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to Pickle Coliflowers
pool it in little sprigs power boyling watter & salt over it 3 or 4 several days make yr pickell of whit wine vineger with mace nutmeg ginger hole peper & salt & power yr pickell one scalding hott for several times till thay are whit & crisp
an approved [Midson as has Caned grate dropsies]
Thick Chess
take ye new milk of 7 cows & ye nights cream put into ye Chess Tube then take a galon of scalding watter into ye milk put a handful of maregold flowers pickt & brusd yn stran ye hot watter into ye milk & stir it well yn put in as much runnet as will make it come hard yn cover it with blankets & wn it is come hard lay cloaths in 2 stands yn take ye curd up as thin as yu can with ye fleting dish do not brake ye curd
A rule for boyling yr Hams of Baken ether West=tale or English
Way yr Hame & to every pound weight alow a qr of an howers Boyleing put yr baken on in cold watter if you would have the skin Black lap it in hay & put a handfull of walnut leves or a little small sea cole in the watter you must recker the time when it begins to boyle & kepe it boyling slowly not fast for that is apt to break the skin
To make vinegar Mrs Fenwicks way
When you are Brining soon after you have begun to take on, take as many galons of the grout as you in tend to make vinegar, & keep it from Hops & Boyling but put a little Barm to it before it is cold & let it stand in a Cann & work 4 days beating it up every day & after the furst day skimming off the Barm as it rises then tye it down close & lay a weight upon it, & let it stand in a sunny window or in some hot place till it is fit for use its best to make it in the hot weather
To make Goosbery Vineger
Take the hulls you stran from makeing yr Goosbery wine & put to it warm watter or any old dead warm vinegar or ale wort with out hop & 2 pd of shuger & a little barm & work it as the other & set in the son or any warm place
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Dr Colbach Precriptions for bleeding at the mouth & nose
take Taponion Earth Rock Alame Mastick fine dragons blood of each 2 Drams Conserve of reed roses 2 ouncis with the Syrup of the Same make them up into an Electuary & take the quantatie of one nutmegg of it every moring tasting & at 4 in the after noone & the last at night & drink a drafte of the tincture after it this and the Electuary must be taken for 3 weeks after bleeding
To make the Tincture
take dryed reed roses 6 drams Pomegranate flowers 2 drams put them in at Earthen pott & power uppon them boyling watter one quarte oyle of Vitriol fifty drops & let them stand an houre & then Strane it off & add to the straned liquor reed Lisbon wine halfe a pint white shuger Candey 2 ouncis & keep it for use
Another Recept good to stop bleeding
Take Comfery roots boyle them in Milke & some of the persons blood dryed before a fire & put into the Milke & taken is reckend good
To put the feet & legs in cold Bryne stops bleeding imediatly
Take horne & scrape it & put it up the nose & bind som of the scraped horne with a sixpence to the midle of the forehead the same horne as are used for Lanthorns is very good to stop bleeding
Let the pachent bled in a [tiershufull] & boyle it in the same [Shufell] till its dry, then rub it to fine powder & snif it up the nose
Common Clay mixed with vinegar & bour on head to the temple is good to stop bleeding likeway dragons blood beaten fine & [Lint-liped] in vinegar & [loled] in the dragons blood & put up the nose is good
Elder Water
Ton Bushells of berrys Picked from the Stalks & put as much water as will cover them & a good Peice of Sower Leven & 2 quarts of barm mix y^m well together & let y^ work 7 or 8 days sturing them once a day, then distill it in a Limbeck y^o make allmost a quart of water from a peck of berrys
To cure an Arsma or Shortness of Breth
Make tea of Lavender flowers & put a Little Saforn into a fine rag & inst culer it & sweeten it with treakle & drink of it morning & noon & night a tea dish at a time
