Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take a pint of posset drink cut 5 large lent-figgs in small thin
slices a stick of liquorish stript small and about half a spoonfull
of annyseeds bruised put these into the posset drink boyle them till
almost half be consumed drink it hot as you go to bed.
493. _To keep damosens all ye Year._
Bake your Damosens and take the juice only a good quantity and put
Sugar thereto about the weight of your liquor so boyle it & scumme it
clean then let it stand till it be cold then put it in your damosens
raw as many as your juice will cover and stop them up close to keep all
the year.
494. _For a Healing Ointment._
Take mallows orpine dandelion brooklime St Johns wort Elder leaves of
each one handfull boyle all these together in the fleck of a pig or
fresh butter for the space of 2 hours under a soft fire yn strain it
and keep it for use.
495. _For a Drawing Salve._
Take of pitch and bees wax of each a quarter of a pound & of rozen half
a pound & 4 pennyworth of venice turpentine add thereunto so much of
the healing ointment as your own reason will direct you that may serve
to make it up into a plastering salve all these must be boyled and
stir’d together untill they are well incorporated you may observe that
a little of the ointment being put in will serve for the incorporating
& dissolving the other ingredients after these are boyled together you
are to pour them into a vessel of fair water and then break & worke
them well together and then make them up into rowles for use.
496. _For a Tenting Salve._
Take an ounce of beeswax and 2 ounces of Rozin and one penny worth of
venice turpentine and boyle them together with so much deers sewit
as will consolidate them into a Salve when these are boyled together
strain them for use if you cannot get deers sewit you may take the best
sheeps sewit.
497. _A Poultise._
Take all the herbs before named in the healing ointment & boyle them
in beer for an hour then strain out the herbs and thicken the liquor
w^{th} oatmeal or bread then boyle it well until it become a thick
poultise and y^n put into it oyle or fresh liquor If the maladye ye
poultise is to be apply’d unto requires speedy breaking then boyle
together w^{th} ye herbs an handful or less of white lilly mores this
poultise is very usefull for all sorts of swellings.
498. _A Cordiall or Surffit Water of Poppies._
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