item: #1 of 7
          id: A06913
      author: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
       title: Countrey contentments, or The English husvvife Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgerie, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, oats, their excellent vses in a family, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the honour of the noble house of Exceter, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.
        date: 1623
       words: 86969
      flesch: 56
     summary: First distill your water in a 〈◊〉 , then put it in a glasse of great strength , and fill it with those flowers again ( whose colour you desire ) as full as you can , & stop it and set it in the styllatorie againe , and let it distill , & you shall haue the collour you distill . Take of Rosemary flowers two handfuls , of mariarome , winter-sauory , rosemary , rewe , vnset Time , Germander , Rybworte , Harts tong , Mouseare , White wormwood , Buglosse , Red sage , Liuer-worte ; Hoare-hound , fine Lauender , Issop-cropps , Penny-royall , Red-fenell● of each of these one handfull ; of Elycompane roots , cleane pared and sliced , two handfulls ; Then take all these afore-said and shred them , but not wash them ; then take foure gallons and more of stronge Ale , & one gallon of Sack-lees , and put all these aforesaid hearbe● shred into it , and then put into it one pound of Licoras bruised , halfe a pound of any seedes cleane sifted and bruised , and of Mace & Nutmeggs bruised of each one ounce ; then put altogether into your stillyng - pot close couered with Rye paste , and make a soft fire vnder your pot , and as the head of the Limbecke heateth , draw out your hot water and put in cold , keeping the head of your Limbeck still with cold water , but see your fire be not two rash at the first , but let your water come at leasure , and take heed vnto your stilling that your water change not white , for it is not so strong as the first draught is ; and when the water is distilled , take a gallon glasse with a wide mouth , and put therein a pottell of the best water and cleerest , and put to it a pottell of Rosa-●olis , halfe a pound of Dates bruised , and one once of graynes , halfe a pound of Sugar , halfe an ounce of seed-pearle beaten , three leaues of fine gold ; stirre all these together well , then stop your glasse and set it in the sunne the space of one or two moneths , and then clarifie it and vse it at your discretion ; for a spoonefull or two at a time is sufficient , and the vertues are infinite . Next vnto this sanctity & holinesse of life , it is meete that our English Hous-wife be a woman of great modesty and temperance as well inwardly as outwardly ; inwardly , as in ●er behauiour and cariage towards her husband , wherein she shall shunne all violence of rage , passion and humour , coueting lesse to direct then to bee directed , appearing euer vnto him pleasant , amiable and delightfull ; and though occasion , mishaps , or the misgouernement of his will may ●nduce her to contrarie thoughts , yet vertuously to suppresse them , and with a milde sufferance rather to call him ●ome from his error , then with the strength of anger to a●ate the least sparke of his euill , calling in her minde that euill and vncomely language is deformed though vttered euen to seruants , but most monstrous and vgly when it appeares before the presence of a husband : outwardly , as in ●er apparrell and dyet , both which she shall proportion according to the competency of her husbands estate & cal●ing , making her circle raither straight then large , for it is a rule if we extend to the vttermost we take away increase , if we goe a hayre breadth beyond we enter into consumption : but if we preserue any part , we build strong sorts against the aduersaries of fortune , prouided that such preseruation be honest and conscionable : for as lauish prodigality is brutish , so miserable couetousnesse is hellish .
    keywords: againe; ale; bake; beate; bee; boyle; bread; butter; cinamon; cleane; close; cloth; cloues; cold; colour; come; creame; cut; day; dish; doe; draw; drie; drinke; egges; euery; fine; fire; foure; giue; good; halfe; handfull; hath; haue; hauing; hearbs; hot; house; keepe; lay; leaues; like; long; making; malt; manner; meale; milke; mixe; mixt; morning; mutton; new; ouer; ounce; party; place; pot; pouder; pound; quantitie; red; salt; serue; set; sorts; store; straine; sugar; sweete; thereof; thicke; time; vinegar; vnto; vpon; vse; warme; water; white; wine; wooll; ● ●
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        item: #2 of 7
          id: A06924
      author: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
       title: The English house-vvife Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.
        date: 1631
       words: 89250
      flesch: 57
     summary: A Ling pi● . Take a Iole of the best Ling that is not much watred , and is well sodden and cold , but whilest it is hot take off the skin , and pare it cleane vnderneath , and pick out the bones cleane from the fish : then cut it into grosse bits and let it lie : then take the yelks of a dozen Egges boild exceeding hard , and put them to the fish , and shred all together as small as is possible : then take all manner of the best and finest pot-herbs , and chop them wonderfull small , and mixe them also with the fish ; then season it with Pepper , Cloues , and Mace , and so lay it into a coffin with great store of sweete Butter , so as it may swimme therein , and then couer it , and leaue a vent hole open in the top when it is bak't , draw it , and take Vertuice , Sugar , Cinamon and Butter , and boile them together , and first with a feather annoynt all the lid ouer with that liquor , and then scrape good store of Sugar vpon it ; then powre the rest of the liquor in at the vent hole , & then set it into the Ouen againe for a very little space , and then serue it vp as pies of the s●me natu●e , and both these pies of fish before rehearsed , are especa●l Lenten di●hes . a●d although nice and curious House-w●ues wil h●ue a third hou●e betwixt them , as betweene twelue and one in the after-noone , yet the better experienst doe not allow it , and say as I beleeue , that two good meales of milke are better euer then three bad ones ; also in the mil●ing of a Cow , the woman must sit on the neere side of the Cow , she must gently at the first handle and stretch her dugges , and mo●sten them with milke that they may yeeld out the milke the better and with lesse paine : she shall not settle her selfe to milke , nor fixe her paile fi●me to the ground till she see the cowe stand sure and firme , but be ready vpon any motion of the Cow to saue her paile from ouerturning ; when she seeth all things answerable to her desire , she shall then milke the cow boldly , & not leaue stre●ching and straining of her teats till not one drop of milke more will come from them , for he worst poynt of Hous●-w●fery that can be , is to leaue a Cowe halfe mil●t , for besides the losse of the milke , it is the onely way to m●●ke a cowe dry and vtter●y vnprofitable for the D●i●y : the milke-mayd whilst she is in m●lking , shall doe nothing rashly or sudden●y about the cowe , which ●ay aff●ight or am●se her , but as she came gently , so with al● gentlenesse she shall depart .
    keywords: againe; ale; b ●; bake; bee; boyle; bread; butter; cinamon; cleane; close; cloth; cloues; cold; come; creame; cut; day; dish; doe; draw; drinke; egges; euery; fine; fire; foure; giue; good; halfe; handfull; hath; haue; hauing; house; lay; leaues; like; m ●; malt; manner; meate; milke; mixe; morning; o ●; ouer; ounce; p ●; pag; pot; pouder; pound; quantity; red; salt; serue; set; store; straine; sugar; sweete; thereof; thicke; time; vinegar; vnto; vpon; vse; w ●; water; white; wi ●; wife; wil; wine; wooll; ● d; ● e; ● g; ● h; ● ke; ● l; ● ng; ● r; ● s; ● t; ● y; ● ●
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        item: #3 of 7
          id: A52447
      author: North, Dudley North, Baron, 1602-1677.
       title: Observations and advices oeconomical
        date: 1669
       words: 16473
      flesch: 58
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. There can be little said in general , the condition of persons being so different in respect of Age , Quality , &c.
    keywords: care; children; consideration; families; family; good; government; hath; having; house; lesse; life; lord; man; master; people; persons; place; self; servants; thee; things; thy; time; way
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        item: #4 of 7
          id: A56780
      author: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
       title: The worth of a peny, or, A caution to keep money with the causes of the scarcity and misery of the want hereof in these hard and mercilesse times : as also how to save it in our diet, apparell, recreations, &c.: and also what honest courses men in want may take to live / by H.P. ...
        date: 1641
       words: 12935
      flesch: 50
     summary: The Common and Ordinarie Causes why men are poore and want money . THere must , by the Divine Providence , in the body of a Common-wealth , be as well poore as rich , for as an humane body cannot subsist without hands and feet to labour , and walke about to provide for the other members , the rich being the belly which devoure all , yet do no part of the work , but the cause of every mans poverty is not one and the same .
    keywords: apparell; body; countrey; english; estates; faire; fashion; friends; hath; himselfe; houses; london; man; men; money; non; peny; recreations; saith; save; text; times; want; wealth; worth; yea
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        item: #5 of 7
          id: A61490
      author: Stevenson, Matthew, d. 1684.
       title: The twelve moneths, or, A pleasant and profitable discourse of every action, whether of labour or recreation, proper to each particular moneth branched into directions relating to husbandry, as plowing, sowing, gardening, planting, transplanting ... as also, of recreations as hunting, hawking, fishing, fowling, coursing, cockfighting : to which likewise is added a necessary advice touching physick ... : lastly, every moneth is shut up with an epigrame : with the fairs of every month / by M. Stevenson.
        date: 1661
       words: 19309
      flesch: 66
     summary: For matters of Husbandry , Huswifery , fishing , fowling , and the like exercises , I confesse them somewhat out of my Ro●●l , but I assure you to pleasure you and satisfie my self , I have consulted the most approved Authors , and given you here the Creame and marrow of their severall experiences in their own expresse Characters ; nil dictum , quod non dictum prius . I now come to advise you , and in the first place , have a care of Bleeding , except in case of b●uises by falls or otherwise , there your Physitian will advise you to it to prevent accidents that doe commonl● attend such maladies : Or else in violent Haemorrages , or bleeding at Nose , for revulsion sake ; but truly as to Feavors or Plurysies they have their speedier , safer , and more proper Cures without Phlebotomy .
    keywords: blood; cold; come; corn; day; dayes; doe; earth; end; england; fairs; fat; flowers; fly; fruit; good; hath; labour; lay; like; malt; man; march; market; month; morning; nature; physick; principall; season; set; sun; tcp; text; time; trees; use; water; weather; wind; winter; work; ● ●
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        item: #6 of 7
          id: A66843
      author: Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.
       title: The cook's guide: or, Rare receipts for cookery Published and set forth particularly for ladies and gentlwomen; being very beneficial for all those that desire the true way of dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowles, and fish; the best directions for all manner of kickshaws, and the most ho-good sawces: whereby noble persons and others in their hospitalities may be gratified in their gusto's. Never before printed. By Hannah Wolley.
        date: 1664
       words: 21004
      flesch: 68
     summary: TAke a peck of Flower , and a good pint of Ale yest ; strain the yest into some warm water , knead your past very light , put in but a very little salt , and knead it a great while longer then any other bread ; then lay it to rise in a warm cloth before the fire , ●hen having your Oven very hot , make it into three Loaves , wash them over wi●h the yolks of Eggs and Beer , and let them bake four houres ; if you would have your bread very excellent , you must add to this quan●ity the yolke● of twenty Egges , and a little Milk , and a little Sack. TR●uss and parboile it , then half roast it ,
    keywords: boile; boyl; butter; cream; cut; dish; eggs; fine; half; lay; liquor; mace; mutton; pound; pour; pye; salt; sugar; water; white; wine; yolks; ● ●
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        item: #7 of 7
          id: A66847
      author: Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.
       title: The queen-like closet; or, Rich cabinet stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying & cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. By Hannah Wolley.
        date: 1670
       words: 67173
      flesch: 78
     summary: Take Oatmeal clean picked and well beaten , steep it in water all night , then strain it and boil it in a Pipkin with some Currans , and a Blade or two of Mace and a little Salt ; when it is well boiled , take it off , and put in the Yolks of two or three new laid Eggs beaten with Rosewater , then set it on a fost fire , and stir it that it curd not , then sweeten it with Sugar , and put in a little Nutmeg . Take a Limon pared and sliced very thin , then cover the bottom of your Sillibub Pot with it , then strew it thick with fine Sugar , then take Sack or white Wine , and make a Curd with some Milk or Cream , and lay it on the Limon with a Spoon , then whip some Cream and Whites of Eggs together ; sweetned a little , and cast the Froth thereof upon your Sillibub , when you lay in your Curd , you must lay Sugar between every Lay. LXXIX To make fine Water-Gruel . Take the best Oatmeal beaten , and steep it in water all night , the next day strain it , and boil it with a Blade of Mace , and when it is enough , put in some Raisins and Corans which have been infused in a Pot ( in a Pot of seething Water ) and a little Wine , a little Salt , a little sugar , and so eat it .
    keywords: bake; boil; butter; close; cold; cover; cream; cut; dish; dry; eggs; fine; fire; flower; good; half; lay; limon; little; meat; ounce; paste; pie; pint; pound; rosewater; salt; set; spice; sugar; syrup; thin; water; white; wine; yolks
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