Title

To make the Read[text loss] the Ducheys of Buckinham way

Date

en 1694/1795

Description

A recipe for medicinal powder to help with a variety of ailments.

Transcript

Singuler good in the Plage Feavors Aguy Small-Pox Measels Panes and Sorrows in the Bony through Cold and wormy in children [text loss]der- [text loss]y read rd[text loss] powder] Rx cardy benidierus Dragons. Angelico Rue Scordium Tormentil roots Bettony Scabiny Pimpernel and genshen Roots one handfull of each wigh the handfulls to make thm equall first shred then pound thm in a morter that the vertue may com forth put them in to a jarre Glas or an earthen Pitcher well Glazed, then power to the herbs three pints of the best & Strongest whight wine that hath a good body Stir the herbes and wine to gether Stop the Pitcher or glas very close let it infuse a day and a night then have a pound of the best & finest Bole-Armoniac well beaten and Searred, put it in to an Earthen Basin Strain So much of the wine from the herbes the first time as will wet the Bole-Armoniac and make it prity thin mix it well with a Spatule let it Stand all day [text loss] the Sun a broad or in the windows or on the Leads to dry and cove[text loss] with a pese of glas or a glas bell to keep of rain fleys and do [text loss] stir it oft in a day it dryes the juice in better and when it is p[text loss] thick which will be in 2 or 3 dayes if it dry well. then strain it [text loss] hard and put the rest of the juice from the herbs in to the basin mix it And let it dry as be fore and when it is as thick as an Elutury ad one ounce of Safron dryed and powdred fine and 4 ounces of mithridase or 2 ounces of wines treacle mix all thes well together with the woden Spatule; let it dry till it is as thick as Dough then make it up in Balls as close and hard and smouth as you can set thm to dry hard in the Sun, when they ear thoroughly dry keep them in a close Box;

The Dose to be taken is as mutch as w[illegible] ly heaped upon a sexpence finely Scraped given at going to bead or at any time if the Stomach be empty [illegible] Should Sweat well after it if the first do not helpe you must take it 3 times: it is safe for women that ear feavreish in childbirth it Should be taken in any cordial waters or maidwaters, the way at first of makeing this Read powder is the plain way with out eather Saffron or Mithridate, and is proved ver efectuall but som think it better to ad Saffron and Mithridate And for the Same reason you may ad two ounces of gaseins powd[text loss] And one of the goastone

Contributor

Ochsner, Elizabeth

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.