Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take 5 pound of flour & dry it well and 5 pound of currants and one
of chopt raisons and mix with the flour then take half an ounce of
cinnamon a good nutmeg half a quarter of an ounce of mace & one pound
of Sugar and a little Salt and mix with it near the fire then take
almost a quart of cream and melt it in a pound and half of good butter
make 2 holes in the flour and put this into one then beat 16 eggs but
half the whites and strain them with a pint and half of good ale yest
put to it Sack and rosewater a quarter of a pint of each mix it and
put it into ye other hole of your flour, and let it stand against the
fire to warme then mix it near the fire and cover it with a hot cloth
for a quarter of an hour to rise then strow in a quarter of a pound of
carraway comfets let it take ye air as little as possible ye oven must
be hot an hour will bake it.
158. _To make Jelly of Currants or any other suteable fruit._
Strip your currants into an earthen pot & set it into a kittle of water
let it boyle till they are broken then strain out the jelly from them
and the weight of it in loafe Sugar put the Sugar in your preserving
pan with water enough to melt it, then put in your jelly let it boyle &
scumme it as the scumme riseth till it comes to a thick jelly but not
hard you must stop ye pot very close that the water get not into it.
159. _For the Yellow or Black Jaundise._
Make a wine pint of clear white wine posset drink without curd then
take half a quarter of an ounce of the oldest castle Soape you can get
scrape it thin and put it into as much of the posset drink very hot to
desolve the castle Soape as the party can well drink at a draft drink
it as warme as you can going to bed and in the morning fasting the
remainder of ye posset drink fast at least one hour after it thus do 3
nights and mornings and y^n but once in a year unless occasion be to
take it oftner & t’will cure them.
160. _For Deafness by reason of a Cold._
Take a drop or 2 of the oyle of rue heat it and drop it into ye ears
and be sure to keep the head warme.
161. _To take away the Felme out of the Eyes._
Take a new laid egg and make a little hole in the top or one end and
take out the yolke and white of it and put in fair running water or
red rose water or fennell water a white copperice bruised and as much
comeing seed as you can hold between a finger and thumb and put them
all into ye egg shell and put y^e shell upon some coles & let them
boyle a little & let it stand till tis cold & nights and mornings drop
a drop or 2 into the eye & close the eyeled upon it and in a little
time twill cure them.
162. _For a Swelling in any part._
Take a quart of ale or stronge beer growns mallows sage and elder
leaves & stamp them small and lin-seed beaten small and sheeps sewit or
sallet oyle and oatmeale and boyle them together till it is as thick as
to make a poultess then lay it to the place swellen as hot as it can be
endured & it is a speedy remedy.
163. _For a Purge._
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