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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

TAke a quart of faire water put thereto fiue or six spoonfuls of good Aqua composita which is strong of the Annis seedes and one ounce of Sugar and a branch of Rosemary brew them a prety while out of one pot into another and then is your drinke prepared Or if you leaue out sugar it wil bee pleasing enough I haue beene crediblie informed that diuers Gentlemen of good credit when they trauail abroad and cannot like the taste or relishe of theyr drinke that they vse no other then the aforsaid composition and find the same both to refresh and coole them very well neither are they troubled with the rawnesse of cold water by reason that it hath receiued some correction by the Aqua composita that the Annis seedes doe giue a delicate taste vnto it It were not amisse for all Seaman to cary some store of Aquauitae with them that when their wine Cider Perry and beer are spent they may transmute theyr water into the saide drinke A cheape liquor for poore men when malt is extreme deere IF a poore man in the time of flovvring doe gather the toppes of Heath with the flowers which is vsually called and knowne by the name of Linge in the Northerlie partes of this Realme and is that plant whereof our common heath brushes are made and laie vppe sufficient store thereof for his own prouision being well dried and carefully kept from putrefying or molding he may at all times make a very pleasing and cheape drinke for himselfe by boiling the same in faire water with such proportion thereof as may best content his owne taste And this liquor is commended vnto mee by one of the most sufficient professours of Physicke of our times and that vpon his ovvne and often experience for a most vvholesome and medicinable drinke as vvell for the Liuer as the Spleene It may be graced with a little licoras in the decoction if he see cause ¶ I haue also heard Sir Frances Drake affirme that faire water and vinegar mixed in a due proportion doth make a fine cooling and refreshing drinke in hot wether which he esteemed for a rare secret at the Sea And I haue also knowne them that haue made a voluntary drinke thereof on the lande when they haue hadde sufficient choice of others before them How to brew good and wholsome Beere without any Hoppes at al. SInce my profession in this booke is in some sorte to anatomize both Art and Nature without anie regard of priuate mens profits whom it either may essentiallie or accidentallie touch I am bolde therefore without crauing any leaue to doe good to renue or rather to confirme and ratifie an ancient opinion practise which long since in the great dearth and scarsitie of hops many brewers of this land haue beene inforced to put in vse for the better suportation of their weake and declining estates But bicause they failed in proportion without the which there can be nothing compleat or absolute they suffered a good conceit to die in the birth And no maruell then if wormwood notwithstanding it bee a simple so highly commended of all the ancient and nevve Herbarists for his great and singular effects in Physicke be in a maner vtterly abandoned of al the bruers in our time except a fewe that can make a difference betvveene fiue shillinges or 5. pound charge when hops are solde for 50. s. an hundred seeing as yet not any one of them hath so clerkly wrought vpō this simple as to couer and hide the tast therof from the wel mouthed ale-cunners of our commonwelth which weaknes of theirs bicause it cōsisteth wholy in the want of a due proportion between the mault and other beere corne in respect of vvormwood I haue thought good to set downe a sufficient direction for those that are wise and willing to doe good both to themselues and to their countrey wherby they may easilie euen in one daies practise attaine to the full perfection therof Supposing then that your wormwood is either cut down in the leafe before it be seeded or being seeded that it is cut into short peeces whereby there may be made an equal mixture of the whole bulke together for you muste note that the seedie tops are much stronger and much more oylie then the rest of the leaues or stalkes make first a decoction of 4. ounces of hoppes with nine gallons of water which is the proportion which some Bruers in some sorts of drinke doe vse and when you haue gotten out by ebulition or boyling the full strength and vertue of them keepe the same and begin likewise with some small proportion of wormewoode to the like quantitie of vvater as before and vvhen you haue bestowed as much time and fire therein as you did about the hops then taste each of them by it selfe and if you finde the same to exceede the first in bitternesse then beginne with a lesse proportion of Wormewood and so reiterate your worke till you haue equally matched the one with the other then may you safely proceed by the rule of proportion to a barrell and from thence to a tun and so to a whole bruing Neither let the bitternesse of Wormwood in his present taste any thing dismay you for if you did but taste the decoction of hoppes onelie before the mixture of ground malt which doth wonderfully sweeten the same you would thinke it a very vnapt licour to be wrought vp into so pleasing a drinke as our ordinary beere doth shew it selfe to bee for it is the hop onely which maketh the essential differēce betweene beere and ale and that by alaying the exceeding lusciousnes of malt by his bitternes whereby both vniting themselues togither become a sauourie and wholsome drinke for mans bodie which may be in euery respect as well performed in wormwood as in the hop yea peraduenture with Centaury artichoke leaues or Aloes hipatique as some work maisters haue confidentlie affirmed vnto mee And though the hop bee vsuallie in drinke and the wormewood onely in medicine wherby some may happilie be perswaded that it is inconuenient for men that are in health to drinke a medicine continuallie to their meate yet let this be a sufficient answer to that obiection that it is the dose only that maketh the difference heerein For I can assure you in mine owne experience and by the experience of one of the best experienced Bruers in London who yet liueth that if you giue a double or treble quantitie of English hoppes to an ordinarie guile of strong beere you shall finde the same to bee a sufficient preparatiue to your body for the best purgation that shall be ministred after And this is the reason whie Venice Turpentine which being ministred in a smal dose is giuen for the strengthening of the back and to stay the running of the reynes yet if it be taken in the quantitie of an ounce at once it will purge sufficientlie in diuers bodies So then either

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