Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Let your fruit be full ripe and gather’d on a dry day and to every 3
pound of currants good weight with their stalks and stems on take one
quart of water & one pound of sugar put your water to your currants &
with your hands squeeze them through a hair Sive then put your Sugar
to your juice and when it is well mingled together and the Sugar is
dissolved then put it into a very dry and sweet vessel fill your vessel
quite full and let it worke a week and then stop it up and let it not
be tap’d under 10 weeks time and then draw it off as you drink it or
bottle it which you please.
410. _To make Aquamirabilis._
Take a pint of the juice of Sallendine and half a pint of the juice
of balme and half a pint of the juice of Spermint of rosemary flowers
cowslip flowers clovejilly flowers burrage and burglass flowers
mellilot flowers of each one dram and all other cordiall flowers you
think fit and of cubibs ginger cardimums gallingall cloves mace nutmegs
of each one dram put all these ingredients in 3 pints of Sack with a
pint of strong angelicoe water and half a pint of red rose water steep
them one night and the next morning put it in a cold still and draw off
3 quarts of water first laying harts tongue leaves at the bottom of the
still when the water is drawn off mingle it altogether sweetening it
with white Sugar candie or very fine loafe Sugar bottle it close stopt
and to stand cool.
411. _To make Vinegar._
Take 6 gallons of fair water and put it into a 9 gallon vessel hoop’d
with iron put thereto 18 pound of ordinary malligoe raisons washt a
little in one water stalks and raisons altogether paste on a coarse
strong cloth over y^e bung hole with yest set in the hotest sun you can
May June July and in September it may be used.
412. _A Pickle for Brawn._
Take 9 gallons of water 2 handfulls and a half of bay salt an ounce of
cloves mace and white pepper altogether and put it whole in and boyle
it a full hour boyling in it a quart of milk scumme the milk clear off
but leave your Spice at the bottom for your liquor to feed on and keep
it sweet so keep it till the morrow to be through cold ere you put in
your brawn and when your brawn is in keep it as coole as you can and
twill keep a quarter of a year you may add jamacoe pepper and it will
be the better.
413. _For Fits._
Take of gentian roots grated as much as will lay on a 6 pence 3 nights
before and 3 nights after every change of the moon in 2 or 3 spoonfulls
of wine or beer.
414. _A Cordiall Tincture for the Collicke by ye Lady Fust._
Take sena liquorish Guiacum or lignum-vite elecampane roots not dryed
of each 2 ounces annyseed corriander seeds of each an ounce raisons of
the Sun pick’d and ston’d one pound infuse all these in 3 quarts of the
best aquavite a fortnight or 3 weeks till all becomes a red tincture so
strain it out and keep it for use.
415. _Hysterick Electuary the Lady Gerrard’s Re^{ct}._
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