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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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    Of Frejh-roater Ftp. tS j fure to fee a thoufand Lampreys fucking akc^ether like , horfe-leeches upon one man. ' Concerning our Engliih preparation of them, a cer¬ tain friend of mine gave me this Receit of bakeing and dreffing Lampreys •, namely firft to pouder them (after parboiling) with fait, time,origanum, then either to broil them as Spitchcocks, or to bake them with wine, pep¬ per, nutmegs, mace, cloves, ginger and good ftoreof butter. The little ones called Lamprons are beft broild, but the great ones called Lampreys are beft baked. Of allourEnglifti Lampreys, the Severn-dweller is moft worthily commended, for it is whiter, purer, fweeter, and fatter, and of lefs malignity then any other. Lee ha. Leches, meat (as the Greek word imporetthj for wo¬ men in child* bed, are very lightand of excellent nou*- riihment; they have a flelh like liver, and a red fpleen, which are moft delicate in tafte, and as wholefome in operation. ApuaCohit£,Gefneri. jtlimata Cat)^Phexm Belloni].. [M] Mimes, fo called cither for their littlenels, or (as Dr. C*) w imagined) becaufe their fins be of fo lively a red, , as if they were died with the true Cinnabre-lake called Minium: They are lefs then Loches, feeding upon no¬ thing, but licking one another. thinks them to engender of the waft feed of Gudgins} others that they engender of themfelves out of unknown matter-, yet certain it is that they are ever full of fpawn, which (Kould argue a natural copulation of them with fome littlefifti or other: they are a moft delicate and light meat (their gall being warily voided without breaking) either fried orfodden. . ' ■ of the River be of like goodpelsr with the Sea- Mallets, /