Countrey contentments, in two bookes: the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses ... with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them ... The second intituled The English housewife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate women: as her phisicke, cookery ... distillation, perfumes, ... brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold / [Gervase Markham].

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1615
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Credit: Countrey contentments, in two bookes: the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses ... with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them ... The second intituled The English housewife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate women: as her phisicke, cookery ... distillation, perfumes, ... brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold / [Gervase Markham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i25 Perry is made of Peares only, and your Cider of A pples; and for the manner of making therofit is doneafter one fafhion, that is to lay after your Peares or Apples are wc!i pickt from ftalkcs* rottenne/Te and all manner of other filth, you fhal! put* hem in the prcfTe mill which is made with a mil-ftone running round in a circle, vnder which you (hall crufh your Peares or Apples,jand then draining thenvthrough a baggeof hairedoth ,'tunne vpchefamc after it hath beenc a little (cckd intoHogi-heads, Barrels and other clofe vcUds. Now after you hauepreft all you flial I (aue that which is within the hairedoth baggc5and putting it into (euerall vdTeis, putapretty quantitieof water thereunto, and af¬ ter it hath (food a clay or tw o, and hath beene well ftirred together'.,' prefleit ouer alfo ngaine 5 for this will make a frnall perrieor cidcr3andmuft befpent firftNow ofyour bell fidcr that which you make of yourfummeror fwce'e fruite,you (hall call, fummer or (weet cider or perrie, and that you (hall fpende fiift alfo ; and that which, you make of;the winter andimrdfruice, you iliall cal! winter and fowre cider ,01 perry; and that .you (hall fpend la ft for itwill endure the longed. Thus after our.Engliih Hufwifc i$ experiener in the qc* brewingofthefefeucrail drinkes*fhce fhall then looke into her Backe*houfc3 and to't his baking of all forts of bread, cither for Maftcrs, Seruants, or Hind$3 and to the orde¬ ring and compounding of the mcate for each feuerall .vfe. Tofpeake then ritftof meales for brecd^they arc either ordmn? j Ample or compound, fimpleas Wheateand Ric3orcom- MsaIcT poundasRieand VVheate mixttogether, orRic3Whcatc and Barley mixt together jand of thefe the oldcft mcale is cuer the bift,;and y ccldcth moft fo it be Iweet and vntain- tted? for theprefauation wherofic is -mccc that yotidenfe