A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A little of everything presented to all ingenious ladies, and gentlewomen / by Hannah Woolley ...
- Title
- A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A little of everything presented to all ingenious ladies, and gentlewomen / by Hannah Woolley ...
- Author
- Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by T.R. for Richard Lownds, and are to be Sold at the Sign of the White Lion ...,
- 1674.
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- Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
- Home economics -- Early works to 1800.
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Contents
- title page
- To all Ingenious Ladies and Gentlewomen.
- TO THE READER▪
- The TABLE, OR CONTENTS of this BOOK.
- AN Advertisment.
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text
- To make clean Points or Laces.
- To wash and starch Points.
- To wash White Sarsnets.
- To wash Coloured Silk.
- To wash Black Sarsnets.
- To wash Silk Stockings.
- To make clean Gold and Silver Lace.
- To get spots of Ink out of any linnen Cloth.
- To get the stains of Fruit out of any linnen Cloth.
- To take out any greasie spots out of Silk, Stuff, or Cloth.
- To make clean Plate.
- To keep the Hair clean, and to preserve it.
- To wash the Face.
- To make a Salve for the Lips.
- To keep the Teeth clean and sound.
- For any Ague whatever.
- For the falling Sickness.
- For an extream Rheum falling from the Head.
- For Worms, a miraculous Cure.
- A most excellent Oyntment for all manner of swellings and sores, and for the Kings Evil, it will dissolve it if it be to be dis∣solved, it will both break and heal; it is good also for sore Eyes if anointed therewith.
- A most excellent Balsom for Wounds.
- For Madness, and for fumes in the Head.
- For pain in the Bones.
- For the Leprosie, or any other venemous Humour.
- To kill Rats.
- To Cure a Horse of a Cold, though he hath had it never so long a time.
- For a Cow that Stales bloud.
- An excellent Medicine for the Cold Gout.
- For the Hot Gout, A most admirable Medicine.
- An excellent Glister to Cool and Bind.
- For the running-Gout, or any hot Tumor.
- To Cure a Deafness which is caused by the stoppage of the Ears by wax.
- For the falling down of the Mother.
- A most excellent Plaister for the Gout, wherewith a Gentleman as I knew was Cured after all the Chirurgions had given him over.
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For the biting of a Mad-dog, taught by Doctor Mathias. - To make the Oil of Charity.
- The Vertues.
- To Cure a Timpany. Proved by me.
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To make the Black-water, to Cure a Thisto∣low Woolf; Noli me tangere;or any Tetter or Scald; or any other Sores. - A most excellent Diet-drink for any Disease, caused by sharp or foul Humors.
- For a Film in the Eye.
- To Cure sore Nipples, or for abruise which comes by a fall.
- For the Stone and Choler.
- To make Thistolow Water.
- For Rheum in the Eyes.
- To stench Bleeding at the Nose, or in Wounds.
- For Kibed Heels.
- For the Rickets in Children.
- An excellent Remedy for the Stone.
- An excellent Cordial Electuary.
- For the Bloudy-Flux, or other Loosness.
- For the Worms in Children.
- To make a black Salve very good for Corns, or for any Sore old or new.
- An excellent Water for a Canker in the Mouth, or for any Sore.
- A very sine Poultis to lay on any Sore, to take the inflammation out of it; or to lay to a sore Breast to break, or to dissolve it if it will not break: It will also heal it if broken.
- For a tickling Rheum and Cough.
- An excellent Balsom for inward Bruises, for outward Wounds, and for the Stone.
- A most admirable Drink for a Cough: it also expelleth any congealed Blood, Im∣postume, or other filthy Humour. It healeth all inward Ʋlcers, and cooleth inflamed Lungs, and also healeth Ʋl∣cers in them.
- For a Pin and Web in the Eye.
- For the Tooth-ach.
- For a Thrush in a Childs mouth.
- For the Itch.
- For a Bruise where no skin is broken.
- For a Sinew-strain.
- For a Consumption, or other weakness.
- For a Burn.
- For the Shingles.
- To take away the pain in the Huckle-bone, or for any Old ach.
- For one who is suddenly taken with a Numbness in any Limb.
- To take away any extream pain in the Head in any Sickness.
- For an Impostume in the Ear.
- For Deafness in Young or Old.
- For the Emorroids or Piles.
- For to Cure Heart-burning.
- For the passion of the Heart.
- For the Cramp in the Legs.
- To Cure a Scabbed-Head, and to kill the Lice.
- For Chilblanes on the Hands.
- To kill the Scurvy before you purge.
- For a Squinacy, or other sore Throat.
- For a Red-face.
- For a Plague-Sore.
- An excellent Medicine prescribed by a Worthy Physician, against the Plague and Pestilence.
- To kill Worms which breed about the Nose.
- For Childrens Scabbed-faces.
- For Chest-Worms.
- A fine Julip for one in an Ague or Feaver.
- part
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Imprimis:
To make Transparent Work. - Now for the COLOURS.
- To make clean Glass-Windows.
- To make pretty Frames for slight Pictures in Black only.
- To make Frames for Pictures in work of Satten, Stitch, and the like.
- To adorn a Room with Prints.
- To dress up Glass-Plates, on which you may lay dry Sweetmeats or Biskets.
- Fine Hangings for Closets.
- To make Feathers of Woosted which do look very like natural Feathers, for the Cor∣ners of Beds.
- How to save much work, and to make a suit of Chairs which be very noble.
- Another way for Chairs.
- To embroider Petty-coats, Bodices, or Belts.
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Imprimis:
To pot Fowl to carry to Sea; or to keep to be spent in your House. - A very fine way to pot Neats-Tongues.
- To boil Beef or Mutton to eat savourly.
- To Boil, or rather to Stew a Leg of Veal; a very savory Dish.
- To fry Clary the best way.
- To dress a Legg of Mutton; a very savory Dish.
- To stew Muscles, or Cockles.
- To stew Parsnips: A good Dish.
- To make a good Pye of Beef.
- To dress red Beet-Roots.
- To make a good Pidgeon Pye.
- To boil a Cock, and to make good Broth with him.
- To boil a Fore-Loyn of Pork, with good Sauce to it.
- To stew Rabbits.
- To boil Green-Pease.
- To preserve Green-Pease a while.
- To dress Old Beans.
- To dress Old French-Beans.
- To stew Beef, a very fine way.
- To make rare Pyes of a Calves-Head.
- To make a Pudding of cold Meat.
- For Nurses.
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Imprimis:
To make very fine Bisket. - Another sort of Bisket.
- To make Sirrop of Violets.
- Sirrop of Roses, a good way.
- The best way to preserve Fruits.
- To make very fine Jelly for a weak stomach.
- To Candy White Sugar; excellent good for any Cough or Cold.
- A most rare Receipt for the Scurvy; for old Catarrhs or Rheums; or for a Consumption.
- An excellent Medicine for any Ob∣structions.
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Here is a most excellent Plaister, which is called the Catholick,and for fear I should forget it, I will not omit it any any longer. - To make fine Jelly of Fruit, which will look transparent.
- A pretty sweet Meat of Lettuce-stalks.
- To make Marmalade of Damsons.
- To make Sirrop of Snails; most admira∣ble in Consumptions.
- Very fine Lozenges for a Cough of de∣fluxion of Rheum.
- To make a Paste very delicate, rich, and very pleasant.
- To make good Drink to comfort you in a cold Morning.
- To make an excellent Cordial Electuary, for to restore one that is weak, or against Melancholy.
- A very good Cordial Water without the trouble of a Still.
- A pretty Sweet-mèat made of Grapes, very good in Feavors.
- To make Marmelade with Barberries, and Pippins.
- To Candy Fruits after they have lien in Sirrop.
- To make a pretty Toy to hang up in the Kitchin to catch Flies, or rather to keep them from spoiling the Pewter, or trou∣bling People.
- To lay on Leaf-Gold or Silver to any thing you would Gild.
- To dress up a Chimney very fine for the Summer time, as I have done many, and they have been liked very well.
- Another way for Chimneys, very fine; but will not last half so long.
- The Cause why good Children, or the Children of worthy Parents, are oft∣times in a distressed Condition.
- The Causes why others do commonly run into Mischief and Wickedness.
- Advice to Parents concerning their Chil∣dren, and advice to Children concern∣ing their Parents: Also to any Person under whose Tuition they may be; which (if well observed) may prevent much wickedness for the future.
- letters
- How to make Wax-work.
- To make the Moulds for the Wax-work.
- A very fine way to make the likeness of many several things in Wax, without the help of a Mould.
- To take the shape of your own Hand.
- For a Dead-body for the Face.
- For Eggs to be hard, and cut in quarters.
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part
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Mercury,
the Messenger of the Gods. -
Apollo,
the Physical God. -
Neptune,
the God of the Sea. -
Pluto,
the God of Riches. -
Bacchus
the God of Wine. -
Hymen,
the God of Marriage. -
Vulcan,
the Deified Black-Smith. - Genius.
- Sleep.
- Cupid.
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Minos,
one of the Judges of Hell. -
Momus,
the Carping God. - Goddesses.
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Diana,
the Virgin Goddess. -
Pallas,
the Goddess of Wisdom. -
Venus,
the beautiful Goddess. -
Ceres,
the Goddess of Corn. -
Tellus,
the Goddess of the Earth. -
Proserpine,
Queen of Hell. - Aurora.
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Urania,
one of the Muses. -
Vesta,
Daughter to Saturn. -
Astrea,
the Goddess of Justice. -
Flora,
the Goddess of Flowers. -
Ceres,
the Enchantress.
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Mercury,
- The Twelve Months of the Year.
- poem