Early modern recipe books

To make oile of Excetor

Take a pound of the flowers of cowslipes ga= =thered in the month of may and put them in a gallon of oile in a faire glasse and stop the mouth of the glasse and then in the same month gather calamints Johnsory ambroes sothernwood wormewood pellitory of spaine the flowers of lillies penyroiall of lavender pellitory rosemary hayrise of each one hand= full grinde them altogether in a mortar= very small when this is done take out the flowers of cowslips out of the oile and wring the oile from them with a cleane hand then put them in a mortar with the other herbes and grinde them all together in a mortar very smale put all these herbes in white wine and lett it stand all that night Elizabeth Smith 1700/ to[?]

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night together an the next day till the afternoone then put all in the vessell and boile them altoge= ther with the oile and lett them boil over the fire softly wil lthe wine and the iuyce of the herbes be consumed away and for the knowledge when tis boiled enough then you must take a spoonfull of the liquor from the bottome of the pott and if your see now more water remaine in the spoones bottome then it is boiled enough then take it from the fire and put it in a cleane linnen bagge and with a cloven stick you may straine into a cleane vessell and put it into a bottle of tynn or glasse and soe you may keep it three yeares this oile is good for all brusies for the goute and for the plasie for any ache in the armes or leggs you winter again shall understand to annoint the sore place in winter against the fire in sumer aganst the warme June and after you have

have will nnoynted the sore place you must take black wool and put over the sore place and it will a bate the swelling and the Ache

For an Ache

take raw craime crumbes of white bread the yolkes of 2 eggs & handfull of red rose leaves unsoiled a pennyworth of english saffrom boile it till it be a poultis and apply it hott to the partgrieved

A Receipt fore a cold Take Take a pound of Penante & soft thorn wooll in fire shovell. Then putt them into half a pint of Brandy, with a spoonefull of Honey, then putt half an ounce of flower of Brimpstone & half and ounce of Spanish Liquorish then lett it stand twenty four hours & Pivill horne to a jelly, & take of itt morning & Evening

How to make the Leaden plaister coled to pollin ton plaister

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take two pounds and four ounces of the best oil olive of good red lead one pound white lead one pound well beaten into dust twelve ounces of Spanish Sope oncorporate all those well together in an earthen pot well glased before you put them to boil and when they are well incorporated that the sope cometh upward put upon a smalle fire of coals continuing the fire for the space of one hour and half still stirring it with an iron ball upon the end of a stick then make the fire somewhat bigger untill the redness be turn ed into a gray colour but you must not leave stirring till the matter be turned into the colour of oil or darker then drop it upon a wooden trencher and if it cleave not to the finger it is enough then make it into roules it will keep twenty years the older the better

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A restorative Snail water

take a peck of garden snails wash them in 4 or 5 waters afterwards in small beer pound their shells and all then take a quart of earthwormes and scower them with salt and chop them in pieces then take angellica Egremony sallendine red burdock roote rose mary wood sorrell the inner rind of a barberry tree of each a handfull rue and baresfoot of each half a handfull w drams of saffrom 5 ounces of harthorne fenegrik and turmerick of each one ouce and 2 drams of cloves steep all in a earthen vessell clos stopt 24 hours in two gallons of strong beer and a gallon and half of strong white wine and then distill in a worme of alembeek remember before you distill it to steep your saffrom over night in a quart of your white wine

Doctor Shorts milk water for a cough

take the tops of rosemary mint sage rue of each three handfull firr and Pine tops of each two handfulls half an ounce of nutmegs sliced a handful of cowslips bruise and slice these together and pour upon them a gallon of milk and a quart of canary distill them and mixe the water together

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A Receipt of keep Coies from casting of there Calfs

take one knob of sal earth and pound it to a powder and putt it into a pint of spring water and give it to the cow in the morning fasting and keep her fasting too hours afterward

a proved recait that never fails for to keep cowes from casting there calfs

take one quart of vargis a peny nutmeg and a tost and rub the nutmeg will he his rubed all on one the tost and put the tost in to the vargis all together and give it to the cowes when you see them [?ring] at the taile

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