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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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    I;^4 ' LP] (/Al.S.dccomp fncd.fcc.loc* Of SEA-FISH. brine) that he fent them from thence fweet and good tO' the Emperour Tr4j4;»j>Wdrring againft the Termnckles or W helks^are no thing but {ea-fnails/eed- ing upon the fineft mud of the ftiore and the beft weeds-, they are very nouriflimg and reftorativejbeing fodat the fea-fide in their own fea waterrthe whiteft flefht are ever beft & tendereft,& they which arc taken in clean crecks^ catplealant, but they which are gathered upon muddy fliores eat very ftrongly and offend theeyefight. They are beft in winter and in the ipring t- for a ftomackand liver refolved as it were and dlfpoftCed ^f ftrength. A- pcim warneth us to pick away the covering pf their holes, for it is a mbft unwholefome thing, being nothing, but a Golledlion of all their (lime hardned with feething.. The beft way to prepare them for found perfonsr is to. feethxhem in their owne fea-water, or elfe inriyer with fait and vinegarBut for weak and confumedper- fons Afkm willeththem (in the Book and Chapter ar fbrefaid) tobe;thusdrelkv take firft the skin from their holes, and lay them for a day or two covered in fait and milk the third’ day lay them onely in ijew milk, then^ feeth themin milk till they be dead, or fry them in a pair with butter and’falc.. Paffereu, \ . Plaife (called the fea- fparrpws, they are brown above and white.beaeath) are of and fine nouriflament... Arnoldns de *viJlAnovA writeth : thus of them. Of all fea-fifli Rochets and Gurnards are to be preferred- for their flelh is firm,and their fubftance. puftft of all Other. Next unto them Plaife, and Soles tobenumbredjbeing eaten in timeyfor if either of theijij be once ftale,there is no fiefti more carrion-like nor morCv iroublefome lo the belly of man; the beft Plaife havei blacK-^^