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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 Juices half a pint of musterd
a quarter of a pint of musterd seed bruised stepe 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 Cowslip Wine Lady Whitmors way

Take 9 gallons of water & 24 pound of sugar boil your water &
Sugar very well for an hour haveing put into it the 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 bred
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 draw 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 . . . . [men of]

A receit for the worms in Children

half an ounce of worm food bruised & steeped all night in white
wine vinegar the next morning put to it A quarter of an ounce
of runing treacle A quarter of an ounce of conserve of roses
mix these well together & take the Quantity of a large nutmegg
every morning for 9 mornings fasting an hour after eate
no salt meat nor milk meates during the time of fasting