A pocket-companion, containing things necessary to be known by all that values their health and happiness being a plain way of nature's own prescribing, to cure most diseases in men, women and children, by kitchen-physick only : to which is added, an account how a man may live well and plentifully for two-pence a day / collected from The good housewife made a doctor, by Tho. Tryon.

To prepare Milk with Wheat-Flower, an Excel∣lent Way.

Take a quart of New Milk, after it has stood five or six Hours from the time it was milk'd, put to it a third part of River or Spring Water, set it on a clear fire; then take some Wheat-Flower, and temper it with either Water or Milk into a Batter, and when the Milk is ready to boyl, put in your Thickning, and stir it a while; and when it is ready to boyl again, take it off; then put as much Salt and Bread to it as you please, then let it cool with∣out stirring it, and it will eat much sweeter: Two spoonfuls of Flower is enough for a quart of Milk and Water, make it about the thickness of ordinary Milk-pottage. This keeps your Body in excellent Temper, neither binds nor loosens too much, and it never tires nor clogs the Stomach.