Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take 2 quarts of Isope water, take of liverwort maidenhair Hissop
Speedwell Strawberry leaves violet leaves of each a handfull, 3 leaves
of harts-tongue better than half a pound of raisons of the Sun 6 figs
boyle all this till it come to a quart then strain it and boyle it
again with 2 penny worth of saffron 2 ounces of brown Sugar Candie a
piece of Gold a stone of Amber boyle it every 2 or 3 days or ’twill be
soure and so keep it a fortnight give 3 spoonfulls at a time morning
and evening & when the child will take it you must give it twice or
thrice ere the child will be well if you give it in the fall or winter
you must give it once in the spring after.
36. _For Children that have Wormes._
Take spermint and rue a like quantity to make a bundle you can hold in
the hollow of your hand and boyle it in new milk and a spoonfull of
wormseed after your herbs have boyled a while put in your seeds and
y^n boyle it a walme or 2 then give the child as much as it will drink
first in the morning fasting an hour after it if costive Sweeten it
with honey give this full & changes of y^e moon.
37. _A Small but very effectuall Cordial Powder._
Take tormentil scabious Bittony pimpernel of each one handfull and
Shread them and steep them in a pottle of sack till the vertue be out
of the herbs then strain it out from y^e herbs haveing a pound of the
best Bole Armeniack in very fine powder finely searched then put your
powder into a deep earthen bason and wet your powder with your strain’d
liquor every day till it be throughly moistned as thick as a pulp or
conserve till often weting hath dranke up all your liquor Seting it in
the Sun every day oft stiring it and when all your wine is dryed up
make it up into cakes add 12 penny worth of saffron to it before you
wet it finely powdered dry your cakes in the Sun & then keep them for
your use. Scrape and give to a man as much as will lye on a shilling
to a woman less to a child less. In cardus or dragon or Small cordial
water it will cause sweting tis good against heats and colds sickness
thence or pains in the limbs or heart or Stomake or for a woman lying
in child bed takeing cold and causeing stoppages, ’twill drive out
small pox or meazels or any heaviness at the heart.
38. _A Stronger Cordial Powder._
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