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About
Project Launch and 18th Century British Baking Challenge
Acknowledgements and Contributors
Browse Recipes
Food
Breads and Baked Goods
Meat-based Dishes
Vegetable-based dishes
Dairy and Cheeses
Preserving, Pickling, Fermenting
Sauces and Condiments
Sweets and Desserts
Drinks
Alcoholic Drinks
Health Waters
Health and Medicine
Health Waters
Household Goods
Browse Ingredients & Methods
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Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
Cookbooks as a Window Into the Household
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To turn the Child right in Labour
A medicinal recipe for a paste to be used in childbirth, possibly using agrimony, to turn a breech birth.
To Make the Poultis for it
To dry up milk
Two methods for drying up breast milk (presumably after weaning a breast feeding child) by applying soaked cloths; one with alum, and the other, diachylon .
To desolve a hard Brest
A poultice to dissolve a hard breast (breast lump?) made from honey, brandy, and wax.
To Cure the biting of a mad dog
Directions for treating a bite from a dog with rabies, using cupping and a poultice made of leeks, wormwood, onions, salt, butter, and honey.
To break an Imposthume in the Eare or for a Noise in the head
A poultice for treating ear abscesses or tinnitus made from wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum), onions, and brandy.
To asowage the pain of any Scald how great so vever
Poultice for treating scalds with a poultice made of cloth dipped in rennet.
Sore Brests . . . Bruised Blood to bring a way . . .
A poultice for treating sore breasts made of linseed oil and beeswax.
a recept for the piles
A poultice for treating piles (hemorrhoids) consisting of a mixture of hot milk and flour on a cloth that is then applied to the afflicted area.
A Pultis for a Sore breast
Hot poultice to treat sore breasts made from milk, linseeds, sage, and olive oil.
A poultise [poultice] for a sore brest
A remedy for treating a sore breast, possibly related to breastfeeding.
A Famous salve for a sor [sore] Breast recommended by Lady Howe.
A method for preparing a salve or poultice for a sore breast (possibly related to breastfeeding), using mutton suet, oil, and rosin.
[text loss; top of page N125 stained and torn; may be continued]
Appears to be a recipe for a poultice or plaster, using beeswax, pitch, mace (pepper), and turpentine, spread on a sheepskin and worn on the stomach.
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