Items

• To Pickle Cabbage

  A recipe for pickled cabbage.
• To Make the york Ginger Bread

  A recipe for gingerbread using claret wine, ginger, cinnamon, mace, cloves, Jamaica pepper (allspice), sanders (sandalwood), and bread crumbs.
• 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 Read[text loss] the Ducheys of Buckinham way

  A recipe for a remedy for a variety of ailments. Recipe includes angelica, tormentil, rue, betony, pimpernel, white wine, saffron, treacle (molasses) wine, Armenian bole, water germander (Teucrium scordium), and mithridate (mithridatium, mithridatum, or mithridaticum). Should be taken with cordial water or maids water (any weak water such as tea); Goa stone may be added.
• 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 Suger of Roses

  A recipe for rose sugar made from red roses, lemon juice, and sugar.
• To Make Starch

  A recipe to make starch by straining water in which a chisel has been soaked.
• To make Oyle of Eges good to take away Scars in the Face

  A recipe for an oil of eggs made from crumbled egg yolks, wax, water, and dew.
• 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 Extract of Saturn

  A recipe for "extract of Saturn," also known as a basic lead acetate, made from vinegar and litharge of gold (a mixture of litharge, or lead(II) oxide and red lead). The purpose or use of this is not indicated.
• To Make Elder Wine

  This describes a process of making wine with (probably Malagousia) grapes, mixed with elderberry juice, and left to process for 6-8 weeks.
• 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 Duch Goafers [Gofers]

  A recipe for a baked good that may be referring to "gofers" (possibly from the French "gauffre," or "wafer/waffle"). This may be referring to a kind of waffle, though the recipe differs from other examples and does not mention any special cooking tools or irons. (See the Manuscripts Cookbook Survey, "Did the English, too, Bring Dutch Waffles to America?," https://www.manuscriptcookbookssurvey.org/did-the-english-too-bring-dutch-waffles-to-america/"
• To Make Cowslip wine

  A recipe for cowslip wine using loaf sugar, flowers, lemon syrup, and yeast, strained and kept in a closed vessel.
• To Make Biskets the Lady Ingrams way

  A recipe for baking biscuits with eggs, rose water, sugar, flour, and coriander seeds.
• To Make a Sack Poset [posset]

  A recipe for a thick pudding-like dish made by mixing eggs, sack, and sugar with boiled cream and cooking these together.
• 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 Make a Creame Chees [cream cheese]

  A recipe for making cream cheese
• To fine Ale

  A recipe to increase the quality of ale.
• To boyle Flownders [boil flounder]

  A recipe for a flounder cooked in a sauce of wine, spices, lemon, and onion
• The burnt salve to be made in may

  A burn salve made from sempervivum or houseleek leaves and elderberry twigs, pounded and mixed with vinegar, urine, and candle wax.
• Sr. Fleit Shephard’s receipt for a sack-poset [posset]

  A transcribed poem.
• Sore Brests . . . Bruised Blood to bring a way . . .

  A poultice for treating sore breasts made of linseed oil and beeswax.
• Sirope [syrup] of oranges or Lemons

  A method for making syrup by dissolving sugar in orange or lemon juice and boiling with water.