The Snaile [Snail] : Water

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Title: The Snaile [Snail] : Water
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for snail water.
Transcript: Rx two Galons of very strong ale 1 galon of sack. a peck of Gardn shell snailes make a Charkole fire and when its thorow hot make a hole in the fire & put the snailes in and let thm waste so long as thay continue huting then take thm oute of the fire and wipe thm cleane and bruse thm in a morter: put thm all in to the wine & ale put in Eight ounces of harts horne & 6 of cloves bruised in a morter with 2 good handfuls of angelico leaves & stalks, Egeremone, wood sorell bears tooth Beteny Dock roots of each 2 hand fuls Rue half a hand full, peny riall Tormentell of Each one ounce, Saferen poudered six peny worth
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Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Le, Vincent
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Health and Medicine; Drinks; Health Waters

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