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Folio Number 138v, Scribe's Page 298.

This recipe begins in midsentence and continues from the previous folio number 138r, Scribe's page 298.
The body of this recipe is struck out with a large X. The body on the previous page was not struck out.

cover them with Water & a little Sugar, as much as will make
them so sweet as you desire to have them, when they are tender
on both sides squeeze in some juice of Oranges, as much as you your
Selfe like, & serve them up in a Fruite Dish.






There seems to be a + on this line, but it's just bled over from the facing page.

For the Breeding of Pheasants.
Lett this alone
The head is crossed out, and underneath written in a different hand and different ink is "Lett this alone". It appears to be the same hand as the one used in mentioning experiments in the left margin.
A ffan
to be placed with
experements
This recipe has an attribution in the left margin for A ffan but it appears to be in a different hand. In accordance with this attribution, there's a note written in the same hand as the insertion in the head that reads "to be placed with experements".

The body of the recipe is struck out with a large X

If Pheasant will sit three weekes & three Dayes, from the day
Shee is sett untill Shee disclose.

Let the House hen or Turkie Hen sit 2 or 3 daies to tread the
nest hard & flatte upon Hen Eggs or Ducke Eggs before you set the
Pheasant Eggs under Her.

The Henne must be sett in a Chamber, & you must pore a
Scuttle full of gravell & sett a great greene turfe in the Chamber a
pretty way of from Her, that the Henn may baske in it.

There must be a great ho[op]e sett round about the Henn of a foote
broade whiles shee sits before She discloses, least the little Phea=
sants after their disclosing runn away & hide them in Holes.

you must neither stirr, nor give the young Pheasants any meat
in 24 houres, after they be dissolued, & then nothing but Ante
Egs for a mone[th] together. Looke a day or two before they disclose,
& if you see [a]ny loose Shells about them, that are disclosed, lift up
the Hen so[ft]ly, and take the Shells away.

The third day after they have disclosed take away the hoop that was
about the Henn, but let not the henn goe Abroad, in a seuen night af=
ter, & then also a warme Sunshine day.

The Henn must not sit abroad in the night with the young Phea=
sants untill they be 3 weeks old.

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This page was originally transcribed by James Bigley as part of an EMROC transcription project in 2013 at The University of Akron.