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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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    Curdi^ Cheefe^ and IVhey. ^ J 3 ^ toncoded 3 .fo. Butter is nothing but ^Cream twice labquredy ,rP/?^ihew the true making of it , which I need not to repeat 3 becaufeitnothing^ or very little ub.iZ^c,^, differeth from ours: Only I wonder with him, that: Jfried ^ and other Barbarous Countreys efteem it a Gentlemans diih 3; when here and m-Holland,, and in all the Northern Ilegions, it is the chief food of the pooir er fort. For go'from the elevation of 52 to 84 of the North pole, you £haH every where find fuch (lore of good butter, as no where the like, no not in ^arma nor Vlaeentia^ nor Hella.nd it felf, whence fo much Butter , and CheKe is difperfed through the whole world. In Iceland they make filch a quantity, that having neither earthen VeflTels nor Cask enough to keep it in, they 'make Chefts of Firr, thirty or forty foot long, and five foot fquare,, filling them yearly with fait butter, whkfi they bury in the ground till they have occafipn cor iule iU • . ' . ^ \ ^ r], ■: -i : Butter is hot and moift, of grofs nouriftiment,, foft-’ ning rather then corroborating the .ftomack, haftning meat into.the belly before itbe concodied , rhumatick, and eafily converted into oily fumes, which greatly an^ noy both .throat and head. It is ill for the'ftomack^ rhume and all fluxes either of bloud-humors or feed 5 and in truth it is rather to be ufed as Sawce and Phy- ’fick, then as meat to feed upon. ' It is beft at ^ breaks faff, tollerable in the beginning of dinnerbut at fup- per no way good, becaufe ithindrethfleep , and/end- eth up unpleafant vapours to anoy the brain, according to the old Proverb, Bmer is Gold in the mornings Sil¬ ver at noon^ and Lead at.night. It is alfo beffifor chil '• dren whiift they ,ure growing, ,lapdffor. o[d'men when they are decliningbut very unwholfom betwixt ' thofe two ages, becaufe through the heat of young fto- . S macks,.