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.

TO do this in the Form of a Cock, fold the Napkin in the middle, so that the two Selvages may come together; then pleat it at its full length in small and close Pleats, as hard as possible you can friese it; but in that be sure to keep it as close as may be: then open it again, within a fingers breadth of the middle, and join the Pleats together again, put in a good handsome round Loaf under the middle in the fold, put the edges of the Napkin on the Loaf, and then pull out the Head and Beak of the Cock out of the middle of the Napkin, which you must raise on high, and make him a Comb, Wattles, and a Beard, of some red Stuff, and for the end of the Beak, you may make it of a large Quill, which may be fashioned like a Cocks Beak, with a little Gum-Dragon steept in Orange-flower-water: then pull out and fashion him a Tail out of the other end of the Fold, raise it as high as may be.