Sweet-meats of my Lady Windebanks 253

Sucket of Mallow-stalks 256

T

Tea with Eggs 132

A Tansy 183, 213, 214

To souce Turkeys 211

Pleasant Cordial Tablets 238

V

To stew a breast of Veal 150

Vuova Lattate 165

Vuova Spersa 165

Baked Venison 169

Tosts of Veal 193

W

Morello Wine 97

Currants Wine 98

The Countess of Newport’s Cherry Wine 109

Strawberry Wine 109

To make Wine of Cherries alone 110

To make Rasbery-Wine 148

To make a White-pot 149, 195

Buttered Whitings with Eggs 187

To stew Wardens or Pears 201

Preserved Wardens 237

[Footnote 2:  This Table reproduces the Index to the original volume.  An 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.