Section 74

Chap. X.
Hovs Meats mtj be prepared in places where there u nothing to roft them with.
Sometimes it falls out that Men are in places where there want many things fit to provide ibbper; but where convenience wants, wit may do it: if you want*
frying p2n, yoyfhall know
How to fry fijh on a paper. Make a fryingpan with plain paper, put in oyl andfi(hes: then fee this on burning cole?, without flame, and it will be done the fooner and better. But if you will
"t\ofl a fchickin irithiHt A fire ;
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That Chickins may ro^ whilft we are in ou fire , pm this into a Chuken that is pulled and hi- gu s taken or n , and cover I in well with clothes, rbat the heat breathe not out j and if he do mcll ill, yec the .neat is good. If you want Servants to turn the fpit, and you Would have
A Btrd to rofi himfelf y do thus : For the Bird wMl turn himfelf. Jlbww writes, That a Bird called a Rens that is the fmallefi of all Birds, ifyouputhim ma fpit, made of Hazel-wood, and put fire under, he will turn as if he turned himfelf Whicn comes from the proper- ty of the wood, not from the Bird : and that is falle the Philofophet laid ; for if you put fire under a Hazel rod, it will twilt,ard letm to turn it lelf ; and what flefhyou put on it, if ii be not too weighty, will turn about with it. So
Eggs are rofied witheu.fire. Eg^s laid in quick Lime , and fprinklcd with water, are rofied • for the Lime will grow as hot as fire. The Babylonians have their invention, when thrv are in the Wildcrnefs,and cannot have an opportunity to boil Eggs ; they put raw Eggs into a ding, and turn them about till they be rolled. But it you
mm Salt
for your meats, the feed of Sumach ftrewed in with Becjamin, will feafon any thing, flwy. If y»u want Salt, and would
Keef fiefb without Salty Cover what flefhyou will with honey, when they are frefh. but hang up the vcffd yon put it into, longer in winter, a lefs time in fummer. If you would have
That Salt-ficjh {bould he made frejh,
Fir ft, boil your Salted flefh in mi. k, and then in water, and it will be frefh. Jtficiut* You flball learn thus
To waft) fpots from Unnen clothes, If vou want Sope, for red wine will lo ftain them, that you can hardly Wafh them out without it : Bat when it doth fall down and ftain them, cait Salt upon itKir, and it wiil take out the ipots. If there want
Groundlings, how to make them.
Suidat faith, That when Niromedes, Kingo* Bhhynia, lonsed for fome cf thefe Fifh, and living Mr from tbe lea, could get none ; Apiciui the glutton, made the Pi&ures of thele Fifh, and fetthem cn the Table, fo like,as if they hao^been thefamei They W?re prepared thus : He cut the female Rape-root into longthin pieces, like to tbe'e Fifh, which beboil'dm CKl,andftrewed withSalt and Pepper, and lb he freed him f rem his longing. As tAlthenam faith, in Cuphron, Comic. If there want fire, I have foe wed already how to make divers forts of Artificial fires.
Chap. XI.
Of divers Confettions of Wines*
NOw I come to drink, for I have fpoken of meat fufficiently. And I will teach you to make many forts of wines, and that they may be pleafant and odorife- rous ; for I have laid already what ways it may be made without pains. If you will
That your Wine {hall fmtll of CMusk^ TaVe a glakVial, acdwxfhit, and fill it with Aqua vita , and put intOita little mu>k . ( op the mouth clofe, that it vent not j fet it in the fummer-Sun two Weeks, always ftirrinsthe water. Theufe is, if you put a drop of this into a gallon of wine, aJl the wine will fmell of Musk j and to for Cinnamon or other. Spices, So you may mike Xx a Hipfoera*
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Take the fwecteft wine, we call it commonly Mangiagatrra, and into four Vials full of that, pour in two pounds of beaten Sugar, four ounces of Cinnamon, Pepper, arid grains cfParadife, one ounce and half: let them infufe one day ; then flrain them • adde in the end in a knot a little Mask , and it will be excellent Wipe ; or to pow- dred Sugar we put a little Aqua vita , wherein Cinnamon, Pepper, Grains of Para- dife, and musk have been infuled, as 1 faid, and it is prefently provided, for it draws forth the quinteffence. I fhall (hew how
Wine may freeze in Glajfes. Becaufe the chief thing defired at Feafts, is that Wine cold as ice may be drunk, efpe- cially in fummer ; I will teach yon how Wine (hall prefently, net oncly grow coid, but freezes tha: you cannot drink it but by fucking , and drawing in of your breath. Put Wine into a Vial, and put a little water to it, that it may turn to ice the fooner ; then cafiinow into a wooden veffel, and drew into it Salt- peter, powdred, or the cleanfing of Salt-peter, called vulgarly Saiazzo. Turn the Vial inthefnow, and ic will congeal by degrees. Some keep fnow all the fummer. Let water boil in brafs kettles, then pour ic into great bowls , and fet them in the frofty cold Air, it will freeze,and grow harder than fnow, and laft longer.
Chap. XII. To mike men drunks and to make them loath Wine.
NOW we are come to fpeak of Wine ; before we pafs from it, I will (hew you how to make your guefts drunk j for drunkennefs at Feafts, increafeth mirth : and then how to keep them fafe from drunkennefs, when they are often provoked ro drink healths, and to ftrive who fhall drink mo You may with thefe fruits
Make men drnn\.
The fruits of the Arbute, and the Lote-tree, being eaten, will make men as though they were drunk : alfo Dates eat in toO'great a quantity, caufe drunkennefs, and the pain of the head ; Sow-bread with Wine, makes a man drunk. Ambcr-greefe, or Musk, put in Wine, exafperate drunkennefs : The filth of a Dogs car mingled wirh Wine,makesone drunk,as Albert™ faith. But %ha[es, out of whom he took it, faith, That Wine, wherein the feeds of Ricinu, are infufed, if any one drink it, it will in- ebriate them. Camels froth, drunk with water by a drunken man , will make hira mad , as pofleffed with a Devil: Let thefe fuffice, for I faid more in my defcription of Plants. But on the contrary, thefe things will
Take away drunkennefs. Becaufe Hemlock, with Wine, is the caufe of death by its venome, it hath been in- vented and found true , that Hemlock is the caufe of life to other?. Fliny feems to intimate as much. Alfo, venoms arc prepared to drink, fome taking Hemlock be- fore , that they may drink, and die. If a man hath drunk too much Wine, that doth him hurt, he fhall difcufs it thus : £ato bids, thar at the beginning and middle of Supper , a man fhould eat four or five tops of rawColeworts, and it will take oft? his drunkennefs, and remove the hurt comes by Wine, and will make a man as though he had neither eat nor drank. The Egyptians, before all meat, did eat boil'd Colcworts, and fo provided themfelvcs for drink. Many to keep themlelves fober, take Cole wort-feeds firft. The Tibar/U, faith Simatu, before they drank , fenced thcmfelves by feeding on Coleworts. Alexis.
Ttfierday then drattl^fi too much, • And now thy head deth ake: but fttch Vifiemper fafling cures; then Bat boil'd ColtytQrts-idrinkjtgen,
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There is no means can half fo well Asfudden trouble drinkji'Jpel. For that will wonderfully cure ; Eat tlfe %jtdtflj, that's ax fur e.
Tbey were wont in a veflel of Amethyft, to make another remedy for drunkennefs, that they might drink Wine without danger. Atheh&m. If you would otherwife hinder the vapours of the Wine, drink it well tempered with water; for they are fooncft drunk, that drink ftrongeft Wines. Afrkantahitby If thon have drunk too much, eat before meat three or four bitter Almonds : they are drying, and will drink up the moyfture, and drive away drunkennefs. Plutarch relates, That there was a Phyfitian with Vrufttty who when he had firft eaten five or fix bitter Almonds, he al- ways corquered at the duel of drunkennefs. The powder of Pumex-ftone will do as much , if the drinker take that firft. Thiophrafttti faith it is dangerous, unlefs he drink abundantly. So Eudtmtes drank two and twenty Cups , at laft he went into a Bath , and did not vomit ; and fupped, fo as if he had drank nothing : for by its dry- ing quality, itconfumes all the moyf urc ; and being cart into a veffel of new Wine that work?, the heat of the Wine is ft rait allayed. There are other things prepa- red by the Antients, to extinguifh drunkennefs, as to eat Lettice at theend of Sup- per,for tbey are very cold : we eat it now firft, to procure appetite : whence Martial writes,
Why do we firft cur Lettice cat? Our Fathers made it their laft meat.
Diofcortdes fcems to call it Acrepula, becaufe it hinders drunkennefs. Leeks difcufs drunkennefs : and he that takes Saffron before, fhall feel no drunkennefs. There are alio Herbs and Flcwers,that if you make Garlands of them , they will hinder drun- kennefs; as Violets, Rofes, and Ivy-berries. Thcafhes of the Bill of a Swallow, pow- dred with Myrrhe, and ftrcwed into the Wineyou drink, will keep you fecure from being drunk. Harm the King of Aflyria found out this invention. 'Pliny, I have faid how drunkennefs may be difpoied : new I fhall (hew how men fhall abftain,
That love Wwe, to refrain it.
There are many who when they have drank much Wire, that is the worft thing in the world for them, fall lick, and die ©f it. Now if you would refrain, and abhor Wine and ftrong drink, becaufe the Fountain Clitcrius is too far off ; let three or four live eels, put into the Wine, ftay there till they die. Let one drink of this Wine, who is given to drunkennefs , and he will loath Wine , and always hate it , and will ne- ver drink it again ; or if he do, he will drink but little, and with much lobriety. Another way : wafh a Tortois with Wine a tcod while , and give one of that wine to drink privately, half a cupfullevtry morning for three days, and youfhallleea wonderful vertue. Myrepfvu. When one complained before the King of the In- dians, that he had Sons born to him , but when once they began to drink a little wine, they all died ; Jarchus anfwered bim thus : It is better for them that they di- ed for had they lived, they would have all run mad, becaufe they were begotlof feed that wa? too cold. Therefore your children muft abftain from wine, to that they may not fo much as defircit. V therefore ifycu have any more Sons born, obfervethis rule : fee where an Owl lays her eggs ; and boil her eggs rere , and give them your childe to ear 5 for ifthcchilde eat them before he drinks wine, he will always hate it? and live fober , becaufe his natural heat is made more temperate. Phtloftratuijiw the life of Apollomui. Democritw faith, the defire of wine is aboliftied, with the watry juice that runs from Vines pruned > if you give it a drunkard to drink, who knows not of it.
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Chap. XIII. How to drive Paraftes and Flatterers from great mens Tables.
IT is an eafie matter to drive away from our Tables , and great mens Table?, all fmell-feafts, and cogging foifting fellows, and this will make our guefts very cheer- full and glad , to fee fuch Cormorants and Parabtes driven away, and derided by all men. When therefore he fits down at Table,
7 hat his hands may grew blackjwhenhe wipes of the Napkin Beat Vitriol and Galls in a Mortar, put them in a narrow clofe fie ve, that the powder may come forth very fine j with this wipe the Napkin, and (hake it ; that what fticks not, may fall eff : then rub it with your hands , till you find that it fticks very faft ; then wiping and fhaking off what ftays not within , when the Parafite hath new wa- fhed his hands and face, carl to him the Towel to wipe himfelf ; and when it is wet, it will make his hands and face as black as a cole, that will very hardly be wafh d ouc with many wafhings. Being now wafh'd and wiped,
That he may not [wallow the meat he chews.
And we (hall make him feel the more pain, if he be any thing dainty. I find in wri- ting, that if you (lick under the Table a needle, that hath often fowed the winding- fheetcf the dead ; and do this privately before fupper, the guefts cannot eat, that tbey will rather loath the meat, than eat it. But experience proves this to be falfe and fuperftiticus. TUrentinm faith. That Bafel is an enemy to women , and that fo much , that if it be put under the difh, and the woman knows not of it, fhe will ne- ver put her hand to the difh, before it be taken away : but this is a molt fearful lye. For a woman and Bafel agree fo well, that they not onely fow and plant them with great diligence in their Gardens , hanging in the Air ; but they frequently feed on them in meats and fallets. I have done it oft-times ; I infufed in a glafs of wine one drachm of the root of an herb we call BeHadoma^tvc Lady,not bruifing it too much ; and after twelve hours, or a little more, pour out this wine into another cup,and give him that muft eat with you,in the morning a cup of it to drink : then detain him with you three hours • then call him to your Table , for the morlel he takes in his mouth, he can by no means fwallow down, but he mult hurt his chaps, and be in great pain, fo that he can hardly drink. If you would have him eat or drink, let him gargle a good quantity of milk or vinegar in his mouth , and he will be as if he had luffered nothing at all. If we will
Drive Parages from great mens Tables, we can eafily do it thus : If we ftiew fome of the dry roots of Wake-robbin on the daintieft meats, like Cinnamon or Pepper, in powder; when he takes a bit of it, it will fo burn his chaps, and bite his mouth and tongue, and fo fetch off the skin of his tongue, that he will fo mump , and draw his chaps in and out, and gape, and make fuch fport , that will make people laugh : and the pain will not abate, until he hath anointed his chaps with bucter and milk. Moreover, if you cut the leaves of Cuc- kowpint fmall,and mingle them with fallets ; thofe that eat of them, will have their mouths and tongues to drivel fomucb, with thick fpittle , that they cannot eat till they have wafh'd it off. And it will be as good fport, if you like not your gueft.
That all things the fmell-feaj} eats, may tafte bitter, If you rdb the ed^e of the Knife, and the Napkin he wipes his mouth with, with the juice of Co!rquinuda,or flefh ofit, and lay it before him : For when he cuts bread with the Knire,or any thing elfe,and fhall touch his lips with the Napkin,it will give him fuch a filthy and abominable tafte, that whatever he toucheth,tafteth,or licks,will have a rjicft horrible imack with it ; and the oftner he wipes bis mouth, that he may wipe away this bitter tafte, the more will bis mouth, palate, and jaws,bc tormented, that he will be forced to forfakc the Table. We can alio delude him fo, Thai
Of Coofyrj.
That when he drinks, the c/tpjhali flick^ to his mouthy that he can hardly full it off",
Befrheer ihecopsmcuth with themilk of Fig^andGum-traoamh diffolvcd in ir j for when they are dry, they v»ill be clear: but when he drinks, the cup willliick fo faft to his lips, that when he hath done drinking , he can hardly pull it off. We (hall do thus,
Thatfie(h may look bloody and full af worms, and fo h rejected
by fmell-reafls. Boil Hares blaod, and dry it, and powder it ; and caft the powder upon the meats that are beil'd , which will melt by the heat and movfture of the meat, that they will feet* all bloody, and he will loath and refufe them. Any man may eat them without any riling of his ftomack. If yon cut Harp-ftriags fmall , and drew them on hot fkfh, the heat will twift them, and they will move like worms.