Items

• Metcalfs Cordial

  A recipe for an alcoholic beverage made with rhubarb, senna, coriander, fennel seeds, cochineal (carmine), saffron, licorice, and raisins, all infused in brandy.
• For any gouty or Cholic [colic] pains in the stomach

  A remedy for treating stomach pains by infusing rhubarb, orange peel, salt of wormwood, nutmeg, and cochineal, infused in "true arrack" (a distilled spirit, undetermined if referring to the Southeast Asian or Arabic drink).
• A reseit for a Diate [diet] drink

  A recipe for a drink containing a mixture of herbs and ale.
• [Recipe for treating “bowel complaint”, using rhubarb and magnesium]