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"Mrs. Elizabeth Hirst her book." A collection of medical and cookery receipts: in English, with additions by contemporary and early 18th cent. hands.
pp. 1-92, "Chirurgery and physicall receipts"; 93-211, "Choice receipts for cookery"; 218-end, "Choyce receits for wines and sweet meates."
On the first leaf 'Mrs. Elizabeth Hirst her book. 1684'.
The receipts are arranged in alphabetical order: all after letter Q of the last section is wanting. Contains the following recipes: Chirurgery & Physicall drinks Agues. A Tirtian Ague An Ague in the Brest An Ague Another To Make Allmond milk; To cause an Appetite To make Almond Milk Against an Appurplex Dr Withs To make Aprecock wine To drye Aprecocks To candy Angellicoe stalks A marmalade of Aprecocks To take an Ague out of any part of ye Body; To Make Aploplectic Balsome For the Ague For An Ague; For A paine or weakness in the Back A precious Oyntment to coole ye Back A Ballsome Biting of a mad Dogg A Burning Another A Black Searecloth Against a Bruise or swelling Balme Water; A Black salve to cuer all old soars & Ulcers be they never soe greate A plaister for a Bruise Lucatellos Balsome Another for Burnes or Scalds Lucatelloes Balsome. ye better collour the both very good Against Shortness of Breath To scale a soare Brest; To make the Greene Balsome The Bitter Purgen Drink Dr Lowers bitter draught Dr Goe's Bitter drink; Collicks For the Collick For the Wind Collick in Children To prevent the Wind Collick, & good for ye stone An Excellent Remedy for the Collick & Strangulion An approv'd medicine for ye Collick & pain in ye side Consumption Against a deepe Consumption; For a dangerous Cough Against a cold Cough or hoarsness in ye throate For a Canker To make black Cherry Water Cherry Water For any in danger of a Consumption Against a Consumption; A Cordiall Water A Cordiall water for any Distemper Against a Cough For after paines in Child-bed An Excellent Remedy against Convullsion Fitts For one in a consumption To make a cordiall water To make cock ale; A comfortable cordiall To make Cock water Mr Sanders For a Cough a Lambitive To dry cheryes To preserve Cheryes The Lady Swans Watter to prevent Black Cataracts; A Cordiall julip for a Woman in Labour and affter Delivery For a Tissicky Cough Mrs Mildmay; Cinnament Water; Against a Deafness Against Distractions or lightness of Braine Against Drunkness A Drink Another For the Dropsy A Damask Powder A Recciet For the Dropsie A Dyett Drinke For ye Dropsie this cured A Woman of 60 years of Age att Rumford; Eye water To stop Rhewme in ye Eye An Excellent powder agst flegm or pirle in ye Eye For Flegme in the Eyes A Water to Stop Rheume in sore Eyes; To Cleere ye Eyes For weeke Eyes A water to take a spott out of ye Eye For the Eyes Mr Elton Emplastrum mirabile The Deseaes cureable by ye aforesd: Plaister; For ye bruise in ye Eyes Mrs Mildmay A salve for ye eyes Mrs Mildmay Mr Lee For ye Evil a Diet Drink or for any humour in ye Body that should be Dry'd up; For a Feaver Another A Flux in ye womb or Belly To purge Fleagme, & to peserve health For a burning Feavor; To take a way Pimples or Redness in ye Face A Fomentation for deadnes in ye limbs A Water to Cure wormes in ye face; Gascoins Powder To make oyl gloves For the green sickness Mr Elton; Gascions powder Mrs LuLeyn To Wash gloves; To Make haire growe For ye head ach a cirtin cure To Couler Graye haire black For the Head Ach Mrs Mildmay; Against an Impostium To make Jeley of Hart horne Dr pressgrave A very fine Water for the Janndice and Colick for opening ye spleen and all obstructions; To make a gallon of ink my Brother Luscyns way Ink my neice Lucys was; Lip salve To take stains out of Linin; Against the biting of a Mad Dogg An Excellent Drink against ye Mother To make Milke water; To make masks for ye face; Oyle of Ipericon. or St Johns oyle Oyle of Pillwort The flower of oyntments To make orange Marmalet The Kings Medecin against ye Plague An Excellent Poppy Water Simpathy Powder A cordiall water against ye Plague; The Pallsy Water Pomatom for the face Plague water Dr Burges Direction aganst Plague small pox or measells; A Past for the hands To make spiritt of pepper an exelent remedy for the wind Cholick Mrs shaws purg for phelme For the spleen A powder for the teeth Dr Lower For the palsie Mrs Bigerstaff; Surfet water Against the Stone A Drinke for the stone Dr Willis A Snail Watir; For the stone Dr Willis A Dyet Drink for ye Scurvey For the Scurvey and Dropsey Dr Willis Surfet watter Scer cloth for forhead cloths The compound snail Watter Dr boe; Mrs DeLawns Snail Watter The Treacle Water For a cold in the teeth Dr petters A Gargle for a sore throat Dr peters; To Make Usquebath Usquebath; White Playster A plaster for ye wormes For those who can not hold ther Watter Wash Balls; Wall nutt Watter for ye Collick To Make ye Yellow Water; For the yelow Janders; Choice Receipts for Cookery To make almond Pudings To make black Pudings To make French bread To make almond Butter; To Disolve Amber Greece To pickle Ashen keys; A Bullocks Cheeke To make Blacke Pudings To make French Bread To pickle Brome Buds To pickle french beans; To Souce Barbelle or any other kinde of fish fitt to be souces To Boyle a Pike The sauce to it To boyle all sorts of small fish as Gudgeons percheser Tunbridg Biskits To pickle Broombuds my Neice Lucie Flemish Bread Diet Bread my Neice Lucys way; Cinamon Water A most Excellent Recete to make Cheescakes To make Custards Cutlets; To pickle any sort of flowers To pickle purslin To make a great Cake Mr Jacobs way To make iron Cakes To make A great cake my cozen fotherbys way; Portugal Cakes To make a plain cake Mrs baits way To dress a carp with blacke sauce To make a cake that will kepe a year To pickell cowcombers To make hise cheescakes; Mrs Burscough Sace For a Cods Head Mrs Whitfeilds Seed Cake An ordanry Cake my Neices Way Mrs Burcough Portigal Cakes Mrs Burcough To Collor a Breast of veal; Mrs. Burscough To butter Chicken Mrs Barons seed Cake Chees Cakes Mrs Buschough A very fine seed Cake; A Cake without yest; To pickle Elder Buds; A Frigese of Rabits To make a Frigasie To Collar Beefe To make Sauce for any Flesh; A frigacy of chicken or Rabets Mrs Burscough Fritters To Bake Fish; To here Goosberrys all ye yeare To make a gooseberey foole To draw gravey ye best way Mrs Burscough Goosberry Vineger; To make Goosberry Vinegar better then white wine vineger for pickles or any other use this is the best way of making it To make Gravey; To Pickle Hartichockes To Bake a Hare To Roast a Hare ye Best way Another way to Rost a hare; To pott Herrings; A jeley Broth To make jeley of calfsfeet Italian puding Nurse mead; To stue kidneys Ketchup; A sallet of Lemons To make Lozinges for a chough For a violant chough and spiting of blood; A Lobster Pie; To dress Mackerells Madam Roopers way to pickle mushrooms; The sauce to a shoulder rosted in blood To rost a shoulder of Mutton Mead To pickle mellons my own way Minced pies my own way; Non Parell; To pickle oysters my mothers way An Oyster Florentine To stue oysters; To Fry oysters An olio To pickle oysters my own way Oyster Lofes Mrs Burscough To Butter oringes Mrs Burscough Oring Custard; To preserve oringes To make ye jelly to keep them in Mrs Burscough To presarve Oringes whole; A oyster pye; To Boyle a Pike Rice pancakes Puft paist apple pastys To make puft paist To make good venison pasty crust; An excellent pudding To sowce a pig A carritt puding Another way to make a carrout puding Pan cakes An orang puding An orang puding another way; A pottage Green or yellow puding Mrs Burscough To pickle Cowcumbers To broile pidgons Mrs Oughtons Oringe puding; A fine Baked puding Cold Rice puding A quartern puding Pillaw Nurse mead A Quence puding To keep Quences all ye year Orrange puding Mrs Shaw; To make Rice pancakes To Rost a Pike To Dress an Ele To Dress flounders sotes dabbs maids small pahees burbells Gudgeons and all River fish; To stew a calves head Mr Porters Leyg of Mutton Another way to rost a shoulder of Mutton in blood An excelent thing to strengthen a weeke Body A Rago Mrs Burscough A Ragoe of Hens or Capons Rice Cream; Mrs Burscough A white pot To Boyle a Joale of salmon to eat hot To Make sassages A sack poset; A Scotch collop Mrs Burscough Veal saseges Mrs B A soupe of peas Sauce for wild fowl A soop To pickle smelts Mrs B Sage Wine; Syrrup of Cowslips Stew'd Chicken Nurse Mead To Bake a Trout though never soe great yt ye back bone shall be as tender as the flesh To make Taffety tarts To make a tansey; To Dry Toungs Mrs Burscough Neets Tongues potted A Tanzey Mrs Burscough A Tanzey my own way A Ragon of pallets Tongues and sweet breads Nurse mead; To stue an Udder; Mrs Burscough To pickle Wallnuts The pickle for 200 of Wallnuts Mrs B Wiggs Dr Stephens Watter; Ordanry Wigs Lady Wentworth To pickle Wallnutts green; Choyce Receits for wines and Sweet Meates To make an Apricock wine To make Almond milke To make a marmalett of Apricocks To dry Apricocks; To candy Angellicoe stalkes To make a sack Possett wth out milke To make A sack possett To preserve Apricocks Mrs Roopers way To Dry Apricocks madam Roopers way To Dry Apples; To make Bisket Mrs Randolphs way To keep Bullis all the year To make Bisket Cakes Mrs Burscough; To make conserve of Red Roses To make Cowslip wine To Preserve Cherries; Mrs Burscough Glazed Cakes Aprecock Cream; To Dry Cheryes To preserve Cheryes Oring Creame To make Lemon Creame Cowslip wine; To make Jame of Cheryes To make current or Gooseberry wine To make Cowslip wine Mrs Roopers way; To preserve Damsons To kepe damsons all ye year for tarts; To make Elder wine or Syrop; To candy figgs Mrs Burscough To frost Fruit; To make Ginger bread of almons To make cracknells To make a gooseberey foole; To make greene gooseberey wine To make a Dyet drink To make gingerBread Mrs Butterfeilds way Mrs Burscough Gingerbread Mrs comyn To preserve grapes; Honny Watter Mrs Comyn; Jelly of Rasberrys to eat with cream; To Make Lemon water Lemon puffs Lemon Cream Mrs Speed Lemon puffs; To make Red marmaled quinces Mr Jacobs way To make Mackaromes Mrs Finches Mead; French Mackrooms Mackrooms Marchpan past; Orange Custard Mrs Comyn Orange Wine Oringe Biskcakes; To Preserve pipins To make surrop of clove Gileyflowers To preserve pare plumbs; To dry plumbs To perserve green plumbs; To make a Quaking puding To make an exelent Qd Quince Marmalade

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