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To asowage the pain of any Scald how great so vever
Poultice for treating scalds with a poultice made of cloth dipped in rennet. -
To [Suse] a Turkey
A recipe for turkey by boiling with salt and herbs and preparing a broth with wine and vinegar. -
Tincture sena
An infusion of senna and cardamom in brandy for unknown use. -
The Worm Pills
A remedy, likely for the treatment of worms in humans, using "aloes rosatum" (probably a mix of the juice of aloe mixed with rosewater), iron, agaric, sweet mercury, sulphurated scammony, and oil of wormwood. -
The Wood Street Cake
A recipe for a baked cake, using cinnamon, ginger, and currants. -
The way My Lady Kent gave it to Mr Sheldon
A recipe for a remedy for a wide variety of physical illnesses and depression; can also be used to induce sweating (presumably to rid the body of harmful substances). Made of pearls; red coral; the eyes of lobsters, crawfish, or crabs; hartshorn (male red deer horns); crab claws; hartshorn jelly, and saffron. -
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 Savoy Chees Called [V]acheline
A method for making a soft (possibly French Savoy) cheese, using rennet "as you do for cream cheese" -
The Ruburb for will
A remedy for the "will," which probably refers to the contemporary usage of the word to mean "pleasure" or "desire" given the rhubarb was often used for purging ill humors from the body during this period. Recipe calls for rhubarb and small ale. -
The Resept of Clounes Woundwort
A remedy for fresh wound treatments made by reducing clown's woundwort in boar's grease, olive oil, and beeswax, then boiling in Venice turpentine. -
The Phisbillia watter to drink for the party
A recipe for a fistula treatment; includes green broom and molasses. -
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. -
The Lady Fairfax Medisine against the strangurey [strangury]
A remedy for treating strangury (a urinary organ disease) by steeping roasted apples in spiced, sweetened water or orange juice. -
The Great Palsey water Duches of Bu [Buckingham]
A recipe for the treatment of palsy, using peony, celandine, lavender, and loaf sugar, "approved by her Grace the Duchess of Buckingham." -
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. -
The best way to make honey of roses
Recipe to infuse honey with roses. -
The Angelets
A recipe likely for making Angelot, a kind of soft cheese (now known as "Pont-l'Évêque") -
Sympathetick pouder
Recipe for a powder of sympathy, believed to cure wounds through a sympathetic magic. -
Sr. Fleit Shephard’s receipt for a sack-poset [posset]
A transcribed poem