Cooking (Flowers) -- Early works to 1800; Cooking (Fruit) -- Early works to 1800; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800
Take two pound of _Sheeps_ suet, or rather _Deers_ suet, a pint of
_Candy Oyle_, a quarter of a pound of the newest and best _Bees-wax_,
melt them together, stirring them well, and put to them one
ounce of the Oyle of _Spike_, and halfe an ounce of the _Goldsmiths
Boras_, then heating them againe, and stirring them all together,
put it up in a gally pot, and keep it close stopped till you have
cause to use it; this is an approved Oyntment to cure any wounds
or sores new or old.
_An excellent Oyntment for any Bruise or Ache_.
Take two pound of _May Butter_ purified, powre it out from the
dregs, and put to it of _Broome_ flowers and _Elder_ flowers, of each a
good handfull, so clean picked that you use nothing but the
leaves, mix them all together in a stone pot, and boyle them seaven
or eight howres in a kettell of water, being covered with a
board, and kept downe with weights, keeping the kettell alwayes
full of water, with the help of another kettell of boyling water
ready to fill up the first as it wasteth, and when it waxeth somewhat
coole, but not cold, straine the Oyntment from the Hearbs,
into a gally pot, and keep it for your use.
_A Plaister for a Bile or Push_.
Take a yolk of an Egg, and halfe a spoonfull of English _Honey_,
mix them together with fine wheat flower, and making it to a
Plaister, apply it warme to the place grieved.
_An approved good drink for the Pestilence_.
Take six spoonfuls of _Draggon_-water, two good spoonfulls of
_Wine-Vineger_, two penny weights of English _Saffron_, and as much
Treacle of _Gene_, as a little _Walnut_, dissolve all these together upon
the fire, and let the Patient drink it blood-warm, within twenty
hours or sooner that he is sick, and let him neither eat nor drink
six howres after, but lye so warme in his bed, that he may sweat,
this expelleth the Disease from the heart, and if he be disposed to
a sore, it will streightwayes appeare, which you shall draw out
with a Plaister of _Flos Unguentorum_.
_For the Rheume in the gums or teeth_.
Boyle _Rosemary_ in faire water, with some ten or twelve _Cloves_,
shut, and when it is boyled take as much _Claret_ wine as there is
water left, and mingle with it, and make it boyle but a little againe,
then strayne it into some glasse, and wash the mouth there
with morning and evening; this will take away the Rheume in
short time; and if you boyle a little _Mastick_. therewith, it is the
better.
_For the Emroids_.
Take _Egremony_ and bruise it small, and then fry it with _Sheep
suet_, and _Honey_, of each a like quantity, and lay it as hot as you can
suffer it to the Fundament, and it will heale very faire and well.
_An approved medicine for the Dropsey_.
Take the Hearb called _Bitter sweet_, it grows in waters, and bears
a purple flower, slice the stalks, and boyle a pretty deale of them
in _White-wine_, drink thereof first and last, morning and evening,
and it will cure the _Dropsey_.
_A Powder for Wounds_.
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