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To keep Artichoak Bottoms
for sauce
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Take your Artichoaks about Michaelmas, (they may be the
small plant sort.) boyl them so much as to take off all the
Leaves and the Choak, then put them on tin plates and set
them into your Oven (after your other things are out) when
it's so cool as not to discolour them in the Least - Do this
till they are very Dry, then put them into an Earthen Pott
to keep - tie them down close and keep them in a Dry Place -
when you would use any put them into scalding Water till they
are tender - cut them in Larg Dice; they look white and
Eat very sweet all Winter
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To Make Moss Stick
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putt a stone of Lime into Cold Water with which Water
mix Glue - and boil it together so as to make it fit for
use
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Cement for Sticking Shells
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1 pound of rosin 2 ozs of Bees Wax to which add as much
Brick dust as will thicken it, stir and boyl them together
till they come to a Consistancy or Cement - it must
be used hot over a Candle or fire in an Earthen Pott