Items

• My Cousen Shirards Resept For A Dropsy

  A remedy for dropsy, also known as edema, the excessive build of fluid in the body. Includes brooklime, watercress, nettles, elder bark, scurvey grass, red dock roots, dwarf elder roots, green broom, ale, juniper berries, red gallingale root, and gention root.
• My Aunt Nevils Seed Kake

  A recipe for making cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
• Mrs Listers Purging Drink for the Kings Evell

  A remedy for the Kings Evell (tuberculosis). Includes coriander seeds, cardamon seeds, sweet fennel, anise seeds, sassafras, senna, rhubarb, and licorice; these are steeped in water over night and then boiled.
• Mrs Fletwoods Surfeit water

  A recipe for surfeit water (liquid medicine for indigestion).
• Mrs Erratts Elder wine

  A recipe for wine made from raisins and elder.
• Mrs Bushels Caraway Cake

  A recipe for making caraway cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
• Mrs Austens Salve for grene wound or olde sores

  A method for making a salve for new or old wounds made by mixing camphor into a mixture of heated oil, beeswax, and white lead, then cooled and rolled into shape.
• Mr Marshoff Salve

  Salve for treating burns made from Bowhead whale oil and lead oxide.
• Mr Gregorys resept of an Ague

  Calls for drying and crushing bay leaves; these are taken with ale, wine, or water to treat ague (malaria).
• Mr Balls Receipt for making black Ink

  A recipe for making black ink using iron galls, gum arabic, and copperas (possibly green vitriol)
• Mock Madeira

  A process for making a mock version of madeira using Malaga grapes, brown sugar, and ale, fermented in casks with brandy, sugar candy, and isinglass.
• Miss Cripps’ Receipt for making Water Cakes

  A recipe for a baked good using flour, sugar, and caraway seeds.
• Mince pies Mr Elmsall Emley

  A recipe for mince pies.
• Metcalfs Cordial

  A recipe for an alcoholic beverage made with rhubarb, senna, coriander, fennel seeds, cochineal (carmine), saffron, licorice, and raisins, all infused in brandy.
• Mary Gold [marigold] wine

  A recipe for wine made by boiling sugar and egg white with marigold flowers and lemon, mixed with sack (a kind of white wine)
• Marchpaine Cakes

  Recipe for making "marchpaine cakes," or marzipan cakes, using sugar, almonds, and rose water.
• Lemon Pickle

  A method for pickling lemons in vinegar and spices
• Lady Munson an excellent resept for Dropsy & Scurvy

  A remedy for dropsy (edema) and scurvy using mustard seed, lemon, and clove dissolved in ale.
• Jelly of Hearts horne [hartshorn]

  A recipe for making a jellied dish by boiling hartshorn (deer antler shavings) with spices and citrus.
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• Inscription

  Inscription on the front page of the cookbook
• In the Annales des Artes & [l.] is the following receipt for making a milk white paint

  A recipe for making a white paint using lime, milk, linseed oil, Burgundy pitch (a kind of resin), and Spanish white (a chalk white pigment).
• Imposthume in the Stomach

  Remedy for treating a stomach abscess.
• Imposthume in the head

  Remedy for treating an abscess in the head (ear?) made with honey and garlic.
• How to make Salt Hams

  A method for curing ham using salt, saltpeter (potassium nitrate), and salt prunella / sal-prunella (another form of saltpeter).