Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
If you raise a blister then it must not be broken but take speare grass
and pound a little of the leaves putting a little butter amongst it put
also as much of it as a small nut and that will raise a blister of the
same bigness cut the blister clean away and then put castle soap and
barme as aforesaid to draw it as long as it will yield anything then
after apply the forementioned Salve unto the sore and (God willing)
this will cure the party in time. Probatum Est.
514. _Swallows Ointment._
Take lavender cotten, spike, knot grass, Ribwort barme vallerian,
rosemary tops alehoofe, strawberrystrings woodbine tops, vinestrings,
french mallows the tops of tutsan, plantin leaves, walnut leaves, the
tops of young bays Issope, violet leaves, Sage of virtue, fine Roman
wormwood of each of these one handfull of redroses and cammomile 2
handfulls of each 10 young swallows alive one quart of neats foot
oyle or may butter 2 ounces of cloves pound all these together in a
morter small then put them in an earthen pipkin and stop it close with
a piece of dough that no air get in then set it in a seller or coole
place 9 days then take it and open it and add thereto a pint of sallet
oyle a quarter of a pound of yellow wax then set it over ye fire in a
kettle of water and let it boyle 6 or 7 hours then take it off the fire
and strain it into your pot to keep it for your use keeping it close
cover’d. it is good for a sprain or wrinch or ache of long continuance.
515. _The Lady Biddolphs Green Oyle to be made in May._
Take red sage, rosemary, lavender broad leaved balsom cammomile,
vallerian of each 4 ounces wormwood 2 ounces gather them in a Sunshine
day wipe y^m and not wash them chop them very small and put them into
a convenient vessel and put to them a quart of the best oyle of olives
you can get tye it up close let it stand in the sun 2 or 3 weeks
stiring it once in 3 or 4 days then put it into a skillet and boyle it
a little then strain out all the herbs as hard as you can wring them
and put into the oyle half the same quantity of herbs again and let
them stand as before in the Sun 3 or 4 days then set them on the fire
which must be very gentle and let boyle very softly till your oyle is
of a perfect green then strain out the herbs and let your oyle stand
all night in a pewter bason then set your oyle on a chaffendish of
coles and let it boyle a while and scumme it if anything do arise then
take it off and let it stand till it be cold then take a glass of the
uppermost for special use the rest put into a glass for more ordinary
use if there be any water at ye bottom cast it away or trye it for eyes
so preserving the balsam oyle for your use.
_The vertue of it._
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