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To Make a Caraway Kake [cake]
A recipe to make a baked caraway cake, using caraway comfits.
To Make a Caraway Kake
To Make a Cabage Puding
A recipe for a "cabbage pudding," using minced veal, beef fat, herbs and spices, and wrapped in cabbage leaves before boiling.
To Make
To M Take of the heat of the liver
To kill Bugs and worms in horsis [horses]
A remedy for de-worming horses using milk, honey, and salt water.
To increase flesh or Cure a Wound
To Ice a Cake
A recipe for making icing, and directions for icing a cake.
To heal without a Scar
To fine Ale
To Dy[e] a Good Red
This recipe gives instructions for creating a red dye for wool, using brazilwood, madder, alum, and chamber-lye (urine).
To Dy [Dye] Blue
This recipe gives instructions for creating a blue dye for wool, using logwood and verdigris.
To dry up milk
To drive out the Measles
To draw out an Imposthume without incision
To desolve the Stone
To desolve a hard Brest
To Cure the biting of a mad dog
To cover a Naked Bone with Flesh
To Cause urin presently
To Calver & Pickel [pickle] Salmon
A process for pickling and calvering salmon (a method of preparing fresh salmon) with vinegar, spices, herbs, and onion.
To break an Imposthume in the Eare or for a Noise in the head
To boyle Flownders [boil flounder]
A recipe for a flounder cooked in a sauce of wine, spices, lemon, and onion
To Boyle [boil] Spinage [spinach] stalks
A recipe for boiling spinach ("like lettuce or asparagus") served with melted butter
To asowage the pain of any Scald
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