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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Diet -- Early works to 1800.
Food -- Early works to 1800.
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 17, 2024.
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Tongues.
The Tongues of Beasts seem to be wholly of a fleshy substance: Which if we deny not because it is full of muscles, yet verily the flesh thereof is more spongy and oily then of any flesh besides. Aesop and Thales called Tongues the best and the worst part of the body; but as an Asses bones make the sweetest Regal-pipes of all others, though the living Asse be least musical; so let the living Tongues of any Beasts be never so bad, yet they are without comparison the sweetest meat of all others, when they are dead and drest: For the Tongues of Beasts are soft, temperate, light, moist and spongy, never faulty of themselves, but marred oftentimes by miscooke∣ry. As for Birds Tongues, they are generally exceeding dry, hard, and gristly (Parots tongues excepted) neither could I ever find any cause (but because a curious and sumptuous fool would have it so) why Heliogabulus should have pies made of Nightingales Tongues.