Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take sage rosemary bittony flowers of each half a handfull burrage and
burglass flowers and flowers of lilly of the valley of each a handfull
steep these in spirit of wine muskadine or aquavite each one in their
seasons till all may be had then put to them balme motherwort sage
leaves, leaves of orange trees and the flowers if to be gott of each
one ounce put them into the rest and as many Lavender flowers stript
from the stalks as will fill a gallon glass steep all these 6 weeks
or 2 months then distill them in a Limbeck then put into y^e water
citheron peels dry’d & piony seeds of each 6 drams of cinnamon half
an ounce nutmegs and mace cardimums cubibs and yellow sanders of each
half an ounce lignum alloes one dram make all these into powder and put
them into the distilled water and put to them Jubebs new and good half
a pound, the stones taken out & cut small close the vessel very well
with a double bladder let them disgest 6 weeks then strain these hard
with a press & filterate the liquor and put thereunto prepared perl
Smaragdis musk saffron of each 10 grains of ambergrease one scruple red
roses well dry’d red and yellow sanders of each 1 ounce hang these in a
sarsnet bag in y^e water stop it close.
188. _The Vertues of the Palsey Water._
It is of exceeding vertue in all sounding fits in weakness of heart
decay of spirrits it restores speech in apoplexies and palseys helps
all pains of y^e joints occasioned by cold, and bruises outwardly
bathed and cloths dipt in it and laid to the place it Strengtheneth
all animall and natural spirits & cleareth the externall sences,
Strengtheneth the memory restoreth lost appetite helpeth all weakness
of the Stomach being both taken inwardly and bathed outwardly it
taketh away the giddiness of the head, it helpeth the hearing, makes a
pleasant breath restores the lost speech helpeth all cold, distempers
of liver and the begining dropsey helps all cold diseases of the
mother. in Sum none can express the vertues of this water. Take bread
crums and Sugar of each a like quantity wet it very well with this
water, takeing it in the morning fasting & as much at night going to
bed if need is but if a fit of the dead palsey or apoplexie you must
give as much every hour to restore speech.
189. _To make Veale Collops Jn^o Raisyes way._
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