Connies.
It is not to be thought strange that Hippocrates and Galen, and all the Grecians wrote so little of Connies,
Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.
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- Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.
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- Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.
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- London, :: Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard,
- 1655.
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- Nutrition -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89219.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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which with us, above all other Nations is so common a meat. For as Ithaca never bred, nor fostered them, so in all Grece they hardly lived. Here (thanks be to God) they are plentiful, in such sort that Alborne Chase afford∣eth above a hundred thousand couple a year, to the bene∣fit of good house-keeping, and the poors maintenance. Rabbet suckers are best in March, agreeing as well with old melancholick dry, and weak stomacks, as disagreeing with strong and moist complexions. A Midsomer Rab∣bets flesh is less moist and more nourishing; but a Mi∣chaelmas or Winter Rabbet is of firm, wholesome, tem∣perate, and most laudable flesh: best roasted, because their nourishing juice is soon soked out with the least seeth∣ing, making good broth and bad meat. Chuse the Fe∣male before the Male, the fat before the lean, and both from out a chalky ground and a sweet laire.
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Strab▪ lib. 4.