Index on modern lines, for more ready reference, will be found on pages
287-291.]
APPENDIX I
SOME ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS
1. _Aqua Mirabilis_. Sir Kenelm Digby's way.
Take Cubebs, Gallingale, Cardamus, Mellilot-flowers, Cloves, Mace, Ginger,
Cinammon, of each one dram bruised small, juyce of Celandine one pint,
juyce of Spearmint half a pint, juyce of Balm half a pint, Sugar one pound,
flower of Cowslips, Rosemary, Borage, Bugloss, Marigold, of each two drams,
the best Sack three pints, strong Angelica-water one pint, red Rose-water
half a pint; bruise the Spices & Flowers, & steep them in the Sack & juyces
one night; the next morning distil it in an ordinary or glass-still, &
first lay Harts-tongue leaves in the bottom of the still.
THE VERTUES OF THE PRECEDENT WATER
This water preserveth the Lungs without grievances, & helpeth them; being
wounded, it suffereth the Blood not to putrifie, but multiplieth the same.
This water suffereth not the heart to burn, nor melancholly, nor the Spleen
to be lifted up above nature: it expelleth the Rheum, preserveth the
Stomach, conserveth Youth, & procureth a good Colour: it preserveth Memory,
it destroyeth the Palsie: If this be given to one a dying, a spoonful of it
reviveth him; in the Summer use one spoonful a week fasting; in the Winter
two spoonfuls.
The above receipt is given in the 3rd edition of _The Closet Opened_, 1677,
also in _The Queen's Closet Opened_.
2. _Another more precious Cosmetick, or beautifying Water, by Sir_ Kenelm
Digby.
Take White Lillies six drams, Florence Orrice Roots, Beans, Cicers, Lupins,
of each half an ounce, fresh Bean-flowers a handful, Gum Tragant, White
Lead, fine Sugar, of each half an ounce, Crums of white Bread, (steeped in
Milk) an ounce, Frankincense, and Gum Arabick of each three drams, Borax,
and feather'd Allom of each two drams, the White of an Egg, Camphire a dram
and a half; infuse them four and twenty hours in a sufficient quantity of
Rose and Bean-flower water, equal parts; then distil it in _B.M._
_This Water smooths, whitens, beautifies & preserves the Complexions of
Ladies. They may wash their Faces with it at any time, but especially
Morning and Evening_.
3. _Another richer Perfume; being pleasant and wholesome, to perfume
Tobacco taken in a Pipe_.
Take Balm of Peru half an ounce, seven or eight Drops of Oyl of Cinamon,
Oyl of Cloves five drops, Oyl of Nutmegs, of Thyme, of Lavender, of Fennel,
of Aniseeds (all drawn by distillation) of each a like quantity, or more or
less as you like the Odour, and would have it strongest; incorporate with
these half a dram of Ambergrease; make all these into a Paste; which keep
in a Box; when you have fill'd your Pipe of Tobacco, put upon it about the
bigness of a Pin's Head of this Composition.
_It will make the Smoak most pleasantly odoriferous, both to the Takers,
and to them that come into the Room; and ones Breath will be sweet all the
day after. It also comforts the Head and Brains._ Approved by Sir _Kenelm
Digby_.
From Hartman, _The True Preserver of Health_, 1682.
APPENDIX II
_The true Preparation of the Powder of Sympathy, as it was prepared every
year in Sir_ Kenelm Digby's _Elaboratory, and as I prepare it now_.
Take good English Vitriol, which you may buy for two pence a pound,
dissolve it in warm water, using no more water than will dissolve it,
leaving some of the Impurest part at the bottom undissolved; then powr it
off and filtre it, which you may do by a Coffin of fine gray paper put
into a Funnel, or by laying a Sheet of gray Paper in a Sieve, and powring
your water or Dissolution of Vitriol into it by degrees, setting the Sieve
upon a large Pan to receive the filtred Liquor; when all your Liquor is
filtred, boil it in an earthen Vessel glazed, till you see a thin Scum upon
it; then Set it in a Cellar to cool, covering it loosly, so that nothing
may fall in; after two or three days standing, powr off the liquor, and you
will find at the bottom and on the sides large and fair green Christals
like Emerauds; drain off all the Water clean from them, and dry them; then
spread them abroad, in a large flat earthen Dish, & expose them to the hot
Sun in the Dog-days, taking them in at Night, and setting them out in the
Morning, securing them from the Rain; and when the Sun hath calcin'd them
to whiteness, beat them to Powder, & set this Powder again in the Sun,
stirring it sometimes, and when you see it perfectly white, powder it, &
sift it finely, and set it again in the Sun for a day, and you will have a
pure white Powder, which is the Powder of Sympathy; which put up in a
Glass, and stop it close. The next yeare when the Dog-days come, if you
have any of this Powder left, you may expose it again in the Sun, spreading
it abroad to renew its Vertue by the influence of the Sun-beams.
The way of Curing Wounds, with it, is, to take some of the Blood upon a
Rag, and put some of the Powder upon the Blood, then keep only the Wound
clean, with a clean Linnen about it, and in a moderate Temper betwixt hot
and cold, and wrap up the Rag with the Blood, and keep it either in your
Pocket, or in a Box, & the Wound will be healed without any Oyntment or
Plaister, and without any pain. But if the wound be somewhat old, and hot,
and inflamed, you must put some of this Powder into a Porringer or Bason
full of cold Water, and then put any thing into it that hath been upon the
wound, and hath some of the Blood or Matter upon it, and it will presently
take away all Pain and Inflammation, as you see in Sir _Kenelm's_ Relation
of Mr. _Howard [sic]_.
To staunch the Blood either of a Wound or Bleeding at the Nose, take only
some of the Blood upon a Rag, & put some powder upon it, or take a Bason
with fresh water, and put some of the Powder into it, and bath the Nostrils
with it.
From Hartman, _The Preserver of Health_.
APPENDIX III
A LIST OF THE HERBS, FLOWERS, FRUITS, ETC., REFERRED TO IN _The Closet
Opened:_--
I. Agrimony; alexander; angelica; avens, leaves & flowers; balm;
bay-leaves; beet leaves; bettony, wild; bettony, Paul's; bistort;
bloodwort; bluebottles; blue-button; borage, leaves & flowers; bramble,
red, tops of; broom-buds; bugle; bugloss, leaves & flowers; burnet; carduus
benedictus; carrot, wild; celandine; cersevril; chicory; chives; clove
gilly-flowers; clown's all-heal; coltsfoot; comfrey; cowslip & French
cowslip flowers; dragons; elder flowers; endive; eyebright; fennel;
fever-few; garlic; ground-ivy; groundsel; hart's tongue, leaves; hops,
flowers; horehound; hypericum, tops & flowers; hyssop; ladies' mantle;
lettuce, leaves & stalks; lily of the valley; liquorice; liverwort;
maidenhair; marigold, flowers & leaves; marjoram, sweet; marjoram, wild;
marshmallow, leaves, flowers, & stalks; may-weed, brown; meadowsweet;
mellilot, flowers; mint; spearmint; mouse-ear; mugwort; muscovy; nettle,
red; oak of Jerusalem; organ; origanum [wild marjoram]; oseille; parietary;
peas (chick); pellitory-of-the-wall; penny-royal; philipendula; pimpernel;
pourpier; primrose, flowers; purslane; ribwort; rocket; rosemary, tops,
flowers, & sprigs; rose; rue; sage, (red & wild), leaves & flowers;
saxifrage; sanicle; scabious; scurvy grass; self-heal; shallots;
sibboulets; skirrets; smallage; sorrel (wood); spike [spignel?];
spleenwort; spinach; St. John's wort; strawberry leaves; sweetbriar,
leaves, tops, buds; sweet oak; sweetwort; tamarisk; tansy; thyme (broad,
lemon, mother, & wild); violet, leaves & flowers; wallflowers (yellow);
wall rue; watercress; wheat (green); white-wort; winter savoury; woodbine;
wormwood (sea & Roman); yarrow. (From this list I have omitted the commoner
vegetables.)
2. _Roots_.--Alexander; angelica; asparagus; beet; betony, bittersweet;
bluebottle; borage; coltsfoot; elecampane; eringo; fennel; fern; galingale;
horse-radish; marshmallow; nettle (red); orris; parsley; scabious; sorrel;
strawberry; succory; thyme (wild); tormentilla.
3. _Seeds_.--Anise; cardamom; carraway; citron; coriander; fennel;
gromwell; melon; musk grains; mustard; nettle; parsley; saffron; tulip,
seedy buds of; wormwood.
4. _Fruits_.--Apples (codlings, ginet moils, pearmains, pippins, golden
pippins, red streaks); apricots; barberries; bilberries; cherries (black,
Kentish, Morello); currants (dried, black, red); damsons; dates; jujubes;
juniper berries; lemons; pears (bon chrétien & wardens); plums; prunes;
raisins; rasps; sweetbriar berries; strawberries.
5. _Barks, woods._--Ash-tree bark; lignum cassiæ.
6. _Nuts_.--Almonds; chestnuts; pine kernels; pistachios; walnuts (green).
7. _Juices_.--Balm; celandine; cherry; hop; lemon; onion; orange;
spearmint; spinach; tansy.
8.--_Distilled waters_ of angelica; cinnamon; mallow; orange-flower;
plantain; rose (red & damask).
9. _Spices_ of all sorts; cloves; cinnamon (also oil of, & spirit of);
ginger; mace; mustard; nutmeg; pepper; peppercorns.
10. _Wines_.--Canary sack; claret; Deal; elder; Malaga (old); Muscat;
Muscadine (Greek); red; Rhenish; sack, sherry sack; Spanish; white.
11. _Other liquors_.--Ale & beer; afterworts; lees of beer & wine; aqua
vitæ; orangeado.
12. _Vinegars_ of elder wine, & of white wine.
13. _Verjuice_ of cider, & green sour grapes.
14. _Other notable seasonings and ingredients_:--
Ambergris; ivory; leaf gold; powder of white amber; powder of
pearl; Spanish pastilles (ambergris, sugar, & musk).
NOTES
_Introduction_
p. x 1. 3 _Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine_. By W. Carew Hazlitt.
Booklovers' Library. 1886.
p. x 1. 5 _The Life of Sir Kenelm Digby_. By One of his Descendants [T.
Longueville]. 1896.
p. xi 1. 29 For the controversy about the date of his birth, see the
usual biographical authorities:--Longueville, _op. cit._, Digby's
_Memoirs_, ed. Nicolas, 1827; _Dict. of Nat. Biog._; _Biog. Brit._
(Kippis); Wood's _Athenae Oxon._, iii. 688; Aubrey's _Lives_, ii.
323, etc. etc.
p. xiv 1. 13 "the elder Lady Digby." See text, p. 141.
p. xv 1. 15 "manuscript of elections." See W.H. Black's _Catalogue of
the Ashmolean MSS._, 240, 131 and 1730, 166.
p. xx 1. 20 _Journal of a Voyage to Scanderoon_, ed. J. Bruce for
Camden Soc., 1868.
p. xxi 1. 3 "Scanderoon had to be repudiated." Here is a curious echo
of the affair, quoted by Mr. Longueville from Blundell of Crosby.
"When the same Sir Kenelm was provoked in the King's presence (upon
occasion of the old business of Scanderoon) by the Venetian
Ambassador, who told the King it was very strange that his Majesty
should slight so much his ancient amity with the most noble state
of Europe, for the affections which he bore to a man (meaning Sir
Kenelm) whose father was a traitor, his wife a ----, and himself a
pirate, altho' he made not the least reply (as long as the
ambassador remained in England) to those great reproaches, yet
after, when the quality of his enemy was changed (by his return) to
that of a private person, Sir Kenelm posted after him to Italy.
There sending him a challenge (from some neighbouring state) he
found the discreet Magnifico as silent in Italy as himself had been
in England, and so he returned home."
p. xxii 1. 13 The _Memoirs_ were edited by Sir N.H. Nicolas from the
Harleian MS. 6758 in 1827.
p. xxii 1. 28 "outburst of vile poetry." See _Poems from Sir K.D.'s
papers_, ed. Warner. Roxburghe Club, 1877.
p. xxiii 1. 16 "hermit." The portrait of Digby in this guise, painted
by Janssen, in the possession of T. Longueville, Esq., is
reproduced in Mr. Longueville's life of his ancestor. Says Pennant
in his _Journey from Chester to London_, ed. 1782, "I know of no
persons who are painted in greater variety than this illustrious
pair [Digby and his wife]: probably because they were the finest
subjects of the time."
p. xxv 1. 3 "duel ... with a French lord." See the curious little
pamphlet, _Sir Kenelme Digby's Honour Maintained_, 1641.
p. xxvi 1. I The _Observations on Religio Medici_, together with the
correspondence between Browne and Digby, are often reprinted with
the text of _R.M._
p. xxvi 1. 5 "glass-making." See Longueville, pp. 255-6
p. xxix 1. 11 Descartes. Des Maizeaux. _Viede Saint-Evremond,_ pp.
80-6.
p. xxxi 1. 8 _A Late Discourse made in a Solemne Assembly of Nobles and
Learned Men at Montpellier_. By Sir K.D., Kt. Rendered faithfully
into English by R. White. 2nd ed., 1658. The original was in
French. Longueville gives a loathsome receipt for the Sympathetic
Powder from an original in the Ashmolean. "To make a salve yt
healeth though a man be 30 miles off." But vitriol is the only
ingredient Digby mentions; and the receipt given by his steward
Hartman [see Appendix], and sold by him, is more likely to be
Digby's. Of course, there were many claimants to the credit of the
invention of sympathetic powders.
p. xxxiii 1. 4 "house in Covent Garden." For a brief account of this
house, see an article on Hogarth's London in the _English Review_,
February, 1910.
p. xxxiv 1. 6 "history of the Digby family." This has disappeared.
p. xxxiv 1. 13 "Catalogue of the combined collection." _Bibliotheca
Digbeiana_, 1680. See also Edwards's _Memoirs of Libraries_, II,
118, and _Sir K.D. et les Anciens Rapports des Bibliothèques
Françaises avec la Grande Bretagne_. L. Delisle. 1892.
p. xxxviii 1. 20 Lloyd's _Lives of Excellent Personages that suffered
for ... Allegiance to the Soveraigne in the late Intestine Wars_,
ed. 1668.
p. xliv 1. 10 "remedy for Biting of a Mad Dog." There is a similar
receipt in _Arcana Fairfaxiana_, ed. G. Waddell, 1890, a
collection of old medical receipts, etc. of the Fairfax and
Cholmely families. "A Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog Published for
ye Benefit of Mankind in the Newspapers of 1741 by a Person of
Note.... N.B. This Medicine has stood a tryal of 50 years
Experience, and was never known to fail."
p. liii 1. 30 Culpeper's _English Physitian_, 1653.
p. liii 1. 30 N. Culpeper. Herball.
p. liii 1. 30 John Gerard. _The Historie of Plants_, 1547.
p. liii 1. 31 Wm. Coles. _Adam in Eden_ and _The Art of Simpling._ 1657
and 1656.
_To the Reader_.
p. 3 1. 20 "that old Saw in the Regiment of Health." _The Regyment, or
a Dyetary of Helth_. By Andrew Borde, 1542. (Reprinted by the Early
English Text Soc.)
_Receipts._
p. 5, etc. "Metheglin is esteemed to be a very wholsom Drink; and
doubtless it is so, since all the world consents that Honey is a
precious Substance, being the Choice & Collection which the Bees
make of the most pure, most delectable, & most odoriferous Parts of
Plants, more particularly of their Flowers & Fruits. Metheglin is
therefore esteemed to be an excellent Pectoral, good against
Consumption, Phthisick and Asthma; it is cleansing & diuretick,
good against the Stone & Gravel; it is restorative and
strengthening; it comforts and strengthens the Noble parts, &
affords good Nourishment, being made Use of by the Healthy, as well
as by the Sick.
"My worthy Master, that Incomparable Sir Kenelm Digby, being a great
lover of this Drink, was so curious in his Researches, that he made
a large Collection of the choicest & best Receipts thereof."
Hartman, _Select Receipts_, p. 1.
Concerning the difference between Mead and Metheglin, Borde (_Regyment
of Helth_) says:--
"_Of Meade_: Meade is made of honny & water boyled both togyther; yf it
be fyred and pure, it preserveth helth; but it is not good for them
the whiche have the Ilyache or the Colycke.
"_Of Metheglyn_: Metheglyn is made of honny and water, & herbes, boyled
and sodden togyther: yf it be fyred and stale, it is better in the
regyment of helth than meade."
But the distinction seems to have been forgotten in the hundred odd
years between the publication of Borde's book and Digby's.
GLOSSARY
_Ana_, of each.
_Apple-Johns_, or _John Apples_, apples considered best when
shrivelled, so called because they are ripe about St. John's Day.
_Aume, aam, awm_, a liquid measure used for wine and oil. A Dutch aume
of wine equalled about 41 English gallons.
_Balneum_, a vessel filled with water or sand, in which another vessel
is placed to be heated.
_Beatilies, beatilia, battalia_, tit-bits (e.g. cockscombs or
sweet-breads) in a pie.
_Bragot_, ale boiled with honey.
_Bunt_, the cavity or baggy part of a napkin when folded or tied as a
bag.
_Burthen_, a quantity, here signifying no certain amount.
_Call_, a wedge.
_Calvered_, cut in thin slices when "fresh," and pickled.
_Canicular days_, dog days.
_Cock's tread_, "The opaque speck or germinal vesicle in the surface of
the yolk in an impregnated egg." M.
_Coddle_, to boil gently, to stew.
_Coffin_, a mould of paste for a pie.
_Cucurbite_, a gourd-shaped vessel; also a shallow vessel with a wide
mouth, used for distillation.
_Demistier_ = demi setier, a measure of quarter-pint capacity.
_Electuary_, a medical conserve or paste of powder mixed with honey,
syrup, etc.
_Fæces_, dregs.
_Fearced_, forced, stuffed.
_Florenden_, _florentine_, a kind of pie, of minced meats, currants,
spices, etc., baked in a dish with a cover of paste.
_Gambon_, _gammon_, a smoked ham.
_Garavanzas_, chick-peas.
_Gelt_, castrated.
_Ginet-moils_, _gennet-moil_, a kind of apple ripe before others.
_Hippocras_, _hypocras bag_, a bag used in making hippocras, a
medicinal drink consisting of spiced wines.
_Humble-pie_, a pie made of umbles or numbles (the heart, liver,
kidneys, etc.) of the deer.
_Kiver_, _kive_, _keever_, a large vessel for fermenting liquors; a
mashing tub.
_Lardons_, strips of bacon or salt pork used for larding.
_Laton_, _latton_, _latten_, a utensil made of thin brass, or mixed
metal.
_Lith_, smooth, thick.
_Lute_, to close v., to adhere.
_Magma_, grounds.
_Manchet_, roll, or small loaf of fine white bread.
_Marinate_, to salt or pickle, and then preserve in oil or vinegar.
_Medullos_, _medullose_, having the texture of pith.
_Mittoner_, Fr. _Mitonner_.
_Mother of wine_, lees.
_Must_, new wine.
_Pearmains_, a variety of apple, perhaps from _permagnus_.
_Poix-chiches_, chick-peas.
_Posnet_, _possnet_, _possenet_, a porringer.
_Pottle_, a measure of two quarts.
_Pugil_, a pinch.
_Pun_, to beat, to pound as in a mortar.
_Race_, a root.
_Ranch-sieve_, perhaps a sieve mounted on a stand, from _rance_,
_ranse_ a prop.
_Rand_, a strip or slice of meat cut from the margin of a part, or from
between two joints.
_Resty_, _reasty_, rancid.
_Rouelle_, a rolled piece [of veal].
_Rundlet_, _runlet_, a small barrel.
_Runnet_, rennet.
_Searse_, _searce_, a fine sieve.
_Souce-drink_, pickle sauce.
_Stroakings_, the last milk drawn from a cow; strippings.
_Stubble-goose_, the grayling goose.
_Tansy_, see recipe. The dish has been traced to the Jewish custom of
eating cakes with bitter herbs.
_Tourtière_, a pie-dish.
_Tyffany_, _tyffany bag_, bag made of thin silk or gauze.
_Torcular_, a press used in making wine.
_Trivet_, a tripod.
_Walm_, a bubble in boiling; a boiling-up.
_Wardens_, winter pears.
_Wort_, an infusion of malt which after fermentation becomes beer.
INDEX OF RECEIPTS
Ale with Honey, 104
Scotch, from my Lady Holmbey, 98
Small, for the stone, 105
To make Ale drink quick, 100
and Bragot, Master Webbe's, 107
Cock, 147
Apple drink with Sugar, Honey, etc., 106
Apples, A very pleasant drink of, 100
in Gelly, 234
To stew, 201
Sweet Meat of, 238
Syrup of, 253
Bacon for Gambons, and to keep, 212
Barley Cream, The Queen's, 139
Pap, 135
Beef, To bake, 208
or Venison, To boil, 209
To stew, 150
Rump of, To stew, 163, 196, 197
Bisket, To make, 219
Bragot, Master Webbe's, 108
Bran, To make clear Gelly of, 203
Brawn, About making of, 205
Broth, Nourishing, 133
Portugal, as it was made for the Queen, 127
Spinage, 123
Stewed, 125
and Potage, 141
for sick and convalescent persons, 143
Butter and Oil to fry fish, 193
Cake, To make a, 216, 217
A very good, 220
An excellent, 219
Carraway, 219
Plumb, 218
Cakes, Excellent small, 221
Capon, Boiled, Savoury and nourishing, 153
Cold Rosted, Sallet of, 206
to pickle, My Lady Portland's way, 159
in white broth, 146
Champignons, Pickled, 200
Cheese, Savoury tosted, or melted, 228
Scalded, 227
Slippcoat, 223-7
Cheese-cakes, To make, 214
Cherries, Marmulate of, 251
Marmulate of, with juyce of Raspes and Currants, 252
To make wine of, 110
Chicken, Fricacee of, 158
To cram, 233
To fatten in a wonderful degree, 231, 232
To feed, 228, 230
Cider, 100
Sir Paul Neale's way, 101
Water, Dr. Harvey's, 103
Clouted Cream, 117, 120
Cock Ale, To make, 147
Collops, Excellent good, 171
Scotch, My Lord of Bristol's, 167
Scotch, My Lady Diana Porter's, 181
of Veal, Savoury, 157
Conserve of Red Roses, 257, 259
Cordial Tablets, which strengthen nature much, 238
Cream, Clouted, 117, 120
Curds, To make, 120
A good dish of, 116
An excellent Spanish, 116
with Rice, 191
Courdes, The, 228
Cresme fouettee, My Lord of S. Alban's, 119
Crust, Short and crisp, for tarts and pyes, 215
Currants, Gelly of, with the fruit whole in it, 255
Red, Marmulate of, 256
Red, Gelly of, 255
Wine, 98
Ducks, Wilde, To bake, 210
Wilde, To rost, 210
Eggs, To boil, 203
To butter, with cream, 147
Portuguez, 202
Flommery Caudle, A, 238
Wheaten, 134
Fricacee of Lamb-stones, Sweetbreads, etc., A., 158
of Veal, 158, 182
Goose, An excellent meat of, 212
To pickle an old fat, 212
Green geese pye, 209
Gruel of oatmeal and rice, 191
Smallage, 137
Water, 138
Water, with wood-sorrel and currants, 139
Hachy, A nourishing, 158
Hare-pye, To make, 207
Harts-horn Gelly, To make, 239, 240, 241, 242
Herring Pye, A, 192
Honey, Some notes about, 8
drink, To make, 84
drink, Weak, 107
Horse Radish, Sauce of, 151
Hotchpot, To make, 149, 150
The Queen's, 151
Humble Pyes, To season, 210
Hydromel as I made it weak for the Queen-Mother, 35
with Clove-Gilly-flowers, 23
with Juniper Berries, 23
My Lord Hollis's, 33
Julep of Conserve of Red Roses, Dr. Bacon's, 260
Lamb-stones, A fricacee of, 158
Lampreys, To dress, 184
Mallow Stalks, Sucket of, 256
Marchpane, My Lord of Denbigh's Almond, 221
Marmulate of Cherries, 251
of Cherries with juyce of raspes and Currants, 252
of Pippins, 243
of Red Currants, 256
My Lady Windebank's curious red, 253
White, My Lady of Bath's way, 248
The Queen's, 248
Marrow Puddings, 162
Sops, with wine, 145
Spinage Pasties, Excellent, 159
Meat, fine, To rost, 157
For rosting of, 196
Meathe (Mead), 32, 42, 43, 54, 57, 65, 72, 76, 78, 82, 85, 87, 89, 92
A receipt to make good, 64
A very good, 60
excellent, To make, 10
White, 41, 58, 68, 72, 73, 74, 79, 82
White, An excellent, 11
White, Small, 80
White, Sir John Arundel's, 57
White, my Lady Gower's, 26
good for liver and lungs, 59
Small, 56
Strong, 32, 56
A weaker but pleasant, 11
to keep long, 23
with Raisins, 96
My Lady Bellassises, 45
Mr. Corsellises, Antwerp, 9
My Lord Gorge his, 54
My Lord Herbert's, 68
My Lady Morrice's, 39
My Lady Morrice, her sister's way, 39
My own considerations for making, 19
Sir Wm. Paston's, 41
Another pleasant Meathe of Sir Wm. Paston, 42
from the Muscovian Ambassador's steward, 81
Sir Baynam Throckmorton's, 42
Master Webbe's, 14-19
Metheglin, To make, 35-39, 46, 58, 66, 67, 69, 71, 75, 80, 81, 84, 86, 95
To make a tun of, 12
composed by myself out of various receipts, 25
My Lady Windebanke's, 94
Good, 52
Very good, 76
Excellent, 71
Most excellent, 61
An excellent way to make, called the Liquor of Life, 51
Small, 69, 77, 91
White, 30, 31, 34, 43, 59, 60, 63, 73, 90
White, Sir Edward Bainton's, 90
The Countess of Bullingbroke's, 13
The Countess of Dorset's, 62
Sir John Fortescue's, 53
My Lady Hungerford's, 6
Mr. Pierce's excellent, 46
The Lady Vernon's, 55
The Earl of Denbigh's, 85
Sir Thomas Gower's, 29
as it is made at Liège, 5
or sweet drink of my Lady Stuart, 93
for the colic and stone, of my Lady Stuart, 93
for health, Sir Thomas Gower's, 27
for taste and colour, 28
that looks like White Wine, 90
Minced Pyes, To make, 156, 160
My Lady of Portland's, 155, 156
Morello Wine, 97
Mustard, To make, 194
Mutton, baked like venison, 207
Fricacee of, 158
steaks, An excellent way of making, 170
To make a shoulder of, like venison, 163
Oatmeal, Pap of, 135
Pap of, Sir John Colladon's, 136
Pudding, 174
Pudding, A baked, 176
and Rice, Gruel of, 191
Oglia, Spanish, plain but good, 164
Ordinary Drink, Sir Thomas Gower's, 29