Dyets dry dinner consisting of eight seuerall courses: 1. Fruites 2. Hearbes. 3. Flesh. 4. Fish. 5. whitmeats. 6. Spice. 7. Sauce. 8. Tabacco. All serued in after the order of time vniuersall. By Henry Buttes, Maister of Artes, and fellowe of C.C.C. in C.

white∣meates

Milke.

Choise. OF yong beastes ••edde in the choise pasture: 1. Womans, 2. Cowes, 3. Sheepes, 4. Goates.

Vse. Milke increaseth braine, fattes the body: good for hecticke, asswa∣geth scalding heat of the vrin: nou∣risheth plentefully: procureth good colour: furthereth Venus.

Hurt. Naught for feuers, headaches, sore eyes, distillations of rume, di∣seased reynes, obstructions, the teeth, the gummes, olde folkes.

Correctiō. A litle afore you take it, put into it some salt, sugar, or hony, least it curdle in the stomacke: drinke it fasting.

Degree. Moyst in the second, temperate∣ly hot.

Season. Age. Constitu∣tion. For hot weather, youth, cholle∣rists, and strong stomackes.

Lac.

Story for Table-talke.

MIlke consisteth of a three∣fold substance. The first is whitish, colde, and moyst: Nitrous and powerfull to make the belly soluble. The second fat and oyly, of temperate quali∣tie, of which butter is made. The third is grosse, clammy, and fleg∣maticke, whereof cheese is made.

Eate no more Milke, then you can well digest: though it see∣meth to be soft and easie meat, fit for children and milkesops, yet it is not so. Vse no vilolence after it, nor drinke wine, afore you feele it throughly decocted.

Butter.

Choise. THe newest and swéetest, shéeps. Cleanseth and mightily fetch∣eth vp fleame cloddered about the breast and longs, especially procée∣ding of a colde cause: quieteth the cough.

Vse. Too often vsed, makes the sto∣make loose and weake: and causeth loathing.

Hurt. Eate strengthening and astrin∣gent meates vpon it, or old Sacca∣rum Rosatum.

Correcti∣on. Hot and moist in the beginning of the second.

Degree. Season. Age. Constitu∣tion. At any time, for olde folkes ra∣ther then youth: because it much purgeth distillations.

Butyrum.

Storie for Table-talke.

NEw Butter and newe Oyle are of like nature and ope∣ration. The benefite and vse of salt Butter is very notable. For only that way it may be pre∣serued, neither thereby doeth it lose his proper vertue, to open and enlarge the breast: the older it is the hotter also it waxeth.

The Flemming or Hollander, is thought to liue so long as hee doth, onely for his excessiue ea∣ting of Butter.

Some eate it first, and last.

Creame.

Choise. NEw: boyled with a soft fire, so soone as it is flette of the milke.

Vse. As good as butter for the disea∣ses of the brest: pleasant to the taste: cureth the sharpenesse and drowth of the stomacke.

Hurt. Slowly concocted: swimmeth aboue other meates: of grosse iuyce: easily turnes to fumes.

Prepara∣tion. Vse it sparingly, put store of su∣gar, and hony into it.

Degree. Season. Age. Constitu∣tion. Hot and moyst in the first.

Fitter for youth, chollericke and strong stomackes, then the old and rumaticke.

Flos lactis.

Story for Table-talke.

RIghtly so tearmed by the La∣tines, for it is the very flow∣er of milke, as also butter is the flower of Creame.

Although it be not altogether so fat and oyly as butter: yet shal one be glutted and euen loathed with it, far sooner then with but∣ter: neither is it so lasting as but∣ter, but changeth in a moment many times, as Dairy maides can better informe you.

Curdes.

Choise. MAde of the most choise mor∣ning milke: fire-newe: for these be most digestable.

Vse. Holesome for hot constitutions, and such as are troubled with the distillations of chollerous humors: quench thirst: and restraine chol∣ler.

Hurt. Annoy colde stomakes and the smowes, make drowsie, slowly di∣gested.

Degree. Season. Age. Constitu∣tion. Colde and dry in the first.

At any time, for youth, cholle∣rists, and such as exercise much.

Lac coagulatum Re∣cocta vulgo.

Storie for Table-talke.

PLatina missed his cushion, where he saith that Curds are hot of temperature: for experi∣ence thereof, we may note the vse of them. For let a sound, hot and strong stomacke eate them, and they doe him more good then hurt: but if a colde stomacke eate them, they will neuer be concoc∣ted enough.

The reason is plaine: their colde and grosse temprature.

Cheese.

Choise. NEw made: of well tempered milke, of beastes fed in choise pasture.

Vse. Mollifieth: fatteth: gratefull to the palate.

Hurt. Too often vse of it, bréedes ob∣structions, especially in a weake stomacke.

Correction. Eate it with Nuts, Almondes, Peares, and Apples, and neuer but when you haue neede.

Degree. Season. Age. Constitu∣tion. Colde and moyst in the second.

For youth, and great exercisers, for it requireth a strong stomacke.

Caseus.

Storie for Table-talke.

GReene or new cheese, new∣ly made, nourisheth and moysteneth more thē salt and olde. That which is neither new nor old but in a meane, best agreeth with the stomacke: espe∣cially eaten moderately.

They that haue best leysure & loue cheese best, I would wish them to write an Apologie in defense of the common dislike thereof, why so many loue it not.