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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	let_v	ounce_n	pint_n	3,729	5	11.1697	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09733	Sundrie nevv and artificiall remedies against famine. Written by H.P. Esq. vppon thoccasion of this present dearth	Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611?	1596 (1596)	STC 19996; ESTC S114752	18,417	36

to be had in all places nor at all times of the yeeare therefore for a second supplie I haue thought good to set downe this receit following Take of the whitest Gumme Arabique that you can buy at the Grocers let them beat the same into peeces for you as big as hafell nuttes in their great morters then take 3. ounces of this gumme first wash it in faire conduit water in a stone bason stirring it vp and downe with your hands to take the filth from it then wash it againe with some more water and powre that also away and then to euery 3. ounces so washed put a wine pint of faire conduit water stirring it vp and downe 3. or 4. times a daie to procure a speedie solution or dissoluing of the gumme then couer your pan and when all the gum is dissolued streine the vvater through a cleane and thin linnen cloth and reserue the same in glasses well stopt till you haue cause to vse it It will last sweete at the least three weekes after it is made When you would vse this starch if you desire to haue your ruffes to carie a pure perfect white colour you must mingle some blew with the water stirring it vp and downe vvith your finger in a porrenger and before the blewe settle to the bottome wet your ruffe therein and presentlie wring it out againe then pat it till it be cleare and after set it as you doe in your common starch I doe finde by experience that halfe the time that is lost in the other maner of starching is here gained for by reason that your starch is in a thinne vvater the Lawne Cambricke wil be soone cleared and with much lesse beating And I think that a second profit will here likewise fall out by the way viz. that your Lawne and Cambricke wil last much longer for if I be not deceiued the continuall patting or beating thereof betweene the hands in our vsuall starching worketh a great fretting and wearing of the same And I doubt not but that there be many other sortes of graine pulse and rootes which wil make as good starch as vvheate which at this time I leaue vnto the studious indeuours of those that are carefull for the common good It may bee that at my better leisure I may handle this subiect more at large but now the present times inforce me to deliuer that knovvledge which I haue And thus much for starch Sweete and delicate cakes made without spice or Sugar SLice great and sweete parsnep rootes such as are not seeded into thin slices and hauing washed scraped them cleane dry them and beat them into powder here a mil would make a greater dispatch searcing the same through a fine searce then knead two partes of fine flower with one part of this ponder and make the same into cakes and you shal find them to tast very daintily I haue eaten of these cakes diuers times in mine owne house Quaere what may be done in carots turneps and such like rootes after this maner Here I thinke it not impertinent to the purpose which I haue in hand to wish a better suruey to bee made of my booke of Husbandry being a parcell of the Iewel house of Art and Nature printed an 1594. Wherin sundry new sorts of Marle are familiarlie set down and published for the good of our English farmers amongst the which those waste ashes of the Sopeboilers for such as dwel neer vnto the Citie of London or may by easy water cariage conuey them vnto their hungry and leane grounds haue a principal place for the inriching of al cold moist weeping grounds The book is to be had at the Greyhound in Paules churchyard And if there were such plenty as I could wish of those shauings or cuttings of horne wherof those the work for lanthorns only make the greatest store I would thē in respect of the infinit extention therof cōmend that before any other manuring of ground whatsoeuer for the only garden doung that I know although for arable ground I must needes confes that I haue one secret not as yet made knowen or common to the world that wold proue more general more easie of price then any other whatsoeuer that I as yet haue either heard or read of but for som reasons best knowne vnto my selfe I doe as yet forbeare the discouery therof There is also a certaine victuall in the forme of hollovv pipes or wafers wherewith as also with a defensatiue oile for his armours peeces and other weapons I furnished sir Frances Drake in his laste voyage which hath beene well approued and commended by sundry of his folowers vpon their return for England whereby I was the more encouraged to make a second triall thereof in the Beare vvhich vvent latelie for CHINA This foode I am bold to commende in this place both bicause it argueth ad propositum and for that I knowe that if the maisters owners or Mariners of ships vvould aduisedlie looke into it they shoulde finde it one of the moste necessarie and cheape prouisions that they could possibly make or carie with them The particular commendation whereof resteth vppon these few branches following 1 ¶ First it is very durable for I haue kept the same both sweet and sound by the space of 3. yeares and it agreeth best with heat which is the principal destroyer of Sea victuall 2 It is exceeding light for which qualitie Sir Frances Drake did highly esteeme thereof one man may carie vpon any occasiō of land seruice so much thereof as vvill be sufficient to relieue two hundred men a day 3 It is speedily dressed for in one halfe houre it is sufficientlie sodden by which property it may also saue much fevvell and fiering which occupieth no small roome in a ship 4 It is fresh and thereby very pleasing vnto the Mariner in the midst of his salt meats 5 It is cheape for in this dearth of corne I dare vndertake to feed one man sufficientlie for 2. pence a meale 6 It serueth both in steede of bread and meate whereby it perfourmeth a double seruice 7 Not being spent it may be laide vp in store for a second voyage 8 It may be made as delicate as you please by the addition of oyle butter sugar and such like 9 There is sufficient matter to bee hadde al the yeare long for the composition thereof 10 And if I might once finde any good incouragement therein I vvould not doubt but to deliuer the same prepared in such sort as that without anye farther dressing thereof it should bee both pleasing and of good nourishment vnto a hungry stomach ¶ Al those which are willing to victual their ships therewith if they repaire vnto me I wil vpon reasonable warning furnish them therewith to their good contentment A speedie or present drinke which Trauailers may make for themselues extempore when they are distressed for want of good beer or ale at their Inne