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Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)
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A restorative Snail water
take a peck of garden snails wash them in 4 or 5 waters afterwards in small beer pound their shells and all then take a quart of earthwormes and scower them with salt and chop them in pieces then take angellica Egremony sallendine red burdock roote rose mary wood sorrell e inner rind of a barberry tree of each a handfull rue and baresfoot of each half a handfull w drams of saffrom 5 ounces of harthorne fenegrik and turmerick of each one ouce and 2 drams of cloves steep all in a earthen vessell clos stopt 24 hours in two gallons of strong beer and a gallon and half of strong white wine and then distill in a worme of alembeek remember before you distill it to steep your saffrom over night in a quart of your white wine
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Doctor Shorts milk water for a cough
take e tops of rosemary mint sage rue of each three handfull firr and Pine tops of each two handfulls half an ounce of nutmegs sliced a handful of cowslips bruise and slice these together and pour upon them a gallon of milk and a quart of canary distill them and mixe th water together
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A Receipt of keep Coies from casting of there Calfs
take one knob of sal earth and pound it to a powder and putt it into a pint of spring water and give it to the cow in the morning fasting and keep her fasting too hours afterward
a proved recait that never fails for to keep cowes from casting there calfs
take one quart of vargis a peny nutmeg and a tost and rub the nutmeg will he his rubed all on one the tost and put the tost in to the vargis all together and give it to the cowes when you see them [?ring] at the taile
