Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take white wine or rather so much brown bastard, one quart of oyle of
olives 2 quarts, one quart of the oyle of turpentine put all these
together in a great double glass and with them of ye leaves flowers
Hieperig on andseeds of St Johnswort of each 2 great handfulls gently
bruised set the glass in the sun close stopt 8 or 10 days then boyle
them in a kettle with straw at the bottom for ye glass to stand upon
and when it hath gently boyled a great while then take off the kettle
and coole it by degrees and then take out the glass and strain out all
the moisture from the herbs and put it into the glass again with 2 of
the fresh leaves of St Johnswort and of the flowers & seeds of each two
handfulls & then set them in the sun as before 8 or 10 days then boyle
and strain them as before & so have you a oyle for all the purposes
beforementioned & every year let it be again clarified in ye sun.
528. _The Countess of Bristolls Black Salve._
Take one pound of white lead as much Lietheriegie of gold finely beaten
& search’d into a quart of sallet oyle then take 4 ounces of yellow wax
& 3 drams of camphire boyle them together on a good fire till they grow
very black and 6 hours after this is an exceeding good skining Salve.
Probatum Est.
529. _An Ointment to cure old Sores, to search Fistolas, to eate Dead
Flesh and to dry up Wattery Humors._
Take verdigreese 5 drams Honey 14 drams, white wine vinegar 5 drams
boyle them on a soft fire and stir them well together till it come to a
red substance & so keep it for use. Probatū Est.
530. _To make Milke Punch._
Take 5 quarts of Brandy 8 quarts of water and two of new milke, four
dozen of lemons, three nutmegs, a pound and half of double refin’d
sugar, pare one dozen of the lemons very thin leaving none of the
white, infuse the parings in some of the brandy about three hours with
the nutmegs grated, dissolve the sugar in water before you putt it to
the brandy, squeeze in the lemons and let all the ingredients be mixt
together, then put them all into a bag of thick flannel & let it run
without stirring, let about a quart run out, then put it into the bag
againe, so repeat it till it is fine.
531. _For the Farcy in a Horse._
Take three ounces of Sal Tartar, one ounce of lapis Calaminary, one
ounce of Putty pulveriz’d; boyl two quarts of stale piss, one quart
of Ale, one handfull of Rue till it comes to one quart, then give it
the horse fasting; if you finde the horse very sick in taking it, you
may the next time abate a small matter of the quantity, by this twice
repeated I have cur’d an inveterate Farcy; but let him rest three or
four daies between.
532. _To cure the Grease in a Horse._
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