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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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    1^2 Of Butter^ Creawy ^ ^ mouth] and never b&^fting as it is tofted at the firevLike- wife' Cheefe made of fovs rnilk is fooneftdigefted, that of Cowes milk is more nouriihing, but Cheefe made pf Goats milk is ttioft nouriihing of all, being eatea whilft it is- new and fo^^, for-k quickly '^axeehdry ; earthly, and crurablingV. ' The Weftern to-pre¬ vent the drynefs of Cheeft, make them fo big, that two firong men with leavers can fcarce move one of them; which alfo caufeth the Parmifans to be fo big, and alfo Trid hift ^hem ofiiP/^cm/vi y which Bernardinm scadcm in his ^ ’ * * Annals of preferreth before the :-But ■ was not that a great Cheefe think you, wherewith Zg- roafter lived in the Wildernefs twenty years together^ C‘4^^vithout any other meat < or rather was knot mofl: cunningly made or preferved, when at twenty years end it did eat as foftas attbe firtt day ? Which-though fome do chink impdffible ,' yet the Parm^fm^of Italy will prove it true, by age waxing mellower and fofter, and more pleafint of tafte, digefting whatfoever went before it, yetit'felf not heavy of digeftion. Onr Ejfex Cheefe being well handled, would in my- judgement come next unto it, efpecially if G(kt^;were as plentifull there as fheep, that there might be a proportion betwixt . ^ the three milks > without which it is folly to attempt / the like. ^ Now whereas the Placentians and Parmians add Affes milkj and Mares milk, and alfo Camels milk (when they cangec it) tokhe rnaking of their Cheefe, it -1n.L1x.c41 [5 fjQt the Curds fake (becaufe they yield no hard Curd) but for the butterifh part that is taken out of them : for indeed the butter made of them is moft thin, liquid, moift and penetrating, whereby fuch'afup- plcing is procured, that their Cheefes dorather ripen then dry with long lying. ' ; ‘ The Iriih men/like to P//Vw Barbarians, hav^