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dry flour, & you will find in about three or at
most four hours time, that you may mix up your
dough and then cover it up warm, and in four
hours more, you may put it, into the oven, and
you will have a light bread as tho you had
put in a pint of Balm Barm
there is no person but what will allow that
one Bushell of Bread made with one table spoonfull
of Barm, must be more wholesome, than when
there is a pint of thick, grouty, bitter black
barm used, which often alters the colour of the
bread & spoils the pure wholesome taste of the
flour.
N.B.
if you should find some body of flour sponged large
enough before you put in the rest of you water
you should with both your hands mix that which
is spunged, and the dry flour all together & then
add the remainder of warm water, & your dough
will
the following receipt cured Mary Emerson, child of
the Ague, she being three years old - the quantity
given to her was two grains of emetic Factor, put
into six ounces of spring water, one spoonfull fasting
in the morning - for a grown person a wine glass
if it dont come up - repeat it - a vomit sometimes
cures an ague, take it two hours before the fit is
expected, it generally prevents that fit - it is
proper to repeat the medicine a week after, to
prevent a relapse - do not take any purge soon
after