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V.b.13
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Source Title:
Cookbook [manuscript].
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Cookbook [manuscript].
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Image Details:
Part I. When reading Part I, Part II is inverted and reversed.
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Part I. When reading Part I, Part II is inverted and reversed.
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ca. 1678-ca. 1689
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ca. 1678-ca. 1689
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Physical Description:
page 8 (folio 6 verso) || page 9 (folio 7 recto)
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page 8 (folio 6 verso) || page 9 (folio 7 recto)
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Transcription:
forehead Cast powder of Commyn vppon it and so lay it
vppon the brow and bynd it fast to your forehead and
in on night you shalbe whole.
ffor the same./
Take Carvell a handfull and beate it in a morter
and put to it Croomes of browne bread and bay
salt at your discression beate all in a morter
togeather then put in a little viniger and make
a Rownd ball thereof like a tennis ball and lay
in the pit of your necke to bedward bynd it
with your kercher and you shalbe hole./
for on that cannot sleepe ffor paine
in the head or other like greife./
Take oyle of violets with the yolke of an egge and womans
milke as much of thone as thother and beinge mingled
togeather make a plaster thereof and lay it vppon
the forehead or vppon the eyes and the payne shall
cease and a desire of sleepe shall com vppon the party
To cause sleepe
Shredd a hanfull of lettis very small Cast into it
a little bay salt small beaten./
Against the Cold pose of the head
Seeth bay leaues in water and let the patient
receaue the smoke in his mouth and with the
same water wash the temples and forehead
ffor the pose or could Rume in the head
Put powder of horse mintes in a bagge and lay it
hot to the heade./
To make hayre grow./
Take mallow Roots and seeth them and wash the
place therewith./
page 9
To keepe ons haire from beinge gray.
Mix with the ashes of grownd wormes burnt oile and therewith Rub your
combe it is much vsed of most women./
ffor the miggrime
Lay the forhead temples and all housleeke and garden wormood stamped
togeather with fine flower put in a Cloth./
ffor runninge noses that be watrie
Take the Ioice of Rue temper them togeather and lye vpright and put
the Ioice into your nostrills often and within a few dayes after it
will amend and cast out the filth of the braynes wherof it commeth
To take scurfe from the head
Take a hanfull of Rue and halfe an ownce of quicke brimstone and seeth it with
good ould wyne and so wash your head therewith but you must wash your
head first with lukewarme water and it helpeth./
ffor those that haue a stinkeinge breath./
Take j oze of sage in powder 3 ozes of Rosemary flowers & oze of Cloues
2 drames of fine sinamon 2 nutmeggs 2 graines of muske made all in
powder then take purified hunney sufficient to kned the same togeather
and put it in an earthen pot set it in the same fowre or fiue dayes and
eate of it /d/ oze fastinge and as much at night to Confort the meate
that is corrupted in the stomacke and vse it often./
To make the breath sweete the face faire./
and good for the Collicke in the stomacke:/
Take the flowers of Rosemary and boile them in Whitewine and drinke therof
and wash therewith.
To take wrincles out of the face./
Take an ould Capon and plucke of his feathers and Cut him alonge
the backe and dresse it as it were to eate then fill him full of
little yellow lemons cut very small and fennell seed put altogeather
in a Limbecke with a moderate fire and so stilled with the water
wash your face morninge and Eveninge./
vppon the brow and bynd it fast to your forehead and
in on night you shalbe whole.
ffor the same./
Take Carvell a handfull and beate it in a morter
and put to it Croomes of browne bread and bay
salt at your discression beate all in a morter
togeather then put in a little viniger and make
a Rownd ball thereof like a tennis ball and lay
in the pit of your necke to bedward bynd it
with your kercher and you shalbe hole./
for on that cannot sleepe ffor paine
in the head or other like greife./
Take oyle of violets with the yolke of an egge and womans
milke as much of thone as thother and beinge mingled
togeather make a plaster thereof and lay it vppon
the forehead or vppon the eyes and the payne shall
cease and a desire of sleepe shall com vppon the party
To cause sleepe
Shredd a hanfull of lettis very small Cast into it
a little bay salt small beaten./
Against the Cold pose of the head
Seeth bay leaues in water and let the patient
receaue the smoke in his mouth and with the
same water wash the temples and forehead
ffor the pose or could Rume in the head
Put powder of horse mintes in a bagge and lay it
hot to the heade./
To make hayre grow./
Take mallow Roots and seeth them and wash the
place therewith./
page 9
To keepe ons haire from beinge gray.
Mix with the ashes of grownd wormes burnt oile and therewith Rub your
combe it is much vsed of most women./
ffor the miggrime
Lay the forhead temples and all housleeke and garden wormood stamped
togeather with fine flower put in a Cloth./
ffor runninge noses that be watrie
Take the Ioice of Rue temper them togeather and lye vpright and put
the Ioice into your nostrills often and within a few dayes after it
will amend and cast out the filth of the braynes wherof it commeth
To take scurfe from the head
Take a hanfull of Rue and halfe an ownce of quicke brimstone and seeth it with
good ould wyne and so wash your head therewith but you must wash your
head first with lukewarme water and it helpeth./
ffor those that haue a stinkeinge breath./
Take j oze of sage in powder 3 ozes of Rosemary flowers & oze of Cloues
2 drames of fine sinamon 2 nutmeggs 2 graines of muske made all in
powder then take purified hunney sufficient to kned the same togeather
and put it in an earthen pot set it in the same fowre or fiue dayes and
eate of it /d/ oze fastinge and as much at night to Confort the meate
that is corrupted in the stomacke and vse it often./
To make the breath sweete the face faire./
and good for the Collicke in the stomacke:/
Take the flowers of Rosemary and boile them in Whitewine and drinke therof
and wash therewith.
To take wrincles out of the face./
Take an ould Capon and plucke of his feathers and Cut him alonge
the backe and dresse it as it were to eate then fill him full of
little yellow lemons cut very small and fennell seed put altogeather
in a Limbecke with a moderate fire and so stilled with the water
wash your face morninge and Eveninge./
transcribed_information
forehead Cast powder of Commyn vppon it and so lay it
vppon the brow and bynd it fast to your forehead and
in on night you shalbe whole.
ffor the same./
Take Carvell a handfull and beate it in a morter
and put to it Croomes of browne bread and bay
salt at your discression beate all in a morter
togeather then put in a little viniger and make
a Rownd ball thereof like a tennis ball and lay
in the pit of your necke to bedward bynd it
with your kercher and you shalbe hole./
for on that cannot sleepe ffor paine
in the head or other like greife./
Take oyle of violets with the yolke of an egge and womans
milke as much of thone as thother and beinge mingled
togeather make a plaster thereof and lay it vppon
the forehead or vppon the eyes and the payne shall
cease and a desire of sleepe shall com vppon the party
To cause sleepe
Shredd a hanfull of lettis very small Cast into it
a little bay salt small beaten./
Against the Cold pose of the head
Seeth bay leaues in water and let the patient
receaue the smoke in his mouth and with the
same water wash the temples and forehead
ffor the pose or could Rume in the head
Put powder of horse mintes in a bagge and lay it
hot to the heade./
To make hayre grow./
Take mallow Roots and seeth them and wash the
place therewith./
page 9
To keepe ons haire from beinge gray.
Mix with the ashes of grownd wormes burnt oile and therewith Rub your
combe it is much vsed of most women./
ffor the miggrime
Lay the forhead temples and all housleeke and garden wormood stamped
togeather with fine flower put in a Cloth./
ffor runninge noses that be watrie
Take the Ioice of Rue temper them togeather and lye vpright and put
the Ioice into your nostrills often and within a few dayes after it
will amend and cast out the filth of the braynes wherof it commeth
To take scurfe from the head
Take a hanfull of Rue and halfe an ownce of quicke brimstone and seeth it with
good ould wyne and so wash your head therewith but you must wash your
head first with lukewarme water and it helpeth./
ffor those that haue a stinkeinge breath./
Take j oze of sage in powder 3 ozes of Rosemary flowers & oze of Cloues
2 drames of fine sinamon 2 nutmeggs 2 graines of muske made all in
powder then take purified hunney sufficient to kned the same togeather
and put it in an earthen pot set it in the same fowre or fiue dayes and
eate of it /d/ oze fastinge and as much at night to Confort the meate
that is corrupted in the stomacke and vse it often./
To make the breath sweete the face faire./
and good for the Collicke in the stomacke:/
Take the flowers of Rosemary and boile them in Whitewine and drinke therof
and wash therewith.
To take wrincles out of the face./
Take an ould Capon and plucke of his feathers and Cut him alonge
the backe and dresse it as it were to eate then fill him full of
little yellow lemons cut very small and fennell seed put altogeather
in a Limbecke with a moderate fire and so stilled with the water
wash your face morninge and Eveninge./
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Credit:
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