Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take half a pound of deers or mutton sewit pick it clean and melt it
Take a handfull of the Ivy with white streaks pick it clean and shred
it small and take one spoonfull of goose dung set it on the fire and
boyle it till the leaf will break Dry and crimp them then strain it and
keep it for use in a gallypot.
245. _A Poultise for Burns or Scaulds._
Take half a pint of milk 2 spoonfulls of grat’d white bread take
Singreen and cut off the red edge and pound it and take 2 spoonfulls
of the juice and put into ye milk and bread and a spoonfull of damask
rose leaves shred mixt and let it boyle altogether very well to the
thickness of a poultise then take it off the fire & put into it a
spoonfull of civill or Sallet oyle. this poultise must be laid upon ye
foregoing ointment till ye flesh is grown even & then leave off this
poultise and use only y^e ointment to skin it.
If the sinews are injured take Snails with their house & prick them
whence will come a water with which anoint y^e wound with a feather
before you lay on the poultise, change y^e poultice twice a day.
If any watery humour feeds ye wound then make a plaister with y^e white
of an egg wheat flour bole-armeniack & vinegar and lay it above the
wound.
To bring the skin to the couler again Take a handfull of parsley roots
washt & scraped very clean & shred very small boyle them in half a pint
of cream and anoint therewith.
If the Scauld or burn is on the head when the wound is well anoint it
with honey to make ye hair grow again.
246. _To make Pidgeons increase._
Take 2 gallons of water in a pot or kittle and hang it over the fire,
and put in half a peck of Salt, one peck of fetches 2 pound of comming
seed and 3 ounces of annyseeds let these continue over the fire till
the begin to boyle, then strain the seeds from the liquor and dissolve
in the liquor 2 ounces of Assafetita, and pour in 3 ounces of oyle
of Spike and a pint of aquavite w^{th} this liquor wash your dove
or pigion holes and cast y^e seeds on a table in the house for the
pidgeons to feed on you may use this immediately after they have done
breeding & a month before they begin to breed.
247. _For the Palsey._
Take half a handfull of Bittony and boyle it in a pint of milk wrist
the herb before you put it in that it may be very strong of it, then
turn it with beer and drink a draught of it sometimes and take rosemary
and bittony of each a like quantity still them and put 2 spoonfulls
of the water in a glass of beer and drink it every morning fasting or
sometimes give as much powder of bittony dryed and searched as will
lye on a groat in a glass of canary, or a draught of y^e forementioned
liquor.
248. _To keep the Skin from breaking where y^e Dead Palsey is._
Take 2 quarts of cream and one pound of mutton sewit pickt clean and
shred small, boyle these together to an oyle anoint a cloth with it &
lay on Searcloth-wise if it be on a part convenient, but if the whole
side is dead, you must have enough dipt to Lay on.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account