Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take 3 quarters of an ounce of french barley of the finest you can get
wash it in 3 or 4 waters then let it steep one night in water in the
morning pour away that water then put the barley into a quart of Spring
water and a small spoonfull of anyseeds with it boyle these together
till half the water be consumed then strain away the water and let it
stand and settle the space of an hour then take the clearest of this
water and sweeten it with white Sugar Candie to your liking swallow
down thereof as leasurely as you can a spoonfull or 2 in your coughing
fitts making it first blood warme before you drink of it.
302. _An Aproved Rect. for a Consumption._
Take 4 bunches of turneps and 12 bunches of coltsfoot leaves sweet
fennell seed annyseeds carraway seeds coriander seeds of each half
an ounce bruising them in a morter 4 ounces of english liquorish not
scraped or bruised but sliced thin half a pint of hysope water half a
pint of red rose water 4 ounces of white Sugar candie 5 or 6 ounces of
the best hive honey then 1^{st} you must pare your turneps then take a
well glazed earthen pot that is strong and lay in the bottom thereof
some of your coltsfoot leaves and strew thereon some of your liquorish
and bruised seeds then lay a laying of turneps then leaves then seeds
again then more of your seeds all over and down the sides of the pot
then your liquorish and seeds then your turneps so laying your lays
till all be in the pot but the last lay must be coltsfoot leaves then
cover your pot up close with paper or paste and set it in a bakers oven
with their peck loaves and when it drawn strain it as soon as you can
into a great yellow pipkin that will hold a gallon then put in your
waters and Sugar Candie and set it on the fire till ye Sugar candie be
dissolved then take it off the fire and put in your honney and keep it
stiring till your honney be dissolved then cover it w^{th} y^e cover of
the pipkin till it be cold then put it in glasses or bottles and keep
it in as coole a place as you can and drink thereof 3 times a day blood
warme the quantity of a quarter of a pint at a time fasting an hour
after.
303. _An Aproved Re^{ct} for the Wind._
Take a quart of white wine and a thimblefull of parsley seed the like
quantity of annyseeds and so much more of fennell seeds & carraway seed
and one penny worth of liquorish and half an ounce of nutmegs and a
lemon sliced put all this together in the wine and boyle it till half a
pint of the wine be boyled away then put into it a quarter of a pint of
Spearmint water and one penny worth of treacle & half a pint of fennell
water & so keep it for your use & when you have occasion drink of this
3 or 4 mornings when you rise and last at night & let it be blood warme
when you drink it this is excellent for what it is mentioned.
304. _For Convultion Fits in Man Woman or Child._
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