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Healths improvement: or, rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation / Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett ... Corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet.

  • Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.
Date:
1655
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Credit: Healths improvement: or, rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation / Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett ... Corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whereupon perhaps they had their name, and were cal¬ led Part-ridges, Chufe them that are young and fat, killed with the Hawk at fowce, orelfeat foot,after a long flight. Their broath is good for a weak ftomack, for the jaundies, and a tainted liver. ]fyou feeththem in Capon-broth with marrow, eggs, and bread, a Pana- do made of that broth is exceeding pouriflfmg, being eaten next ones heart. But if you would have a ftreng- thening broth indeed, then feeth them in broth where¬ in chines of Mutton have firft boiled ; Rolled Partridg is beft for moft ftomacks, if it be not too dry rofted ? for then it is rather Phyfick to flay a loofneft, then fit meat to nourifli or reftore flefli. They are beft at the end of Harveft, before they have either troad or laid. Ralla terrejlres, Railes of the land (for there is alfo a water-Rail, which- the Venetianstkttm io highly) deferve to be placed next the Partridg, for their fiefli is as fweet as their feed¬ ing good, and they are not without caufe preferred to. Nome mens Tables. Gallinagines & RuflicuU, Woodcocks and Snites are fo light of digeftion, and fo good in temperature , that they agree with moft mens; ftomacks, efpecially at their firft coming in, or rather amonethafter when they have refted themfelves .after their long flight from beyond the Seas, and are fit through eafe and good feeding upon fat worms, and fnails, lying in trees. Avicen and Albertus dreamed that Woodcocks and Snites, fed upon feeds 5 where.as indeed no bird with a long piked, crooked, and narrow bill can pick them up; but where they perceive a worms, hole (as I have feen Snites to do) there they thruft in their Bill as far as they can , and if the worm lie deep, they blow in fuch a breath or blatt of wind , that the worms.