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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    'CBefi houres pffteding. i } (■ i i Aj ' • gft i ‘ 1 ( which you would fuddenly rccouer and bring vnto hun¬ ting : Then ifyou take fheepcs heads woll and all, and lracke,hew, and brufe them in many pceces j then boile them with oatmeale and penny roiall, and makeftrong pottage of the fame, and giue altogether warmetoyour ficke Hounds) and it will fodainely recouer them, if once in a weeke alfo you giuc them a full meale of warmc horfe flefh^ic is very fbueraigne. Now for the beft times of feeding, itisheldamongft al[our beft experience Huntfmen> to be in the daies of reft early in the morning before Sunne rife, and intheeuc- ningat Sunne let * Butin the daies of Huntings y ou /hall let them gbc fatting out of the Kennell > and feed them as foone as you come home to the KetmeUpt before in you t way homeward,if you haue anie horfe fie(h,or othercark on readilieprouided ; otherwife with fuch meat as you haue,fo it will fill their bellies,for a Houndby no mcanes would ^pinched of his bcllie after his labour,and thcr- forebe fureif your meat be courfctofil his guts well, if if be fweet, ftrongand comfortable, thealefle wilferuc A property l And here I thinfee it meet toTpeake of a conuenient - proportion of food, for the maintenance of aKennelloi good Hotm'ds)? wherein you fhall vnderftand that three bufhcls of Oates or Barley meale , with halfe fo much branne or mill-duft, i# a fit weekely proportion to kcepe nine or ten couple of fJounds^ with a little helpe of hort ftefh, if the Hnpts rr)4n be any good husband, and paine- full as he ought to be in finding out Horfes, feraps, crufts and bones , which almoft abound in euery mans Houfc of any worth or reckonirigrand by imploying that which is feu ed in the daies of labour to inc^eafi the proportion when need lhall require: Many much large quantities 1 haue knownc ? and doe know allowed at this d*y in di« . - ucrg<