To make make isinglass jelly.
TAKE a quart of water) one ounce of isinglass, half an ounce of cloves; boil them to a pint, then strain it upon a pound of loaf sugar, and when cold sweeten your tea with it. You may make the jelly as above, and leave out the cloves. Sweeten to your palate, and add a little wine. All other jellies you have in another chapter.
To make the pectoral drink.
TAKE a gallon of water, and half a pound of pearl barley, boil it with a quarter of a pound of figs split, a penny worth of liquorice diced to pieces, a quarter of a pound of raisins of the sun stoned ; boil all together till half is washed, then strain it off. This is ordered in the measles, and several other disorders, for a drink.
To make buttered water. or what the Germans call egg-soop, who are very fond of it for supper. You have it in the chapter for Lent.
TAKE a pint of water, beat up the yolk of an egg with the water, put in a piece of butter as big as a fmall walnut, two or three knobs of sugar, and keep stirring it all the time it is on the fire. When it begins to boil, bruise it between the sauce-pan and a mug till it is smooth, and has a great froth; then it is fit to drink. This is ordered in a cold, or where egg will agree with the stomach.
To make feed water.
TAKE a spoonful of coriander-feed, half a spoonful of caraway seed bruised and boiled in a pint of water; then strain it, and bruise it with the yolk of an egg. Mix it with sack and double-refined sugar, according to your palate.
To make bread soop for the sick.
TAKE a quart of water, set it on the fire in a clean sauce-pan, and as much dry crust of bread cut to pieces as the top of a penny loaf, the drier the better, a bit of butter as big as a walnut; let it boil, then beat it with a spoon, and keep boiling it till the bread and water is well mixed: then season it with a very little salt, and it is a pretty thing for a weak stomach.
