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Title: The ladies cabinet enlarged and opened:: containing many rare secrets, and rich ornaments of several kindes, and different uses. Comprized under three general heads. Viz. of [brace] 1. Preserving, conserving, candying, &c 2. Physick and chirurgery. 3. Cookery and houswifery. Whereunto is added, sundry experiments, and choice extractions of waters, oyls, &c. / Collected and practised; by the late Right Honorable and learned chymist, the Lord Ruthuen. With a particular table to each part.
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Print source: The ladies cabinet enlarged and opened:: containing many rare secrets, and rich ornaments of several kindes, and different uses. Comprized under three general heads. Viz. of [brace] 1. Preserving, conserving, candying, &c 2. Physick and chirurgery. 3. Cookery and houswifery. Whereunto is added, sundry experiments, and choice extractions of waters, oyls, &c. / Collected and practised; by the late Right Honorable and learned chymist, the Lord Ruthuen. With a particular table to each part.
M. B., Forth and Brentford, Patrick Ruthven, Earl of, 1573?-1651.
London: Printed by T.M. for M.M. G. Bedell, and T. Collins, at the middle Temple-Gate, Fleet-street, 1654.
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Cookery -- England
Home economics
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To the Industrious impro∣vers of Nature by Art; espe∣cially, the vertuous Ladies and Gentlen omen of this Land.
Experiments in Preserving, Conserving, and Candying &c.
PRESERVING.
1. The best way to Preserve Quinces white.
2. A Speciall remembrance in doing them.
3. To Preserve Barberies.
4. Another way to preserve Barberies.
5. To preserve all kind of Flowers, in the Spanish Candy in Wedges.
6. To preserve green Pippins.
7 To preserve Oranges and Lemmons
8 To preserve Peaches.
9 To preserve Medlers
10 The best way to preserve Goosberies.
11 To preserve Damsins.
12 How to preserve Cherries.
13 To preserve Artichokes.
14 To preserve Roses or any other flowers.
15 The best way to preserve Apricocks
16. To preserve Bullasses as green as grass.
17 To preserve green Walnuts.
18 To preserve Pomecitrons.
19 To preserve Eringo roots.
20 To preserve Raspices.
21 To preserve Enula Campana roots.
22 To Conserve Cowslips.
23 A Conserve of Roses.
24 The use of Conserve of Violets and Cowslips.
25 The use of Conserve of Marigolds.
26 Of Sage flowers.
27 Scabious flowers.
28 Conserve of Barberries.
29 The Cordial Conserve.
30 To make Muscadine Comfits.
31 To make black Clove Comfits.
32 To Candy all kind of flowers as they grow with their stalkes on.
33 To make the Rock Candies upon all Spices, Flowers, and Roots.
34 The Candy Sucket for green Gin∣ger, Lettice flowers &c.
35 To Candy Ginger.
36 To candy Eringo roots.
37 To make Quince Cakes.
38 Cleer Cakes of Quinces or Apricocks
39 To dry Apricocks.
40 The best way to dry Plums.
41 To dry Pippins.
42 A way to drie Cherries.
43 How to keep Apples, Pears, Quinces, Wardens &c. all the yeer dry.
44 How to dry Fruits in the Sun.
45 To make Quidony of Cherries.
46 To make printed Quidony of Quinces.
47 To make Quidony of Pippins.
48 To make Quidony of Raspices
49 Colours for fruitage
50 To make all kind of turned works in fruitage, hollow.
51 To make Dia Citonicum (as it is called) but rightly, Dia Cydonium.
52 To cast all Kind of Sugar-works into moulds.
53 The names and use of your Sugars.
54 The names and prices of Gummes for Sugar work.
52 To make Jumbols.
56 To make Paste of Carrots.
57 To make the Macaroones
58 To make Paste of Almonds
59 To make a March-pane.
60 To make past of Violets or any kind of Flowers.
61 To make the white Paste royal.
62 To make a red Paste royal.
63 To make the Paste royal in Spices
64 To make Paste of Pippins
65 To make Paste of Genua
66. To make Paste of Lemmons.
67 To make Paste of Regia.
68 How to make Paste of Goosberries, or Burberries, or English Currans.
69 To make an excellent Marmelade.
70 To make Marmelade of Lemmons and Oranges.
71 To mke Almond Bisket.
72 How to make the fine Bisket Bread, called in some places Norffe-cakes, and commonly Diet-bread.
73 The best receit for Bisket bread.
74 How to make Comfit makers Bisket
75 To make Manus Christi.
76 The Syrup of Violets.
77 Syrup of Century.
78 Syrup Gresta, or Syrup of unripe Grapes.
79 Syrup of Roses.
80 Syrup of Wormwood.
81 Syrup of Cowslips
82 Syrup of Borage and Buglosse.
83 Syrup of Calamint
84 Syrup of Scabious
85 To make Syrup of Saffron.
86 Syrup of Fole-foot or Golts-foot
87 To make Syrup of Pomecitrons
88 A Syrup against Malencholly hu∣mors, especially where there is wind in the stomack.
89 Syrup of Wormwood simple.
90 Syrup of Marsh mallows.
91 Syrup of Rhadishes.
92 Syrup of Poppies.
93 Hony of Rosemarry flowers.
The CONTENTS of the First part.
Experiments in PHYSICK & CHIRURGERY, Distillations, Waters, and Oyles: Their Vertues and Uses.
subpart
1 Doctor Stevens his Water.
2 To make Cinnamon Water.
3 Angelica water.
4 Aqua Mirabilis
5 Balm water.
6. Another Balm VVater.
7 A Barly water to purge the Lungs and Lights of all diseases.
8 A Water for a sore Mouth.
9 Another for the same use.
10 Rosa solis.
11 Wormwood water
12 Aqua Fortis.
13 Water of Snails.
14. An excellent VVater against the Stone in the Kidnies.
15 A water for outward or inward VVounds, Impostumes, and ulcers, and a sore mouth.
16. A very excellent Water against Worms.
17 An Excellent sweet VVater.
18 How to make artificial Tunbridg water.
19 How to make artificial Epsome water.
20 Spirit of Confection of Alkermes, its Vertues.
21 Spirits of Saffron, its vertues.
22 Extract of Ambergreece.
23 Spirit and water of wormwood, the lesser Composition
24 Spirit and water of Wormwood, the greater Composition.
25 Spirit and water of Angelica.
26 Spirit of Wine extraordinarie.
27 Quintessence of Snakes, Adders, or Vipers.
28 A liquor against the tooth Ach.
29 A Liquor to comfort smelling, and preserve the head.
30 To make an Antimonial cup, and to cast di∣vers figures of Antimony.
31 How to make the true spirit of Antimony.
32 The true Oyl or essence of An∣timony is made thus.
33 Wormwood wine.
34 To make an Artificial Malago VVine.
35 How to make artificial Claret wino.
36 How to make good Raspberry VVine.
37 Oyl of Almonds.
38 Oyl of Sage.
39 Oleum Laureum.
40 Oyl of Tobacco.
41 Oyl of Roses.
42 Oyl of Creame.
43 Oyl of Swallows.
44 Oyl of Roses.
45 The use of Oyl of Violets.
46 The use of the oyl of Camomil
47 The use of oyl of Lillies
48 The use of the Oyl of Elder-flowers.
49 Oyle of Cowslips
50 The use of the Oyl of Rue.
51 The use of the Oyl of Wormwood.
52 The use of the Oyle of Mint.
53 To make the Oyle of Salerne.
54 How to compose the Oyl of Excester.
55 Oyl of Amber.
56 How to make an excellent Oyl of Hypericon.
57 Oyl of St. Johns Wort.
58 Oyl of yolks of Eggs.
59 To make oyl of Mandrakes.
60 Oyl of Musk how made.
61 How to make oyl of Snakes and Adders.
62 An oyntment for a Rupture.
63 Flos Unguentorum.
64 Unguentum Populionis, common∣ly called Pompillion.
65 Doctor Lewins Unguentum Ro∣satum, good for the heat in the Back.
66 Ʋnguentum Sanatinum
67 Ointment of red Lead.
68 A bitter Ointment.
69 Apectoral Ointment.
70 An Ointment for an Ach, to be made at any time of the year, and is approved good, and hath helped old pains, griefs and aches.
71 An Oyntment for the Sciatica.
72 An Ointment for any wound or sone.
73 A Purge to drive out the French Pox, before you use the Ointment.
74 The Ointment for the French Pox
75 What places to annoint for the French Pox Viz.
76 Another purge to heal the French Pox without Ointment
77 An Ointment to kill the Worms in little children.
78 For the worms.
79 An excellent good Medicine or Salve for any Ach coming of cold, easie to be made by any Country good houswife.
80 For a pain or Ach in the Back.
80 A Searcloth for all Aches.
81 An excellent Ointment for any Bruise or Ache.
82 The cure of grievous pains and aches in the Body.
83 Aches coming by the Pox healed.
84 Back weak or diseased, to strengthen, &c.
85 To take the Ague out of any place.
86 For the Ague in children, or wo∣men with child.
87 An easie and approved Medicine for a quartaine Ague.
88 An Almond milk to cool and induce sleep.
89 For an Andcome.
90 Liquid Amber, and its medci∣n al vertues.
91 A most Soveraign Balsam for several diseases.
92 For a sudden bleeding at the nose
93 A remedie for the spitting of blood, occasioned by the breach of some vein in the brest.
94 To stop bleeding of a wound.
95 To stop inward bleeding.
96 A medicine for those that are gi∣ven to bleeding.
97 To stanch bleeding at the nose.
98 To heal the Cut, or sore Brest of a Woman.
99 A Medicine to breake and heal sore brests of Woman, used by Midwives, and other skilful women in London.
100 To dry up a womans Brest.
101 For a stinking Breath.
102 A Gargle for an unsavory breath
103 For the Canker in a womans Brest.
104 For the Canker in the mouth.
105 Of the Catarrhe, or Rbume in the bead.
106 For young children that are weak in their limms, and can neither go nor stand.
107 For breaking out of childrens heads.
108 A medicine for the swelling of a childs Cods.
109 To heal children of the Luna∣tick disease.
110 For a Consumption.
111 To make a China Broth for a Consumption.
112 A Broth for a Consumption.
113 An excellent confortative for the Sto∣mack, helping digestion, warming the brain, and drying the Rheumes.
114 For the Corns on the feet or toes.
115 A Cordial for the Sea.
116 For the Ptisick and dry Cough.
117 An excelient medicine for the Cough of the Lungs.
118 A Medicine for the chin-Cough, for a child.
119 A Diet drink to clear and tem∣per the blood.
120 A Diet drink to open and temper the Liver.
121 A Diet drink for a Canker in the mouth.
122 To cure the Dropsie, be it hot or cold.
123 A medicince that hath recovered some from the Dropsie, whom the Physici∣ans have given over.
124 To open obstructions of the Liver, and to preserve from the dropsie.
125 An approved medicine for the Drepsie.
126 A Bath to comfort the Brain.
127 For pain in the Ears, or deafnesse
128 For the Emrods.
129 For the Pinne and Web in the Eye.
130 A Plaister to take away the Filme on the Eye.
131 A Medicine for sore, Bloud shot∣ten and Rheumatick eyes.
132 To make the face white and fair.
133 To take the heat out of the face.
134 To take away the Spots or red Pimples of the face.
135 A Secret to help all Fevers in the beginning.
136 To ripen and heal a Fellon.
137 A medicine for a Fistula.
138 A medicine for the falling sicknesse.
139 For the Piles.
140 An especial good Medicine to make the Piles bleed.
141 A Medicine for the Piles.
142 A Cullesse to stop the Bloudy flux.
143 Bloody flux cured.
144 Another for the bloody Flux.
145 A Medicine to cure the biting of all venemous beasts.
146 An approved Medicine for the Gout in the feet.
147 A pultesse for the Gout.
148 How to cure all kinds of Gout.
149 An approved Medicine for the Green-sicknesse.
150 The Green salve, which closeth up Sores, being wel drawn.
151 To cleanse the Head, and take the Ach away.
152 Harts-horu Jelly.
154 To make a Potion that is good against all Infirmities.
155 An exceeding good remedie against the yellow Jaundice.
156 An excellent receipt to destroy any Impostume.
157 To make an issue.
158 A medicine for the Itch of the body.
159 For kibed heels.
159 Of Waxing Kernels, called by some Scrophulae, their cure.
160 A special receipt to destroy Lice.
161 How to cure the Measels.
162 To cure the disease of the Mother.
163 For the dead Palsie.
164 A plaister for a Bile or Push.
165 A very good Plaister to heale and dry up a sore, or cut suddenly
166 A plaister for the Stomack.
167 A Preservative against the Pestilence when it is first suspected.
168 An approved good drink for the Pestilence.
169 A medicine for the Plague.
170 Signs of death in the Plague.
171 A water to drive out any infection.
172 A Medicine for a Plurisie, Stitch or VVind offending in any part of the Body.
173 A great and sore Plurisie cured by M. R.
174 To take away Pock holes, or any spots in the face.
175 A Pultis to stay fluxes proceeding from a cold cause, to be ap∣plied to the Belly.
176 For the heat of the Back.
177 Astma, or the Ptisick, and its cure.
178 A very good Poultesse for any Mem∣ber swelled and inflamed, and not bro∣ken, to take away the pain.
179 An especial medicine for all manner of poyson.
181 A very gentle purge. Gerard pag. 1115.
182 The purge for a Plurisie, Stitch, or Wind: It may be given any sound man or wo∣man, at any time, in temperate weather, not keeping their Chambers for it
183 Another Purge.
184 The purge of Assarabacha, which the Lady A.D. used to rectifie her stomack any way offended.
185 The Apothicaries Gascon's powder, with its use.
186 A powder for a Rupture.
187 To kil the Ring-worme, and the heat thereof.
188 Rubarb and its vertues.
189 An approved good medicine for running of the Reins.
190 A medicine for burning or Scalding.
191 To take away the heat of a burn, or out of a scald.
192 For one burned with Gun∣powder or otherwise.
193 For the Scal or Scabbinesse of the head.
194 An approved receipt for a scald head.
195 To heal the white scal.
196 The black Salve.
197 A Salve for ranklings, where the skin is rubbed off.
198 A Barly Cream to procure sleep: or Almond mïlke.
199 An outward medicine for the same.
200 A Receipt for a backward business.
201 A Glister to open and loosen the Body being bound, which may safely be mi∣nistred to any man or woman.
202 A cooling Glister in hot diseases.
203 A medicine that hath healed old sores up∣on the Legs, that have run so long, that the Bones have been seen.
204 Of the hidden secrets of Frankincense
204 The secrets of Mercury, or Quick-silver.
205 To make the representation of the whole world in a glasse
206 In a fit of the stone, when the water stops.
207 A Medicine for the Stone.
108 Another very good medicine for the Stone.
209 To dissolve the Stone, which is one of the Physicians greatest secrets.
210 A Stove to sweat in.
211 Against surfetting and indigestion.
212 To make a tooth fall out of it self.
213 To take away the cause of the pain in the Teeth.
214 For a hollow Tooth.
215 For the Rheume in the Gummes and Teeth.
216 Tobacco, its vertues and uses
217 A Diet for the Patient that hath Ʋloers or wounds that wil hardly be cured with Ointments, Salves, or Plaisters.
218 To help Ulcers of all sorts.
219 An approved Remedy to stay Vomiting, by M. R.
220 A Receipt for to make Vomits.
221 To kil Warts, an approved Medicine.
222 For one that cannot make water.
223 An excellent medicine for a child that cannot make water.
224 For one that pisseth bloud.
225 To kil the wild fire,
226 How to order a woman with child, before, in, and af∣ter her labour.
227 Te bring a woman to a speedy birth.
228 For the same.
229 For a dead child in a womans body.
230 A medicine for a woman in travel to make her have Throwes.
231 A medicine for the falling down of the Matrice to the bearing place.
232 Another to be laid to the Navel, and to the back right against the Navel, for the same use.
233 Immoderate flux menstrual sup∣pressed or stayed.
234 For a woman that hath too much of the flowers.
235 To stop the whites i women.
236 Another for the same.
237 To make Pomatum.
Severall Compositions of great Use in this second part of this Manuel.
1 Magno Liquore, which is of great vertue.
2 How to compound Aromatico Leo∣nardo, with its vertues.
3 Caustick.
4 A Magistrale Cerot against the white Scal.
5 Pillole Magistrale, which is good against any infirmties.
6 To make a Quintessence of mar∣vellous vertue.
7 Quintessentia solutiva, which is of Marvelous operations in divers matters.
8 Syrupo Solutivo, or the so∣luble Syrup; with the order how to make and use it.
9 Sirrupo Magistrale Leonardo, which serveth against an infinite number of diseases, and is a rare medicine.
10 To make artificial Balm, and the vertues thereof
11 Vegetable syrup, which is miraculous and divine.
12 Unguento Magno Leonardo.
The CONTENTS of The Second Part, Containing Experiments in Phy∣sick and Chirurgery, &c.
Experiments in Cookery and Houswifery.
Sallets or Sawce.
1 A Lemmon Sallet.
2 To keep Clove Gilliflowers For Sallets.
3. To pickle Oysters.
4 To pickle Quinces.
5 To keep Goosberries.
6
7 How to keep Cucumbers raw.
8 To keep boiled Cucumbers.
9 To pickle Cucumbers to keep all the year.
10 To keep Cowslips for Sallets.
11 Violets, Buglosse, Borage, Rosemary, Marigolds, Fennel.
12 To keep Broom flowers for Sallets.
13 To keep Barberies to garnish your meat, &c.
14 To keep Artichokes for al the year
15 To pickle Broom buds.
16 How to pickle Cucumbers.
17 To make a gallendine saw ce for a Turky.
Spoon meats.
18 The best Clouted Cream.
19 Another way for the same in a lesse proportion
20 To make the ordinary Clouted Cream.
21 To make Almond Milk.
22 To make a Cullesse
23 The best way to make a Sack Posset.
24 A Sack Posset without milk.
25 An Almond Caudle.
26 To make the Dnsick Cream.
27 To make fresh Cheese in Cream.
28 A messe of fine Cream.
29 To make French Frumenty.
30 How to make a Goosberry Fool.
31 How to make a Goosberry Custard.
32 To make pap of Barly.
33 The Lady of Arundels Manchet.
34 To make Spiced bread.
35 To make Buttered loaves.
36 To make Almond Butter.
CAKES.
37 To make Barberry Cakes.
38 To make a sweet Cake, and with it a very sweet water.
39 To make Almond Cakes.
40 To make a Cake.
41 To make a Slipcoat Cheese.
42 To make the Angelotta Cheese.
43 To keep Cherries all the year.
FRIGASIES.
44 Frigasie of Chickens.
45 Frigasie of Lamb.
46 Frigasie of Rabbets.
47 Frigasie of Veale.
Divers other ways to dress Flesh.
48 How to boil a Capon handsomly.
47 To roast a shoulder of Mutton with Lemmons.
50 To make Veale Toots or Olives.
51 To make very fine Sawsages.
52 To make Brawn eat tender and delicate.
53 To boila Capon in white broth.
54 To roast a shoulder of Mutton with Oysters
55 To boil a Mallard with Cabbage.
56 To stew a Mallard.
57 To souce a young Pig.
58 To roast a Pig with a Pudding in his belly.
PUDDINGS
59 How to make an Italian Pudding.
60 To make a Haggesse Pudding
61 To make the best white Puddings.
62 A Rice Pudding.
63 To make a fine Pudding in a dish.
64 To make the best Puff-paste.
Pies and Baked meats.
65 To make an Artichoke Pie
66 To make a Neats-foot Pie.
67 To bake Beef like red Deer.
68 A Calves head Pie (for supper)
69 A Lark Pie.
70 A Skerret Pie.
71 A Pork Pie.
72 How to bake a Steak Pie.
73 To bake Chucks of Veale.
74 To make Symbals.
75 To make Cracknels.
TARTS
76 To make fine Pippin Tarts.
77 How to make a Tart of Butter and Eggs.
78 A Tart of Strawberries.
79 A Tart of Hips.
80 A Tart of green Pease.
81 To make a Tart of Wardens.
82 To marble Beef, Mutton or Venison.
83 To marble Fish.
84 To make a very good Tansie.
85 To make excellent bottle Ale.
86 The particulars of the Ipocras made usually in London.
JELLIES.
87 How to make a fine Crystal Jelly.
88 To make Jelly of Pippins.
89 To make a Jelly.
90 A direction to make a Jelly.
LEACHES.
91 To make Leach of Ipocras.
92 To make fine white Leach of Almonds.
93 To make Leaches.
94 The Cooks common white Leach.
SWEETS.
95 To make sweet Bags to lay Linnen in.
96 Sweet bags to lay among linnen.
97 Cyprus powder.
98 Powder of Violets.
99 Cyprus Matches to burn in perfume
100 How to make a sweet water.
101 To make a sweet powder.
102 Another for the same,
103 To make the Mosse powder.
104 To make a sweet Bal or powder.
104 To make Snow.
105 To make a Junket.
The CONTENTS of the third Part.
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