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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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    *75 C H A XI,X. Of FreP^ tvafer Ftp* ALderlings are a kind of fifti betwixt a Trout and a [A] Grayling, fcaled (as the Trout is not) but not fo great fcaled as the Grading is 5 K tyeth ever in a deep water, under fome old and great alder, his fleui being fod fmellethlike to wild parlly, whereupon I guefs it had his Latin name, and is of indifferent good nouriflirhent, and provoketh urine. BarbeSie.- are counted nothing but bearded-mullets 5 It LBj is moft likely that this is the fiih dedicated to Diana the Goddefsof chaftity •, fork is avery cold, moift and gel- lied fiih, hurting the finews, quenching luft, and great-piin.i.ji.ca.7. ly troubling both head and belly,if it be ufually and mqch Terpfidei Ub. eatenof, fome eat it hot after it is fodden in wine vine- de Vcn«. gar, time, and favory (which is a good way tocorredl i^ otherseat it cold laid in gelly, which onely agreeth with ,, hot and aouHh ftomachs in Summer time •, afluredly- the eggs or fpawne of Barbels is very (harp, griping and coWive, driving many into bloody fluxes that have eaten them failing. Ab'rMides.. Bream feem no other then flat Carps v yet whiter of fleih and finer nouriihment. There is a kind ot Bream c^'sA Scarus which we call a Cttabream^ becaufe his lips are ever wagging like a Cow chaiwng the cud: this of all other is the lighted, fweetefl:,and belt fifli of the River, filter for weak and fick perfons then