A closet for ladies and gentlevvomen. or, The art of preseruing, conseruing, and candying With the manner hovve to make diuers kinds of syrups: and all kind of banqueting stuffes. Also diuers soueraigne medicines and salues, for sundry diseases.
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- A closet for ladies and gentlevvomen. or, The art of preseruing, conseruing, and candying With the manner hovve to make diuers kinds of syrups: and all kind of banqueting stuffes. Also diuers soueraigne medicines and salues, for sundry diseases.
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- 1608.
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"A closet for ladies and gentlevvomen. or, The art of preseruing, conseruing, and candying With the manner hovve to make diuers kinds of syrups: and all kind of banqueting stuffes. Also diuers soueraigne medicines and salues, for sundry diseases." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19018.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 27, 2024.
Contents
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❧ An especiall note of CONFECTIONARY.
- To preserue Pippyns red.
- To Preserue Pippins white.
- To preserue Pippins greene.
- To preserue Apricockes.
- To preserue Mirabolans or Ma∣lacadonians.
- To preserue Pomcitrons.
- To preserue Cherries.
- To preserue red Rose leaues.
- To preserue Oranges and Lymonds.
- To preserue Quinces.
- To preserue Peaches.
- To preserue Eringus Rootes.
- To preserue Barberies.
- To preserue Goos-berries.
- To preserue Damsins.
- To preserue Raspises.
- To preserue Enula Campana rootes.
- To preserue Saterion Rootes.
- To make Manus Christi.
- To Candy Ginger.
- To Candy Rose leaues as naturally as if they grew vpon the Tree.
- To Candy Marigolds in wedges the Spanish fashion.
- To Candy all manner of flowers in their naturall colours.
- To Candy all sorts of flowers, fruits, and spices, the cleare rocke Candy.
- To Candie Eringus rootes.
- To Candie Elecampane.
- To Candy Violet flowers.
- To Candy Goos-berries.
- To Candy Rosemarie flowers.
- To Candy Borrage flowers.
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To make Past of Pip∣pins
the GENVAfashi∣on, some with leaues, some like Plums with staulkes, and stonesin them. - To make Past of Eglantine of the colour of thrred Corall.
- To make Past Royall white.
- To make Past royall in spises.
- To make Past of Genua the true way.
- To make Past of Violets.
- To make Past of Goos-berries.
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Here beginneth Ban∣queting conceits, as
Marmalades, Quo∣diniackes, and such like.- To Make Muskadine Comfits.
- To make Diacitonium simplex of Quinces.
- To make fine Christ all Gelly.
- To make white leach of creame.
- To make a Walnut, that when you cracke it, you shall find Biskets, and Carrawayes in it, or a prettie Pofey written.
- To make Quodiniacke of plums.
- To make Biskatello.
- To make a speciall sweet water to perfume clothes in the foul∣ding, being washed.
- To make Mosse powder.
- Tr make Aromaticum Lozenges.
- To make a Marchpane, to yee it, and garnish it after the Art of Com∣fit making.
- To make all sorts of banque∣ting conceits of Marchpane stuffe, some like Pyes, Birds, Baskets, and such like, and some to print with moulds.
- To make all kinde of Birds and Beasts to stand on their legges in cast worke.
- To cast all manner of frutage hollow in turnd worke, and put them in their colours, as Oranges, Lymonds, and such like.
- To make Prince bisket bread.
- To make the vsuall bisket solde at Comfitmakers.
- To make an especiall sweet Pow∣der for sweet bagges.
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To make an excellent Marmelate which was giuen Queene
Mary for a New-yeares gift. - To make another sort of Marmelate very comfortable and restoratiue for any Lord or Lady what∣soeuer.
- To make a blaunch for any Ladies face.
- To make printed Quodiniacke of Quin∣ces a rubye colour.
- To make Quodiniackes of Raspises or English Coriants.
- Here endeth the conceits of Banqueting.
- CORDIAL VVaters.
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❧ Here beginneth
Consarues. - To make Marmelade of Quinces.
- To make conserue of red and da∣maske Roses.
- To make Conserue of Violets.
- To make pectorall rowles for the Cough.
- To make Conserue of Borage flowers.
- To make conserue of Rosemary flowers.
- To make Conserue of Buglosse flowers.
- To make a Pomaunder.
- To make Consaure of Barberies.
- To make Consarue Cichorie flowers.
- To keepe Cowecumbers in pickle all the yeare.
- An exceeding fine pill vsed for the goute.
- A Medecine for the Goute.
- To make Syproupe of Pomcitrons
- To make Syrupe of Violets.
- To make Syrupe of Liquorish.
- To make Syrupe of Hore-hound.
- To make Syrape of Mayden haire.
- To make Syrupe of Hyssop.
- To keepe Cherries all the yeare to haue them at Christmasse.
- To make a Syrupe of Mulberries.
- To make Syrupe of Lymonds.
- To make Syrupe of Roses sollitiue.
- To make Syrupe of drie Roses.
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A Medicine to giue a woman in trauel, to make her haue throwes. - A Medicine for the falling downe of the matrisse to the bearing place.
- Another for to be taken to the Nauell, and to the backe right against the Nauell for the same.
- A Medicine for a woman after burden, if neede be to bring it downe.
- To stop the Whites in women.
- For a Teter.
- To make a Seare-cloth for an Ache that is nextly come.
- For a Felon or an Andcome.
- For to heale any, if they be scal∣ded with hot liquor.
- A Medicine for the Whites.
- A Medicine for them that are giuen to bleeding.
- For the heate in the Kidneys.
- A Medicine for the Stone.
- For the Woormes.
- To heale a sore Breast that comes with the infection of the milke.
- To stench bleeding at the Nose.
- To stench Bleeding of a wound.
- Another for to stanch the blee∣ding of a wound.
- For the weakenesse in the backe.
- For the Wormes.
- To know whether a Child hath the Wormes, or no.
- For one that is bruised with a fall.
- For the winde Collicke.
- For the Gout that is newly come.
- A Water to wash a sore.
- For the shrinking of the Synewes.
- For the Pyles.
- A Salue to take dead flesh out of a sore.
- For the staying of the Fluxe.
- Another for the same.
- For the Gowte.
- For the Pyles.
- For an Ague.
- To make a fresh Cheese.
- A Medicine for a Pestilent Ague, or to driue any thing from the heart.
- A Medicine for the sorenesse in the throat that commeth with the Rhume.
- Another for the falling of the Eualow, or other paine in the throat.
- A salue for a greene wound.
- A Water to beale all sores in legges and Vlcers.
- A very good water for a sore mouth.
- A Castile to breake any swelling that is readie to breake.
- A Catitus Plaster.
- To make Populier.
- Basilicon.
- Maturacum poultnis.
- A Medicine to heale old sores.
- A Plaster to heale old sores, after they be made cleane, and filled with flesh.
- To clense a sore, and take away the dead flesh.
- A Medicine for a sore abroate.
- A Medicine that wil heale any wound or sore, and keepeth it without proud flesh or dead flesh.
- A Glister.
- To take away the heate of a burne or out of a Scalde.
- To make another Glister.
- A Medicine for one that is broken.
- To make a Poultis for swelling
- For the Rhewme.
- For the toothache and the rhume.
- A water for the eyes.
- For the eyes.
- For paine in the head.
- A Gargas for to purge the head.
- For a pinne and web.
- For a swelling.
- For a bone ach.
- A medicine to heale an old sore or a new.
- For an Andcom.
- The Copie of Doctor Stephens water.
- Pymypinell.
- To take out the heat of a burne.
- To take the heat out of the face.
- A Medicine for a canker in ones mouth, prooued.
- The Diet drinke.
- For the head ach.
- To make the rhume medicine.
- A salue for a cut.
- A medicine for the stopping of the liuer, very good for them that haue the Ianders.
- For the Wormes
- A Medicine for a quartan or a tertian Ague.
- For the Canker in the mouth or rawnesse, or in the lower parte of the woe.
- A good medicine for an Andicome, or a Boch, or a sore breast or Carbunckell, to ripe or breake them.
- A good salue to heale it when it is broken.
- A medicine for a bruse.
- An Oyntment for an Ague sore, or other sores, and for swellings.
- An approoued good medicine for the Tooth ache.
- A midicine for the bloodie flixe.
- For the pin and web in the eye.
- For to take the Ague out of any place where it doth fall.
- A medicine for a greene wound.
- Another medicine to be taken inward∣ly for a greene wound to be taken in Ale or Beere, it is likewise good for the shut∣ting of a bone broken or cut, either for man or beast.
- For to heale wounds and sores.
- Another.
- A medicine for the head burning that long time hath beene.
- For to set in a bone, or heale a broken bone in man or beast.
- For the Pyles.
- A medicine for a Rupture in old or yong.
- A medicine to be vsed during all the time of the Plague, good agaiast infection.
- Another medicine for paine in the head.
- For aking of the head.
- For a Fellon of the head that swelleth the head of a man: and that before written is for the same.
- For all Ebilles of the head.
- For the Carbuckle or the Postume in the head.
- For the Mygrims, Postume, Dropsie, Fe∣uer, and all maner of akings in the head.
- For the head-ache,
- Another.
- Another.
- Another.
- Another.
- A medicine against the stone in the backe or bladder, or for the weakenesse of the backe, which is called the running of the raynes.
- To take away the pocke-holes, or any spot in the face.
- To make Snow.
- A medicine for the Piles.
- A medicine for a cold, or burne, or a sore, approued.
- For the stich.
- For the swelling.
- For the tooth-ache.
- For a bite, or Fellon, or sore leg.
- For the scrathes of a horses leg.
- For the Gowt.
- For the Ague.
- For the Gowt.
- For the Ciatica.
- For the tooth-ach.
- For to stoppe the bleding of a wound.
- For a Consumption, either for old folke, yong folke or children.
- To make one make water.
- To make a Scare
- For the same, and the lest for all manner of aches.
- For a great ach, a soueragine medicine.
- To make a good oyntment or salue for any sore.
- A good Receipt for all manner of sores, olde or new, named the gift of God, praise be to him.
- For bagges in the Fundament.
- To kill a Tetter.
- For the Pestilence.
- For one that is taken within the body, or any place.
- For the Ague or cold.
- Another for the Ague.
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King
Henry the eight his perfume - For the Strangurion.
- To cleanse a wound.
- For the Gowt.
- For a Bruise.
- To keepe one Laxatiue.
- Two remedies verie good against wormes in little children.
- The second remedie against wormes.
- To heale children of the lunaticke disease which happeneth vnto them by reason of a worme with two heads that breedeth in their bodies, the which worme comming to the hart causeth such a passion in the childe that oft times it killeth them.
- A remedie for the falling sickenesse.
- A remedie to cure the bytinge of all vene∣mouse beasts.
- To drawe an arrow head or other yron out of a wound.
- For a knocke or falle, causing a bunch vpon the head.
- A secret remedie against the plurisie.
- A very good remedy for a wound with a sword, staffe, stone, or such like.
- Against the disease or griefe of the flanks, and the collicke passion, experimented, and prooued diuers times.
- Another perfect remedy for the same di∣sease, and to make a man pisse within halfe an houre that hath not made water in three or foure dayes, and will breake the stone within ten or twelue dayes.
- A remedy for spitting of blood, occasioned by the breach of some vayne in the breast.
- Against the griefe of the lungs and spit∣ting of blood, a remedy experimen∣ted and tryed.
- Against stincking of breath.
- Against the biting of a mad dogge, and the rage or madnes that followeth the partie bitten.
- A medicine for waterish eyes.
- A medicine for sore eyes.
- Another for the same.
- To make water for the eyes to kill the heat of any sore.
- Another for the same.
- A medicine for the pinne and webbe in the eye.
- A medicine to cleare the sight.
- For a pearle in the eye.
- For eyes that are blasted.
- To purge the head and eye sight.
- For the eyes that be red and sore.
- Against the payne of the eyes.
- For to see well.
- For the taking in the legge.
- A dyet drinke for the consumption.
- A medicine for the headache.
- Another for the head ach.
- For winde and shootings in your head.
- Another for the head ache.
- Another for the same.
- Another for the same.
- A medicine for Megram in the head.
- Another for the same.
- A medicine to keepe vp the pallat of ones mouth.
- To dry vp Rume in the head.
- A Poultis to coole any place either face, or any where els, that is red and full of heat pimples.
- Against red pimples of the face.
- Another.
- Another.
- A medicine for them that are deafe so that they haue heard before.
- To make an oyntment for a red face.
- Another for the same.
- For a sore mouth.
- A water for a Canker and sore mouth.
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For a canker and s
arnes in the mouth. - A medicine for the mother in a womans side that ryseth.
- A medicine for the pricking of a nedle, or thorne in the ioynt.
- A medicine for a Canker that eateth mans flesh.
- For a bruise.
- For a white scalde.
- A medicine against all stiches.
- A medicine for a sore breast.
- A medicine for swelled brests.
- To breake the fleame of the brest.
- A very good medicine for any ache or sore brest, often approued.
- An approued medicine for a sore brest.
- A remedie for the paines of the breast.
- Another for the sloping of the breast.
- A medicine for the bloody flixe.
- Doctor Smithes medicine for the collicke and stone.
- A medicine for the Chin-coffe for a child.
- To stay a Laxe.
- An excellent medicine for a child that cannot part with his water, or vrine.
- A medicine for the paine of swelling in the stomacke.
- An approued medicine for the spleene.
- A medicine for a fellon or and come.
- A medicine for the ytch of the body.
- A medicine for the Canker in the body.
- A medicine for the heate or ache in the body, or legges or else where.
- A medicine good to clense the body.
- A medicine for a fistula.
- A remedie for one that vometeth to much.
- To make a scare cloth for all manner of aches.
- A medicine for a ring worme or Tetter.
- A medicine for the stich.
- A Poultis for all manner of swelling.
- A medicine for the Cough.
- A medicine for the Mother.
- A medicine for the bloodie flixe.
- A very good medicine for the Piles.
- A medicine for a burne.
- Another for the same.
- A medicine for the dropsie.
- A medicine to drie a sore.
- A medicine for an ache that commeth against raigne.
- A medicine for a burne or scald
- A salue for any olde sore.
- To make a drinke for a burning Ague.
- A medicine for the heate of the Liuer.
- A medicine to make a yong Child goe to stoole.
- An approued medicine for the Nauell when it commeth out with crying.
- A medicine for the swelling of a Childs coddes.
- A medicine to staunch the flixe.
- For to slaunch blood at the nose, or at a veyne that is cutte, proued.
- For to helpe a drunken Man or Woman for euer.
- For scabbes.
- To drie Scabbes.
- For the palsey or shaking in the hands.
- To restore a man to nature that is in a consumption.
- To restore the braine.
- For a perrilous Cough.
- For them that cannot see, and haue red eyes.
- To annoynt the face and to make it white.
- For a fayre face, proued another way.
- To make the face white and faire.
- To helpe the face with red pimples.
- To draw broken bones foorth of the head.
- To quench ones thirst.
- For one that speaketh in his sleepe.
- For a woman that hath too much of her flowers.
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