Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take Saxafrage, Pellitory of the wall parsley, mother of time of each
a handfull clean pickt 3 or 4 radish roots scrap’t and sliced steep
these in a gallon of new milk at night cover it close distill it in
the morning in a common still let it run while good mix it all of a
strength take 6 spoonfulls of this water with as much white or renish
with a little nutmeg & sugar just warmed and drink it nights & mornings
3 days before the new and the full of the moon for a year together.
Probatum Est.
486. _Cere Clothes._
Dissolve on the coals an ounce and half of virgins wax and put to it
as much Spermacitti as will lye on a shilling and a spoonfull of oyle
of sweet almonds a few drops of oyle of cloves dip your cloths in it
and when they are cold wring them in a cloth and clap them between your
hands.
487. _Almond Custards._
Take 2 pound of almonds stamp them with rose water strain them into a
quart of thick cream washing them through with a little of the cream
till you have got out the best of them but reserve one spoonfull to put
to it without straining put to it 14 whites of eggs well beaten sweeten
& bake it as you please.
488. _Macaroons._
Half a pound of almonds stamp’d with rosewater the whites of 4 eggs
whipt to froth with 2 spoonfulls of rosewater half a pound of double
refined Sugar 2 spoonfulls of rice flour both searched fine mix it in
a bason & set it on hot coals keep stiring it till tis boyling hot lay
wafers on white papers and put this on them bake them in a quick oven.
489. _A Ragou of Veal._
Take a breast of veal lard it pretty thick with great lards then brown
it very well in a frying pan put it into a stew pan with some of the
butter it was fry’d in flower it and let it fry there a little then put
in gravie or strong broth almost to cover it & let it stew till tis
tender then season it with pepper, salt, mace nutmeg Sweet herbs, an
onion put in 2 or 3 Sweet breads slicet some pallats 6 yolks of eggs
put in juice of lemon or verjuice a quarter of a pound of butter dish
it on toast and pour the sauce over it.
490. _For a Tickling Cough or Rhume._
2 ounces of conserve of red roses 2 ounces of honey 60 grains of
mastick 60 grains of libanum 20 drops of Sulphur or as much as will
make it sharp and make it all up together in an Electuary & tyed up
close which will serve for half a year or a year and take the quantity
of a nutmeg first in the morning and last at night.
491. _For Flegme when it sticks that it cannot come up._
Take a spoonfull of mustard 2 spoonfulls of honey & a spoonfull of
good oyle or oyle of sweet almonds a spoonful of vinegar or good crab
verjuice or wine vinegar if not to sharp beat it well together and
take it in bed and swallow it down by degrees tye it up close it will
keep but a little time take a quarter of a spoonfull at a time mornings
and last at night.
492. _For a Cold newly taken._
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