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To Stay the Bleeding of a vaine that is broken inwardly
A poultise for a sore brest
Doctor Jams’ Powder how to use it
In the [Annales] des [Cortes] J. is the following receipt for making a milk white paint
To Make sausiges
To kill Bugs and worms in horsis
A Stumach or surfiet water
A consumsion water
Her French bread
o Make Duch Goaters
Sr. Fleit Shephard’s receipt for a sack-poset
My Lady N French Bread
The Angelets
To make a fine Baked Puding [pudding] MB
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.
To Make My owne Chees Cakes [cheesecakes]

A recipe to make cheese cake.
To Make French Breade

A recipe for a french bread, using flour, milk, butter, salt, yeast, and vinegar, baked in loafs.
To Make the French friters

A recipe for "French fritters" using flour, apples, orange flower water, and nutmeg, fried in fat.