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When the Small Pox strik in again & the Party is in great dainger of death
Remedy for smallpox made from what appears to be sheep bezoars soaked in claret wine (the wine is strained before administered to the afflicted). -
To Make the wine caled Necture [nectar]
Describes a process for creating a sweet wine by fermenting grapes with loaf sugar and lemon juice. -
To Make the Seed Cake Mrs Malbery
Recipe for making seed cake, using caraway comfits. -
To Make the Poultis [poultice] for it
Recipe for making a poultice using lard, white wine, wheat flour, and egg whites. Heated in a skillet and reduced to a paste, then applied. This entry likely refers to the one immediately preceding, "Mrs Lister's Purging Drink for the Kings Evell". -
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 Cousin Beckwiths Cowslip Wine
A method for making wine by boiling sugar, water, and lemons, then mixing in cowslip flowers, liquor, and yeasted bread. -
To Make Calves foot Jelley [jelly]
A recipe for making a gelatin dish from boiled calf feet, lemon, eggs, and Rhenish wine -
To Make a Frigesey [fricassee] of chickens
A recipe for preparing chicken with butter, onion, and herbs and a sauce made of egg yolks, blood, and wine -
To boyle Flownders [boil flounder]
A recipe for a flounder cooked in a sauce of wine, spices, lemon, and onion -
The Peper Cake will ceep 2 yrs
A recipe for making a spice cake with a variety of spices and oranges. -
The most Excellent bitter wine in the world
A recipe for a tonic that includes gentian, cardemon, chamomile, saffron, cochineal, and sherry. -
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. -
Jelly of Hearts horne [hartshorn]
A recipe for making a jellied dish by boiling hartshorn (deer antler shavings) with spices and citrus. -
For the jaundice Cousen Garlend
Recipe for a medicine to treat jaundice; consists of turmeric, safern, Barberry back mixed in white wine. -
For the Gravill [illegible] Spencer’s Resept
Appears to refer to two different remedies for gravel (kidney stones). The first is mashed garlic infused in white wine. The second calls for a distillation of nutmeg, hawthorn buds, and white wine that is sweetened with marshmallow syrup (a syrup made from the sap of the marshmallow plant combined with sugar and sometimes egg whites). -
Fits of Mother & Confultions
A medication to be taken by mothers experiencing convulsions comprised of senna, long pepper, anise seeds, licorice, elecampane, and white peony root; and boiled in sack (wine). Should be taken with honey and bread dipped in vinegar. An additional recipe with mercury plant, gerrymander, spearmint, fennel, liverwort, broom, wormwood, and betony is also given. -
Feavors, to asswage [assuage] & to Cool the Spirits or blood & settle them
Various remedies for treating fevers. -
Cowslip Wine
A process for making a wine using cowslip flowers, ale yeast, egg whites, citrus, and sugar steeped in Rhenish wine (a German white wine or rosé) and aged in sack or wine casks. -
Cousen Whites resept for worms
A remedy for worms consisting of salt of wormwood (potassium carbonate) and oil of vitriol (sulfuric acid) mixed in white wine -
Cousen Bosvils resept for pain in the back
Remedy for back pain; calls for comfrey, clary sage, pith from the back leg bones of an ox, muscadine wine, eggs, and sugar. Also advises the consumption of crocus martis and rose conserves. -
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). -
Aqua Mirabelis
A recipe for aqua mirabilis ("miracle water"), a medicinal drink, made with aquavit, cloves, mace, ginger, nutmeg, -
An Excelent Resept for the worms in children
Remedy for getting rid of worms in children by putting a piece of cloth dipped in sack wine on a child's mid section, along with dried spearmint. -
All Sorts of Wines
A section header for wine recipes. -
A watter that keeps the body in health
A tonic to preserve overall health.