Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take Damask rose buds and cut off the whites then beat them very small
take half a pound of them when they are beaten and put to them 3 ounces
of benjamine half a quarter of an ounce of muske as much of civet and
as much ambergreese then mingle it all well together and make it up in
little thin cakes and lay them upon rose leaves & dry them in the sun
till they be very dry.
471. _For Ordinary Linnen._
Take of orrice 8 pound callamase 2 pound damaske powder a pound cloves
a pound gallingall half a pound benjamin half a pound Storax halfe a
pound lavender a pound to every pound of rose leaves you must put a
pound of powder.
472. _To destroy Moths & preserve Cloths untouch’d._
Take the bear frame of a square table cover it over with such furniture
you mean to preserve you must let your furniture touch the ground at
the sides & ends of the frame to keep in the heat and vapor then take a
chaffendish of charcole or cole of wood fire and put thereon a quantity
of alloes sequetrina and a quantity of gallinger roots then put your
chaffendish in the midst of the frame and let it remaine there untill
y^e vapor be quite setled and the engredients consumed this absolutely
at once ordering will destroy all the moths bred in your furniture &
continually preserve such furnitures as is untouched.
473. _To destroy Moths in Chairs & Stools & to refresh ye Colour._
Take a quantity of sharp small beer or ale put therein a quantity of
alloes & a quantity of gallinger as aforesaid make it boyle 3 or 4
walmes untill ye alloes be dissolved then take a piece of woollen cloth
dip it therein and wash over your chairs and stools therewith then
put them to dry this will kill all the moths though bred in the seats
amongst feathers flox or wool and refresh any colour’d cloth or stuff
turkey workes or needel workes not altering the property of ye colours
nor hurting the workes.
474. _To scoure and refresh the Colour of Cloth Carpets, Silk
Curtains, or any Stuff y^t is Stain’d or Soil’d._
Take a quantity of orgull break it to a small powder then put it into
some pewter platter then put it over a chaffendish of coles make it hot
then put your carpet or curtain abroad upon a table afterwards take a
brush made of swines hairs dip it therein and so rub over your carpet
or curtain therewith this will take away all the spots and refresh the
colour.
475. _To scoure & refresh ye Colour of Gold & Silver Lace or Fringe._
Take a quantity of wine vinegar put therein a quantity of rock allome
make it boyle till the allome be dissolved then rub over your lace
therein afterwards wash it over with clean water and castle soap this
will make your lace very fair and fresh. Some rub it only w^{th} the
powder of Common Palk burnt:
476. _To scoure or refresh ye Colours of Pictures y^t are Stain’d or
Soil’d._
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