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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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    Vifandeefc. & pj)ru-l. Of Frepj water Ftfh. fuch as be in health, becaufeic is fo fine, A ver'j good way how to drejs mofi fart of fcaled ffles. Prepare it after this fort, fet on a good quantity of white ftrong vinegar, and ftale Ale, with a curfey of ' , flit, a little mints, origanum, parfly and rofemary *, and when your liquor boileth faft upon the fire, ftop the mou th of your Bream with’ a nutmeg thruft dovvne in¬ to his throat, andcafthimin skipping into the liquor keeping-him downe till he be thorow dead and perfedly •' fodden: drefs Pikes, Roches, Carps, Grailings, Mul- ] lets, and all great fifli of the River in the like fort ^ for k will makethem to eat plealant, crifp, brittle, and firm, not watrifli and flaggy^ as moft fifh do, becaufe we know not how to uie and order them. ' hlburiti. Bleyes Bleaks are foft fleflit, but never fat 5 fitter ^ to feed Pikes then to nouriffi men • in the heat of Som- f : mer they are troubled vidth a worme in their ftomach, ^ which makes them fo mad and frandck,that rowing upon m the Thames you (hall have three or four in an evening 'v leap into your boat; A waterman once opened one, and ■ found a little worm in it, not unlike to them which grow 1 in oxens skins (wherewith they are often enraged ) but *1 far lefs-, they are counted a tender, but never any whole* 1 fome meat 5 becaufe they are fo fubje<S to frenfy and * giddinefs. , Cjprint^ Carfunes^ Carps are of a fweettafte, and much good nourifli- inent, in which refpedls they were dedicated to Fenus^ difcommended for nothing, but that they will not laft long, whereforethey are forthwith tobedreft, becaufe (through lightnefs of their fubftance) they will foon corrupt. The Portugals fiippofe that Carps feed upon gold, becaufe nothing almoft is found in their bellies,but a