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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
Publication: London :: Printed for George Conyers ...,; 1694.
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Subject terms: Diet -- Early works to 1800.; Diet in disease.
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How the Poor may Subsist well these Hard Times for Two Pence a Day, and Less.

Take a Peck of good Wheat-flower, make half of it into a Loaf, the other half keep for to use as followeth. Put to a quart of water a spoonful or two of Flower, and make it as we before d••••rected you to make Milk-pottage; eat the Brea•• in quantity, so much as that it may last till your Pottage is spent. This is an Excellent Food, and ••ffords good Nourishment; and by this, the Poor ••ay Subsist well these Hard Times for less than ••wo Pence a Day.

If you put a Quart of Milk, and a Pint of Wa∣••er, a Spoonful of Flower, and order it as before ••••rected; it will be Excellent and Pleasant Food.