Items

• Wakefield ginger bread [gingerbread]

  A recipe for gingerbread using treacle, flour, orange peel, ginger, brandy, and sugar.
• To Make unstilled Lemon Water

  A recipe for lemon water using brandy, spring water, and sugar, boiled into a syrup and bottled.
• to make Stoutens drops – Mrs Bridget

  A recipe for liquid to be taken as drops, made from Seville oranges and a mixture of medicinal plants infused in brandy.
• To Make Cherry Brandy

  This recipe describes how to create a cherry brandy by fermenting cherries in brandy with lemon and saffron. The recipe notes it may help with colic or other stomach issues, including use for children.
• To Make by it mineral water

  A recipe for mineral water using extract of Saturn (or basic lead acetate), French brandy, and rainwater.
• To desolve a hard Brest

  A poultice to dissolve a hard breast (breast lump?) made from honey, brandy, and wax.
• To break an Imposthume in the Eare or for a Noise in the head

  A poultice for treating ear abscesses or tinnitus made from wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum), onions, and brandy.
• Tincture sena

  An infusion of senna and cardamom in brandy for unknown use.
• Sinemon [cinnamon] Water

  A process for making a spiced brandy with cinnamon.
• My Unkle Bladen’s Balsom for Man of Horseflesh

  A medicinal recipe using myrrh and aloe dissolved in alcohol.
• 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.
• Mince pies Mr Elmsall Emley

  A recipe for mince pies.
• Metcalfs Cordial

  A recipe for an alcoholic beverage made with rhubarb, senna, coriander, fennel seeds, cochineal (carmine), saffron, licorice, and raisins, all infused in brandy.
• For the Scurvey

  A remedy for treating scurvy using mustard seed, scurvy-grass, wormwood, and juniper berries steeped in brandy and drunk with ale.
• For the Same

  Another treatment for the condition known as quinsy/quinsey, a potentially life-threatening complication from tonsillitis.
• For Spasms Dr C

  A remedy for spasms with camphire (possibly 'camphor'), sugar, brandy, sal volatile (ammonium carbonate) and laudanum.
• Elder Brandy

  A process for making a spiced, fruited brandy using elderberries, mace, and cloves (and possibly with bread crumbs).
• [Hathorn's] Tincture

  A recipe for making a medicinal tincture using crushed tree bark mixed with orange peel, snakeroot (a non-specific plant genus), saffron, and cochineal and steeped in brandy.