The accomplisht cook, or The art and mystery of cookery.: Wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, then hath been publisht in any language. Expert and ready wayes for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish; the raising of pastes; the best directions for all manner of kickshaws, and the most poinant sauces; with the tearms of carving and sewing. An exact account of all dishes for the season; with other a la mode curiosities. Together with the lively illustrations of such necessary figures as are referred to practice. / Approved by the fifty years experience and industry of Robert May, in his attendance on several persons of honour.

To distill a Pig good against a Consumption.

TAke a Pig, fley it, and cast away the guts; then take the liver, lungs, and all the entrails, and wipe all with a clean cloath; then put it into a still with a pound of dates, the stones taken our, and sliced into thin slices, a pound of sugar, and an ounce of large mace. If the party be hot in the stomach, then take these cool herbs, as vio∣let leaves, strawberry leaves, and half a handfull of bugloss, still them with a soft fire as you do roses, and let the party

take of it every morning and evening in any drink or broath he pleaseth.

You may sometimes adde raisins and cloves.