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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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    15 a '.IT ahm fac. . m lib.dc aftc. i CE] in / CG] Of LEA-FISH. for their iflcky humour wherewith they are repleniihed). are commended by Galen for great nouriftiers; their skins be as fmooth as any womans, but their fleihas brawny as any ploughmans, therefore I fear me Galea rather commended them upon hear-lay, then upon any juft caufe or true experience) Apiciasj that great Mafter- cook,makes fawlages of them with lard and other things; which compofition I would not have omitted, if it had been worth the.-penning. Gaait Cetacem. \ l>eg-fjh is ftrong.'hard, aadofgrofcand bad juice.* > r* iiheit Hippocrates commends it in Plearefies, and alfoin the skin-dropfie ox Anafarca, The Dorrj is very like to a Sea-bream, of moft excellent tafte, conftitution, and nourifoment, being either backt, or fodden whilft it is alive in wine, water, fait, vinegar, and pennirial. MufieU. ) Eile-powtes are bell in April, May and September; thek fpawne is counted very hurtful, but their flelh is white, firm, and of good nourilhment, and their livers moll fweet and delicate: feeththemasyoudoaDorry, and then broil them a little to make them eafier of di- gellion, or elfe boil them as you do Sturgian, and fo eat them cold. Siottt^i marini. Sea-Flounders are very thick,firm, and yet light of di- geftion, they are exceeding good' for aguilh perfons be¬ ing wellfod, and for fome men, being firied in vinegar and'butter. * Lticerm. Gilt-heads or Golden-poles^ are very little unlike the Gournardj five that it feems about the noddle of the feead^as though ii were oU be^inkled with^old-filings, it