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British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 2.2 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.1v receipt for a beverage to drink before and after meat Take osmund fern and the roots and clary featherfew wood betony ... at three days old begin to drink it before all your meats and after your meats half a pint at a time. British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 2.3 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.1v receipt for a beverage to drink in the middle of a meal and after Take all these herbs and fruit that was boiled in the drink and shred them very small and bruise them well ... so drink it two wineglass fulls at every meal one in the midst of your meal and one after British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 2.4 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.1v A remedy against the wind colic Take mother's thyme and fennel seeds of each a like quantity some raisins of the sun ... boil them in white wine posset drink that is made very clear the quantity as you find cause. [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3 (Receipt), fols 2r-10r [This section of the manuscript consists of 47 numbered receipts. The MS items in this section correspond to the receipt numbers in the manuscript, so that item 3.1 is the receipt Baker has numbered 1, and so on. The number '56' has been written in the top left corner of fol.2r. Sloane MS 2485 also has the number '56' written in the top left corner of fol. 1r in the same hand.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.1 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.2r To make quiddany of quinces to print with moulds Take yellow quinces, pare and cut them in small pieces ... when it is cold you may box them and keep them all the year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.2 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.2r To make genetoes Take half a pound of wheat flour, and a quarter of a pound of rice flour ... when they be dry you may box and keep them all the year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.3 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fols 2r-2v How to make metheglin Take six manipuli of saxifrage, four manipuli of agrimony, two manipuli of your devil's bit ... those herbs that will be gone before you take up your beef you must use them dried British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.4 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.2v A powder for the colic of passage Take coral, amber, and jet, of each of these powders an equal quantity by weight ... you may take this morning and evening and when your fit comes upon you, keep the powder in a little fine bladder British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.5 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.3r A water for the eyes Take a fine clean linen cloth, and therewith take the dew from barley in May ... so set it in the sun to distil for certain days, till it hath grown thick and clear again British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.6 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 3r-3v A special ointment for any ache or bruised place, or shaking of the hand or the gout Take six pounds of May butter fresh out of the churn, beaten well ... you may give to poor people that are troubled with any aches. This ointment will keep perfect good for three years British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.7 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.3v To make paste of quinces the best way Take quinces, and when the posnet of fair water boileth put them in ... if you please you may put some musk or ambergris in it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.8 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fols 3v-4r To make marmalade of quinces observe to a pound of quinces, one pound of sugar, and a pint of liquor ... slice your ginger thin and put it in stirring it well together after it cometh off the fire this is your rough marmalade British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.9 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.4r To make conserve of cowslip or marigold, good against melancholy Take these flowers and clip the yellowest part of them then take twice so much sugar as they do weigh ... take it off the fire, and cook it so may you box it and keep it all the year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.10 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 4r-4v To make sugar pellets good against the cough Take sugar candy, four ounces. Beat it to a fine powder ... when they be dry you may box and keep them all the year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.11 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.4v To make paste of elecampane, good against the cough of the lungs Take the youngest roots you can get, and lay them in water ... when it is dry you may box and keep it all the year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.12 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 4v-5r To make paste of regia an excellent paste against a consumption, and will fatten those that are entered into a consumption Take two quails, and a dozen of cock sparrows, roast them ready to eat ... so bake it upon a sheet of white paper, so you may keep it all the year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.13 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.5r To make an excellent paste of erego roots Take of young roots one third of a pound. Cut them in pieces, and stamp them in a mortar ... when it is dry you may keep it all the year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.14 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.5r To make jumbles Take baked flour one third of a pound and mingle it with sugar, one third of a pound, and the yolks of six newly-laid eggs, with six spoonfuls of clotted cream ... when they be through dried, you may box them and keep them all the year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.15 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.5v To make quiddany of pippins the colour of amber, or red if you please Take two pounds of pippins, being pared and cut in pieces ... boil it to his thickness as aforesaid and print it with your moulds British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.16 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.5v To dry the olive plum, with a little sugar that shall eat as sharp as a pranette Take your plums and prick them in two or three places them set them upon the top of a wooden board ... so dry them always warming your oven until you see they be like prunes, then you may keep them all the year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.17 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.5v To make cakes of sweet marjoram Take one ounce of sweet marjoram, dry and strip them then put to them searced sugar, four ounces ... when it is dry it will look very green and eat very pleasant British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.18 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.6r To make orange chips, that will melt in your mouth, as crisp as a wafer Take preserved oranges, or lemons, cut them in slices as thin as a paper ... when they be dry they will be as crisp as a wafer, and melt in your mouth British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.19 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.6r To make rough red marmalade of quinces Take quinces, two pounds. Pare and cut them in small pieces ... until you see it come from the bottom of the posnet, then you may box and keep it all the year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.20 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fols 6r-6v To make the countess's cakes Take half a pound of marzipan paste, unbaked ... pour it onto little plates and bake it in an oven, and so you may keep it all the year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.21 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.6v To make paste of apricots, or white pear plums, the Italian fashion, a most orient and delicate paste Take apricots, or any sort of plums, pare and stone them and cut them in quarters ... when it is dry, it will look as orient as amber and have a most delicate pleasant taste British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.22 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fols 6v-7r To make conserve of barberries Take a peck of berries and bruise them well in a silver dish ... boil it until you see it as thick as a conserve so between hot and cold put it up, and it will have a most orient colour British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.23 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.7r To preserve pippins green Take small green pippins, and pick off the black end then prick holes through them ... when they are cold pot them and lay a white paper upon them within the pot, so you may keep them all the year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.24 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fols 7r-7v To dry damsons Take your damsons out of your preserving pan and wash them in scalding water ... in like manner you may candy oranges, lettuce stalks, green ginger, pomecitrons, or any other kind of fruit British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.25 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.7v To make French rolls Take half a peck of fine flour, one quart of cream ... when you lay it by the fire wrap it in a warm cloth British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.26 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.7v An approved medicine for the stone Take a quarter of a pint of white wine, and the yolk of a new laid egg ... it dissolveth the stone without any pain you must fast an hour British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.27 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.8r A drink for a consumption and cough Take one quart of sack, and one pint of good ale ... take it three times a day, three or four spoonfuls at a time British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.28 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.8r For the toothache Take goose dung and warm it in a fire shoule very hot ... so lay it all over that side of your face which is in pain [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.29 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.8r To make one fat very speedily Take fine wheat flour and make it up into cakes as big as the palm of your hand ... eat one cake every morning you must make fresh every other day British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.30 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.8r To make snow Take the whites of five or six eggs, a handful of fine sugar, and as much rose water ... set a fair rosemary branch in your loaf and cast your snow upon it with a spoon British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.31 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.8r To make a green pudding Take two white loaves and grate them very small ... tie it in a cloth and boil it in a beef pot British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.32 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.8v To boil a capon in white broth Boil your capon by itself in fair water, then take a ladleful or two of mutton broth ... garnish your dish on the sides with a lemon shred and sugar British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.33 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.8v To pickle cucumbers to keep all the year wipe your cucumbers very clean then lay in a lay of dill ... then put in your vinegar this will keep them a year British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.34 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.8v To make excellent mustard Take your mustard seed beat and searce it very fine ... then pot it up when it is cold cover it close British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.35 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.8v To keep the smallpox from pitting Sariah Boyle Take one spoonful or two of honey ... if this is not enough you must make more the fresher it is made the better it is for use British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.36 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.9r To make hair to grow Take the juice of southern-wood and warm it with a brush ... smooth your hair with this [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.37 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.9r For the toothache Take the juice of rue and drop in two or three drops of it to the same ear ... and lie uppermost with it a little while [ This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.38 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.9r A very good glister for the griping pains of the belly and the spleen Take one third of an ounce of chamomile flowers, and one third of an ounce of bay berries, juniper berries one third of an ounce ... two or three hours is long enough to infuse it before you take it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.39 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.9r A receipt for a sack posset Take a quart of the purest cream you can get, four yolks of eggs, set it on the fire ... you may if you please put in a little grated bread to your cream, but I think it will be better without British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.40 (Medical writing, Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.9r To make a syllabub you may take of the drink as much as you will in a fever Take the juice of two lemons and the peel of one half a pint of verjuice ... a quarter of a pound of loaf sugar and three pints of milk hot from the cow [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.41 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.9v To keep damask roses to still when you please Take your roses and pick them strew some of them into an earthen pot ... this will be sweeter water than that which is stilled in the summer British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.42 (Medical writing, Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.9v To make warden broth Take one chop of mutton, pick it clean from the fat ... this is good for those that have a consumption British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.43 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.9v To make a caudle Take one pint of ale, set it on the fire ... then sweeten it with one quarter of a pound loaf sugar British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.44 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.9v For the stone Take as much honey and butter unsalted as a walnut ... take it three mornings before the new and three before the full of the moon British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.45 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.10r To make an ointment to anoint the back for the stone Dr. Albune Take a very fat rabbit and take off the fat of the kidneys ... change your water often in the beating of it so keep it for your use British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.46 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.10r To kill the worms in the face Take the white of a new laid egg and beat it very well ... keep it in a glass and so wash your face with it where the worms are British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 3.47 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.10r For a cough if it proceeds from a cold Take licorice and anise seed, of each a like quantity ... eat the quantity of a good nutmeg thereof every morning and evening British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 10v-61v [This section of the manuscript consists of 273 numbered medical receipts, attributed as a group to Lettice Corbett even though some individual items within the section have other attributions. The MS items in this section correspond to the receipt numbers in the manuscript, so that item 5.1 is the receipt Baker has numbered 1, and so on.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.1 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.11r A broth for the bloody flux Make broth with a chicken, and put into it plantain ... give of it in the morning and at four of the clock and at night [A note beside the receipt's title indicates "here begins MrsLetice Corbett's receipts"] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.2 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.11r To open and comfort the lungs or for a great cough Take the leaf and the root of foal-foot ... put some of this powder in the yolk of an egg and sup it of every morning fasting British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.3 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.11r For the stone in the kidney or the bladder to break it and bring it away without pain, tried Take a quarter of a pint of parsley water, and put into it three or four drops of oil of juniper ... if your body be not able to endure it then lie on your bed and sweat half an hour if you can or may British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.4 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.11r For the wind colic Take the bottom of a rye loaf pricked full of cloves ... lay it hot to your belly heating it again as it cooleth British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.5 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.11r For to take an ague out of any part of the body Dip a cloth in warm vinegar ... and lay it to the grieved part, probatum [ This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.6 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.11v For the colic Take a wax candle twist it four or five times double ... the vapour thereof will draw out of the body a great quantity of water whether it be in the stomach or belly it will give them present ease British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.7 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.11v A purging ale for the colic Take of licorice one ounce, mace two drams, one third of a dram cinnamon ... when it hath stood three days broach it and drink it as often as you will British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.8 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.11v To make purging ale Take strawberry leaves, cinquefeuille scabious, agrimony ... shred the herbs bruise the roots and use them as aforesaid British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.9 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.11v For a cold Take a good quantity of licorice, anise seed, raisins of the sun, stoned, and sugar ... drink a good draught of it morning and evening very warm and sweat if you can one hour or two British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.10 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.12r To stanch bleeding at the nose probatum Take the powder of burnt eggshells ... and sniff it up into the nostril that bleedeth [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.11 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.12r For the running of the reins probatum Make almond milk with plantain water, or else boil plantain leaves in the water whereof you make your almond milk ... drink a good draught three hours afore dinner and drink another three or four of the clock in the afternoon and eat often conserve of red roses British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.12 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 12r-12v An excellent medicine for the plague Take four pounds of the best muscadine and boil therein rue and sage ... you need not doubt of the goodness of this medicine but trust in God too British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.13 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.12v A perfume against the plague Take rue, angelica, equal handfuls. Dry them by the fire and chop them very small ... every morning burn some of them upon the coals and perfume your clothes over it, and burn of it about your house if you please British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.14 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.12v A pocket perfume to prevent the plague Take rue and steep it three nights in strong vinegar ... prick it full of holes and put the sponge in it and smell to it when you are in danger British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.15 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.12v To stop a looseness in the body Take horse dung and boil it in muscadine and put it in a linen bag ... and lay it to the party's navel [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.16 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.12v Another for the same A second remedy for a looseness in the body Seethe new milk with rice flour or wheat flour, then scrape some wax into it ... and boil one walme with the wax and let the party eat it [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.17 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.12v Another for the same A third remedy for a looseness in the body Stew some prunes in fair water with cinnamon and sweeten it with sugar ... it will cure them if they eat oft enough by God's blessing British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.18 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.13r For the bloody flux Knead up a cake with bean flour and vinegar then bake it ... this will cure a great flux, if you drink binding things too by God's blessing British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.19 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.13r Burket's decoction Burket Take half a spoonful of anise seed as much coriander seed ... drink a good draught of this morning and evening lukewarm four days together British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.20 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.13r An excellent medicine for the plague Take of white wine, the juice of almonds, three ounces each, one leaf of gold ... this hath been taken of sixty persons infected and but two died British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.21 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.13r A good medicine for a stinking breath if it do proceed from the stomach Take a little fair water and make it very salt with bay salt ... do this ten or twelve mornings together British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.22 (Receipt), fol.13v For a cold Take hyssop water, or mingle it with fennel ... drink a good draught evening and morning hot British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.23 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.13v A medicine for the headache, if it do proceed from humours that do vapour up from the stomach Take the roots of a single peony, fresh out of the ground ... hang it about your neck between your breasts it will make you vomit when the headache troubles you and if you continue it, it will give you much ease British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.24 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.13v A medicine for children who have swelled bellies Take a double garden daisy leaf and root and stamp them ... give the child a good draught of it to drink with God's help in two or three times it will cure the child British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.25 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.13v For the spleen Take the seeds of ashen keas, beat them to powder ... and drink a quantity of them in some liquor every morning and boil some in porridge [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.26 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.13v A good cordial Take a few seeds of pomecitrons peel them and grind them ... this being drunk will drive out infection from the heart British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.27 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.13v For worms in the stomach Take one pottle of muscadine, one handful of wormwood, as much rue ... put them in a bag and lay it from below the navel to the uttermost part of the stomach British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.28 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.14r To procure sleep make a bolster with flax to cover all the top of the forehead ... lay it to the aggrieved party's temples when they settle themselves to sleep, let no noise be made to disquiet them at that time British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.29 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.14r For the deafness in the hearing Take wood-betony and stamp it and strain it with red rose water ... you must stop your ears with black wool. Use it three weeks or one month together probatum British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.30 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.14r For the headache Roast one egg hard then peel the shell and cut the egg ... lay it hot to the nape of your neck British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.31 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.14r For the deafness in the ears Take the gall of a hare and aqua vitae and woman's milk ... for a man you must take the milk of a female child, and for a woman you must take the milk of a male child British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.32 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.14r For the green sickness Take one handful of the young tops of rosemary ... drink three spoonfuls of this wine, first in the morning, and last at night. Probatum British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.33 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.14v To stop a lask Take two new laid eggs, put away the whites and put both the yolks into one shell ... use this three or four times, probatum British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.34 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.14v A good barley water for all diseases of the lungs Take half a pound of fair barley, of licorice one third of an ounce ... sweeten it with sugar or syrup to your own liking British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.35 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.14v For an ague Take of orange peels, nutmeg, and root alum, of each being made into very fine powder one third of an ounce ... if you be not able to walk, sweat in your bed upon it this is very good against a fever, probatum est British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.36 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.15r For the deafness or singing in the head Take wormwood, hore-hound and house leek, of each one handful ... warm a little of it and drop it into your ear, stop the ear with black wool British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.37 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.15r For a tertian ague if it be a man take four grains of lapis beaser ... take the medicine before the fit cometh probatum British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.38 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.15r For one that cannot hold his water Let him learn when a grave is opened, wherein a woman hath been buried, and make water in the grave ... and if it be a woman then she must do the same in a man's grave [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.39 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.15r For a hoarseness Take of diatragacanthum-frigedum one ounce ... take the quantity of half a small nutmeg thereof in the morning and at night when you are in bed British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.40 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.15r A medicine or bath for the dropsy Take two gallons of ale ... boil them together for a bath to bathe the said party with British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.41 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.15v To cause a quick taste seethe century and plantain in wine ... and drink a draught of it night and morning [ This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.42 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.15v The philosopher's egg Take pearl prepared three scruples, amber prepared four scruples ... this is a great cordial when nature is almost spent if you take one grain at a time British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.43 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.15v An emplaster called decicatinum-rubur Take oil of roses one ounce, white and red lead two ounces each ... stir it continually when it is on the fire, this is good to dry up old sores British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.44 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.15v For a new wound Take boreas, it is white powder which the goldsmiths do use ... it will heal it in forty-eight hours British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.45 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.16r Another plaster for old sores Take lapis calaminaris, lapis sanguinaris, lapis parasule, lapis emere ... when it is well mixed make it up in rolls and keep it in leather British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.46 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.16r For an extreme heat in a woman's breast Take of the best bird-lime four ounces ... temper it with a quantity of camphor, so apply it to the breast British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.47 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.16r A bath for lame and numbed joints Take bay leaves, barm, wheat bran, alike two manipuli ... bathe yourself in it as often as your body can endure it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.48 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.16r For a green wound Take claret wine, two spoonfuls, oil olive one spoonful ... wash the wound very clean therewith and dress it with lint dipped in the same British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.49 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.16v An excellent mucelage for an extreme hot rheum in the eyes Take spring water, red rose water, plantain water, eye bright water ... you need not fling away the apples every time you dress it but put them into a dish to use again several times British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.50 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 16v-17r An excellent eye water for a hot rheum or bloodshot eyes Take lapis tutia, lapis calaminaris, bole-ammoniac, white coperice, alike one third of an ounce ... you may make it sharper or milder as you please, the tutia and the calaminaris stones will serve to quench in several waters British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.51 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.17r An excellent eye water To a quart of snow water, take a quarter ounce of white coperas ... drop it three times a day into the eye, and if it be a pin and web by God's help it will cure it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.52 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.17r A dreg for the lungs Take licorice, fox lungs, flower-de-luce root, one ounce each ... beat all the rest into gross powder, so mingle them together and eat them at your need continually British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.53 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 17r-17v To make lozenges for the wind in the stomach called diatria-paperion Take mother thyme dried, ordinary pepper, long pepper, white pepper, one ounce each ... so make it up in lozenges upon a trencher which hath been wet in fair water British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.54 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.17v To stop a laske Quench in your beer one gadd of red hot steel before you drink it ... or you may drink the powder of acorns in red wine British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.55 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.17v For a costive body Take an onion and core it, then fill it up with black soap ... lay it warm to the patient's navel British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.56 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.17v For the heart burning Chew the tops of fennel and swallow down the juice ... use this often and drink store of new milk British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.57 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.17r For the bloody flux Take a quantity of flaxweed and boil it in milk ... eat this to your breakfast, so long as you need it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.58 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.17v For the stitch Take bay berries and the smooth leaves of holly ... make it blood warm and drink it when you go to bed and you shall find present remedy British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.59 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.18r To stanch bleeding at the nose burn eels' skins, and blow the ashes through a quill into the nostril ... put it up high enough into the nostril, or dry some of the blood to powder and blow it up British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.60 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.18r To make an eye water for a hot rheum Take of the juice of seal-lgreen and spring water, of each a like quantity ... instead of the juice of house leek, you may put honey, and five leaves of rosemary British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.61 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.18r For the colic and stone When the pain taketh you then take four spoonfuls of mayflower water ... lay them on each side of the flank and you shall find ease British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.62 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.18v For the colic and stone Take mother thyme, pellitory of the wall, chamomile, parsley ... drink it warm three or four mornings together British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.63 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.18v For the stone in the kidney Put three or at the most four drops of juniper oil into one quarter of a pint of parsley water ... if your body will not endure it then lie down upon a bed and sweat so long time British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.64 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.18v For the sciatica or any ache Take one spoonful of neat's foot oil, one spoonful of ox gall ... anoint the grieved part by the fire and keep it warm wrapped with a red cloth British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.65 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.18v For a settled ache Take the skin of a wild cat being dressed ... the hair side must be next your skin British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.66 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.18v For a felon, or uncum Take two house snails with their shells, and a little rue ... as this foresaid quantity spendeth make fresh British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.67 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.19r For a sore breast Take holly hank leaves and violet leaves ... lay it to the breast, as hot as can be suffered British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.68 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.19r To dissolve humours, bruises and swellings in any part of the body Take marshmallow roots, wash them, scrape, slit them and pick out the piths ... when it is almost cold make it up into rolls, and wrap it in parchment British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.69 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.19v For an eye that is bruised Take an orpine leaf and peel off the inner skin, so lay it upon the eye, ... if the eyelids be kept open it is the better [This is the full text of the receipt] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.70 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.19v To make oil of swallows, it is good for aches Take two dozen of swallows out of the nest ... wring it through a cloth, and save the oil for your use British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.71 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.19v For an ache in a shoulder, or a leg Take a fat cat and flay her, and take out her bowels, but do not wash her ... dress it so every morning and evening for three or four days, but no longer, lest it suck away the strength of your joint. This is an excellent medicine British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.72 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.19v For one that cannot make water Take the white strings or roots of primroses, wash them clean ... drink thereof a quarter of a pint, morning and evening, probatum British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.73 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 20r-20v A most precious balsam Take turpentine, one third of a pound, salad oil, one pound, beeswax, a quarter of a pound ... it preventeth the stone if it be so drank once a month [The receipt includes a long list of the ailments which it can treat with the heading, "the properties are these"] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.74 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.21r The mother of balm, or balsam Take of turpentine, two pounds, frankincense, one pound ... let not your fire go out day nor night for the space of ten or twelve days together, for so long it must be drawing off British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.75 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.21r The water of balm or balsam Take turpentine, four pounds, frankincense and mastic each two ounces ... the third will be reddish as good saffron, and it is called an artificial balm British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.76 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 21r-21v To make an excellent emplaster Take a quart of oil of roses, litter of gold one pound, finely searced ... the virtue of this emplaster is to heal any old sore or new, and to draw out any thorn or ache, or swelling, or for wounds, to draw out the matter, and to heal it fair and well British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.77 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.21v For a consumption of the lungs, green sickness, the tisick or shortness of breath Take a gallon of running water, and put in two good handfuls of unset hyssop ... an approved thing for these four said griefs, and hath helped many far gone British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.78 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.22r The treacle water excellent for the plague, or any infectious disease Take one ounce of hartshorn shaved, and boil it in three pints of spring water ... so infuse it all together and dissolve it, and still all this in an ordinary still British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.79 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.22r A most precious water to comfort and cheer the spirits [in the left margin, perpendicular to the receipt, she has written "of all artificial waters this is the best".] Take galingale, cloves, ginger, melilot, cardamom, mace, nutmeg ... if a spoonful be given at the point of death, it reviveth the spirits, strangely British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.80 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.22v To make aqua mirabilis Take cardamom, galingale, melilot ... these ingredients will yield well with those, more than so much of the best water British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.81 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.23r For a hoarseness Take a good quantity of veraine and licorice, boil them in fair water ... drink no other drink to your meat till you are well, and keep your head very hot British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.82 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.23r For him that maketh bloody urine Take a little quantity of rue, being made into fine powder ... and drink it in your ale or beer [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.83 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.23r A precious powder for foul sores Take orpement, verdigris, alike one ounce, vitriol burned till it be red ... when it cometh out of the wound of it own accord then the cure is wrought British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.84 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 23r-23v To preserve roses, a purge Take damask rose buds, and clip them off the whites, then take to every pound of roses three pounds of sugar ... if you eat a small quantity of this in a morning, it will work three or four times without making you sick British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.85 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.23v To make a restoring broth Take a red or black cock, and when he is plucked and garbaged cut him in quarters ... so let the patient drink a little quantity of this broth first and last, and so often as you think convenient. You may make this broth with veal, or mutton British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.86 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.24r An excellent oil for wounds Take betony, century, adder's tongue, self heal and St. John's wort ... set them in the sun all the summer, then strain it and keep it for use British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.87 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.24r To make wormwood water for the colic Take of wormwood one pound and a third, peach leaves, anise seeds, licorice, fennel seed, one third of a pound each ... bruise all these and put them into a gallon and a half of sack, so distil them in a limbeck British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.88 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.24r To make Doctor Steeven's water called aqua-composita Take ginger, cloves, mace, nutmeg grains, galingale, anise seed, fennel seed ... it is an approved preservative against the decayings of old age British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.89 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.24v Rose-solis Instructions for gathering and using rose-solis gather your rose-solis in June or July, pluck it up by the stalk ... it is admirable good in a consumption if the patient do drink half a spoonful in a draught of good ale every morning and night British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.90 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.24v To take away hair Take horse leeches and burn them to powder ... touch the place therewith and the hair will grow no more in that place British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.91 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 24v-25r To make manus Christie Take coral white and red, each one third of an ounce, pearl, two ounces ... take it up and cast it with all speed upon a smooth stone, into what fashion you please British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.92 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.25r To make a restorative water admirable in a consumption Take a red cock, and pluck him, and split him, take out all his entrails ... you may take it a full hour before supper and four spoonfuls at once, which will add much effect British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.93 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.25r For a pus boil or a plague sore Take six figs, and boil them till they be soft, then stamp them with some leaven ... lay it hot as it may be suffered upon the swelling, and it will ripen it draw and heal it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.94 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.25v A girdle for the itch Take quicksilver, a third of an ounce, and put it into a glass with half a pint of the strongest urine you can get ... spread the quicksilver upon the cotton, then sew it close to the body and wear it nine days British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.95 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.25v For the itch anoint the body with juice of plantain, or brimstone and butter ... it is a safer medicine than the quicksilver girdle [ the final phrase refers to MS item 5.94] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.96 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.25v For a bruise or strain Make a poultice with milk and oatmeal, beaten small ... spread this upon a piece of leather pricked full of holes and lay it hot to the bruise or strain British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.97 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.25v For the bone ache Take good aqua vita and oil of bays, of each a like quantity ... chafing it with your warm hand till the oil be dried in, keep it warm British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.98 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 25v-26r For the spleen, and the green sickness Take a little quantity of capers and currants, boil them with a little mace in muscadine ... eat one great spoonful thereof every morning and at four of the clock in the afternoon, continue this so long as you find cause British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.99 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.26r A medicine for the rheum in the head, the ption Take of the leaves of senna picked ... sweeten it with two or three spoonfuls of syrup of violets or sugar British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.100 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.26r A medicine to clear the sight and to prevent toothaches and headaches Take bay salt, cumin seed, and sweet fennel seeds, each one third of an ounce ... this by God's help is good to clear the sight and to prevent the headache and the toothache British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.101 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.26r A broth for the yellow ganders, to be drunk every evening and morning Take the crag end of a neck of mutton and veal, boil it in a pipkin ... thicken this broth with oatmeal bruised British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.102 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.26v For a man's mould that is fallen down Take the leaves of agrimony, a good quantity, wash them and a good quantity of honey ... it is very good to anoint the mould after the plaster is raised British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.103 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.26v To make juice of licorice Take of the best Spanish licorice, scraped very clean the quantity of six pounds ... make it up in small pellets and dry them with a temperate heat British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.104 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 26v-27r To make capon ale Take two large capons, parboil them upon a soft fire the space of an hour or more ... it drinketh not newish at all but fresh and flowereth and mantleth exceedingly and hath no windiness British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.105 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.27r To take the ague out of any place Take verrain and hemlock, of each one handful, boil them in fresh butter ... within two days the ague will be gone British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.106 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 27r-27v To make Gaskins powder, it is an excellent antidote against infections, or other pestilent diseases which would poison the heart Take pearl, white amber, coral, of each one ounce ... it doth usually procure sweat, and the party must fast two hours after it this is a great cordial British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.107 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.27v A water for an ague Take pellitory of the wall, pimpernel, scabios, mugwort ... take six or seven spoonfuls of this water, being warmed with a little sugar, one hour before the fit come British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.108 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.27v To make the digestive salve Take turpentine, washed, two pounds, honey, four ounces ... incorporated these with flour into the form of a salve British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.109 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.28r For a red face, or to draw any rheum out of the head beat bay salt, to fine powder, and quilt it in a linen cloth ... wear them night and day for a fortnight or three weeks' space, this is known to be good and effectual British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.110 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.28r To stanch bleeding in February, gather the spawn of the frogs, and toads ... lay it to the wound, or take swine's dung hot and lay it to the wound or vein British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.111 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.28r An excellent cordial in any ordinary distempers, as fevers or agues take one spoonful of the syrup of corn-roses ... and drink the rest after it going to bed British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.112 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.28r For the shingles Take two spoonfuls of salad oil, and one spoonful of milk or cream ... roll the party about and dress it evening and morning British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.113 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.28v For the wind colic Take wormwood and rosemary, of each one manipulus ... when they are cold heat them in the sack and lay them on again, this is a present help British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.114 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.28v Another for the same Another receipt for wind colic boil chamomile, one manipulus, in one pint of olive oil ... when it groweth cool heat it again, in hot water, and lay it to your body again British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.115 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.28v For them which having the colic cannot make water Take alexander leaves, one manipulus, and fry them in butter ... lay it to your navel as hot as you can endure it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.116 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.28v For the yellow jaundice Take celandine, one manipulus, boil it in one quart of good ale ... drink a good draught of it morning and evening, till the disease be cured, fasting at least one hour before and after it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.117 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.29r For the yellow jaundice Take hemp seed, bruised, ivory rasped, and saffron ... drink a draught of it warm, morning and evening British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.118 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.29r A water for an ordinary sore Take woodbine leaves and red sage, of each one manipulus ... lay the fresh leaves upon the sore British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.119 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.29r To kill wildfire in the flesh or skin Take rock-alum, beaten to powder, and sweet cream and soot of the chimney ... then anoint the sore therewith British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.120 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.29r An excellent powder called the powder of life Take the bones of a mouse, and the root of tormentil ... for all manner of sickness in man's body or in the womb, or for all manner of poison and venom and the dropsy, and palsy, and the wallowing about a man's heart British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.121 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.29v For deafness Take woman's milk and make it blood warm, and bathe the ear within and without ... use this nine or ten days if you are very deaf British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.122 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.29v An ointment for aches, boils, stitches, burns, and whatsoever doth proceed from cold Take sage, rue, of each one pound, bay leaves, wormwood, and chamomile ... take it off the fire and let it cool a while then strain it and put to it one ounce of oil of spike British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.123 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.30r For a pain in the side Take linseed, fennel seed, anise seed, bay berries, chamomile, mugwort ... then lay it hot to your side British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.124 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.30r For red inflamed eyes Take the juice of coleworts, woman's milk, and a little rose-water ... drop of it into the eye, and bind a colewort leaf upon it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.125 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.30r A water for sore legs, it heals and dries them Take oak leaves, and the inner bark of young oaks, near the roots ... as it drieth wet it again with the water so dress it till it be whole British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.126 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.30r Another for the same A second remedy for sore legs Take nightshade, periwinkle, celandine, oak leaves, of each one manipulus ... wash the sore before you dress it with any salve, morning and evening British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.127 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.30v An electuary for a cough Take maidenhair, germander, hyssop, horehound, of each one pugilus ... if you please you may put in less of the elecampane and make up the quantity with anise seed British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.128 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.30v To make oil of eggs boil your eggs hard, then take the yolks of them and stamp them in a mortar ... it easeth the pain of the haemorrhoids, it is excellent for burns or scaldings British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.129 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.30v For lame limbs Take hartshorn, and rasp it, and steep it in water five or six hours ... so lap it up in dry warm cloths, this hath been proved British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.130 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.31r A special plaster for the sciatica or goutish humour Take of the best salad oil one pound, of red lead and white lead each four ounces ... boil it up till it be as black as pitch, then take it off and stir it till it be thoroughly cold British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.131 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 31r-31v To make oil of St. John's wort or English balsam, this is good for agues used as for the plague, one hour before the fit, to procure a stool anoint the navel therewith infuse three days the flowers, seeds and buds of St. John's wort ... it will make it the better for these diseases, and the colic and all cold griefs, as the sciatica, gout, and the like British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.132 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 31v-32r A water for the plague Take rue, agrimony, wormwood, celandine, sage, balm, rosemary, tormentil ... this oil must not be used before the infection be six hours taken, and then it is excellent British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.133 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.32r An excellent diet drink to expel all windy and watery humours Take sarsparilla, saxifrage, of each two ounces, China roots tormentil roots ... drink it first in the morning and last at night, and at four of the clock, if you please British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.134 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.32v A receipt for a green wound Take plantain and bruise it and lay it in a still with a layer of honey ... lay it upon the wound and when it is dry wet the cloth again British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.135 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.32v For a green wound Take a pint of claret wine, half a pint of oil, sugar well beaten ... take so much as may serve your occasion, which you must warm and with lint dress the wound, - probatum British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.136 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.32v A sufferant medicine for the rheum Take of licorice one third of a pound, scrape it very clean and bruise it in a mortar ... make it up like little cakes of manus Christie [The receipt for manus Christie is given in item 5.91] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.137 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.33r A medicine for the bloody flux Take four or five eggs, and roast them hard till they be blue ... then let the patient drink of the same, two or three times a day British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.138 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.33r A medicine for the lask Seethe a quantity of wheat flour in a bag very well ... then give it to the patient two or three times a day, and it will help him British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.139 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.33r To help a stinking breath Take two good branches of rosemary, and a pretty quantity of large mace ... drink three mornings together of it, and so once a month till you are well and it will cure you British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.140 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.33r For a scald, or a burn, though it come with gun-powder, probatum Take salad oil, and snow water, of each a like quantity, beat it up to a froth ... then anoint the sore therewith, then anoint it with oil of eggs till it be whole [The receipt for oil of eggs is given at item 5.128.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.141 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.33v A salve for any sore Take of unwrought wax, of turpentine, each one pound, salad oil one pint ... put it in an earthen pot which must be well warmed against the fire for if you put it in cold the salve will leap out again British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.142 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.33v For a new cut that will not leave bleeding Take the blades of unset leeks, stamp them and put them into honey ... it will stint the bleeding and will draw out the bruised blood and make it clean British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.143 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.33v For an imposten in the head Take primrose roots, make them clean, ... and put them in your nose at any time and it will break it [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.144 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.34r A medicine for one that is bound in his body Take an onion and core it, and fill it up with good black soap ... lay it to the patient's navel, somewhat warm to that man or child British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.145 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.34r For the memory Take and grind mustard seed, with vinegar ... it will quicken the memory of those that have been sick British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.146 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.34r To stop the lask Take the seed of plantain, and beat it ... it may be given to a child probatum British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.147 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.34r For the flux Take the pissell of a hart, and dry it in an oven till it be as hard as a race of ginger ... let the party drink of it first in the morning and last at night British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.148 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.34r For a canker in a woman's toe Take brown mints, in wine, and oil, and make a plaster ... and when you give this for the same, or any medicine, give therewith the juice of nuts [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.149 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.34v For the cough of the lungs Take ten wardens, pared and cored ... strain it as you use it, which must be often, every day, a spoonful at a time British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.150 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.34v For a consumption Take five quarts of goat's milk, and boil in it the kernels of five pints of hazelnuts ... put in the last boiling three or four pieces of angel gold and with it six yolks of eggs British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.151 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.34v A cordial for wind in the stomach and to help the concoction of meat eat of the conserve of quinces, made with spice, the quantity of half a walnut at a time ... presently after dinner and supper [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.152 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.35r To cool the back Take waterlily leaves, called nymphea leaves ... apply them to each side of the back, but not on the ridge bone British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.153 (Medical writing, Receipt, Culinary writing), fol.35r A cordial broth or cullis Take four sheep's hearts, new out of their bodies, and wash them very clean ... also you may put in a quantity of sack, or muscadine, when it is boiled British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.154 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 35r-35v A cordial cullis Take a young leg of mutton, cut off all the fat and the skin ... pour the liquor from the meat and take a quantity of it in the morning and two hours before supper British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.155 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.35v Cordials Take seven grains of ambergris in fine powder mixed well in the yolks of two new laid eggs ... mixed in one or two spoonfuls of syrup of gillyflowers, and as much cinnamon water British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.156 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.35v Cordials for fainting In any fainting, take four drops of the oil of cinnamon, mixed with one spoonful of syrup of gillyflowers ... take it in pennyroyal water British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.157 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 35v-36r To keep the body laxative Take two ounces of manna, dissolve it in one third of a pound of fair water ... eat it one hour before dinner and supper British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.158 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.36r A precious water for the eyes Take smallage, rue, fennel, vervain, agrimony, betony ... drop that water in the sore eye every night, probatum British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.159 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.36r For the migraine often proved and never failed Take aqua vita, or aqua composita, the gall of an ox ... within six days dressing it will be clean gone, it must be used three days and three nights together British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.160 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.36v For the stitch Take oats and pigeon's dung, a like quantity, put them into a frying pan ... if you feel them cold heat them in the frying pan, bags and all, and let the bags be well swaddled about it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.161 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.36v A principal medicine for the stone and strongullion Take cloves, mace, acorns, long-pepper, turmeric, bays ... drink it first in the morning and last at night, and you shall find ease British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.162 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.36v A present help for the bloody flux Take a pint of milk, and half a pint of water seethe them together ... put it into it and let the party drink thereof British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.163 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.37r To make China broth, it is a great restorative Take China roots, two ounces, white and red saunders, two ounces of each ... drink as much two hours before supper, or when you please British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.164 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 37r-37v To make bread to digest phlegm Take licorice scraped clean and bruised, one third of a pound, seethe it in a gallon of water ... lay them in a soft heated oven as after the baking of bread, it will endure long British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.165 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.37v Mr. Williams For deafness, and singing in the ears Take a stone pot of a quart, with a long neck with running water ... do this morning and evening in your bed for the space of an hour, and it will help you British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.166 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.38r For a red face, or any rheum in the head, probatum Take bay salt, and beat it to powder, and fit two fine linen bags to the soles of your feet ... you must dry the bags every night and morning and so lay them on again British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.167 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.38r Rules of physic, to help the obstructions of the spleen, the preparative, probatum Take of the five opening roots, each one ounce, caper and tamarisk barks, each one third of an ounce ... which is to be taken at four draughts in two days British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.168 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.38v The purging potion Take manna, syrup of augustine, each one ounce and a third ... take this in the morning and drink some broth two hours after it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.169 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 38v-39r The hippocras Take of the five opening roots, each one ounce, tamarisk and caper barks, each one third of an ounce ... put it in a glass keeping it close stopped British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.170 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.39r The electuary Take of conserve of cervina and of agrimony each one ounce and a third ... as much as sufficeth to make it in the form of an electuary British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.171 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.39r The emplaster Take gum armoniacum, dissolve it in vinegar ... spread it on leather and use it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.172 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 39r-39v The ointment Take unguentum succo brionie ... mix all these together and the ointment is made British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.173 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.39v Directions how to use them Instructions regarding the use of some of the preceding receipts First anoint your side with the ointment, and lay on the plaster to your side ... anointing your side and laying on the plaster again every morning and night all that space British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.174 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.39v For the stiffness in the knees or any other place Take a great quantity of dew snails and put them in some linen cloth ... conserve it and anoint the grief therewith British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.175 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 39v-40r A singular good medicine to break and avoid the stone Take saxifrage, passpert, maidenhair, parsley ... bruise them together, then warm it at the fire and drink it morning and evening British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.176 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.40r A medicine for the stone colic Take three or four drops of the oil of anise seeds in your drink ... you shall find great ease for the stone colic British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.177 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.40r For one that cannot hold his water Take the claws of a goat's foot, beat them to powder ... a spoonful at a time till he be whole and well British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.178 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.40r For a bruise roast an onion and lay it to ... as hot as you can suffer it [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.179 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.40r A proven medicine for a felon Take black soap, the soot of a chimney ... beat all these together until it be like a plaster, and lay it to the fellon British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.180 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.40v My Lady Paget's water, or Greene's powder, to heal a sore without any salve Lady Paget and Greene Take bole-armoniac, white coporise, of each four ounces, camphor, one ounce ... as you use it beat it into powder and use it as prescribed British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.181 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.41r To take away the itch of a wound that is healing Take oil of roses, and wine vinegar, of each a like quantity, beat them together ... lay upon it a very thin piece of lawn, and thereupon lay your healing or drawing plaster British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.182 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.41r To do away a rancle Take the tallow of a ram, and rye meal then make a plaster ... and lay it to the sore [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.183 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.41r To take away dead flesh Take tongue-wort, honey, and rye meal make a plaster ... and lay it to the sore [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.184 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 41r-41v For a feeble stomach that cannot keep that it hath, but it goeth from him straight Take wormwood, brown mints, and plantain, grind them together in a mortar ... do this three days and the vomits shall cease British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.185 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.41v For the jaundice Take three quarters of an ounce of the leaves of senna ... apply to his stomach hot cloths lest he cast it up again British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.186 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 41v-42r An electuary for the jaundice Take of turmeric one ounce, of rhubarb one ounce, of saffron four pennyworth ... take of this conserve in the morning early, and again one hour before dinner, and one hour before supper, the bigness of a nutmeg at a time British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.187 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.42r For a bruise or swelling, coming of a bruise or otherwise Dr. Mathias Take fresh cow dung, brown bread crumbs, grounds of beer, a little vinegar ... in warm mace ale and broth, two hours after taking heed of cold British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.188 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.42r Another for the same For a bruise or swelling Take strong beer, boil in it a good quantity of St. John's wort ... put in some white bread crumbs and some red rose leaves so boil it to a poultice British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.189 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 42r-42v An ointment for a bruise Take a quart of aqua vita, infuse in it the flowers of mallows ... this is good for any bruise or fall or otherwise, to keep it from putrefying British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.190 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.42r For the squiney Take of plantain water half a pint ... cast of it into the throat, with a squirt every quarter of an hour, probatum Dr. Matt British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.191 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.42r A special receipt for a felon Take white camphor leaves, leaves of hyssop and rue each a like quantity ... beat it well until it be enough and then apply it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.192 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.43r To bring the stone easily from the back into the bladder Take one third of an ounce of cassia, fistuly new drawn ... in plantain water half an hour before meals [ This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.193 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.43r For the pleurisy, the drink Take one pint of white wine, and three balls of a stone-horse dung ... these two with God's blessing will cure the disease though it be far gone, yet nevertheless if the party may be let blood do not neglect it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.194 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.43v For a consumption Take of white ginger, one ounce, of mace, one quarter of an ounce ... it is to be understood that the egg which is laid today serves for the receipt tomorrow morning, probatum British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.195 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.44r Mina cidoniorum, commonly called quiddany of quinces Take of the juice of quinces cleared, six pounds, boil it gently with a soft fire ... and procureth an appetite to meat, it stays the vomiting and laxativeness British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.196 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.44r For a cough Take conserve of the oldest roses, and dioscordium a like quantity ... mingle them together, and take them morning and evening [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.197 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 44r-44v For the lungs Tried by the Lady Loe Take a good pint of the best honey clarified very well ... it must be put into a pot or box whilst it is hot British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.198 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.44v A cordial Take eight spoonfuls of strawberry water, of good chosen claret wine three or four spoonfuls ... mingle these well and make of them a julep, take three or four spoonfuls or as you need British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.199 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.44v For the palate of the mouth Take as much rye leaven as a walnut, a quarter of a handful of featherfew ... warm it in white wine vinegar as hot as you can suffer it and lay it on again British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.200 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.45r For the bloody flux make one place of a hearth very hot sweep it clean, then take one handful of bay salt ... take some of the powder of the nutmegs, and put it into sack, drink it and it will ease you British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.201 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.45r For an extremity of the wind colic the parings of an earthen floor, cut them about the bigness of fritters ... when they are hot, put them in a bag and apply them where the pain is British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.202 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.45r For the itch Take burned alum, beat and seared very fine, then take as much brimstone ... anoint the patient at evening four nights together, then shift him in clean linen British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.203 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.45v A purging drink for the liver Take sarsparilla sliced, polipodium of the oak ... after it is three or four days old, drink a good draught of it two or three hours before every meal British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.204 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 45v-46r For the itch in children or others Dr. Matt Take fumitary, young buds of a vine, eight ... four or five spoonfuls at once with some whey and sugar morning and evening, and at other times British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.205 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.46r For the coming out of the fundament Dr. Matt First wash the fundament with warm milk, then strew on it the ashes of beetles, things like hornets ... dress the party with this very often, lest it should cancer it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.206 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.46r For bleeding at the nose Take wine vinegar, and clay of a barrel, temper them together like an ointment ... apply it to the breasts shifting it often, if to a man to his privy parts British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.207 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.46v To stop bleeding at the nose Take dragon's blood finely powdered, make soft small tents of fine lint ... hold the head forward and keep them in two or three hours British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.208 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.46v To stop bleeding at the nose Take periwinkle, burnett, and horse tail, chop these ... apply it plaster wise to the neck, and up to the ears, and renew it often British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.209 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.46v For a pleurisy, or to bring out the smallpox, or any infection Take stone horse dung, put it in white wine, or ale ... strain it and drink a little draught British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.210 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.46v To keep the face from the pitting of the pock holes Take of fine white salt one third of an ounce, of red rose water one pint ... anoint the face with a feather as often as it itches British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.211 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.47r Mouth water Mistress Hall Take tops of rosemary, red sage, woodbine leaves, columbine leaves ... boil all these in a quart of water, to a pint British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.212 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.47r Plasters for the feet to draw down watery humours Take of black soap, four ounces, bay salt finely beaten, one ounce ... make it for soles to wear, both night and day within socks British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.213 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.47r For the beating of the heart Dr. Matt Take a little toast of wheaten bread ... strew upon it a little powder spices de amber, and on this white sugar candy British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.214 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.47r For the wind in the stomach Dr. Matt Take winter savoury, wild thyme, pepper and ginger ... and also the roots of elecampane, candied and angelica, both roots and tender stalks British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.215 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.47v For windiness in the head Dr. Matt Take of rosemary five or six manipuli, of betony one manipulus ... hang it in fourteen gallons of beer, so drink it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.216 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.47v An excellent water for the spleen Dr. Matt Take ash buds and distil them, and when you have a good quantity of water, distil the water again ... when you use it mingle a quantity of each of them together British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.217 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 47v-48r A special receipt for the toothache Take of the best licorice dis-barked one ounce, of pellitory of Spain dis-barked one third of an ounce ... snuff up of the powder into the nostril on which side the pain is and it will take away the pain British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.218 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.48r An excellent ointment for a bruise or swelling or for a breast, to be made in May Take southern-wood, self-heal, smallage, sage, herb of grace, plantain ... boil it to the form of a plaster, strain it and keep it for your use British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.219 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.48v A serecloth for a bruise or broken bone Take burgundy pitch, one pound, resin, one third of a pound, ... wax four ounces melt them together [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.220 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.48v To make the minium plaster Take red lead, one third of a pound, finely searced ... so make it up in rolls, this is to heal a sore British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.221 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 48v-49r A healing salve Take brier, crows-wort, valerian, hyssop, sage, rib-wort ... stir it all together, so keep it for your use British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.222 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.49r A glister for the stone Take mallows, violet leaves, pellitory of the wall, mercury ... when you would use it make it blood warm, so put it in a bladder British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.223 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 49r-49v A restorative marzipan Take pistachio nut kernels, Jordan almonds, of each three ounces ... make it into a marzipan, and bake it to eat at your pleasure British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.224 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.49v To make unguentum Egyptiacum Take honey, one pound of vinegar, six ounces of verdigris ... boil these as before British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.225 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.49v To make unguentum verides Take oil olive, one pound, yellow wax, three ounces, resin, six ounces, frankincense, one ounce ... strain it and stir it all the while it is on the fire British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.226 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.50r To make pulvis sanctus Take senna, parsley seed, cloves, white wine, tartar, of each one ounce ... to an indifferent body give one ounce and a third, to a strong body give two ounces British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.227 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.50r For a burn, or scald Take the white of an egg, and beat it up to an oil ... then dress it as often with it as with convenience you can till it be whole British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.228 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.50v A sere-cloth for a bruise, sprain, ache, or swelling Take the brightest wax and resin, of each two pounds ... make it into cakes to spread upon leather, or else dip in your linen cloth, to make sere-cloth British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.229 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.50v To still milk for the stone Take pellitory of the wall, wild thyme, saxifrage parsley ... put in white wine enough to make it a pretty draught, and drink it lukewarm British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.230 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 51r-51v An excellent drink for the heat of the liver, lights and lungs, and to comfort the vital spirits Mistress Al Knollys' water of milk Take three gallons of milk from the cow, sorrel, sink-field, strawberry leaves ... these ingredients will make but one gallon of water, which will be quickly spent British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.231 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.51v An approved drink for a weak back Take a quart of old alligant, five or six dates, a handful or raisins of the sun ... drink thereof a quarter of a pint in the morning fasting and when you go to bed British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.232 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.51r To make an excellent custard for a weak back Take of the pith of an ox stripped out of the skin ... bake them as you do ordinary custards and eat them in the morning, when you are fasting and towards bed British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.233 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.52r An excellent cooling broth for one in a burning fever, probatum Take three quarts of water, and put therein two little chickens ... give the patient to drink as often as you can get them to take it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.234 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.52r To stop the bleeding of a wound or nostrils burn linen rags to dust, and put that powder on the wound ... a good big wet cloth being put to the secret parts will suddenly stop that party's bleeding at their nose British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.235 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 52r-52v For the cough of the lungs Take red rose leaves, betony, comfrey roots, coltsfoot, of each two manipuli ... boil it to a thin syrup British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.236 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.52v A purge Take flowers of a peach tree, infuse them in warm water ten or twelve hours ... it purgeth waterish humours mightily, and yet without grief or trouble to the stomach or other lower parts of the body, probatum, Mr. Garrett Mr. Garrett British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.237 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.52v To purge the body Take cakes made with damask rose leaves and sugar ... eat a reasonable quantity in a morning fasting, and drink a draught of whey after them British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.238 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.53r An approved medicine to stop the blood in wounds, or else at the nose Take one handful of wild tansy, and bruise it, then lay it to the wound ... it will presently stop the blood British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.239 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 53r-53v An approved receipt for a wound drink Take southern-wood, wormwood, bugles, mugwort, wood-betony ... this drink must be made in the month of May or gathered and mingled together and dried within doors in the shade [The receipt includes a long list of the ailments which it can treat, beginning, "There was a famous physician that did report this drink is good for..."] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.240 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.53v For the stone if it do stop the urine Take a quantity of white wine and quench in it six times red hot flints ... drink a small quantity of it so often as you find cause British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.241 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 53v-54r An excellent medicine for the stone, be it in the reins, or bladder of what quantity soever it hath been tried, and proved by Sergeant More Sergeant More In the month of May when oxen go to graze, you must take of their dung, not too fresh nor too dry ... in using of the same remedy, they have been perfectly cured. There was never found a sooner remedy for the disease British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.242 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.54r For to keep the blood from cluttering in the throat, as it falleth from the head proceeding from a bruise Sow wheat-bran in little bags and boil them in water ... so shift hot bags as they do cool, till the blood do stay British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.243 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.54v For the worms, and to assuage the swelled bellies of children Take mints, wormwood, tansy, feather-few, southern-wood, chamomile ... and bind anointed paper upon it, so do every night till you find remedy British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.244 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 54v-55r A drink for the scurvy called balsumum maria Take scurvy-grass, five manipuli, watercress, brook-lime, of each two manipuli ... the other half of whey being first boiled scummed and clarified with violet and borage flowers, or leaves and fumitory British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.245 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.55r For a bursten child Take the roots of herb-robert and comfrey roots a like quantity, wrap them in a wet paper ... give the child it to eat a quantity thereof twice every day British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.246 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.55r The poultice to apply to the same grief A poultice to relieve a bursten child Take the leaves of herb-robert, comfrey ... once in two days, lay on fresh medicine British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.247 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.55v To strengthen children's weak limbs Take dane-weed, chamomile, angelica, a like quantity, beat them very well ... wrap a cloth dipped in the ointment about the limb and wrap it over with other cloths British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.248 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.55v For the worms Take bear-foot, dry it and make it into powder ... give the child this quantity to eat three mornings together British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.249 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 55v-56r To make the black gum plaster Take three quarters of a pound of the finest yellow virgin wax ... is excellent for wounds in the head, and elsewhere, that require some comfortable heat and little or no drawing British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.250 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.56v For the wild fire Save the urine of a cow in a vessel, the oldest is best ... so lay it warm to the sore, dress it with fresh medicine twice every day British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.251 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.56v A serecloth for an ache proceeding from a hot cause Take oil olive, one pound, virgin wax, four ounces ... then apply a new plaster to the grief so continue till you find remedy British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.252 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.57r A restoring broth for a consumption Take a piece of flesh, either veal or mutton, the bigness of a great duck egg ... drink a good draught of it in the morning, and another in the afternoon British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.253 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.57r To make cinnamon water Take cinnamon, two pounds, damask rose leaves, balm, and sweet marjoram, of each three manipuli ... set it in the sun one week, then strain it and keep it in a glass close stopped British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.254 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.57v To strengthen a weak stomach Take syrup of quinces, one ounce and a third, syrup of mints, one third of an ounce ... mingle them in carduus-benedictus water, or balm water, five ounces British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.255 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.57v To give rest Take diascordium, four scruples, syrup of the juice of lemons, one third of an ounce, ... marigold water, or cardus-benedictus water, two ounces [This is the full text of the receipt.] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.256 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.57v Pills to take an hour before supper to help digestion, and the green sickness Take aloes, washed in rose water, and beaten, one ounce ... a day or two before you take them, take the powder of galingale, in muscadine British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.257 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.57r For a bruise in the eye Take a live pigeon, cut him in the wing and take a drop or two of his warm blood ... lay it upon flax, and clap it close to the eye twice a day British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.258 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.58r For an old oozing sore that will not heal with salve Dr. Matt Take tanner's ooze, made only of the bark, and clarify one pottle of it ... lay them upon the sore four or five times a day letting the undermost cloth lie still for it will make it bleed in pulling it off British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.259 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.58r To make hippocras Dr. Matt Take of clear claret wine, one pottle, of cinnamon, and nutmeg, of each one ounce ... if you desire to have it white, then take three pints of white wine and a pint of sack, in which sack steep all the spices and sugar afore named as in the other British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.260 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.58v To make gallons of hippocras ha:samon Take canary, and white wine, of each one gallon, of cinnamon four ounces ... when you run it put in a quart of milk, and run it till it be as fine as rock water British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.261 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.58v To make one gather flesh Take a great pumpkin, take out the seeds, then set the pumpkin into an oven ... take a little draught twice a day, warm in the morning and at four of the clock in the afternoon, fast an hour after it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.262 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 58v-59r The composition of the water of orange flowers, good for old weeping sores Dr. Matt Take half a pound of orange peels dried, boil them in a pottle of spring water ... this you may use for any part of the body, hot fiery or spreading sores British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.263 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.59r For a burn or scald Take half a pint of neat's foot oil, a little sheep suet ... anoint the place three times a day, and lay a linen cloth upon it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.264 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.59r For the swelling of the legs or ague Take one handful of mallows, of red sage, of great mouse ear, of red nettle, an equal manipulus ... make a poultice of all these with a little oatmeal and milk of rib-wort, and plantain, of each a manipulus British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.265 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 59r-59v A poultice for a sore breast Take oatmeal and milk, boil them together put therein three spoonfuls of oil of roses ... so use the same without a tent or anything else British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.266 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.59v A poultice for to break a brest or any swelling which gathereth to a head Take plantain, mallows, chick-weeds, and grancell, of each one manipulus ... as it dryeth put more milk to it in the heating when you use it British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.267 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.59v A salve for a broken breast Take beeswax, two ounces, resin, one ounce, turpentine, one third of an ounce ... boil all these together till they be thoroughly incorporated, then keep it for your use British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.268 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.59r A receipt for a timpany or swelled belly Take half a spoonful of the powder of mountain sage ... in every draught of beer that you drink for one whole month British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.269 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.60r The glister Take anise seed, cumin seed, fennel seed, all these bruised ... take a quantity of this blood warm every second day, as a glister, for the month, and afterwards once a week, or as you find cause British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.270 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.60r The fomentation Lettice Corbett [A note to the right of the receipt's title reiterates that " All these are my cousin Letice Corbett's receipts"] Take one peck of green chamomile, and boil it in one pottle of muscadine ... use this every second night, when you do not take the glister, for nine times, putting in a little fresh chamomile to it, this is very good medicine British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.271 (Medical writing, Receipt), fols 60v-61r The composition of the golden palsy water Dr. Matt Take the flowers of lavender, clean picked and stripped ... take a piece of scarlet and dip it in the water, and lay it warm to the nape of the neck British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.272 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.61r Another palsy water for the poorer sort also exceedingly tried Dr. Matt Take a great round glass that will hold a gallon and a half, fill it with lavender flowers ... drink of this with beer or ale, as need doeth require [The scribe has run out of room at the bottom of the page, and has written the final two words, "doeth require", vertically in the left margin] British Library: MS Sloane 2486 Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650) Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe) Item 5.273 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol.61v Another palsy water of exceeding great virtue in palsies, dizziness of the head, and weakness of the sinews Take cowslip flowers, lavender, spike flowers ... exceeding effectual in palsies, apoplexies, giddiness of the head, and all weakness of the sinews and all cold diseases [A note at the bottom of the page closes this section of the manuscript with a reiteration that "All these receipts I had of my cousin Lettice Corbett : which are in the second book". The second book to which the note refers is simply the second section of the manuscript, ie the receipts in MS item 5.] Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F32 Diary, Volume 4 (1706-1709) (Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7 (Medical writing, Receipt), back pastedown-back flyleaf v [rev] Medical recipes For rheumatic pains take half a dram of Virginia snakeroot powder in a glass of white wine. ... A pellet of hard diaculum stopped in the ear relieves deafness. Probatum Mountague North. [ This is the entire entry. This is the first item in the reversed section of the manuscript. Preceded by blank marbled back pastedown and back flyleaf r [rev]. ]Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F34 Diary, Volume 6 (1711-1713) (Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 9 (Receipt, Household writing), p.5[rev] Lady Pawlet (Author) Lady Pawlet's Receipt to Clean Grates. Take a knife and scrape off all the rust, ... A day or two after rub it with a hard brush till it is very bright. Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 34 (Receipt, Satire, Political writing), fol.[85v] England's Remedy | A Sovereign Receipt for the Body Politic to be prepared and Administered by the Mob. Take of Lory Hide the Head ... The best Balm of Gilead for King William. and the only ratsbane for the French king . British Library: Add. MS 56248 Receipt book (1666-1696) Lady Mary Dacres (Compiler) Item 1 (Receipt, Culinary writing), 1-57 [Cookery receipts] British Library: Add. MS 56248 Receipt book (1666-1696) Lady Mary Dacres (Compiler) Item 2 (Medical writing, Receipt), 109v-58 rev. [Medical receipts] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 3 (Receipt), fol. 3r 1564. To preserve quinces [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 4 (Receipt), fol. 3r-v To make short cakes [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand. It is incomplete.] [Fol. 3v is blank.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 5 (Receipt), fol. 4r A pow [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand. It is a recipe for preserving sight.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 6 (Receipt), fol. 4r A remedy against the stone in the bladder. [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand. Beside the title is written, probably in another hand, ""vol. 3. fol. 23."".] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 7 (Receipt), fol. 4r Another for the same [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 8 (Receipt), fol. 4r-v Against [This title appears to be in Denton's hand. No recipe follows it.] [Fol. 4v is blank.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 9 (Receipt), fol. 5r A good ointment for all aches [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 10 (Receipt), fol. 5r For bone ache a good medicine in any place [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 11 (Receipt), fol. 5r For ache of the thighs and sinews that be stiff of going [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 12 (Receipt), fol. 5r To destroy dead flesh in a wound [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 13 (Receipt), fol. 5r-v For one that hath great pain in the head on the eyes so that he can not hold up his head [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 14 (Receipt), fol. 5v For diseases in the body and first for those of blood [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 15 (Receipt), fol. 5v To draw out a thorn or nail out of a man [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 16 (Receipt), fol. 5v For the breaking out of the hands [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 17 (Receipt), fols 5v-6r For the colic [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 18 (Receipt), fol. 6r A water for the canker in the mouth [This recipe appears to be in Denton's hand. The recipe is incomplete.] Folger Library: MS E.a.1 Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590) Anne Denton (scribe) Item 24 (Receipt), fols 49v-50r A medicine for sore breasts [This receipt may have been written in Anne Denton's hand. There are also some pen trials on this page.] [Fol. 50r is blank.] Beinecke Library: Osborn MS b.188 Commonplace book of prose extracts and sermons (1672-1694) Jane Truesdale (scribe) Jane Truesdale's unnamed father (scribe) Item 1.5 (Receipt, Front matter), fol. i v A recipe To make syrup of cloves to six hundred of cloves put a pint of water well boiled ... and to a pint of juice put a pound of sugar bottle it up when it is cold (scribe)Hand B Bodleian Library: MS Eng. poet e. 31 Verse miscellany with additional recipes (1691-1706) Octavia Walsh (Author, Scribe) Item 3 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol. 2r-v Recipe for the Lady Grey's Water The Lady Grey's water Take sage, Saladine, Rosemary, Rue, Mugwort, Pimpernel, agrimony, Bellony, Wormwood, Scabies, Cardus, benidictus, sentery, Dragoes, Rosa solis, Scordium, Balm, of each a good handful ... It will expel the smallpox Plague the measles or Surfeits and any disease that lies about the heart and Vitals Bodleian Library: MS Eng. poet e. 31 Verse miscellany with additional recipes (1691-1706) Octavia Walsh (Author, Scribe) Item 4 (Receipt, Culinary writing), fol. 2v Recipe to make mead To make mead Take 12 quarts of water and set it on the fire to Boil in a Kettle ... You may bottle it; not full lest it break the bottles. Bodleian Library: MS Eng. poet e. 31 Verse miscellany with additional recipes (1691-1706) Octavia Walsh (Author, Scribe) Item 23 (Receipt), fol. 52a [Leaf fragment. Remaining text suggests the recto had originally been used to transcribe a recipe.] Bodleian Library: MS Eng. poet e. 31 Verse miscellany with additional recipes (1691-1706) Octavia Walsh (Author, Scribe) Item 24 (Medical writing, Receipt), fol. 165v (rev)-165r (rev) Recipe to cure a green wound An excellent unguent for a green wound Take a handful of Clowns all heal Leaves. ... give your patient to drink every morning two spoonfuls in a small draught of wine tempered with a little Sugar [fol. 165r (rev) is blank.] |