TO FEED CHICKEN

First give them for two days paste made of Barley Meal and Milk with Clyster Sugar to scowre them.  Then feed them with nothing but hashed Raisins of the Sun.  The less drink they have, the better it is:  for it washeth away their fat; but that little they have, let it be broken Beer; Milk were as good or better; but then you must be careful to have it always sweet in their trough, and no sowerness there to turn the Milk.  They will be prodigiously fat in about twelve days:  And you must kill them, when they are at their height:  Else they will soon fall back, and grow fat no more.

Others make their Paste of Barley meal with Milk and a little course Sugar, and mingle with it a little (about an eight part) of powder of green Glass beaten exceeding small.  Give this only for two days to cleanse their stomacks.  Then feed them with paste of Barley-meal, made sometimes with Milk and Sugar, and sometimes with the fat skimmed off from the pot, giving them drink as above.

Others make a pretty stiff paste for them with Barley-meal (a little of the coursest bran sifted from it) and the fat scummed off from the boiling pot, be it of Beef (even salted) or Mutton, &c.  Lay this before them for their food for four days.  Then give them still the same, but mingled with a little powder of Glass for 4 or five days more.  In which time they will be extremely fat and good.  For their drink, give them the droppings of good Ale or good Beer.  When you eat them, you will find some of the powder of glass in their stomacks, i.e. gizzards.

TO FEED POULTRY

My Lady Fanshaws way of feeding Capons, Pullets, Hens, Chickens or Turkies, is thus.  Have Coops, wherein every fowl is a part, and not room to turn in, and means to cleanse daily the ordure behind them, and two troughs; for before that, one may be scalding and drying the day the other is used, and before every fowl one partition for meat, another for drink.  All their Meat is this:  Boil Barley in water, till it be tender, keep some so, and another parcel of it boil with Milk, and another with strong Ale.  Let them be boiled as wheat that is creed.  Use them different days for variety, to get the fowl appetite.  Lay it in their trough, with some Brown-Sugar mingled with it.  In the partition for Liquor, let them have water or strong Ale to drink.  They will be very drunk and sleep; then eat again.  Let a Candle stand all night over the Coop, and then they will eat much of the night.  With this course they will be prodigiously fat in a fortnight.  Be sure to keep them very sweet.  This maketh the taste pure.

ANOTHER WAY OF FEEDING CHICKEN