Category: History - British
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Take what quantity you please of chyna oranges and with a smaller grater grate off the yellow peel (the deepest and ripest oranges do best and clearest) let your grater be very...
2. Part 2After you have boyled the calves head take out all the bones from it when it is cold you must cut the meat in thin slices and put in a stew pan with some strong broth and white...
3. Part 3Take Venice turpentine one pound, oyle of olives 3 pints, balsame of perrue half an ounce, oyle of St Johns wort one ounce, red Sanders one ounce, yellow wax half a pound Sack 6...
4. Part 4Take 4 calves feet and when they be blanched put them into a pot with a gallon of fair water and let them boyle till they be consumed to half Scumming it as it riseth very well...
11. Part 11Take a gallon of stroakings and 2 quarts of cream you must take a pint of new milk and put to your cream your cream must be very sweet cream then take as many pickt marigold flo...
7. Part 7Take single piony roots take of the out side and cut them as thin as Groats Dry them on a sheet of paper in a fire pan, pound and search them fine and give to a child as much as...
8. Part 8Skin the eels and cut them open take out the back bone Take nutmeg cloves & mace beaten & some salt and strew along ye eel & lay another eel upon that, then strew more & lay on...
9. Part 9Take a pottle of milk and warme it 2 spoonfulls of yest temper it with a little cold milk and a pretty quantity of salt as may season your waffers then put it into your milk and...
12. Part 12Stamp and strain out the juice of the blewest Single garden violets or ither to one pint of juice alowe a pound of Sugar or more, put no more water to your Sugar than will wet i...
5. Part 5Lay your oranges in water all night then pare off the rine as thin as may be then make a round hole that your finger may go in and take out all the seeds and set them on the fir...
6. Part 6Take 3 pints of the best muskadine or malmesey boyle therein rue and Sage of each one handfull untill a pint be consumed then strain out the herbs hard then set the liquor on th...
14. Part 14Take wormwood southernwood sanicle white bottles Ragwort plantin ribwort woodbins oake-buds dandelyon mugwort dayseyes roots and all bramble buds herbgrease violet leaves strawb...
13. Part 13Take Damask rose buds and cut off the whites then beat them very small take half a pound of them when they are beaten and put to them 3 ounces of benjamine half a quarter of an...
1. Part 1Punctuation is highly variable and sometimes non-existent by modern standards, in particular full stops are often followed by lower case and commas by upper case. Spelling is al...
15. Part 15AVENS. Geum Urbanum. Herb Bennet. Flower Yellow. Perennial. Roots scented like cloves, sudorific, tonic, antipodagric stomachic. When young the roots give a pleasant flavour to...
16. Part 16Country Contentments, in two bookes: the first containing the whole art of riding great Horses in very short time ... etc. The second intituled The English Huswife, containing t...