Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take a peck of garden snails and wash them in a great bowle of beer &
then make your chinney very clean and pour half a bushell of charcole
& set y^m afire and when they are throughly kindled then with a shoule
make a great hole in the midst of the fire and pour in your snails &
scatter in some of your fire amongst them and so let them rest as long
as you hear them make a noise then you must take them out of the fire
and pick them out of their shells with a knife and with a coarse cloth
pick and wipe all the green froth from them then in a stone morter
bruise them shells and all next take a quart of earth wormes and slit
them then scoure them with salt then wash them and break them in pieces
in a stone morter then (the pot being very clean uppon which you set
your limbeck) put them into it and about 2 handfulls of Angelico to
put into the bottom & 2 handfulls of sallendine then put in a quart
of rosemary flowers if you please you may put in Egremony of red dock
roots, bear foot, the inner rine of barberry roots of woodsorrell &
bittony of each 2 handfulls of rew half a handfull of Fenegrick &
Turmerick of each an ounce of Saffron well Dry’d and beaten to powder
the weight of 6 pence then pour into all these 3 gallons of the
strongest Ale you can get cover your pot & let it stand all night in
the place where you mean to put fire to it in the morning you must put
to them 3 ounces of very good cloves beaten to powder and before you
put your fire to it with 6 ounces of good Harts horne you must not stir
it after you have put in the Harts horne lest it go down to ye bottom
then set on the limbeck and make it fast and so receive the water by
pints the first water is best and strongest & must be received by its
Selfe ye last is smallest and may be mended by putting the strongest to
it when it is used this water must be given to the patient in a morning
who must fast 2 hours after it and not sleep upon it or it may be
given 2 hours after each meale he or she must take 2 spoonfulls of the
strongest w^{th} 4 spoonfulls of Ale or white wine and when you give ye
smallest you must give as much water as drink. This has been aproved &
is an excellent cordial.
527. _An Oyle for any deep wound or wounds through the Body or wounds
made w^{th} an envenomed Weapon, or Sinews Prickt._
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