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Collection of medical receipts, with some cookery receipts.
With additions by other and later hands. The greater part of the contents is by Felicia Whitfeld and later writers, but the MS. was originally started by Elizabeth Sleigh.
The pagination starts from Mrs. Sleigh's end of the volume, and on p. 75 we find 'Mrs. Felicia Whitfeld's Receipts, St. Albans, 8th August, 1722'.
Begins with an index of recipes and ends with an inventory of the Lady Sleighs bookes dated May 12 1647. In between are the the following recipes: Elizabeth Sleigh, For a pinne or a webbe in the eye A good water for the eyes For the Sciatica A Soveraigne against the Stone For the Stone A Laxati## whey; A Laxative for a child For the bloody flixe For the same Against the Falling sicknesse For the Emerods For boyles and fellons To stanch the bleeding of a cut or wound To pull out a tooth To stanch the bleeding of a wound For pricking of an needle or thorne the hole being stopped up To breake a sore breast; To soder bones broken in any place A drinke of incredible efficacie, which being given to one that is wounded or diseased with the fistula, expelleth all filthinesse and healeth the wound or fistula A speciall water to remove any ach that lieth at the heart or stomach, bee it plague, small poxe, measills, it is called the plague-Water For a Canker in a Womans breast For the Canker in the mouth For a Canker or old sore For a Consumption For the dropsy, collicke, stone, and Jaundise, Strangury; For a Fistula For an impostume in the head For the palsey that taketh away the speech For one that pisseth blood A Soveraigne Ale to bee tooke 28 daies together betweene March and May, for 18 dayes in the fall to beginne about the 10th of September who soe useth orderly shall need no other physicke Syrupe of Lemons; Syrupe of Violetts Syrupe of Turnop A Syrupe good against the shortnesse of breath or any impediment of the Lunge A water to cure all manner of be they never so festered and stinking, and all Canker in the nose, mouth, throat or elswhere; An outward preservative against the infection of the plague A preservative to be taken inwardly A receipt for the weaknesse of the backe; A water for the trembling of the heart A receipt of Purging, Aqua Maria A receipt of the juyce of Licorize A Glister; For the Headach Ingredients to bee put into broath for a dropsy Almond milke An oyntment for a swelling that comes through any weaknesse, cold and palsey A Greene salve serving for divers uses both for drawing and healing; To destroy earewigges or any other wormes in the eare To draw out naile, needle or thorne For stabbing with a rusty naife A Julibe For a Dropsy For the Collicke For breeding of teeth A safe glister to stay a loosnesse To stay bleeding For a Cake; The red Balme Monsieur Lucatsles Balsome For to drive out the small-poxe An Application for a hard and bigge belly; For an ague Aqua Maria For a Consumption To make Stoughtons Elixer. as # Mrs Close; A powder for the wormes Pills for the same A plaister or oyntment A potion For stopping rheum, that falls upon the lungs A fume for the same purpose A pill to stop Rheume A medicine for an ague A glyster; A glyster. receits of Mr. Jackson Hartshorne ielly An electuary A Julibe Sugar rosat A cordiall wine For an ague; A diet drink A receite of a gentle purging drinke from my, L. C: Mr. Ellis his receipt for ye stone; A receipt for ye dropsy or scurvy For pluersie A cordial to rest, & for a surfeit An excellent plaister for ye stomack, yt hath done such notable cures is thus; An excellent remedy for ye cankers in ye mouth For a fellon An excellent plaister to put upon ye stomake To stanch bleeding My Lord Howards receipt for agues; Cordiall Lozenges My Lady Graces receipt to hasten a womans labour To make rosemary flower wine How to make a very good cake; How to make very light bisket cakes To make a drinke for a cold For ye cough from a thin Rheume a cold, cont. on folio 31 To Pickle small Cucumbers Large Cucumbers in slices French Beans; For the stone For the cholick For a consumption How to make rich amber beads for bracelets; Stwed meat For a consumptive cough Snail water An approved good water for ye Jaundies or ye collick in ye stomach, and a consumption, and the splene Aqua mirabilis; To make a caraway cake How to make a syrrup for a consumption or cough of ye longes An hepacticall broath For a gentle purgation To make bragget Steel electuary; A glister, for a violent loosnesse A plaister to lay to a childs belly which hath ye wormes To make a caraway cake To dry currans or goosberries To cure ye itch. D.W. To pickle cowcumbers A cordiall for spirits Ye surfet water; To make cowslip wine The cherry cordiall water To preserve orrenges To preserve quinces To make a plum cake yt will keep a yeare; The water royall How to make strong allegar Mr Baslys receit How to make a scalded cheese To preserve white or red currans To make ye snaile water which is good for a consumption A gliyster for a vomiting & scouring; To make currant or rasberry wine To preserve goosberrys To preserve rasperries To make Jelly of pippins For a canker in ye mouth To make cheescakes A veale hash; For ye cough from a thin Rheume a cold Mussle plum wine To make black cherry beer, French Beans Mushrooms Another; Walnutts To Pickle Wallnuts (Virt. 100#) ; Another Onions Broom buds Another Melons like Mangoes Samphire; Purslain Oysters To Pickle Pork To make the Pickle / or ye Pork Preserves, Golden Pippins Scald Sevil oranges; Angelica Clarifie Sugar Damsins, Bulace or large goosberrys kept all the year for tarts Goosberrys Green in Jelly Mulberrys Dry Fruit, Peaches; Cherrys Jellys, Of Pippins Of John Apple Of Hartshorne; Syrups, Of Mulberrys Of Marsh Mallows Creams, Holly Cream Possett, Sack Posset Cakes, Shrewsbury Cakes Jumbles; Tunbridge Seed bisquetts Puddings, A Pudding Cake A Huff Cap An oatmeal pudding A Bread Pudding Tanzie Blood Puddings; Marrow puddings in Gutts, cont. from folio 40, Ms Goldborns Citron water Goosberry Vinagar; Sausages To Make Shrubb To make shrubb Mrs Cradocks Ms Goldborns Citron water; To pot Venison or Beef Sauce for a Cods head To stew Carps To Make forc't meat balls Scotch Collops A Fricassee A Calves head hash; Almond Pudding A Florentine A Tanzie F:W: Bread pudding Baked A Rice flower Pudding Cookery, To salt a ham like Westphalia To Salt Beef like Dutch Beef; Mrs Felicia Whetfeld's Receipts St Albans 8th Augst 1722, Puddings, Marrow Neats foot Pudding A Malt Pudding A Suet Pudding The Hamstead pudding An Orange Pudding A Bread Pudding White Puddings; To Dress Sheeps Rumps To dress wild duck with Juice of Orange. All these fore going receipts that are writ in my hand are taken out of Mr Carters Book; To Make Sauce for roasted Pork &c Forced meat To draw Butter To dress large Eels To dress mutton or veal Cutlets; Beef Gravy Veal Gravy Fish Gravy A Genll Cullis for all sorts of Ragoos; Cookery, To Collar a Pig To Collar a breast of Veal To Collar Brawn To make Essence of Ham of Bacon; cont. from folio #, ## Apple Pudding Black Capps; It is also good in the follg. Distempers; To Roast a large Pike To Make Liquid Balsam The Use; To Make Shoe blacking; ### out of any d:B: These procure quiet sleep To make Ink To make shoe blacking How to use it; A potattoe pudding aproved receipt A Biscuit pudding my sisters smyths A Biscuit pudding F W to boil.

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