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 21, 2024.
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Cepae.
Onions are very hot and drye; nevertheless being rosted or boiled in fat broth or milke, they become tem∣perate and nourishing, leaving their hot and sharp nature in the broth or embers. The Priests of Aegypt abhor∣red them of all herbs; first because (contrary to the course of other things) they encrease most when the Moon decreaseth. Secondly, because they nourish too much, and procure lust, which religious men, of all o∣ther persons, ought to refrain. The greater, whiter, longer, sweeter, thinner-skinned, and fuller of juice they be (such are St. Thomas Onions) the more they nou∣rish, and excel in goodness: but if they be very red, dry, round, light, and sowrish, they are not so commen∣dable. Raw Onions be like raw Garlick, and raw Leeks (that is to say, of great malignity, hurting both head, eyes, and stomach, enflaming blood, and engen∣dering both gross and corrupt humors) but sodden in milke, and then eaten Sallad-wise with sweet oil, vine∣gar, and sugar (as we use them in Lent) they are hurt∣ful to no persons nor complexions.