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Cowcumbers Like Mangos

Take the largest you can get scope out all the inside make as
little a hole at one end as you Can let your pickle be made with
2 quarts of vinegar one pint of Lime Juces half a pint of musterd
a quarter of a pint of musterd seed bruised Stope your Cucumbers
with 6 or 8 cloves of garleek 6 or 8 little Slices of ginger &
the bruised musterd seed put them into your pickle & in 16
days they will be ready the largest is best if Green

To make Cowslap Wine Lady Whitmors way

Take 9 gallons of water & 24 pound of Sugar boil your water &
Sugar very well for an hour having put into it your whights
of 6 new lade eggs well beaten skim it [s'] constantly all the while
it boils then have a bushel of cowslaps picked & bruised & put
in a clean tub and pouer this licker to them & let it stand till near
morning then strain the liquor from them & squise them dry then
take the thickest ale yeast spread it upon tosts of brown bread
tosted hard on both sides & set it to work when you put in 3
bottles of sack & one of rennish with the Juce of 6 lemmonds & some
of the pill then Cover it & let it work 24 hours then strain it &
put into a runlet fit for the quantity you make & when it
hath stood 3 weeks or more in the runlet dran it into bottles
you may put a little cup of fine loaf Sugar into every bottle
if you please cork it up Close & after it hath stood a month
you may drink it & will keep a year

A receit for the worms in Children

half an ounce of worm feed bruised & steeped all night in white
vinegar the next morning put to it A quarter of an ounce
of running treacle A quarter of an ounce of Conserve of roses
mix those well together & take the Quantity of a large nutmegg
every morning for 9 mornings fasting an hour after [late/cate]
no salt meat nor milk meates dureing the time of takeing

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NicolaDaisy

Runlet = small wooden keg or barrel
Cowslap= cowslip (primrose)