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.
Author
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 16, 2024.
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[ T] Thornback, which Charles Chester merily and not unfitly calleth Neptunes beard, was extolled by Antiphanes in Athenaeus history for a dainty fish; indeed it is of a plea∣sant taste, but of a stronger smell then Skate, over-moist to nourish much, but not so much as to hinder lust, which it mightily encreaseth. Albertus thinks it as hard to be concocted as any beefe; whose judgement I suspect, sith Hippocrates permits it in long Consumptions: Assuredly if not the flesh, yet the liver is marvelous sweet and of great nourishment, which the very taste and consistence thereof will sufficiently demonstrate. Thorneback is good sodden, especially the liver of it, though Dorion the Musitian said, That a sodden
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Thornback is like a piece of sodden Cloth; but the flesh is best broiled after it hath been sodden▪ to con∣sume the watrishness.