A Book of Fruits and Flowers

About this eBook

Author

Anonymous

Credits

Produced by David Starner, Martin Radford and PG Distributed Proofreaders

Language

English

LoC Class

TX: Technology: Home economics

Subject

Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

eBook-No.

13265

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13265

Release Date

August 23, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A — BOOK — OF — Fruits & Flowers
2. 2.SHEWING — The Nature and Use of them, either — for Meat or Medicine. — AS ALSO:
3. 3.Of Lemmons. — A Lemmon Sallet. — To Preserve Oranges or Lemmons. — To make Past of Lemmons. — Sweet Bagges to lay amongst Linnen.
4. 4.Medicines made of Lemmons. — To take away the Spots, or red Pimpels of the face. — A very good Medicine for the Stone. — To roste a Shoulder of Mutton with Lemmons. — To Boyle A Capon with Oranges and Lemmons. — A Lemmond Sallet.
5. 5.Of Quinces. — The best way to Preserve Quinces. — A speciall Remembrance in doing them. — To Pickle Quinces. — To make Quince Cakes. — To make Printed Quidony of Quinces.
6. 6.Of Roses. — To make sweet Bagges to lay Linnen in. — A very good Poultis for any Member swell'd and inflamed, and not broken, to take away the paine. — To make a sweet Cake, and with it a very sweet water. — Oyle of Roses. — Syrupe of Roses. — A Conserve of Roses. — To Preserve Roses or any other Flowers. — How to Preserve Barbaries. — To keep Barbaries to garnish your Meat. — Conserve of Barbaries.
7. 7.Of Almonds. — To make Almond Biscate. — To make Almond Milke. — An approved Medicine for the running of the Reines. — Oyle of Almonds. — A Barley Cream to procure sleep, or Almond Milke. — An Oyntment to kill the Worms in little Children. — To make the best white Puddings. — An Almond Candle. — To make fine white Leach of Almonds. — To make Almond Butter. — To make Almond Cakes. — To make Paste of Almonds. — To make a Marchpine. — To make White-Broth with Almonds.
8. 8.Of Straw-Berries. — A Tart of Straw-Berries.
9. 9.Of Hartichoakes. — How to make a Hartichoake Pye. — To keep Hartichoakes for all the yeare. — To Preserve Hartichoakes. — To make a maid dish of Hartechoakes. — OF MEDICINES. — An Excellent Medicine or Salve for an Ache coming of cold, easie to be made by any Countrey Housewife. — To cake the Ague out of any place. — For the Ague in Children, or Women with Child. — To strengthen the Back weak or diseased. — For a Paine or Ache in the Back. — For a suddain Bleeding at the Nose. — A Medicine for Burning or Scalding. — For the Canker in Womens Breasts. — For the Canker in the Mouth. — To make a Tooth fall out of it selfe. — To take away the cause of the paine in the Teeth. — For A Consumption. — An excellent Medicine for the Cough of the Lungs.
10. 10.Of Violets. — The use of Oyle of Violets. — The Syrupe of Violets. — The use of Conserve of Violets and Cowslips. — To make Paste of Violets, or any kind of Flowers. — Powder of Violets. — A good Plaister for the Strangury. — A Medicine for sore blood-shotten and Rhuematick eyes. — A Glister to open and loosen the Body being bound, which may safely be administred to any man or woman. — To cleanse the head, and take the Ache away. — A Medicine that hath healed old Sores upon the leggs, that have run so long that the bones have been seen. — An Oyntment for a Rupture. — A Barley Water to purge the Lungs and lights of all Diseases. — To Cure the Diseases of the Mother. — To kill Warts: an approved Medicine. — For the Piles. — A Medicine for the Piles. — A Diet for the Patient that hath Ulcers or Wounds that will hardly be Cured with Oyntments, Salves, or Plaisters.
11. 11.Of Cowslips. — Oyle of Cowslips. — The use of the Oyle of Wormwood, and Oyle of Mint. — Syrupe of Cowslips. — To keep Cowslips for Salates. — To Conserve Cowslips. — To Preserve all kinde of Flowers in the Spanish Candy in Wedges. — A Medicine to break and heale sore breasts of Women, used by Mid-wives, and other skillfull Women in London. — A Medicine that hath recovered some from the Dropsie whome the Physitian hath given over. — An especiall Medicine for all manner of Poyson. — Doctor Lewin's Unguentum Rosatum, good for the heat in the Back.
12. 12.Of Beanes. — To defend Humours. — To dissolve the Stone; which is one of the Physitians greatest secrets. — Unguentum Sanativum. — A Serecloath for all Aches. — An Oyntment to be made at any time of the yeare, and is approved good, and hath helped old Paines, Griefes, and Aches. — An Oyntment for the Sciatica. — A Water to drive away any Infection. — An excellent Conservative for the stomach, helping digestion, warming the braine, and drying the Rheumes. — An Oyntmnt for any wound or sore. — An excellent Oyntment for any Bruise or Ache. — A Plaister for a Bile or Push. — An approved good drink for the Pestilence. — For the Rheume in the gums or teeth. — For the Emroids. — An approved medicine for the Dropsey. — A Powder for Wounds. — An approved Medicine for the Green sicknesse. — A Medicine for a Pleurisie, Stitch, or Winde, offending in any part of the Body. — An approved Medicine for the Gout in the feet. — For one that cannot make water. — To kill the Ring worme, and heat thereof. — To make a Water for all Wounds and Cankers. — For a Swelling that cometh suddenly in mans Limbs.
13. 13.Of Apricocks. — To dry Apricocks. — Clear Cakes of Quinces, or Apricocks. — The best way to Preserve Apricocks
14. 14.Of Lillies. — The use of Oyle of Lillies. — To Candy all kinde of Flowers as they grow, with their stalks on. — To make the Rock Candies upon all Spices, Flowers, and Roots. — The Candy Sucket for green Ginger, Lettice, Flowers.
15. 15.Of Grapes. — Syrupe Gresta, or a Syrupe of Unripe Grapes. — OF PURGES. — A Purge to drive out the French Pox, before you use the Oyntment. — The Oyntment for the French Pox. — What place to annoynt for the French Pox. — For a paine in the ears, or deafnesse.
16. 16.Of Marigolds. — A very good Plaister to heale and dry up a Sore or Cut Suddenly. — The use of Conserve of Marigolds.
17. 17.Of Cherries. — A way to dry Cherries. — How to Preserve Cherries. — To make all manner of Fruit Tarts. — To make a close Tart of Cherries. — To make fine Pippin Tarts. — To make a Tart of Butter and Eggs.
18. 18.Of Goose-Berries. — To keep Goose-Berries. — The best way to Preserve Goose-Berries.
19. 19.Of Plums. — The best way to dry Plums. — To Preserve Damsons. — To Preserve Bullasses as green as grasse. — To Preserve Pares, Pare-Plums, Plums.
20. 20.Of Medlers. — To Preserve Medlers. — To make a Tart of Medlers.
21. 21.Of Cucumbers. — How to keep Cucumbers. — To keep boyled Cucumbers. — To Pickle Cucumbers to keep all the yeare. — OF COOKERY. — To make Snow. — To make Spiced Bread. — To make Craknels. — To make Veale-tooh's, or Olives. — To make a Barley Creame to procure sleepe, or Almond Milke. — To pickle Oysters. — To make very fine Sausages. — To cast all kind of Sugar works into Moulds. — To make all kinde of turned works in fruitage, hollow. — To make a Sallet of all kinds of Hearbs. — To make Fritter-stuffe — FINIS.

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