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To Make a Dish of Scotch Colops [collops] A recipe for veal fried with butter and spices and stewed in gravy. -
To Make a Creame Chees [cream cheese] A recipe for making cream cheese -
To Make a Caraway Kake A recipe for cake using caraway comfits (candied seeds). -
To Make a Caraway Cake A recipe to make a baked caraway cake, using caraway comfits. -
To Make a Cabage Puding [cabbage pudding] A recipe for a "cabbage pudding," using minced veal, beef fat, herbs and spices, and wrapped in cabbage leaves before boiling. -
To M Take of the heat of the liver Two recipes for drinks to cure the liver: one made from a mixture of herbs and breast milk, the other made from rabbit liver and alcohol. -
To kill Bugs and worms in horsis [horses] A remedy for de-worming horses using milk, honey, and salt water. -
To increase flesh or Cure a Wound An ointment that promotes wound healing made of dragon's blood, aloe succotrina, and olibanum. -
To Ice a Cake A recipe for making icing, and directions for icing a cake. -
To heal without a Scar An ointment for preventing scarring made from elder buds, elder leaves, and white sugar. -
To fine Ale A recipe to increase the quality of ale. -
To Dy [Dye] Blue This recipe gives instructions for creating a blue dye for wool, using logwood and verdigris. -
To Dy [dye] a Good Red This recipe gives instructions for creating a red dye for wool, using brazilwood, madder, alum, and chamber-lye (urine), soaked in "tap droppings" or dregs. -
To dry up milk Two methods for drying up breast milk (presumably after weaning a breast feeding child) by applying soaked cloths; one with alum, and the other, diachylon . -
To drive out the Measles A remedy for measles made of pimpernel boiled in milk. -
To draw out an Imposthume without incision A plaster for treating abscesses made of leeks and lard. -
To desolve the Stone A medicinal treatment for dissolving stones (probably kidney stones) made from distilled cow dung. -
To desolve a hard Brest A poultice to dissolve a hard breast (breast lump?) made from honey, brandy, and wax. -
To Cure the biting of a mad dog Directions for treating a bite from a dog with rabies, using cupping and a poultice made of leeks, wormwood, onions, salt, butter, and honey. -
To cover a Naked Bone with Flesh Recipe for an ointment to put on exposed bone that includes oil or roses, ginger, and honey of roses. -
To Cause urin presently A remedy to promote urination made from juniper oil and parsley water. -
To Calver & Pickel [pickle] Salmon A process for pickling and calvering salmon (a method of preparing fresh salmon) with vinegar, spices, herbs, and onion. -
To break an Imposthume in the Eare or for a Noise in the head A poultice for treating ear abscesses or tinnitus made from wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum), onions, and brandy. -
To boyle Flownders [boil flounder] A recipe for a flounder cooked in a sauce of wine, spices, lemon, and onion -
To Boyle [boil] Spinage [spinach] stalks A recipe for boiling spinach ("like lettuce or asparagus") served with melted butter
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