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.

An Excellent Food for all sorts of People, ••ut more-especially▪ for Children and sick People.

Take a quart of Water, two Spoonfuls of Wheat-flower, and two or three Eggs, beat the Flower and Eggs together with a little water, and when the water begins to boil, stir in your Thickning, and keep it stirring till it is ready to boil; then take it off, and put Bread and Salt to it, when it has stood till it is blood warm, eat it; you may put some Butter to it, or an Egg if you like it best: This is an incomparable Food for all sorts of people, it breeds good Blood, opens the Passages, sweetens the Blood, pre∣vents windy Distempers and griping Pains; it is next to Breast-milk for Children, and it is excellent for Consumptive People, if they keep to it four or five

months or more, and eat nothing else, and drink∣ing three our four Glasses of good Ale; let them use gentle Exercise, and moderate Cloathing, and good sweet hard Beds. This, and all other Spoon-meats made thin, are best.