Items

• To renew wasted Kidneys

  A medical treatment for kidneys made from plantains, elderberries, and white wine.
• To Make Green Goosbury [gooseberry] Wine. 1706

  A recipe for making gooseberry wine by steeping gooseberries with sugar, refined with isinglass, in a multi-step process over the course of several months.
• To make Dutch Blomange [blancmange]

  A recipe for Dutch blancmange using isinglass (a substance derived from the dried swim bladders of fish), white wine, lemons and lemon juice, egg yolks, sugar, aniseed water, unripe bananas, and port wine.
• To Make a Dish of Scotch Colops [collops]

  A recipe for veal fried with butter and spices and stewed in gravy.
• To [Suse] a Turkey

  A recipe for turkey by boiling with salt and herbs and preparing a broth with wine and vinegar.
• The use of this oyntment is this:

  A method for using an ointment of unknown composition, used to treat a range of ailments including wounds, burns, kidney stones, worms, poisons, ulcers, or fistulas. This entry may refer to an immediately-preceding entry in the Recipe Book which has been cut from the original manuscript.
• The Treakele Water

  A recipe for a medicinal drink made from hartshorn, a mixture of herbs, treacle, white wine, and rose water.
• 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 Cousen We[s]bys resept for the Dropsy

  A remedy for dropsy (edema or swelling) using squill, elecampane, hyssop, horehound, and elder mixed with ginger and wine.
• For the Splene [spleen]

  A remedy for treating the spleen by drinking white wine. Unclear whether this is to address a specific disease of the organ, or if this is a humoral remedy related to melancholy or moodiness ("the humors" or four temperaments).
• Eyes to restore Sight, An drink, and Wash

  Recipes for a draught and eye wash to restore vision using herbs infused in 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.
• A sure and perfect way to Cure the plague to full of tokens and St Anthonys fire

  A remedy for the plague made of powered European Ivy berries, to be taken with white wine, or with liquids such as plantain water or cardus water.
• A Lemon Caudle

  A recipe for lemon caudle, a warm drink, using lemon rind and juice, water, bread, egg yolks, white wine, mace, and sugar.