Early modern recipe books

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For a cunsumption

Take a make Conny, & 4 pints of Muscadine, & a good hand= full of white Arkangell, & the pith of Beate 2 Ounces of Dates, & Reasons of the sunn a quarter of a pint the stones pict out 9 nutmegs 2 pennyworth of Cynnamon a pennyworth of Mace & a pennyworth of Cloves boyle all this from a potle[?] to a quart, & drink 5 or 6 spoonfulls every morning, this is a very rstoring drink for any weake body Probatum est

For the Cold

Take a handfull of Isop, & some Liquorish boyle it with running water till half be consumed then straine it, take sugar & boyle in the Liquor till it come to Sirrup, you may eate it any time you may take a little Barrows flick & some garlick, & put it very small, & mingle your flick & Garlick together, & anoint the bottoms of your feet before you go to bed

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For the Falling sickness

Take Froggs, & extract by incision their Livers wash them & dry them in a cloth wrap them up in a colwort= leafe put them into a covered pipkin, & set it into Oven ley them stand there till they be dry, then beat them with the Colworth=leafe to a powder, seach it, & then 3 days after 3 days before every change, give the patient as much of this powder as will ly on a shilling, & 3 or 4 spoonfulls of white=wine take this 9 times, let the patient take eat the pouder of the single Piony root always & at all times during the 9 days or after then for thee conclusiomn take a Vomit 5 grains in thee substance

For the faint Purples

Take a Purple grass & boyle it in milk & drink it in the morning fasting, then take Purple silk & knitt it in 3 knotts, & 5 knotts & 7 knotts & so swallow it down in a little milke or Bear, & you must drink a little Mothrioate & Unicornes horne to put from your heart,

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To Make Ipocrist

Take to a quart of whie wine half an ounce of Cynnamon bruise it a little & stepp it in a little of your whitewine the space of 2 hours take 2 Almonds & bruise them a little, & when you lett it run through your bagg, put in your Almonds & soe let it runn till it be cleare & if your please, you may hang a little bagg of Musk in it, you must use your [wd?] Ipocrist in every respect like this but put no Almonds in it;

To Make Perfumes

Take 3 ounces & a half of Benjamin & lay it anight in Rose=water then beat it fine, & take a pint of Damaske Roses, the whites being taken away then beate them, then take the Benjamin & put to them & beate them both toge= ther, till it comes to a Paist, then mingle it with halfe a quarter o an ounce of Musk, finely beaten, put to it a quarter of an ounce of Civet & mold them with an ounce of white sugar=candt searched, & make them up in little cakes & lay them on a paist board, that hath no savour there on come

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To make a very good Oyntment for any bruises that the skin is not broken or cold Ache or swelling

Take half a pd of Wormwood, & half a pd of Bay=leavs, & a pd of Rue & a pd of Sage, but you must beat your Bayleavs by themselfs you must cut them very small first, then you must take 3 pd of mutton suet all of the kidnies & picke the skin very clean fro it then take your herbes & beate them very small together, then take your Mutton suet all of being bruised & mingled with your hearbs, then take your suet & your hearbes, & beat them altogether till no suet be seen then take a potle of very sweet Oyle then mingle it altogether with your hands in the Oyle then put it into an earthen pott & stop it very close 9 or 10 dyas then take it & put it into a brass pan or pott & boyle it over a soft fire for an houre or more til it look green ^ clear the greener the better then take a new piece of Canvas, & betwixt two wrings it out, & then put it into an earthen pott, & so you may keep the longer you keep it the better you must make it in May:

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A Purge

Take a quarter of a Pint of Succory water, & a thimble full of Anniseeds bruised, 20 Reasons of the sun stoned, & pennyworht of Rhubarbs, set it upon embers all night, then strain it out in the morning & put to it 4 spoonfulls of Sirrup of Roses, & str it togehter & drink it & an houre after you may drink a little broth

To preserve Quinces white

Take some Pipens & pare them, & cut them in pieces small, then put them into a skillet, & put a little faire water, & boyle the Pipens till they be all papp, & the water boyled away then strain out the liquor from the pipens, & save the liquor then waigh your Quinces, & put twice the waight of Sugar to your Quinces then take your Sugar piece by piece, & dip it in faire water & put it into a dish till it be all melted, & become sirrup, then take the quinces & pare them, & core them, & lay him in water then take your sirrup & put it into your skillet, & put a litle or the pipen water with it, & let it boyle, & scume it very well then take the Quince out of the water, if he begin to turn red, pare him again, & boyle him very quick in the sirrup, then scume them, & take them up

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up, then flat your Quince on a plate with a spoon, then put him into the skillet again untill it be tender, you must boyle your Quince till your Sirup Jelly on the plate, then put one Quince in a pot with his jelly, & he will come out round with his jelly about him when you servie it at Table

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An excelent Medecine to cure the green sicknes & often proved & never failed

Take a half pound of the best sugar 1 Ounce of Nutmeggs & 4 Drams of Cloves, 4 Drams of Mace half an ounce of good steele forged or filed into fine pouder half a quarter of a pound of seed =pearl 40 Ash keyes, a little quantity of Ellecam= =pan dryed & beaten to pouder a little tartar the quantity of a nutmeg a stone of Amber all these must be beaten into pouder, & compounded thether then search it through a fine search, & put this pouder into a clean box, the party must eat the same morning & evening or as often as you list remember always that the keep herself soluble & stor, her body to walk or other exercise this is an exellent medecine to comfort the stomacke to increase bload & to strengthn the liver it is to be taken on the point of a knife of in a litle sirup or sweet wine

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To make Sirup of Violetts

Take a pint of faire water, & a pound of Sugar the whitest & best you can gett, boyle it to the height of a sirup, take your Sirup Violetts pickt, & the whites being taken of, bruise the Violetts in a stone Mort=ar & put them into your Sirup in a Bason always puti=ng into your Sirup Violetts every day, till you see it is blew enough then sett the Bason on a Chaffing dish & coals & make it no hotter then to run through a strainer & straine it out into your glass or pott for your use

For to make sugar plate of the colour & smell of a Violett or any other Flower

Take Violetts & beate them in a stone mortar with a litle hard sugar, then put into it a sufficient quantity of Rose water, then lay your Gum in steepe in your water & so worke it into paist, soe will your paist be of the colour & smell of your Flower you may do it with any other FLower

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To make Sirup of Red Popies, or Sirup of Althea, or of the Red Hollihocks, or Red Rose or Damaske Rose

Take a quart of faire water, & make it ready to boile then take it from the fire & have your Flowers ready pickt, & put them in while the water is hot & let it stand all night in the embers in the morning make it hot agine, & the wringe Flowers out, & put in fresh Flowers, & whcen you see it is strong enough strain it out, & to a pint of water take a pound of sugar, & boil to a sirup, you may keep it all the yeare

To make Jumballs

Take halfe a pound of almonds being beaten to a paste with a short cake being grated and two eggs two ounces of carroway seedes beaten and the iujce of a lemon and being brought into paste rowle it into longstringes then cast it in to knotts and so bake it in an oven and when they are baked ice them with rose water and suger and the w

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To Stop a Loosness Suddainly

Take the yolke of a new Egg, & a litle pounder of Anniseeds put it together & sup it up & this will stop the looseness

To Make a Suppositur

Take a yolke of a new layd egg & a litle salt & mix them alltogether, & put it into a linen cloth, tye your cloth close, & Oyle the cloth then put it up yourself, you may make it as big or as litle as you please, & do it safely

To Make a Suppositur

Take 2 or 3 spoonfulls of hony & a litle Bay Salt if you please, & a litle cummin seedbeaten very small boyle this together till it will role on a trencher you may doe this safely to a man or a woman with child