The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting: The art of breeding, feeding, fighting, and curing cocks of the game — John Shaqi
The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting: The art of breeding, feeding, fighting, and curing cocks of the gameR. H. (Robert Howlett)
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The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting: The art of breeding, feeding, fighting, and curing cocks of the game
R. H. (Robert Howlett)
Cockfighting
And when you take the Cocks out of the Bags or Stives, lick with your
Tongue the Eyes and Heads of them, and so put them into their Pens,
and so fill their Troughs with Cock-bread cut into small square bits,
and steept in Urine, that so the Cocks may feed whilst ’tis warm; for
this will cause their Scowering Pills to work and greatly cleanse, and
purify both the Head and Body of your Cock.
_Of the several Ways of making Cock-bread._
Now to make Cock-bread aright, and at the same time, to have it suit
with every Feeder’s humour, is a thing altogether impossible; seeing we
are _quot Homines tot Sententiæ_.
_How to make the ordinary Cock-bread._
Some fancy that the common Bakers Bread is as good as any: Others will
tell you that there must be some _Bean_, or _Pease_ Meal put amongst
it, and a few _Anniseeds_, with the Whites of Eggs; and this is the
best Cock-bread say they.
_Another Receipt for to make Cock-bread._
But there are others will tell you, that you must take of _Wheat_,
_Pease_, _Beans_, and _Oates_, of each a like quantity in _Meal_, or
_Flower_ finely dressed, with the Juice of _Liquorish_, and a little
_Sack_, or strong _Stale-Beer_, with Brown _Sugar-candy_, _Anniseeds_,
_Carroway-seeds_, mixed together: But if the Season be very hot, you
must put _White-Wine_ instead of _Sack_, and as much common Ale as will
make the Flower up into Dough, with the Whites of ten or twenty Eggs,
and a Yolk or two amongst them; and this they take to be the best sort
of Bread for to Feed Cocks withall.
_How to make the best sort of Cock-bread._
But in my opinion there is yet a better sort than any of these, and
I make it thus, _viz._ of the best and finest Wheat-meal, I take
three-quarters of a Peck, and one quarter of Oat-meal of the purest
sort, and first of all mix these well together; then add the Whites
of twenty new laid Eggs, four Yolks, an Ounce of the best extract of
_Liquorish_, and as much of the fine Powder of brown _Sugar-candy_,
a quarter of an Ounce of _Anniseeds_, and _Carroway-seeds_ grossly
bruised, with a Lump of good sweet _Butter_ as big as your fist at
least, and a quarter of a Pint or more of the best _White-Wine_ that
can be bought for Mony, with three or four spoonfulls of Syrup of
_Clove-gilliflowers_ put into it, and a Date or two, with some Candyed
_Eringo Roots_ cut very small so that it may be scattered into every
part, and let these Ingredients be all well worked together, in some
Tub, or Pan fit for that purpose, with your hands, until you are
Satisfied that they are thoroughly incorporated.
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