Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take Eyebright and Sallendine and brown fennell of each two handfulls
you must chop these herbs take a pint of urin made by a vergine and a
pint of red rose water and still it in a cold still tis good to put
back y^e rume in y^e eyes or to take away any spot in the eye you
must take and drop half a dozen drops into the eye untill it run out at
y^e other corner this do every night for 3 nights let it rest a week
and then if need require you may dress it again it will keep a year
very well.
44. _For the Rickets._
Make a Sack posset boyle in it harts horn Ivery and rosemary and give
it the child now and then, also take a quart of wort put into it a
handfull of maiden hair one handfull of liverwort that grows on the
banks half a pound of raisons of the Sun Stoned boyle all together to
the wasting of one quarter put into it a penny worth of red Sanders,
Strain it and put to it 2 ounces of red sugar candie boyle it a little
again give the child 3 spoonsfulls of it at night and 3 spoonfulls
every morning.
45. _An Ointment for the Rickets._
Take lavender rosemary pennyroyal featherfew and camamile of each a
like quantity cut and bruise them and then boyle them in a sufficient
quantity of butter and make it into an ointment, mix it in a little
neats foot oyle wherewith anoint the child’s wrists and ancles every
morning and night also the right side under ye short ribs.
46. _To Kill a Canker._
Take 2 spoonfulls of honey and one spoonfull of treacle and half as
much rock allum as the quantity of a wallnut beat to fine powder and
boyle these together over a cheafen dish of coles till it be pretty
thick then take it off and let it coole then anoint the cankers with a
cloth tyed upon a stick the oftner you anoint it the better twill be
you must keep stiring it as long as it doth boyle, it will be like a
sirrup when tis cold.
47. _For any Aguish or Hectick Feavour in Children when they grow Weak
and Forsake their Meat._
Take 2 penny worth of the sneezing powder root and pound it small then
pound 3 ounces of curants unwaish’d only pickt clean from stones, then
mingle these together and lay it to the handwrists, then cut a small
orange in halfs & put one half to each of the handwrists then bind it
on 4 days and if the party mend not in that time take it off and put on
fresh in the like manner and keep it on as long a time.
48. _To make Orange Cakes._
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