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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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    Scombri. Mackrels were in old time in fuchrequeft, that two gallons of their pickle (called the pickle of good feUpiin,!. ji.c.*. lows) was fold for a thouland pieces of lilver? but time and experience defcribed them to be of a thick, clammy, andfu&cating fubftance, offenfive to the brain, head, and breft, though pleafint b tafte, and acceptable to the ftomach': Certain it is that they caufe droufinefs in the Arnoi. de viU beft ftomacks,and apoplexies,or palfies,or lethargies, or com- in dulne(s(atthereaft)of fenfe and nnews to them that be‘ * ‘ weak. rightly advifeth all perfonsfickoffleag* matickdifeafes.andof ftoppings, to beware of Mack¬ rels as a moft dangerous meat: albeit their liver helpeth the jaundies, being fod b vbegar, and their fleih (bd in vbegarcureth the fulFocation of the matrix: they are beft being fod in wine-vbegar withmints, parfly, rofe- mary, and time, and if afterwards they be kept in pickle, made of Rhennilh wine, ginger, pepper, and dill, they prove a very dainty and no unwholefome meat-, they are worft of all buttered. The French men lay Southern¬ wood upon a gridiron, & them upon the Southernwood, and fo broil them both upon the fire, bafting them well .with wine and butter, and fo ferve them in with vinegar, pepper and butter, as hot as can be 5 by which way no doubt their malignity is much leifened,. and their goodr nefs no lefs encreafed.. Sa]olk, are as little and tender Skates, feeding chieffy upon fleih, livers, and (pawne of fiih whereas other fiin ■ bring forth eggs, which are in time converted into their parents (hape 5 onely Maides Skate and Thorne-back bring forth their young ones without eggs,after the kind of propagation of beafts: they are very nourilhbg and of good juice, fit for weak ftoimi:ks, and fucb as have ■ ' ' ' ' ' “ throvjgbi