Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
For pullets or Capons take barley meale 3 parts and figg dust of oats
one part and make crams of it in paste feeding them twice or thrice
a day & for drink let it not be water, but broken beer mixt with the
powd^r of chalke and sowe up their vent holes with a needle & thread
this fats them in 14 days therefore kill them or they will die w^{th}
fat.
288. _S^r William Buttons for those w^{ch} make Bloody Water._
Take of red single holliehocks leaves and still them in a rose or
ordinary still (the leaves of the flower) and of this water drink 4 or
5 spoonfulls then take of conserve of white lyllies, made of the leaves
of the water lillies the quantity of a walnut a week or 10 days as you
shall find good in it more or fewer days by him Probatum.
289. _A Purge of the Lady Binions._
Take 3 drams of rubarbe and put in it a quarter of a pint of white wine
seting it a stoop 12 hours then take it out of the embers in w^{ch} you
must set it to steep and let it cool a little then put to it one ounce
of Sirrop of roses if easie to worke if hard one ounce and half and
drink of it blood warme & when it works take a drink of posset drink
between every workeing.
290. _Another of hers for the Green Sickness._
Take one pound of capers 1 pound of the best currants you can get boyle
them in a quart & half of strong ale till half be consumed and take of
this a spoonfull of each, capers, currants, & liquor & stir after it.
291. _Mr. Walldrons ye Surgeons Cure for Green Wounds._
Roman vitriol apply’d not to the wound but to the blood of the wound
wiped on a clean linnen cloth then put your vitriol on the blood ye
last is best and when heal’d by this applications, bind your cloth
(wrap’d up as w^n you dress’d y^e blood) to a stone & thrown into some
well or deep water, then shall ye wound no more trouble you.
292. _Mrs. Hellen Parrys Receipte for a Cold._
Take ye fairest orange you can get rost it at ye fire then put thereto
a pretty quantity of Sallet oyle sweeten it with Sugar candie or Sugar
drinking it 1^{st} in ye morning & last at night.
293. _An Electuary for the Green Sickness or Pain in ye Stomach._
Take half an ounce of rubarbe slice it and beat it very well, then take
a quarter of a pound of blew currants wash them & dry them very well
in a course cloth then beat them also very well, then take 2 penny
worth of english saffron dry it and rubed very small then mix all these
together & beat it till it comes to a conserve, so puting it in your
gallypot & keep it for your use taking of it the quantity of a walnut 4
or 5 mornings together fasting eat not in 2 hours after it but walk on
it add wormseed & liquorish in powders.
294. _To Recover or Strengthen a Weak Eye Sight._
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