The accomplisht ladys delight in preserving, physick and cookery.

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Title
The accomplisht ladys delight in preserving, physick and cookery.
Author
Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.
Publication
[London? :: For B. Harris,
1675]
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Subject terms
Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
Cookery -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"The accomplisht ladys delight in preserving, physick and cookery." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09711.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.

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83. To make the Gascoign Powder.

Take of Pearls, white Amber, Harts-Horn, Eyes of Crabs, and White Coral, of each half an ounce, of black thighs of Crabs calcined, two ounces; to every ounces of this powder put in a dram of Oriental Bezo∣ar, reduce them all into a very fine powder, and searce

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them then with Harts-horn Jelly, and a little Saffron 〈◊〉〈◊〉 therein, make it up into paste, and make therewit Lozenges, or Trochises, for your use. Get your Crabs for this powder about May or September, before they be boyled, dry your Lozenges in the Air, not by Fire nor Sun.

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