Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Venise treacle half an ounce bittony flowers rosemary flowers & burrage
flowers of each ahalf an ounce amber in powder half an ounce castor
in fine powder one dram let these be incorporated in a stone morter
w^{th} as much sirrop of pioneys as will make a stiff electuary, Let ye
patient at the full and change of the moon at going to rest take the
quantity of a nutmeg in 3 small pills and drink after it a small drink
of posset made with white wine with a root of a single pioney boyled
in it & for 3 mornings after use no other breakfast but a draught of
the same posset Hereby are cured both old and young of convulsions
Hysterick vapours fitts and falling sickness.
416. _To Pickle Kidney Beans._
Take young beans boyle them tender (and take them before they be
stringy) in pickle made of vinegar and salt as strong as will bare an
egg and therin let them lay about a week then take them out again and
boyle them in fair water till they look as green as you like them then
put them in the former pickle again and they will keep all the year.
417. _To Pickle Cucumbers._
Take small cucumbers and scauld them then take 2 handfulls of fennell
seeds half so much deaill seeds a little mace 2 quarts of water half so
much vinegar one pint of white wine season it well with salt and when
it is cold keep your cuccumbers in it.
418. _The Lady Lees Sore Breast Poultise._
Take a pint of strong ale of hollyhock leaves chickweed gruncell
mallows of each herb a handfull chop them very small boyling them in
the ale till half be consumed then thicken it with rie meale or brane
of wheat and put in a pretty piece of boars grease, boyle it till it
come to a fit thickness for use if it break the breast keep it open
with a mallow root dressing it twice a day. this aproved good for many
Cares.
419. _The Lord Bristoes Contraerva, or Counter Poison._
Take rags of pearl, corall white amber crabs eyes beazar stone harts
horne of each half an ounce roots of contraerva one ounce all finely
powdered sift them through a treble sive then take the powder of crabs
claws the black only 8 ounces finely searcht, then as much harts horne
jelly as will make them up in paste and rowle them into balls and dip
them into cakes with the top of your finger drying them temporately the
eyes and claws must be taken in may only.
420. _A Sweet Water._
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