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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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    'A lit >»32. Of SEA-FISH. telling them up with origanum,fait and and wine-vineAr wereobferved, but now they tafte onelyof fait, and are nothing fo plealant as theyvyere wont to be: They arefitteft for ftomachs oppreffed with fleam, for they will cu.t,ripen,and digeftit, and warm the ftomack ex¬ ceeding well-, they are of little noarifliment, but light enough if they were not fb over-falted; they are beft dreft with oil, vinegar, pepper, and dryed origanum, and they muft be freed from their outward skin &^the ridge- bone & be wafht in wine, before they be laid in the difti. Far i at A. Alburnimarinu B/e/t^jofthe Sea, or Sea-bleaks, called of DiCa]ut VATtAtA^ or Sea-cameleons (becaufe they are never of one colour, but change with every light and objeft like to changeable lilk) are as found, firm and wholefome as any Carp 5 there be great plenty of them in our Sou¬ thern Seas, betwixt and Exceter, and they are beft ioudeiij b^caufe they arc fo fine and fo firm a meat# Ahramides marintx* Breams of the Sea, be of a white and folid fobftance good juice, moft eafie digeftion and good nourilliment. Fife is Capellanus. AfeHtss medius. Cod-fjh is a great Sea-whiting, called alfo a Keeling orMelwel; of a tender flefli butnotfuliy fo dry and firm as the Whiting is : Cods have a bladder in them lull of eggs or ipawne, which the Northern men call the Mk,and efteem it a very dainty meat-,they have alfo athickandglmih fubftance at the end of their ftomach called afowne, more pleafant in eating then good of ^urifliment-, for the tougheft fifh-glue is made of that. Ofallpartsof thefrelhCod, the head, lips, and palate is preferred, being a very light though a flimy meat Verifies. ^eSiuneuli. Ceds mi Cockles are commended by Scrihomsu cap. 7. ^-*^?«^5fcn ftrengthening:theftoniack...P///?; faith they etjicreafo