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Wellcome Collection: Ostfrisisches rares Medicinbuch. Dasz man von den Kraütern, Thieren, und Mineralien die Hülfsmittel genommen (MS3725)
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1. Erklärung des Apotheker gewiests und [eklüser] deßelben [zuisen] . [Beiln] in diesem [....] [ekluse] Recept eine
Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)
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to a joo(?) of Mellons cut y as you do y ging & slice some horse radish, y make a composition of mustard & a little vinegar, stuff y Mangies to boyle pickle y tye y up lett pickle & y boyle togeth y take up covering y close in a weeks new boyle y pickle & put it to y mangoes & y will greene y doing it often till they are greene:
garlick in y same mann-
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To salt Hams
Take two hams & 1 pound of coarse sug handfulls of white salt dry both well against y fire till y salt & sugar be pretty hott y rubb y hams all over with it to let y ly six days y drain y out y pickle & take four Ounces of Salt-peter & half a pound of bay salt beat it very small & take three han= =fulls of white salt, so salt y Hams w all y & let y ly ten days in y pickle turn y every three days yn in y chimbly & smoke y w shavens & wett sadust y y they may smoke but y fire must not ????? flame if it doe they will rust w they are dried w smoke hang y up in a poor bodies chimney that keeps small fires & hang y a foor high & let y hang a foot high sixteen weeks y take y downe and boyle y when you please:
A Frigasie of Pidgeons
Cutt ye Pidgeon in quarters & putt y pann, strowe a little salt on y , & putt to 6 Pidgeons more y a quart of a pd of Butt & a bunch of sweet hearbs, 1 onion, 1 blade of mace a little whole pep , & w they are stewed a while putt in a little gravey, [?], Anchovy & 4 spoonfulls of whitewine & a little grat =ed nutmegg, y lett y stew togeth , till y Pidgeons be enough y thick it up w yolks of 2 or 3 Eggs
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& putt in a little juce of Lemons & slice ?? some & lay upon itt butt first shake it very well togeth , if you would have it a fryed frigasie, first fry y Pidgeons in y butt & y poure it awaym y put all y other things away to y in y frying pan w a little mare butt
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The Feavour Water
Take 4 gallons of strong Ale & a peck of Poppeys pickd soe putt y into a Limbeck well pasted, y still off 5 pints w a gentle fire, & what runs aft keep for oth uses, y take 4 gallons more of stong Ale, & 4 ounces of cardish seeds well bruised soe draw of 5 pints as before y take 6 ounces of Snake roobes, 4 ounces of Marigold flowers newly gathere, & 20 greene walnuts sliced, & put y into y two strong waters togeth , y putt into a wide mouth steeping pott or glasse & putt y 4 mentioned ingredients into it & lett it stand a forthnight well stopped & a day beofre you still it, putt half an ounce of London treacle, y still it in a cold still well pasted, an old body may take 3 spoonfulls of this wat before y fitt comes for 3 or 4 fitts togeth you may give a child of 2 or 3 years old 2 spoonfulls of y weak wat & 1 for a child of a yeares old or lesse;