Delightes for ladies to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.

20. A conceipt of the Authors, how beefe may be carried at the sea, with out that strong and violent impression of salt which is vsually purchased by long and extreme powdring.

HEere with the good leaue & fauour of those curteous gen∣tlewomen, for whome I did prin∣cipally if not only intend this litle treatise; I will make bold to lanch a little from the shoare, and trye what may bee done in the vaste and wide Ocean, and in long and dangerous voyages; for the bet∣ter preseruation of such vsuall victuals, as for want of this skill

doe oftentimes meerely perish, or else by the extreame pearcing of the salte, doe lose euen their nutritiue strength and vertue: & if any future experience doe hap∣pen to controll my present con∣ceipt, let this excuse a scholler, quòd in magnis est voluisse satis. But now to our purpose, let all the bloud bee first well gotten out of the beefe, by leauing the same some nine or tenne dayes in our vsuall brine, then barrell vp all the peeces in vessels full of holes, fa∣stening them with ropes at the sterne of the ship; and so dragging them through the salte sea water (which by his infinite change and succession of water will suffer no putrifaction, as I suppose) you may happily find your beefe both sweete and fauourie enough when you come to spend the same. And if this happē to fall out true vpon some triall thereof had, then ei∣ther at my next impression, or

when I shall bee vrged thereunto vpon any necessitie of seruice, I hope to discouer the meanes also whereby euerie Shippe may carry sufficient store of victuall for her selfe in more▪ close and conueni∣ent cariages then those loose ves∣sels are able to performe. But if I may be allowed to carie either roasted or sodden flesh to the sea, then I dare aduenture my poore credit therein to preserue for six whole moneths together, either Beefe, Mutton, Capons, Rabbets, &c. both in a cheape manner, and also as fresh as wee doe now vsu∣ally eate them at our Tables. And this I hold to be a most singular & necessarie secret for all our Eng∣lish Nauie; which at all times vp∣pon reasonable termes I will bee ready to disclose for the good of my country.