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The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery / With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing the various dishes and courses. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added a collection of above two hundred family receipts of medicines. By E---- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith].

  • Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732
Date:
1734
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery / With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing the various dishes and courses. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added a collection of above two hundred family receipts of medicines. By E---- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To clear the Eyes. TAKE the white of Hens-dung, dry it very well, and beat it to Powder > fift, and blow it into the Eyes when the Party goes to bed. For a Pin or IVeb m the Eye. AKE the Gall of a Hare and Honey, of each a like quantity 5 mix them together, and take a Feather and put a little into the Eye, and it will cure in two or three days. If a Hair or Fith-Bone (lick in the Throat, im¬ mediately fwallow the yolk of a raw Egg, it is a very good thing. An extraordinary Ointment for Burns and Scalds. f~]pAKEofred Dock-Leaves, and Mallow-Leaves, A of each a large handful, two heads of Houfe- leek, of green Elder, the Bark being fcrap’d from it, afmall handful 5 wafh the Herbs and the Elder, which being cut fmall, boil in a pint and an half of Cream*, boil till it comes to an Oil, which, asitrifes up, take off* with a Spoon * afterwards (train, and put to ic 3 drams of white Lead powdered fine. Avery good Drink to be ufed in all Sorts oj Fevers. rT AKE two ounces of burnt Hartfhorn, boil it A with a Cruft of Bread in three pints of Water to a quart j drain, and put to it of Barley, Cina- mon-water 2 ounces, Cochineal half a dram > fweeten it with fine Sugar, and let the Patient, as often as he is thirfty, drink plentifully of it •, rub the Co¬ chineal in a Mortar together with the Sugar. To