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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Title: 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.
Author: Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.
Publication: London, :: Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard,; 1655.
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Subject terms: Diet -- Early works to 1800.; Food -- Early works to 1800.; Nutrition -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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Marrow.

Marrow is the finest part or (as it were) the sweat of fat, secretly conveyed into bones: Sweet, unctuous, and pleasant of taste, nourishing them whose bodies be dry, and stomacks able to digest it. It is sod usually with Capons, Cockrels, and Hens in a nourishing white broth, and also dainty pies be made thereof: but I have known many men to have surfeited of them, and there∣fore I dare not generally allow of Marrow. Of all Mar∣rows, I find the Marrow of a Deer easiest to digest; next of a young Mutton, and Beef Marrow to be the heavi∣est. The Marrow of a Goat is very offensive, and the Marrow of Lambs or Calves are not good, because they are crude, bloudy, and imperfect for want of age.