Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Break the bones of the chicken and cut them in quarters and season them
with cloves mace and nutmegs and salt with a little pepper and a few
sweet herbs and put it in a stew pan with some broth or gravie a little
white wine and strong ale a little oyster liquor and a few oysters cut
in pieces and let it stew on a quicke fire and when it is almost enough
put in 2 or 3 shallots minced small and 2 or 3 anchovise minced the
yolks of 2 or 3 eggs well beaten with a little white wine and a piece
of butter and Shake it well together and put it in a dish on sippets.
31. _For any Cough old or fresh._
TAKE a quartor of a pound of blew currans an ounce of Anyseeds and a
penny worth of liquorish makeing it and your seeds first into powder
then beat your currans to a kind of a conserve strewing in your powder
as you beat them then take of the best maiden honey you can gett
putting thereof as much as will moisten all this seting it on the fire
let it simer a while but not to long lest it be clammy so take from the
fire and keep it for your use. take it as oft as you please upon the
poynt of a knife the quantity of a nutmeg.
32. _For a Cold._
Take a pint of virgins honey set it on the fire and put a good
spoonfull of liquorish anyseeds elecampane all this being first beaten
in fine powders, let it simer a little then take it from the fire
and put it up in a pot for your use. eat of it as oft’ as you please
especially going to bed makeing up 3 pills as big as a small nut
rowling them up in powder of liquorish or Sugar candie.
33. _For a Cough._
Take 4 quarts of Spring water 2 ounces of green liquorish sliced 2
ounces of powder of brimstone 1 ounce of coliander seed bruised and
soak’d in vinegar a little then pour out the vinegar from it boyle all
the other things together until it be half boyled away then put in the
coliander seed when it is off y^e fire. Soe let it stand close covered
and drink of it 7 or 8 spoonfulls in a morning fasting fast an hour
after it and drink it till you have taken it all.
34. _For a Cough._
Take an ounce of conserve of red roses the quantity of an nutmeg of
dyascordieum and one spoonfull of the Sirrup of poppies 3 drops and
but 3 drops of y^e spirit of vitterill then mix all these very well
together and take of this in the morning fasting and fast 2 hours after
it and last at night the quantity of a nutmeg at a time. Probatum.
35. _For the Rickets._
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