Mrs Listers Purging Drink for ye Kings Evell
Item
Title
Mrs Listers Purging Drink for ye Kings Evell
Creator
Mrs. Lister
Date
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1694/1795
Description
A recipe for treatment of scrofula ("King's Evil"), using coriander and cardamom seeds, sweet fennel, senna, rhubarb, mechoacan, and sweetened with licorice.
Transcript
Mrs Listers Purging Drink for ye Kings Evell
Take Coriander seeds Cardimum seeds sweet fennel and anis seed of Each an ounce of sasifress 3 ounces sena 4 ounces powder of Rubarb one ounce mecoacum one ounce, sweten it with luicorish steep all theas in six quarts of watter all night next day boyl it in an earthen vesell well covered for 2 or 3 howrs yn [then] drink a pint Every morning
Take Coriander seeds Cardimum seeds sweet fennel and anis seed of Each an ounce of sasifress 3 ounces sena 4 ounces powder of Rubarb one ounce mecoacum one ounce, sweten it with luicorish steep all theas in six quarts of watter all night next day boyl it in an earthen vesell well covered for 2 or 3 howrs yn [then] drink a pint Every morning
Subject
Contributor
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Cheston, Jarissa
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Le, Vincent
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Grimm, Stephanie
Source
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Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher
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George Mason University Libraries
Rights
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Public domain. There are no known restrictions.