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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). -
Chocolate puffs
A recipe for making a meringue-like dessert by mixing very fine sugar and chocolate into whipped egg whites and baking in a low oven. -
Chescakes [cheesecakes] with out Curd
A recipe for making cheesecake. -
Broken Ribs or Bones to knit in 6 days
Remedy for promoting the healing of broken bones that can be drunk in ale or applied directly to the injury. -
Aneseclent Medcine 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. -
An infallible Cure for the Ague
A remedy for ague (fever, sometimes malarial) using juice extracted from sage leaf, mixed with vinegar. -
An Important Improvement in Shoes and Boots from the London Chronicle
A method for waterproofing leather shoes using wax, oil, turpentine, and burgundy pitch, used to soften and weatherproof. -
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. -
An Excelent Resept for mouth water
A recipe for a mouthwash made from sage, sweet briar leaves, and alum. -
An excelent medisin for the Cholick
A recipe for a remedy for colic made from powered acorns. -
An Emulsion for the Piles
A remedy for hemorrhoid treatment using barley water, almonds, and nitre (possibly soda ash or sodium bicarbonate). -
Almond Pufs [puffs]
A recipe for a confection made with blanched pulverized almonds, orange blossom water, and sugar mixed with beaten egg whites (which may be similar to a meringue cookie). -
against the stinging of a snake
A recipe to cure a snake bite using bay salt (sea salt), soot, and grass. -
Against Obstructions
A remedy for intestinal blockages made from ground ivy and ale. Pennyroyal and French lavender is also listed as remedies for this. -
A watter that keeps the body in health
A tonic to preserve overall health. -
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 Sack Poset [posset]
A recipe for making a "sack posset", a drink made from hot milk/cream curdled with ale, wine, or other liquor, with sugar, herbs, spices, etc., -
A resept for faintnes
A remedy for treating faintness using wormwood, antimony, and chamomile flowers. -
A resept against Madnes [madness] given by Mr Leeds
A remedy to tread "madness" (possibly referring to rabies) using a variety of plants and shrubs, dissolved in ale with pewter, garlic, and mithridate (a kind of panacea). -
A reseit for a [Diate?] drink
A recipe for a drink containing a mixture of herbs and ale. -
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 Receipt for the Ague
A remedy for treating ague (fever, sometimes malarial) using "salt of steel" (possibly iron chloride or iron salts), allspice, and tree bark (likely cinchona bark or fever tree).