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Healths improvement: or, rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation / Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett ... Corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet.

  • Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.
Date:
1655
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Credit: Healths improvement: or, rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation / Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett ... Corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    time game, or difcourfe to refrefti the mind. But of all long’fitters at the table, farevvel Hugum FughUnra., jib-deremed. who (as Petrarch rcporteth) loft both the City of P/fa and Lukes at one Dinner, becaufe he would not arife (though a true Alarm was given) to repel the enemy, till his dinner were fully ended, which ufually was pro- tracked two or three hours. Laft of all, Ctncernmg the order of taking of Meats^ The firft courfe in old times was called frig/da menfa, the cold fervice ^ becaufe nothing but Oifters, Lettice, Spinache, cold falades, cold water and cold fawces were then fet on the able •, which order was clean altered in Plutarchs time, (or they began their meals with wine, hot pottage, black or peppered broth, and hot meat, ending them with Lettice andPurcelane {as Galen did) to fupprefs vapoursand procure deep ^ which example’ is diligently to be followed of cold ftomachs, as the o- thcr is to be imitated of them which are over hot. . Likewife that the moft nourilhing meat is firft to be piren that ancient Proverb ratifieth t^h evo ad maU t c^I iiq-7;cap,. fom .he eg .o the Apples-, wherefore Imterly miaike.-' *- our Englilh cuftome, where Pheafant, Partridge and Plover are laft ferved, and meats of bard concoClion and lefs good nourifliment fentbefore them.- As for fruit (if it be not aftringent, as tart apples,- pears, foure-plums,, quinces, medlers, cervifes, cornels, wardens, four pom- granates^ and all meats made of them)it fhould be eateni laft. Contrariwife all fvveet and moift fruit (as ripe melons,, gourds, cucumbers^ pompions, old and fweec apples,, fvveet pomgranates, fvveet orenges) and all things either' fatty, light, liquid-and thin of fubftance, and eafieof* concoftion, fliould be firft eaten, unlefs we be fubjefft to^ great fluxes of the belly, or cholerick difpofitions of fto>