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"Her book": a collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts.
On the second preliminary leaf is the inscription 'Sarah Hudson her book February ye 15th day in ye year of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1678'. Written by the same hand throughout.
Contains the following recipes: A plaster to lay to the feet in a fever aproved; A Plaister against wormes in Children A Playster for Childerings Stomacks; A Receipt to Make Porage; Sarah Hudson her book February ye 15th: day in ye year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1628, Sarah hudson god preserve her in all her voiges wheathersoever she goeth god preserve & keep her in all parts of ye world whear & ever She goeth & whith whosoever she goeth; To Preserve Red Quinces. Sarah hudson How to Preserve Cherryes without Stones Another way; How to Preserve Cherryes ye best way wthout stones How To preserve Goose berryes How To preserve Raspasse white or reed How to preserve Quinces to make them Looke yellow This is ye best way to preserve peare plumbes to make them Looke betwixt a white and yellow The Best way to preserve Quinces to make them looke betwixt A white and a yellow The Best way to Preserve Orrenges and Lemons; To Preserve Oringes whole How to Preserve Apricockes wth ye Skines upon them To preserve Apricockes How To preserve Reed Raspasse To Preserve Raspasse To Preserve Pippins Greene To preserve ye Green Plumbe; To preserve ye Green Grape; To Preserve Green Pescods To Preserve Anye Reed plumbes To Make A Watter to Make Syrropp Green To Preserve Dampsons To Preserve Wallnutts; To Preserve White Quinces ye best way How To Dry Cherryes How to dry all kind of Blacke plumbes To Preserve Red Roses To Preserve cittrons in Godfreys way; To Preserve without sugar To preserve dryed sweetmeats To preserve Quinces To preserve Goosberyes Green To preserve Green Apricockes To preserve Cherryes To Dry Cherryes To preserve pipins; To Make either red Jelley or Whitte How To Make Jelly of Dampsons This is ye Right and best way to Make Jelly of Quinces To Make Jellye of Quinces To Make Jelly of Lemons To Make Jelly of Orrenges To make Jelly of Currans; To Make Jelly of Goosberryes or Any other fruite Mrs. Gerands Recipte to Make Jellye of Lemons To Make Jelly A Jellye To Make White Jelly of Quinces To Make A jelly of Hartshorne To Make Jelly of flesh How to Make Lossenges of Violets or Rosemary floweres; To Make Redd Quince Cakes To Make White Quince Cakes How To Make paste of Jeane ye best waye To Make paste of Oringes or Lemons to Comforte ye stomake And keepe ye Mouth Moyste; To Make Cleare Cakes To Make paste of ye Meate of Oringes Lemons or Pomeriterns To Make Quince Cakes To Make violet Cakes To Make Paste of Raspasse To Make Oringe Cakes To Make violett Cakes Another way; To Make the Apricocke Jumballs Lossinges for ye head and Stomake to helpe vomide & ill disgestion To Make Cakes of Orringes & any other fruite To Make Cleare Cakes A Recipte to Make A Caraway Cake To Make ye Italion Chippes To Make ye fine white Amber Greece Cakes To Make ye Portingall faits; To Make Cleare Cakes or Jelly To Make Cakes of Oringes or Lemons To Make Orrenge Bisket To Make Maw Cakes To Make floure Bisket bread To Make Materoune; To Make floure Bisket Another way A Recipte to Make A thicke Spiced cake To Make A Bride Cake To Make Bisket Bread of Almonds To Make Amber Cakes To Make Marchpant Cakes A Recipte of Dryed Aples; To Cast Sugar into ye forme of birds or Beastes To Make A Cake To Make Maw Cakes Another way To Make Artificiall Cloaves To Dry Aples Another way To Make Currant Cakes How to Sweeten Currans To Make Almond Cakes For your dryed Apples; To dry Cherries To Make Ginger Bread wth Almonds To Make reed Marmalet of Quinces To Make white Marmalet of Quinces To Make Marlmalet of Oringes To Make Marmalet of Oringes Another way To Make Marmalet of Lemons To Make white Marmalet My Lord Killmorreys dyett Drinke; To Make Marmalet of Cherryes To make ye Riseing Comfitt Otherwaies caled ye Muscadine My Lady Mounworths Recipte to distill Treacle Watter Lossinges for ye head & Stomake to helpe wind & ill disgeston To Make Hipocrasse How To Make Concerves of Roses For ye Conserve To Make Conserves of Roses wth whole Leaves in it To Make Curran Wine A Recipte how to Make Braggat; To Make Braggat Another way A Recipte to Make Cydar How to Make Meath To Make Docke Ale To Make A Reason Wine To Make hippocrasse spedilye A Dyet Drinke How to Make Ordinary Small Ale How to Make Bottle Ale; How to Make Sider How To Make Ale Good Against ye Stone To Make Coke Ale To Make Good Watter Sider A Dyett Drinke for ye Spleene & Livor For ye Spleene For ye Beateing of ye harte To Make Salt of Wormwood; A Blacke Watter good for A Surrfett A Recipte for ye Passion of ye Harte A Soveraigne Watter used by Dr. Stephen Wherein he did Many Cures To Make An Exelent Cordiall for all passions of ye harte Called ye tincture of Balme A Sweet Watter to burne upon A fire pann A litle at a tyme To Make Aple Watter; To Make Popye watter which is good for a surfeite To Make ye Cordiall Watter A Precious Watter How to Make Balme Watter To Make Sweet Watter To Make Watter Inperiall To Make the Watter of ye Hearbe caled Rosasolis to be gathered in ye moneths of June and July To Make Aqua Mirabelis & Pretiosa; To Make Aqua Compositia How To Make Spirritt of Wine To Make Spirritt of Tyme Rosemary Sweet Margerum or any other hearbe To Make Spirritt of Caster To make poppe water Another way To make a pretious Cordiall water; To make simple water of poppes Excellent water for Any Surfet or Suden Extremitye Plague water To make Spirritt of mintes And Spirrit of wine; An Excellent water against either plague or Consumtion A Surfett water good for the measles or Small pox or any Infection The greate pallsy watter taught by Mr Matthyous for Appoplexie The use of this Watter; An approved watter against the stone To Make Cherry Watter The Cittorn watter the Lady Newtons way The Plague Watter To make Chery Watter The Receipt of A Cordiall Watter; The vertues breefly are these To Make Snaile watter To Make a watter to make sirrup grene Docter Burgeshis plague watter for Eigther man or Beast The Lady Allens Cordial watter; To make past of the meate of Of Oringes Lemons or pamecitrons To Make Quince Cakes To Make Violet Cakes To make past of Raspass To make Violet Cakes Another way To make the Apricocke Jumballs. Sarah Hudson; To preserve Orrenges whole; To make the Cream wth dyett bread To make the Cabage of milke; To Make ye Snow Creame To make ye Orrenge Creame The Spanish Creame The Lemon Creame To make a Sillabubb A Leamon Sillabubb To make Clouted Creame To make a possett wthout Milke; To Lay a foole in Snowe To Make goosebery Creame To Make a dish of Creame To make a good banqueting Dish How to make Almond butter ye Best way; To make a possetts Some Recepts for kookery and first to make white pott To make an almond pudding To make a Royled Bread Pudding To make a rice pudding To make a quakeing Pudding; How to for#e a fowle; index of recipes, To pereserve red quinces To preserve Cheryes wthout stones an otheway To preserve Chery ye Best way wthout stones; drawing of male peacock

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