edward the Sixth Take Smallage red Feunel Rue Vervain Bettony Agrimony Pimpernel Eufrane Sage Celendine of each a little quantity first wash them clean then stamp them and put them in a brazen pan with the powder of 14 or 15 Pepper corns fair searced
in a Mortar and put thereto Oyl-Olive and let it stand in the Sun 12 days and then put it in a Glass and bind the Glass fast about with Ropes of Hay and set it in a Pan full of Water and let it boyl sortly two hours and then let it cool then put it in small Glasses and put thereto the leaves of Red Roses all whole and stop it fast and set it in the Sun for sixteen days and so use it at your need 101. For any Itch or Breaking out Take Frankincense and beat it small in a Mortar and mingle it with Oyl of Bays and therewith anoint all over and it will destroy the Itch. 102. For the Piles after Child-birth Make a Bath of Worm-wood Southern-wood Cinamon Rhind and the bark of Cassia Fistula boyled well in Wine when the woman delivered goeth forth of the Bath put Bombace or Cotten with powder of Alloes mixed with Oyl of Peny-royal unto her lower parts 103. For a stitch in the side Take three handfuls of Mallows boyl them in a little raw Milk and put thereto a handful of Wheat-bran and let them boyl together and then wring out the Milk and lay it hot to the Stitch apply it often Or take a few leaves of Rue and Yarrow stamp them together and wring out the Juice and drink it with a little Ale 104. For a Tertian or double Tertian Ague Take a good quantity of Celandine a spoonful of salt and the bigness of an Egg in Leven and as much Abgant and spanish soap stamp them well in a Mortaâ— and make a Plaister of them and apply them to thâ— Patients Feet one hour before the coming of the Fâ—â—â— add thereto 4 or 5 yolks of Eggs Or take of Amâ— seed-water the best as you can get half a pound of Oâ—â— of Vitriol shake them well together and drink one 〈◊〉 two spoonfuls thereof an hour before the Fit comeâ— 105. For the spleen Boyl the Rhinds and Keys of an Ash tree very tendâ— in White-wine and drink a good draught thereof for 6 〈◊〉 7 Mornings together and it will much ease the Paâ—â—ent when you drink this anoint the spleen with Vâ—guentum Dialthea every Morning and Evening applâ—ing also a Plaister of Mellilot to the place 106. An Excellent Powder for the Green-sickness Take 4 scruples of Gentian made into fine Powder rasp Ivory and Harts-born of each 2 scruples make thâ— into fine Powder give a spoonful hereof with Whiâ—â—wine or the like at once 107. A drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaisters or Oyntment or without any Taint most perfectly Take Sanicle Milfoil and Bugle of each a like quâ—tity stamp them in a Mortar and temper them wiâ—â— Wine and give the Person wounded to drink twice 〈◊〉 thrice a day till he be whole Bugle holdeth open tâ—â— Wound Milfoil cleanseth the Wound and sanicle heaâ—eth it but sanicle may not be given to him that is 〈◊〉 in the Head or in the Brain pan for it is angeâ—â—â— This is a good and tryed Medicine 108. For Pricking of a Thorn Take of Violet-leaves one handful stamp them toâ—â—ther and take a quantity of Boars-grease and of Whâ—â— bran one handful set it on the Fire in clean Water 〈◊〉 make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the Grief 109. To make Oyl of St. John 's Wort good for any Ach or Pain Take a quart Sallet-Oyl and put thereto a quart of Flowers of St. John's Wort well picked let them lye therein all the Summer till the Seeds of the Herb be Ripe the Glass must be kept warm either in the Sun or the Water all the Summer till the Seeds be Ripe then put in a quarter of St. John's Wort Seeds whole and so let it stand 12 hours the Glass being kept open then you must boyl the Oyl 8 hours the Water in the Pot full as high as the Oyl in the Glass when it is cold strain it that the Seed remain not in it and so keep it for your use 110. For the Ptisick Take 2 ounces of Liquorish scraped and bruised of Figs 3 ounces of Agrimony Horehound Enula Campana of each a handful boyl them all together in a Gallon of Water till half be wasted then strain the Herbs from the Juice and use it early and late Also for the dry Ptisick stamp Fennel-roots and drink the Juice thereof with White-wine 111. To make Oyl of Fennel Put a quantity of Fennel between 2 Tile-stones or Plates of Iron make them very hot and press out the Liquor and this Oyl will keep a great while for it is good for the Ptisick dry Scab Burning and Scalding 112. To make the black Plaister for all manner of Griefs Take a quantity of Oyl-Olive a quantity of Red Lead boyl these together and stir them with a slice of Wood continually till it be black and somewhat thick then take it off the Fire and put into it a penny-worth of Red-Wax and a pound of Rosin and set it to the Fire again but do not blaze it and stir it then take it off and let it stand till it be cold and make it into a Lump It is good for a new Wound or to staunch Blood pour a little of it in a Dish and if it stick fast to the Dish's side then it is enough keep it for your use as need Requireth Directions for Nurses LET there be given unto the Infant new born Honey to lick after let it be nourished with the Mother's Milk which of all things best agreeth with it But if by reason of some necessity it cannot enjoy it a sound healthy Nurse is to be chosen neither younger than 24 Years nor elder than five and thirty of a white and ruddy Complection which is not infected with other Vices nor yet hath too lately been brought to Bed nor hath not long given Suck let her not have sore Dugs or Breasts nor too big but a large Breast and moderately Fat Let her use choice Meats of easie and light Concoction engendring good blood or juice let her abstain from hot aromatical Spices as Pepper Ginger Cardamum and such like also from Leeks Onions Garlick Salt austere and tart things Let her avoid strong Wines as also cold Water Let her eschew immoderate eating and drinking for that corrupteth the Milk and begetteth in Children leprosy or scurf and other contagious Diseases Let her abstain from Cares and Vexations and let her take heed lest she provoke her menstruous Disease She must not Sleep much or be given to Sleep for that maketh the Milk Flegmatick she ought not to watch more than is meet for from hence the Milk cometh to be more hot sharp and distastful to the Infant she ought moderately to exercise her self especially her Arms to wit either in sowing spinning or knitting for by this means evil humours are consumed as by ease and sloth they are augmented Also Copulation of the Nurse exceedingly offendeth and hurteth the Child as that which chiefly retracteth
a butter'd Dish in less then an hour it will be well baked when it is enough scrape on Sugar and serve it up 156. To make a Gooseberry-Custard When you have cut off the sticks and eyes of your Gooseberries and wash'd them then boyl them in water till they will break in a Spoon then strain them and beat half a dozen Eggs and stir them together upon a Chafing-dish of Coals with Rose-water then sweeten it well with Sugar and always serve it cold 157. To make a Fricacie of Rabbits Cut your Rabbits in small pieces and mince a handful of Thyme and Parsly together and season your Rabbits with a Nutmeg Pepper and Salt then take two Eggs and Verjuice beaten together then throw it in the Pan stick it and Dish it up in Sippets 159. To make Cracknells Take 5 or 6 pints of the finest wheat flower you can get to which put in a spoonful and not more of good Yeast then mingle it well with Butter Cream and Rase-water and Sugar finely beaten and working it well into Paste make it into what form you please and bake it 160. To make Pan-cakes Put 8 Eggs to 2 quarts of Flower casting by 4 whites season it with Cinamon Nutmeg Ginger Cloves Mace and Salt then make it up into a strong Batter with Milk beat it well together and put in half a pint of sack make it so thin that it may run in your Pan how you please put your Pan on the fire with a little Butter or Suet when it is very hot take a Cloath and wipe it out so make your Pan very clean then put in your Batter and run it very thin supply it with little bits of Butter and so toss it often and bake it Crisp and Brown 191. To make a Junket Take Ews or Goats-Milk or for want of these Cows-Milk and put it over the Fire to warm then put it in a little Runnet then pour it out into a dish and let it cool then strew on some Cinamon and Sugar and take some of your Cream and lay on it scrape on Sugar and serve it 162. To make Excellent Marrow-spinage-pasties Take Spinage and chop it a little then boyl it till it be tender then make the best rich light crust you can and roul it out and put a little of your Spinage into it and Currans and Sugar and store of lumps of Marrow clap the Paste over this to make little Pasties deep within and fry them with Clarified Butter 163. To make a Pine-apple tart Beat two handfuls of Pine-apples with a prick'd Quince and the pulp of two or three Pippins when they are well beaten put to them half a pint of Cream a little Rose-water the yolks of 6 Eggs with a handful of Sugar if it be thick add a little more Cream to it so having your thin low Coffins for it dryed fill them up and bake them you may garnish them with Orangado or Lozenges of sugar-plate or what else you please 164. To dry Neats-tongues Take Bay-salt beaten very fine and salt-peter of each alike and rub over your Tongues very well with that and cover all over with it and as it wasts put on more and when they are very hard and stiff they are enough then roul them in Bran and dry them before a soft Fire and before you boyl them let them lye one night in Pump-water and boyl them in the same Water 165. To stew Birds the Lady Buttlers way Take small Birds pick them and cut off their Legs fry them in sweet butter lay them in a Cloath to dry up the butter then take Oysters and mince them and put them in a Dish put to them White-wine and Cinamon put in the birds with Cloves Mace and Pepper let all these stew together covered till they be enough then put into it some Sugar and some toasted Manchet and put it in the Dish and so serve it up to the Table 166. To make a sweet-Pye with Lamb-stones and sweet-breads and sugar Slit the Lamb-stones in the middle and skin them wash the Sweet-breads both of Veal and Lamb and wipe them very dry take the Lamb's Liver and shred it very small take the Udder of a Leg of Veal and slice it season all with a little Salt Nutmeg Mace and Cloves beaten and some whole Pepper then shred two or three Pippins and Candied Lemon and Orange-peel half a dozen Dates sliced with Currans white Sugar a few Caraway-seeds a quarter of a pint of Verjuice and as much rose-Rose-water a couple of Eggs roul up all these together with the juice of Spinage and lay a Pudding then a sweet-bread then a Lamb-stone till you have filled up the Pye and cover them with Dates and sliced Citron and Lemon When it is drawn take two or three Yolks of Eggs beat them and put to them a little fresh Butter White-wine and Sugar and pour it into the Tunnel scrape some Loaf-sugar upon the Lid and so serve it 165. To Roast Eels When they are flea'd cut them to pieces about 3 or 4 Inches long dry them and put them into a dish mince a little Thyme 2 Onions a piece of Lemon-peel a little Pepper beaten small Nutmeg Mace and Salt when it is cut exceeding small strew it on the Eels with the Yolks of 2 or 3 Eggs then having a small Spit or else a couple of square sticks made for that purpose spit through the Eels cross-ways and and put a bay-leaf between every piece of Eel and tying the sticks on a spit let 'em roast you need not turn 'em constantly but let 'em stand till they hiss or are brown so do them on the other side and put the dish in which the Eel was with the seasoning underneath to save the Gravy baste it over with sweet butter The Sauce must be a little Claret-wine some minced Oysters with their Liquor a grated Nutmeg and an Oni 〈…〉 168. To boyl Cocks or Larks Boyl them with the Guts in them in strong broath or fair Water and 3 or 4 whole Onions large Mace and Salt the Cocks being boyled make sauce with some thin slices of Manchet or grated bread in another Pipkin and some of the broath where the Fowl or the Cocks boyl then put to it some butter and the Guts and Liver minced then take some yolks of Eggs dissolved with Vinegar and some grated Nutmeg put it to the other ingredients stir them together and Dish the Fowl in fine sippets pour on the sauce with some sliced Lemons Grapes or barberries and run it over with beaten butter 169. To broyl Oysters Take the biggest oysters you can get then take a little minced Thyme grated Nutmeg grated bread and a little salt put this to the Oysters then get some of the largest bottom-shells and place them on the Grid-Iron and put 2 or 3 Oysters in each shell then put some butter to them and let them simper on the fire till the Liquor bubbles low supplying it still
when the Milk is almost boyled away put to it 3 pints of good Cream let it boyl together a quarter of an hour then sweeten it and put in Mace and Cinamon in the beginning when you rirst put in your Cream when you have done so take White-wine a pint Sack and White-wine together of each half a pint sweeten it as you love it with Sugar pour in all the Cream but leave your Barley in the Skillet this will make an excellent Posset nothing else but a tender Curd to the bottom let it stand on the Coals half a quarter of an hour 181. To bake Chucks of Veal Parboyl 2 pound of Lean Flesh of a Leg of Veal mince it as small as grated Bread with 4 pound of Beef-suet then season it with Bisket Dates and Carraways and some Rose-water Sugar Raisins of the Sun and Currans Cloves Mace Nutmegs and Cinamon mingle them altogether fill your pyes and bake them 182. How to shew a Mallard Roast your Mallard half enough then take it up and cut in little pieces then put it into a Dish with the Gravy and a piece of fresh Butter and a handful of Parsley chopt small with 2 or 3 Onions and a Cabbage lettuce let them stew one hour then season it with Pepper and Salt and a little Verjuice and so serve it 183. To stew a Rabbit Half Roast it then take it off the Spit and cut it into little pieces and then put it into a Dish with the Gravy and as much Liquor as will cover it then put in a piece of Butter and some Powder of Ginger Pepper and Salt 2 or 3 Pippins minced small let these stew and hour and dish them upon Sippets and serve it 184. To make a Pidgeon-Pye Truss your Pidgeons to bake and set them and lard the one half of them with Bacon mince a few sweet Herbs and Parsley with a little Beef-suet the Yolks of hard Eggs and an Onion or two season it with Salt beaten Pepper Cloves Mace and Nutmeg work it up with a piece of Butter and for the Bellies of the Pidgeons season them with Salt and Pepper as before Take also as many Lamb-stones seasoned as before with 6 Collops of Bacon the Salt drawn out then make a round Coffin and put in your Pidgeons and if you will put in Lamb-stones and Sweet-breads and some Artichoak bottoms or other dry Meat to soak up the Juice because the Pye will be very sweet and full of it then put a little White-wine beaten up with the yolk of an Egg when it comes out of the Oven and serve it 184. To Roast a Hare When you Case your Hare do not cut off his hinder Legs or Ears but hack one Leg through another and so also cut a hole through one Ear and put it through the other and so Roast him make your Sauce with the Liver of the Hare boyled and minced small with a little Marjoram Thyme and Winter-savory and the yolks of 3 or 4 hard Eggs with a little Bacon and Beef-suet boyl this all up with Water and Vinegar and then grate a little Nutmeg and put to it some sweet Butter and a little Sugar dish your Hare and serve it This may also serve for Rabbits 185. A Rare Broth. Take a couple of Cocks and cut off their Wings and Legs and wash them clean and parboyl them very well till there rise no scum then wash them again in fair water then put them in a pitcher with a pint of Rhenish-wine and some strong broth as much as will cover them together with a little China root an ounce or 2 of Harts horn with a few Cloves Nutmeg large Mace Ginger shred and whole Pepper and a little Salt stop your Pitcher close that no steam may come out boyl the pitcher in a great pot of water about 6 hours then pour out the broth and strain it into a Bason and squeeze in it the juice of 2 or 3 Lemons so eat it 186. To bake Sweet Breads Boyl your Sweet breads and put to them the yolks of 2 Eggs new laid grated bread with some parboyled Currans and 3 or 4 Dates minced and when you have seasoned it sightly with Pepper Sugar Nutmeg and Salt put to it the juice of a Lemon put up all these together into puff paste and so bake it 187. To make Pottage of French Barley Pick your Barley very clean from dirt and dust then boyl some Milk and put it in while it boyls when it is boyled put in a little Salt Sugar large Mace and a little Cream and when you have boyled it pretty thick dish it and serve it up with Sugar scraped thereon 188. To make a Florentine of Sweet-breads or Kidneys Take 3 or 4 Kidneys or Sweet-breads and when they are parboyled mince them small season it with a little Cinamon and Nutmeg sweeten it with Sugar and a little grated Bread with the Marrow of 2 or 3 Marrow-bones in good big pieces add to these about a quarter of a pound of Almond-paste and about half a pint of Malaga-Sack 2 spoonfuls of Rose-water Musk and Ambergrease of each a grain with a quarter of a pint of Cream and 3 or 4 Eggs mix all together and make it in puff-paste then bake it in 3 quarters of an hour it will be enough 189. To make Pottage of a Capon Take Beef and Mutton and cut it in pieces then boyl a large earthen pot of Water take out half the Water put in your Meat and skim it and when it boyls season it with Pepper and Salt when it hath boyled about 2 hours put in 4 or 5 Cloves half an hour before you think it is enough put in your Herbs Sorrel Purslain Burrage Lettuce and Bugloss or Green-pease and in the Winter Parsley-roots and white Endive pour the broth upon light Bread toasted and stew it a while in the dish covered If your Water consume in boyling fill it up with Water boyling hot The less there is of the broth the better it is though it be but a Porringer full for then it would be as stiff as Jelly when cold 190. To make a Pye with Pippins Pare your Pippins and cut out the Cores then make your Coffin of Crust take a good handful of Quinces sliced and lay at the bottom then lay your Pippins a-top and fill the holes where the Core was taken out with Syrup of Quinces and put in every Pippin a piece of Orangado then pour on the top Syrup of Quinces then put in Sugar and so close it up let it be very well baked for it will ask much soaking especially the Quinces 191. To make a Pye of Neats-tongues Parboyl a couple of Neats-tongues then cut out the Meat at the Root-end as far as you can not breaking it out at the sides take the Meat you cut out and mingle it with a little Suet a little Parsley and a few sweet Herbs cut all very small and mingled together season all
this with Ginger Cloves Mace Pepper Salt and a little grated Bread and as much Sugar together with the yolks of 3 or 4 Eggs make this up together and season your Tongues in-side and out-side with your seasoning aforesaid and wash them within with the yolk of an Egg and force them where you cut the Meat and what remains make into a forc'd then make your paste into the fashion of a Neats-tongue and lay them in with Puddings and little balls then put to them Lemon and Dates shred butter on the top and close it when it is baked put in a lear of the Venison sauce which is Claret-wine Vinegar grated Bread Cinamon Ginger Sugar boyl it up thick that it may run like butter and let it be sharp and sweet and so serve it 192. To make a Sallet of Green-Pease Cut up as many Green-pease as you think will make a Sallet when they are newly come up about half a Foot high then set your Liquor over the Fire and let it boyl and then put them in when they are boyled tender put them out and drain them very well then mince them and put in some good sweet Butter Salt it and stir it well together and so serve it 193. To make a Sallet of Fennel Cut your Fennel while it is young and about 4 Fingers high tye it up in bunches like Asparagus gather enough for your Sallet and put it in when your Water is boyling hot boyl it soft drain it dish it up with Butter as the Green-pease 194. To make a Tansie of Spinage Take a quart of Cream and about 20 Eggs without the Whites add to it Sugar and grated Nutmeg and colour it Green with the Juice of Spinage then put it in your Dish and squeeze a Lemon or two on it Garnish it with slices of Orange then strew on Sugar and so serve it 195. To make a Hash of Ducks When your Ducks are Roasted take all the Flesh from the Bones and hash it very thin then put it into your stewing-pan with a little Gravy strong Broth and Claret-wine put to it an Onion or two minced very small and a little small Pepper let all this boyl together with a little Salt then put to them about a pound of Sausages when you think they are ready stir them with a little Butter drawn Garnish it with Lemon and serve it 196. To make French Puffs with Green Herbs Take a quantity of Endive Parsley and Spinage and a little Winter-savory and when you have minced them exceeding small season them with Sugar Ginger and Nutmeg beat as many Eggs as you think will wet your Herbs and so make it up then pare a Lemon and cut in thin slices and to every slice of Lemon put a slice of your prepared stuff then fry it in sweet Butter and serve them in Sippets after you have put to them either a Glass of Canary or White wine 197. To stew a Dish of Breams Take your Breams and dress them and dry them well and salt them then make a Charcoal Fire and lay them on the Grid iron over the Fire being very hot let them be indifferent brown on both sides then put a Glass of Claret into a Pewter dish and set it over the Fire to boyl put into it 2 or 3 Anchovies as many Onions and about half a pint of Gravy a pint of Oysters with a little Thyme minced small when it hath boyled a while put to it a little melted Butter and Nutmeg Then dish your Bream and pour all this upon it and then set it again on the Fire putting some yolks of Eggs over it 198. To boyl a Mullet Having scalded your Mullet you must save their Livers and Roes then put them in Water boyling hot put to them a Glass of Claret a bundle of sweet Herbs with a little Salt and Vinegar 2 or 3 whole Onions and a Lemon sliced then take some whole Nutmegs and quarter them and some large Mace and some Butter drawn with Claret whenrein dissolve 2 or 3 Anchovies dish up your Fish and put on your sauce being first seasoned with Salt Garnish your dishes with fryed Oysters and Bay-leaves and thus you may season your Liquor for boyling most other Fish 199. To Farce of stuff a Fillet of Veal Take a large Leg of Veal and cut off a couple of Fillets from it then mince a handful of sweet Herbs and Parsley and the yolks of 2 or 3 hard Eggs let all these be minced very small then season it with a couple of grated Nutmegs and a little Salt and so farce or stuff your Veal with it then lard it with Bacon and Thyme very well then let it be Roasted and when it is almost enough take some of your stuffing about a handful and as many Currans and put these to a little strong broth a Glass of Claret and a little Vinegar a little Sugar and some Mace When your Meat is almost ready take it up and put it into this and let it slew putting to it a little butter melted put your Meat in your dish and pour your Sauce upon it and so serve it 200. To make Pudding of Rice Take a good handful of Rice beaten small and put it into about 3 pints of Milk adding a little Mace and Cinamon then boyl it keeping it always stirring till it grow thick then put a piece of butter into it and let it boyl a quarter of an hour then pour it out to cool then put to it half a dozen Dates minced a little Sugar a little beaten Cinamon and a couple of handfuls of Currans then beat about ten Eggs throwing away 2 or 3 of the Whites put in some Salt butter the bottom of your dish pour in your Pudding let it bake half an hour put on a little Rose-water and Sugar and serve it 201. To make excellent white Puddings Take the Humbles of a Hog and boyl them very tender then take the Heart the Lights and all the Flesh about them picking them clean from all the sinewy Skins and then chop the Meat as small as small as you can then take the Liver and boyl it hard and grate a little grated Nutmeg Cinamon Cloves Mace Sugar and a few Carraway-seeds with the yolks of 4 or 5 Eggs and about a pint of the best Cream a Glass of Canary and a little Rose-water with a good quantity of Hogs-suet and Salt make all into Rouls and let it lye about an hour and half before you put it in the Guts laying the Guts a steep in Rose-water before boyl them and have a care of breaking them 202. To Stew Flounders Draw your Flounders and wash them and Scotch them on the White-side being put in a dish put to them a little White-wine a few Minced Oysters some whole Pepper and sliced Ginger a few sweet Herbs 2 or 3 Onions quartered and Salt put all these into your stewing Pan covered close and let them stew as soon as you can