Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take 3 drops of cats blood in breast milk or cowes of the milk one
spoonfull blood warme mingle the milk and blood together puting thereto
a grain of musk and give it the patient an hour before the fit if you
know at what time it comes if not then as soon as they find it coming
let them drink it. this is aproved.
305. _A Cordial Water of any Cherries._
Take one pound of cherries pluckt off their stalks then take 2 quarts
of claret wine and half an ounce of nutmegs and an ounce & half of
cinnamon and beat them to powder then take half a handfull of balme
tops 10 tops of rosemary spriggs then mix all these together and let
them steep 24 hours then put them in a hot still and let your water
distill with a soft fire into your glass and before you stop it up put
thereto 2 ounces and a half of white Sugar candie finely beaten & hang
therein a grain of musk So stop it very close and keep it for your use
it being good for any oppression at the stomache & to comfort ye heart.
306. _S^r Roger Pallmers Teeth Powder._
Take a quantity of Sandoues and half as much allome and burn your
allome then take a quarter so much bole-ameniacke and you must scrape
your bole-ameniacke beat your sandoues and allome into fine powder then
mix them all well together So keep it dry (or it will run to water)
and rub your teeth with it weting your finger to make the powder stick
and wash it off either with clarret white wine or water every morning
w^{ch} will long preserve y^e teeth. Probatum.
307. _Dr. Feners Strengthening Broth to Thicken any Sharpe Humour._
Take a pullet put it to boyle in 7 pints of fair water first breaking
& quartering and washing it before you boyle it and when it boyles
scumme it very clean of shavings of ivory and hartshorn of each one
ounce which ye night before you use you must first infuse it in hot
water add to them an ounce of french barley of cumffry roots thinly
sliced the quantity of four fingers of china roots thinly sliced one
ounce of dates finely sliced 2 ounces of gume dragon a dram of dry red
roses a small handfull, of burnet a handfull let all this boyle gently
the vessel cover’d till half be consumed then take it from the fire and
put thereto 2 ounces of old conserve of roses dissolved first in half
a pint of clarret wine and one ounce of marmelade of quinces 2 ounces
of peniedice of sugar one nutmeg thinly sliced so much cinnamon and of
the wood of red saunders thinly sliced or grossly beaten as your little
finger then set it on the hot embers to infuse 6 or 7 hours the vessel
close stop’d as I have direct’d and when it has infused as aforesaid
increase the fire y^t it may boyle and so soon as you perceive it boyle
take it off the fire & about half an hour after strain hard away the
broth and drink of this half a pint warm in the morning & at 4 a clock
in y^e evening. Probatum.
308. _A Wash for the face after y^e Small Pox._
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