The family dictionary, or, Houshold [sic] companion wherein are alphabetically laid down exact rules and choice physical receipts for the preservation of health ... directions for making oils, ointments, salves, ... chymical preparations, physical-wines, ales and other liquors and descriptions of the virtues of herbs, fruits, flowers ... and parts of living creatures used in medicinal potions, ... likewise directions for cookery, ... also the way of making all sorts of perfumes ... together with the art of making all sorts of English wines, ... the mystery of pickling and keeping all sorts of pickles ... : to which is added as an appendix the explanation of physical terms, bills of fare ... : with the art of carving and many other useful matters / by J.H.

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The family dictionary, or, Houshold [sic] companion wherein are alphabetically laid down exact rules and choice physical receipts for the preservation of health ... directions for making oils, ointments, salves, ... chymical preparations, physical-wines, ales and other liquors and descriptions of the virtues of herbs, fruits, flowers ... and parts of living creatures used in medicinal potions, ... likewise directions for cookery, ... also the way of making all sorts of perfumes ... together with the art of making all sorts of English wines, ... the mystery of pickling and keeping all sorts of pickles ... : to which is added as an appendix the explanation of physical terms, bills of fare ... : with the art of carving and many other useful matters / by J.H.
Author
Salmon, William, 1644-1713.
Publication
London :: Printed for H. Rhodes ...,
1695.
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Medicine, Popular.
Cookery, English.
Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
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"The family dictionary, or, Houshold [sic] companion wherein are alphabetically laid down exact rules and choice physical receipts for the preservation of health ... directions for making oils, ointments, salves, ... chymical preparations, physical-wines, ales and other liquors and descriptions of the virtues of herbs, fruits, flowers ... and parts of living creatures used in medicinal potions, ... likewise directions for cookery, ... also the way of making all sorts of perfumes ... together with the art of making all sorts of English wines, ... the mystery of pickling and keeping all sorts of pickles ... : to which is added as an appendix the explanation of physical terms, bills of fare ... : with the art of carving and many other useful matters / by J.H." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A45501.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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Court-Ielly: Take three or four Calves-feet, and lay them in Water all night; then scald off the Hair, slit them, and take out the long Bones: then take a young Cockerel and dress him, after he has lain all night in Water; boil him

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and the Feet together in four pints of White-wine, and as much fair Water, until they be enough: then let it run thorough a Strainer into a Bason, or other Vessel, letting it stand till it is cold: then with the point of a Knife or Spoon take of the clearest from the settlings, and put it into a Pot with three quarters of a pound of fine Sugar, and two ounces of Cinamon scraped, an ounce of Ginger, two sliced Nutmegs, and ten Cloves; boil them together; and while they are boiling, put in the Whites of six Eggs, and a Branch of Rosemary; strain it thorough a Jelly-bag, and so serve it up. This great∣ly fortifies Nature, creates good and wholsom Blood, and restores decayed and Con∣sumptive Bodies.

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