Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take a pint of white wine and a pint of sack to these following
herbs scabious cardus bittony egremony of each a little handfull and
tormentil roots you may add any cordial flowers rosemary or what you
please Shread your herbs and Steep them till the vertue of the herbs be
soaked into the wine then take half a pound of Bole-Armeniack in fine
powder and 2 ounces and a half and a dram of the black tips of crabs
claws in powder and an ounce of hearts horn in fine powder and mingle
all your powders and put them into a deep earthen Bason as the former
and moisten them every day with your liquor seting it in the Sun and
when you put in the last wine liquor often Stiring it every day at last
add to it half of metriedate half an ounce of Diascordium half an ounce
of Venice treacle and a dram of saffron finely powdered and mingle it
all very well together then make it up into little balls throughly
drying them Keeping them so for your use. give of this as the former to
a man as much as will lay on a shilling to a woman as much as will lay
on a Sixpence to a child as much as will lay on a groat, ’tis good for
any weakness, heaviness at heart, or to cause sleep weomen in child bed
or as the former.
39. _For the Balsame._
Take one pound of the best venice turpentine and 3 pints of Sallet oyle
of the best bees wax half a pound one ounce of red sanders in very fine
powder half a pint of red rose water and one pint of malligoe sack
first beat your turpentine in the red rose water till it be white
next beat your Sack and Sallet oyle well together then cut your wax in
small pieces then take a clean brass pan or kittle let your kittle be
twice as big as to hold the quantity of your ingredients then Set it on
a clear charcole fire then first put in your wax and let it melt then
take it off and let it coole a little then put in your rose water and
turpentine then your sack and Sallet oyle, as fast as you can, then let
these boyle softly together a while always stiring it then take it off
the fire and let it stand till it be cold then scrape off the filth
from the bottom of the cake, then clean your pan and melt it again and
let it simmer a while over the fire again, then take it from the fire
and put in your Sanders by degrees keeping it still stiring untill your
Sanders be all in then pour it into a well Glazed strong earthen pot
and keep it stiring till it be quite cold then cover it up very close
with ledd, that no air may get into it, and bury it in a garden deep
in the ground and so let it stand a year round bean blowen time is the
best to make it in.
_The Vertues of it followeth_:
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