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To make the weben [weapon] salve
A recipe for a healing salve made by mixing bacon fat and the blood of a wound on the weapon that caused the wound. -
To make the syrope of Mault for a Consumtion
A recipe for a syrup to cure consumption (tuberculosis), made from a mixture of herbs, figs, raisins, dates, and brown sugar candy, all boiled in ale. -
To Make the Ladys Easy
A medicinal drink to treat an unknown ailment [possibly menstrual or childbirth issues?] using mustard seed, treacle (molasses), and beer, taken for nine mornings. -
To Make My Lady Nevells Snaile Watter [snail water]
A recipe for snail water to be used against worms, jaundice, "obstructions [and] stoning in the stomach or liver," plague, and consumption (tuberculosis). -
To Make Ink
A method for making ink by steeping galls and iron sulfate in gum arabic, made shiny by the addition of sugar and sack wine. -
To Make an Ointment for a Scald head
A remedy for treating ringworm using butter, ale, and wormwood. -
To fine Ale
A recipe to increase the quality of ale. -
To Dy [dye] a Good Red
This recipe gives instructions for creating a red dye for wool, using brazilwood, madder, alum, and chamber-lye (urine), soaked in "tap droppings" or dregs. -
The Snaile [Snail] : Water
A recipe for snail water. -
The Ruburb for will
A remedy for the "will," which probably refers to the contemporary usage of the word to mean "pleasure" or "desire" given the rhubarb was often used for purging ill humors from the body during this period. Recipe calls for rhubarb and small ale. -
My Lady Plymoths Sack Poset [posset]
Describes a recipe for "sack posset," a kind of hot drink made with milk curdled with alcohol. This recipe uses sack, a kind of white wine. -
My lady Nevels Surfit [surfeit] water
A recipe for surfeit water (liquid medicine for indigestion). -
My Cousen Shirards Resept For A Dropsy
A remedy for dropsy, also known as edema, the excessive build of fluid in the body. Includes brooklime, watercress, nettles, elder bark, scurvey grass, red dock roots, dwarf elder roots, green broom, ale, juniper berries, red gallingale root, and gention root. -
Mock Madeira
A process for making a mock version of madeira using Malaga grapes, brown sugar, and ale, fermented in casks with brandy, sugar candy, and isinglass. -
Lady Munson an excellent resept for Dropsy & Scurvy
A remedy for dropsy (edema) and scurvy using mustard seed, lemon, and clove dissolved in ale. -
Friteres [fritters]
A recipe for fritters using flour, eggs, salt, water, nutmeg, sack, beer, apples, and lard. -
For the Scurvey
A remedy for treating scurvy using mustard seed, scurvy-grass, wormwood, and juniper berries steeped in brandy and drunk with ale. -
Cock Ale
A recipe for making ale with rooster meat (starts with ale that has already been brewed, as well as sack, a type of white wine). -
Aneseclent Medcine [medicine] to disolve and bring away the Stone
A medicinal preparation for dissolving stones (probably kidney stones) made from powder from oyster shells, eggshells, ale, white wine. The resulting medicine should be taken with a posset; directions are also given for a liquid made of boiled nettled and broom to aid the medicine that the powder can be taken in. -
Against Obstructions
A remedy for intestinal blockages made from ground ivy and ale. Pennyroyal and French lavender is also listed as remedies for this. -
A resept against Madnes [madness] given by Mr Leeds
A remedy to tread "madness" (possibly referring to rabies) using a variety of plants and shrubs, dissolved in ale with pewter, garlic, and mithridate (a kind of panacea). -
A Docter [text loss] Medisin [text loss]
Describes a recipe for a medicinal drink using a variety of herbs, berries, and roots, steeped in ale. The drink is indicated for daily use or as-needed, though the purpose is unclear due to missing pieces of the manuscript.