“ Take to every ounce of flowers all the white cut off 3 ounces of sugar beat them very small so keep them to a pound which put into an earthen or silver bason set it over the fire stir it till the Sugar dissolve and to a pound put an ounce and half of powder of cloves a grain and half of civet a grain and half of beaszer half a grain of unicorns horn the juice of half a lemon mingle all well together and keep it for your use. ”

“ Take 6 pound of lean beef without skin or sinews and one pound & half of fat bacon slice both thin and pound it in a stone morter and season it with a quarter & half of an ounce of cloves and as much pepper and a good nutmeg & as much Salt as Spice mix it very well and when it is baked pour ye gravey from it press it abroad in a pot when it is cold cover it with butter melt’d it will keep half a year if not cut you may do fat beef thus only leave out the bacon. ”

“ Take 4 ounces of may butter 2 ounces of virgins wax 2 scruples of tutty fully prepared 2 scruples of camphir 4 spoonfulls of white or red rose water melt the butter and wax and then put in all the materialls and besure to keep it stiring till it be quite cold when there is occasion to use it take a little of it and put it into the palme of your hand & when it is softned then with your finger anoint all about it on the outside of your eyes and the temples the last thing you do when you go to bed if there should be occasion to wash ye eyes in the morning white or red rose water is best. ”

“ Take 12 lemons and 12 oranges pare them as you pare an apple neither to thick nor to thin then pinch out the juice out of your peels into sugar next strain out the juice of your oranges and lemons into a pound of powder Sugar then mingle all your juices together and let them stand all night then the next day add another pound of sugar and let it stand till it dissolves then bottle it up for your use keeping it coole and perfumeing it to your likeing. ”

“ Take the yolks of 10 eggs and the whites of 5 and a pound of sift’d loafe Sugar half a spoonfull of orange flower water beat all these together 3 quarters of an hour then shake in 12 ounces of fine flour and beat it a quarter of an hour more, have the pans ready butter’d & almost fill them let not the oven be to hot very little will bake them and slide them out before the pans are cold. ”

“ To make 3 dozen of puddings take a quarter of a peck of grots and 2 quarts of milk boyle it and then put in your grots and stire them close and let them stand all night and in the morning take 2 handfulls of sweet herbs Shred small, and one pint of blood 3 pounds of Suit Shred Small put all these things to your grots and season it with a little cloves & mace one nutmeg pepper & one ounce of annyseeds and Salt 6 eggs whites and all. ”

“ The Lady Downs adds Sweet marjerom, rosemary pennyroyall, violets, sweet bryer tops, fennell balme tops lavender tops and time the best of seeds corriander carraway and anyseeds, of spices ginger nutmegs cloves and mace the spices and seeds to hang in a bag in the barrell, these herbs and spices to the quantity of 8 gallons half an ounce or better of each. ”

“ Take of the Stone under the crafish eyes taken from the crafish when the Sun is in cancer is best take as much of these stones in powder as will lay on a 6 pence in a morning and fast after it in some small ale posset drink or burrage water aproved in its cure and the quality of the stone in powder it will turn vinegar sweet if steep’d in it. ”

“ Take a new earthen vessel never used & so many gallons as it will hold pound so many ounces of white copperice in fine powder & when snow is on the ground fresh gather it very clean and put some snow in the pot & then some of the powder doing so untill all the copperice powder be spent and the vessel full then cover it with a clean cloth & set it in a cellar till the snow is all melted off the ground then strain it & keep it for use in bottles. ”

“ To make cakes of the other half Take the other half of your almonds and Sugar mingle it well but set it not on the fire till the oven be hot and sweeping then have ready the whites of 4 eggs beaten to a froth mingle it with the cakes then sift some fine Sugar on a pye plate drop it on the plate sift some Sugar on them so set them in your oven make your jomballs first the cakes must be baked as soon as made the almonds will require half a day to beat them. ”

“ Put one peck of Elder berries to the quantity of halfe a hogshead of Ale 2 penny worth of Ginger sliced 2 nutmegs and a penny worth of Cloves & mace bruise all your Spices boyle all together with the berrys till they breake, then strain them through a Straining Sive and when tis coole as your usuall wort put barm to it as to beer, there must some hops be boyl’d in it. And when fitt to bottle, bottle it with a lumpe of loave Sugar it will drink much ye more Lively. ”