Dorothea Rousby Cookery Book

For ye Stone Take Juice of Brookelime watercresses and Scurvigrass of Each one Pint Juice of Sorrill halfe A Pint Horse Raddish Roots and White Bryany Root Sliced and Bruised of each 4 oz Nutmeggs Bruised halfe an ounce cloves bruised one ounce Celadine 2 good handfull's Germander one good handfull strong bear 2 quarts distill all together in a could still distill of 3 Pints together and then A Pint more let ye afforesaid ingredients Infuse 24 Houres before you begin to still ym Paist your still and let it be well dry'd before you begin tie a wett Bladder about ye Pipe of ye still yt goes into ye 3 Pint Bottle yt no spirit may Evapporate take one spoonfull of this in your small bear, this antescorbutick Water being so drunk will prevent scurvie Dropsie joundas and Gout with other distempers Joseph Troutbeck

For A Cough Take 8 large Turnip's Pared and Sliced very thin. 1 handfull of Sweet Hoarhound 1 penny worth of maden Hysope Water 1 lb of white sugar candy beaten to Powder, 1 lare of turnips and after a lare of sugar candy 1 lare of Hearbs and after that a lare of Turneps and Lastly ye water Poured out is a very good Electuary and will both heal and Lousen