Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
502. _To make a Powder for the Stone used by Pope Silvester ye 2d._
Take groundsell seed and Saxaifrage seed of each an ounce filipendula
half an ounce white amber and corrall white and red of each a quarter
of an ounce make all these into a fine powder and mix them well
together and of this give the patient one spoonfull each morning while
it last in broth or pottage and it will help and deffend him from the
stone that it never will come again.
503. _For an Ague._
Take of alloes Sickatryna and beat it in 2 spoonfulls of english honey
half a pint of white wine vinegar and a little piece of allome boyle
these together till they be thick then make a plaister thereof on a
piece of leather and apply it to the navel of the belly as hot as may
be suffred it cureth the ague and killeth wormes.
504. _For Agues of all Sorts._
Take venice turpentine and white frankinsence finely powdered and strew
it into your turpentine till it be stiff enough not to run abroad well
mingling it together with a knife then spread it on round pieces of
leather 2 inches and half over for a man & less for children and when
you have spread over your plaister with this liquid turpentine and
frankinsence mingled as before then strew on more of the powder finely
search’d and so let them lay and dry till a white paper will not stick
to them and so puting papers between each plaister lay them up for use
& when you use them warme them and apply them to the navel a little
before the fit comes & let it lay on till they fall off themselves if
one plaister cures not then use a 2^d and so a 3^d but a 1^{st} seldom
fails. Probatum est.
505. _An Ointment for Eyes._
Take 4 ounces of may butter 2 ounces of virgins wax 2 scruples of tutty
fully prepared 2 scruples of camphir 4 spoonfulls of white or red rose
water melt the butter and wax and then put in all the materialls and
besure to keep it stiring till it be quite cold when there is occasion
to use it take a little of it and put it into the palme of your hand
& when it is softned then with your finger anoint all about it on the
outside of your eyes and the temples the last thing you do when you go
to bed if there should be occasion to wash ye eyes in the morning white
or red rose water is best.
506. _A Puff Paste._
Take 2 pound of flour a pound and half of butter 2 eggs 3 spoonfulls of
Sack make the paste not to stiff with cold water work it very smooth
rowle it out 4 square beat up your butter lay it on in thin slices
strewing flour between rowle it up again till ye butter is used up in a
sheet as thick as a finger half an hour will bake it.
507. _A Water for Wounds and Old Sores._
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