Chef Phanis Cookbooks

 

THE

COUNTRY HOUSEWIFE'S

Family Companion

or

Profitable Directions for whatever relates

to the Management and good Economy

1750

 

 

REFACE TO THE Country Family’s Proftable Director

AN INTRODUCTION TO The Country Housewife

 

Of the several Sorts of Wheat usually sown in England for making Bread

Why some Gentlemen, Yeomen, and Farmers grind their own Wheat for their Family Uses

Why Others refuse to grind their own Wheat, and buy Meal for their Family Uses

How a private Family may preserve their whole Wheat sweet in Sacks for some Time

How to preserve Wheat-Meal sweet in Sacks

How Wheat-Meal by various Means becomes damaged by Insects

How to know good from bad Meals

How a common Baker, living within four Miles of London, improved his best Wheat-Meal

The Nature of grown Wheat, and how it comes to be such

How to cure damaged grown Wheat-Meal

The Practice of a Hertfordshire Housewife for improving the Meal of grown Wheat

Meals made use of in some of the Northern Counties

Of the Nature and Uses of good and bad Yeast or Barm, as it relates to baking of Bread

How to make a little Yeast go a great Way in making Bread, and how to make Grounds of Barrels supply Yeast.

A second Account of making Grounds of Barrels serve for baking Bread, instead of good Yeast, in cold Weather.

A Method practised by a frugal Housewife to keep her Yeast sweet and sound against baking time, in hot Weather.

A second Way to preserve Yeast sweet and sound in hot Weather.

How to preserve Yeast with cold Water.

How to preserve Yeast sweet in a Pitcher.

How to preserve Yeast in Bottles.

How an old Woman, that kept a public House in Hertfordshire, made it her common Practice to increase the Quantity of her Yeast.

Of the Cheapness and Dearness of Yeast or Barm.

How a Tradesman in Hertfordshire brewed ten Bushels of Pale Malt in the Hard Frost of 1740, chiefly for making an extraordinary Profit of the Yeast produced from the same.

To make a bitter Yeast fresh.

Good neighbours Yeast.

Of Leaven, and Leavened Bread.

How to make Leaven and leavened Bread for a private Family.

An Account given this Author by a ----Woman, who, when she was single, lived with a Country common Baker, that made use of the Spunge, otherwise Leaven, and employed Allum in making his Bread.

A Cheshire Servant Maid's Account of her making leavened Bread.

Of making common Wheaten-Bread for a private Family in Hertfordshire.

To make Bread with a Mixture of Wheat and Barley Meal, so as to make it answer the greatest advantage of a family.

How a Yeoman's Wife made a Barley Bread, with which she brought up her Family in Hertfordshire.

What chiefly occasions Bread to crumble, and what helps very much to prevent it.

How in making Bread its Loaves are prevented from crumbling.

The Damage of letting Bread lie too long in an Oven.

Of making Bean and Pea Bread.

Of making Bread with Oats and Tills.

What occasions bread to be ropy and musty, &c.

What the Laplanders and Norwegians eat for bread, &c.

The Management of a Bushel of Barley-Meal by a Labourer's Wife.

Bread said to be made in Fingal in Ireland.

Of the several Uses of Barley-Meal, and Fat, in making Pye-Crust, Pancakes, Puddings, &c.

A VERY cheap Way to save Butter or Fat in making Pye-Crust, with a Mixture of Barley and Wheat Meal.

Mary Weeden, a poor Woman, her Way to make Fat go the farthest in making Paste of Barley-Meal for Pyes or Pasties.

The cheapest Way of all others to save the Expence of Fat in making of Pye or Pasty Crust for a Poor Man's Family.

A Barley-Meal boiled Pudding, as made by the Country Housewife of a poor Family.

A Barley-Meal baked Pudding as made by the Country Housewife, a Farmer's Wife.

Barley-Meal palatable Pancakes; how to make them for a Yeoman's, a Farmer's, or poor Man's family.

The several Ways of preparing Barley-Meal, for subsisting a poor Man's Family in the hard Frost of 1740.

Barley-Meal Bread with Turneps, Rye, &c.

How commodiously Pancakes answer the Farmers, the Yeomens, and Gentlemens Interest.

The Hertfordshire plain cheap Pancakes for Farmers Families, &c.

How a Woman made three Pancakes that dined herself and three Men.

How Small-Beer or Ale Pancakes are made.

How Water Pancakes are made by poor People.

How Pancakes are made for rich People.

Apple Pancakes for Gentry.

A quick and plain Way to make Apple Fritters.

A quick and plain Way to make pickled Pork Pancakes.

The Dugdale Flower Pancake.

To make fine Pancakes fry'd without Butter or Lard, according to an old but good Receipt.

To make Rice Pancakes.

The Hertfordshire Bacon Pancake, or what some call Bacon-Fraise, for Plowmen and  others.

The Hertfordshire Apple Fritter.

The Hertfordshire plain Fritter.

To make a better Sort of Fritter.

Potatoe Fritters.

Of making Puddings with Wheat-Flower, in Harvest, and at other Times in the Year.

The Hertfordshire Way of making Plumb-Pudding in Harvest Time

A second Receit to make a cheaper Plumb-Pudding is this

A Pudding to bake or boil

A second Pudding to bake or boil

A Pudding in haste

Hasty-pudding, by Mr. Houghton

The common Farmers Hasty-pudding

A poor Woman's Pudding for her Family

A rich baked Pudding.

A boiled Plain-pudding.

Rabisha's baked Hasty-pudding

Rabisha's baked Rice-pudding

A plainer Way to make a baked Rice-pudding

A Buckinghamshire Farmer's Way to victual his Family with Pudding, &c

This Author's Servant-Maid's Way to make a Boiled-pudding

Bread-pudding

Apple-pudding, the Hertfordshire Way

Potatoe-pudding

To make a Black-cherry-pudding

A Flower-pudding for a Farmer's Family to boil

A Flower-pudding to bake

Of Apple-Pyes, and Apple-Pasties, for Harvest and other Times.

Of Apple-Pyes: A poem, by Mr. Welsted.

A Character of the famous Parsnip Apple, and its Uses

The Character of the famous Bell-orange Pear

The Character of the famous black Kerroon Cherry

The Farmer's Wife's plain Way of making or raising Paste for Apple or Meat Pyes, Custards, or Pasties.

A Puff-paste

How a Farmer disgraced himself by having Apple-pasties made at a dear Rate, and how he might have had them made cheaper and better.

How another Farmer has his Apple Pyes and Pasties made something better than the last Farmer.

How a third Farmer has his Apple Pyes or Pasties made.

This Author's Way of having his Apple Pyes or Pasties made.

Of Victualling Harvest-men in Hertfordshire.

To preserve Beef or Mutton Suet sound and sweet all the Harvest Season and longer.

The good Housewifery of a Farmer's Wife to furnish herself with a due Quantity of Suet against Harvest-Time.

The best Way of salting Beef, to preserve it sweet and sound in Harvest, and at all other Times of the Year.

The Benefits of getting Roots, Herbs and other culinary Vegetables against Harvest-Time.

Of the Nature and Uses of Pork in Harvest and at other Times of the Year.

Of killing a Barrow-Hog for a pickled Porker in Harvest Time.

Of cutting out the Carcase of a Porker for pickling.

Observations on killing several Sorts of Sow-Hogs for pickled Pork

How a Farmer in Hertfordshire singed the Hair off his Hogs, to make pickled Pork of them

Of pickling Pork in Harvest and at other Times of the Year.

The Practice of an old Hertfordshire Housewife in the pickling of Pork

The Practice of a second Hertfordshire Housewife, in the pickling of her Pork

The Practice of a third Hertfordshire Housewife, in the pickling of her Pork

How a young Maid-Servant spoiled the Flesh of a Porker for want of knowing how to pickle it

A famous Receit for pickling of Pork

How a Hertfordshire Housewife damaged best pickled Pork

Why Pork, that is to be pickled, should be first sprinkled with Salt, to soak and draw out its bloody Part.

A new and safer Way to pickle a Porker in Summer-Time

A particular Way of salting down a Porker for pickled Pork

A Country Woman's Way to manage a Porker that is too small, for pickling a long Time

The Kentish and Suffolk Ways of pickling Pork

To bake the Ears, Feet, the Nose-part, Mugget, or gristly lean Parts of a Hock of Pork

To roast Pork in a Collar

Rabisha's Way to souce a Pig in Collars

Rabisha's Way to bake a Pig

To roast a Pig

The Farmers Way of dressing a Porker's Head, Feet, and Ears

To fry collar'd Pork

Pork-Balls to fry

A Yorkshire Cook-Maid's Way to pickle Pork

How to bake or roast a Hog's Haslet in the cheapest Manner the Hertfordshire Way.

The Hertfordshire cheap Way of making Family Mince-Pyes with a Hog's-haslet.

The Hertfordshire Way to make Mince-Pyes for a large Family, with a Haslet, &c. is this.

The Hertfordshire Housewife's Way to make Pork Pyes, or turn-over Pork-pasties in Harvest-time.

The Hertfordshire (or this Author's) Way of baking pickled Pork.

To make a Pork-pye to be eaten cold.

A Leg of Pork to boil.

A Leg of Pork broiled, according to Rabisha's Receit.

How to roast Pork-Steaks.

To broil Pork Steaks.

The Hertfordshire Way of roasting Joints of Pork.

To salt a Piece of fresh Pork at once for boiling it directly.

A second Way to salt a Piece of fresh Pork for boiling.

To salt fresh Pork on the Spit.

The Hertfordshire Farmers Wives Way of dressing the Liver and the Crow of a Porker.

The Service that souced Pork is of to Farmers and other Families.

A Country Housewife's Way to make her Soucing-drink, to preserve Pork sweet.

Rabisha's Way to make Soucing-drink.

To souce a Hog's Head, Feet, Chitterlins, and Hocks, &c.

Harvest-Men fed in various Manners.

The valuable Uses of Cheese to Yeomen and Farmers Families in Harvest-time.

To make Harvest Posset, the Hertfordshire Way.

To make Wigs for Harvest-men the Hertfordshire Way.

A common Country Baker's Way of making Wigs.

To make a Hertfordshire Seed-cake for Harvest-men.

To make a good Seed-cake.

A Hertfordshire Spice-loaf for Harvest.

A Hertfordshire Plumb-cake for Harvest.

To make a good Currant or Plumb Cake.

The Benefits of saving the Fat of boiled, roasted, or baked Meats.

Of saving the best Fat of a Porker or Bacon Hog.

How we try or dry up the pure fat Part of a Porker or Bacon Hog, which we call Lard or Seam.

How we try or dry up the offald fat Part of a Porker or Bacon Pig.

How to preserve Hogslard or Seam fresh.

Of making Sausages.

How to prepare Guts or Skins for filling them to make Sausages.

How to prepare Pork Meat for making it into Sausages.

How a Person set up to sell Sausages in a Market Town in Bedfordshire, and broke for want of knowing how to make them in a right Manner.

How to make compleat Sausages for Sale, or for a private Family.

To make Sausages as good as those from Bologna, according to the receit in The Way to get Wealth.

To make Sausages without Skins.

How to preserve naked Sausages.

How to preserve Sausages in Links.

To make Sausages by an old Receit.

Rabisha's Receit to make Sausages of Pork, or with the Flesh of a Fowl or Rabbit.

Of making Black and White Hogs Puddings.

How to prepare Skins for filling them to make Black Hogs Puddings.

How to prepare Meat for filling Skins with it to make Black Hogs Puddings.

How to prepare Skins for making White Hogs Puddings.

How to prepare the Meat for filling Skins to make White Hogs Puddings.

How to make white Hogs Puddings by an ancient Receit.

How to make Gut Puddings with Hog's Liver, by an ancient Author.

To make Gut Puddings with Hog's Liver, by one new and two old Receits.

To make Hogs Guts Puddings with Hogs Humbles.

Of Chitterlins, their Make and Use.

How to make Chitterlins.

To make a Chitterlin Pye.

To boil, broil, or fry Chitterlins.

Of Bacon in general.

The necessary Uses of Bacon.

The Hertfordshire Way of curing Bacon for a private Family.

Bacon made in several Parts of the West Country.

What I was told by a London Seller of Bacon.

The Practice of curing Bacon in some Country Towns.

A Farmer's Wife's true Country Way of preserving Bacon in a white Colour.

How a Gentleman living in the north-west Part of England would not suffer his Bacon Hogs to singed, on Purpose to avoid the ill Qualities of the Smoak.

How the same Gentleman scalds his Hogs.

Fatting Hogs for Bacon or Pork in London.

The Care and Art made use of by a Country Housewife in curing her Flitches of Bacon.

Why a Sow is better to make Bacon of than pickled Pork.

A black Hog of the foreign Breed was killed with so thick a Skin, that it was thought it would be worth more to sell to the Saddler than to eat as Rind to Bacon.

How a Quaker living at Eaton in Bedfordshire used to prepare his Bacon for drying and keeping.

How a Country Bacon-monger left off smoaking his Bacon, to dry it without Smoak.

How another Country Bacon-monger cured his Bacon so as to make it look very white, eat sweet, and keep sound a long Time.

The different Qualities of Pork and Bacon.

How to prepare Flitches of Bacon for drying, so as so prevent their rusting, and for securing their Gammon Parts from the Breed of the Hopper-fly.

An Account of a Lord's Butcher who salted and managed his Flitches of Bacon in so wrong a Manner, that great Part of them were spoiled.

The Nature of Salt-petre, Bay-salt, Petre-salt, and Sal Prunella.

A Butcher's Notion of Salt-petre.

Why a Vale Housewife refuses to make use of any Salt-petre in the curing of her Pork or Bacon.

To make a Pickle for pickling Flitches of Bacon, in order to prepare them for being Smoak-dry'd.

To cure Hams by an unboiled Pickle.

To cure Hams by a boiled Pickle.

To make English Hams like those of Westphalia in Shape and Taste.

The Power of Brine and the frugal Management of it, in the Cure and Preservation of Bacon, Hams, Tongues, &c.

Rabisha's Method to bake a Gammon of Bacon.

To roast a Ham.

The ill Qualities of Bean-fed Bacon, and that from Swine fatted on Distillers Wash, Butchers Offald, &c.

To roast a Gammon of Bacon.

To boil a Gammon of Bacon.

Of the Feeding of Boars, and making Brawn of them.

The Case of a Gentleman, who had a Boar almost spoiled by the wrong Management of a Servant.

How the Boar before mentioned was dressed by the Butcher for making Brawn of him.

The Case of another Gentleman, who in buying and feeding a Boar for Brawn, lost most of it.

Observations on the Case of this Gentleman, who had bad Brawn instead of good Brawn; and how Brawn is to be managed to have it good.

Rabisha's Method of collaring and sousing Brawn.

What Mr. Bradley says of feeding, making, and soucing of Brawn, in his Country Housewife

To bake Brawn by an old Receit

To roast the Flesh of a Boar.

Rabisha's Way to bake Brawn to be eaten cold.

Sir Kenelm Digby's Way to bake Collars of Brawn.

The Management of Sows and their Pigs.

Why the Inspection and Care of a Sow and Pigs belongs to the Country Housewife.

The Management of a Farmer who lived at Eaton in Bedfordshire, whereby he generally had sucking Pigs all the Year.

How a Woman made near four Pounds a Year, by the Pigs of only one Sow.

The Method that a prudent Person took to manage a Sow before and after Pigging, and to cause his Pigs to have white sweet Flesh.

The Case of a Gentleman, who lost several of his sucking Pigs, by Means of his Sow eating sourish Apples.

Sow bursted.

Sow killed by Accident.

A Sow killed by a wrong Medicine.

An Account of a Hog-doctor's Procedure to cure Swine that ailed nothing.

A Sow poison'd by drinking Broth.

A Hog soon choaks.

A Sow killed by eating Brandy Cherries.

Several Hogs cured, that were jogg'd under their Throats by eating Acorns.

Hogs died with rotten Livers.

Some Hogs killed by eating Acorns, and others cured.

How to prevent Hogs being bound too much by eating Acorns.

To keep Hogs in Health that feed on Beans or Pease for fatting.

Sucking Pigs killed by giving the Sow Hops amongst Grains.

A Sow, just ready to pig, was poisoned by drinking yeasty Wash.

Hogs damaged by eating Hens Dung.

How a Sow brought a Litter of four and twenty Pigs, and how she was managed to bring them up, till they were sold for five Shillings a Piece.

How cheaply a Woman kept a breeding Sow.

A Sow that eat Chickens.

To dry away a Sow's Milk.

To wean Pigs.

When a Sow should be killed for Pork or Bacon, in Pig or not in Pig.

Welch Way of making Puddings with Hogs or Sheeps Maws.

Of Cheap, Approved, and Experienced Medicines and Remedies for Divers Diseases incident to Human Bodies.

How a young Man had the sore Piles, by tippling too much October Butt stale Beer, and how cured.

A Gentleman Traveller's Character of the Flower of Brimstone.

Dr. his Method of taking Flower of Brimstone for his pimpled Neck.

An excellent experienced Remedy for the Gravel.

A Diet Drink.

The Welch Way of preparing Hogs Guts for Puddings.

Welch Black-puddings.

Welch white Hogs-puddings

Sussex Pudding.

How to boil salt Meat to the greatest Advantage.

To pickle Sprats.

To pickle fresh Herrings.

The case of Mr. Glanville, of Edgware, in the County of Middlesex, who was very near poisoned by eating Muscles.

A Woman poison'd by eating a roasted Duck.

How a Man accustomed himself to cure his Tooth-ach with Henbane-seed.

A Man poison'd by eating a Toad.

Several Persons poisoned by Poison laid for Rats.

Rabbits poisoned by Hemlock.

Of Poultry and their Eggs.

The best Feed for Dunghill Fowls, to make them lay early Eggs, and many of them 

Sorts of Hens.

Of Hens sitting, and of Chickens and young Ducks.

Dunghill Fowls, their Nature, by Mortimer.

To fatten Hens, Pullets, Chickens, Capons, or Turkeys.

An ancient Author's Way to fatten Chickens.

Sir Kenelm Digby's Receit to make a luscious Food to fatten Chickens in the sweetest and quickest Manner.

Gaddesden Farmers Way to feed Chickens.

To make Capons.

The Character of the famous Darking Dunghill Fowls.

Of the Turkey

Of breeding Turkeys

To feed young Turkeys.

Of fattening old Turkeys.

A further Account of the Breeding and Feeding of Turkeys.

Of Ducks.

The Profit of keeping Ducks.

Of the several Sorts of Ducks kept in England.

Of breeding Ducks.

Of Geese.

Sorts of Geese.

Geese sitting and hatching.

The Loss and Profit of keeping Geese.

Eighteen Goslings killed and carried away in one Night's Time by a Polecat.

Of Swans.

The Pleasure and Profit of keeping Swans.

Of Breeding Swans.

How to fatten Swans.

Pinioning a Swan.

Of Eggs.

How to preserve Eggs sound.

A second Way to preserve Eggs sound.

A third Way to preserve Eggs sound.

A fourth Way to preserve Eggs sound.

Rotten Eggs sold knowingly.

To know rotten Eggs.

Hertfordshire Eggs.

Of The Dairy.

The Benefits of making use of a brass Skimming-dish.

The Nature of what the Dairymen call Second-butter, by which may be discovered how ignorant Persons are imposed on that buy Butter.

Whey Butter.

How in the Management of a Vale Great Dairy they get their Fewel, and keep their Cows from having the red Water, or pissing of Blood.

To stop bloody Water piss'd by a Cow.

The good and bad Properties of Cows.

How to milk an unlucky Cow and prevent her Mischief.

The kicking Cow.

How to hinder a Cow from holding up her Milk.

The Life of a Cow saved by the Care of a Servant-Maid.

Of Antidotes for preventing the hoving or swelling of Cows while they Feed on Clover, Rapes, Turneps

How a Cow's Life was saved that was hoved in Clover, when internal Remedies failed, shewn by a Case of my Neighbour's Cow.

The best Remedy perhaps that ever was found out for curing Cows of the Murrain; or a famous Cure made on a Butcher's Cow, that was seized with the Murrain Distemper at Little-Gaddesden.

How to prevent the Murrain Distemper spreading amongst Cows.

Of Thefts and Robberies, with Precautions to prevent them.

How two Threshers stole much Corn from their Master.

How a villainous Servant of a Farmer, by a false Key he got, had free Access for a long Time to his Master's strong Beer Cellar.

How a Taylor undertook a Farm who knew nothing of it, and how he was robbed.

A Gentleman of a considerable Estate run out by his Servants holding a Correspondence with bad Neighbours.

How a Yeoman's Maid-Servant pilfered her Master's Flower, Bacon, Cheese, &c. and exchanged them for Gin.

The Character of that great Oeconomist Scroop Egerton, late Duke of Bridgewater.

Diseases and Medicines.

Pleurisy cured with Camomile.

Hoarseness cured by Figs and Brandy.

Hoarseness cured by Treacle and Water.

A Tympany cured.

Vomitting stopt.

Cough and Asthma.

To cure a Cough.

A second Receit To cure a Cough.

A third Receit To cure a Cough.

A fourth Receit for Cough and Asthma.

Sir Hans Sloan's Medicine for an Asthma.

The famous Cure for a Cough and spitting of Blood by Balsam of Sulphur.

For a common Cough.

A second Receit for a Cough.

A third Receit for a Cough.

A Smith cured of a consumptive Cough.

A Family Syrup to cure Coughs.

A fine Remedy for a Cough or Cold.

A poor Family's Remedy for a Cough.

Sore Throat.

Jaundice.

Jaundice cured.

To cure the Jaundice by Lice.

To cure the Jaundice in Children by Mr. Boyle's Receit.

The original Receit for curing the Jaundice in old or young, by the Juice of Chickweed, runs thus.

Black Jaundice.

Dropsy.

How Mr. Axtell, a Surgeon and Apothecary at Leighton in Bedfordshire, preserved himself many years, while his Legs were spotted and swell'd with the Dropsy.

Dropsy cured by a Country Housewife.

The Gout.

The first Way to relieve a Fit of the Gout.

A second Way to relieve a fit of the Gout.

How a Higler cured himself of a Fit of the Gout.

Sweat for the Gout.

A Medicine for the Gout put in Practice by a robust Tradesman.

A Preventive for the Gout.

A Gentleman cured of the Gout for four Years.

Outward and inward Applications for the Gout.

The Gout said to be relieved by one or more Issues.

How the Duke of Bridgewater's Farrier cured himself of the Gout in his Stomach.

A second Receit to cure the Gout in the Stomach.

Doctor Quincy's (and another's) Ale for the Gout.

An outward Application to relieve the gouty Pain.

New way of relieving the Gout by inward and outward Applications, sent to this Author by his ingenious Correspondent in London.

An external Application.

Rheumatism.

Two Persons cured of the Rheumatism.

What a Person said in Praise of a Remedy for the Rheumatism.

Nettle-Tea good for the Rheumatism.

Infusion of Rue cures a Rheumatism.

Boar Stones extraordinary good for the Rheumatism.

A young Man, seized with the Rheumatism, was relieved by taking Mustard-seed in Treacle.

Rheumatism relieved by an outward Application.

Rheumatism cured by Dwarf-Elder and Buckbean Tea.

A young Man cured by the cold Bath of a dangerous Rheumatism.

Rheumatism cured by Gum Guaiacum.

St. Anthony's Fire.

A Widow Woman's Remedy for St. Anthony's Fire.

A second Remedy for St. Anthony's Fire.

Adders-tongue Ointment good for St. Anthony's Fire.

Of the Imperfectness of a Receit.

Of the Itch, Leprosy, and Scald-Head.

How to prevent catching the Itch by making a Bed.

How a Horsekeeper and a Servant-maid gave the Itch to several Families in Hertfordshire.

The Itch cured by Advice of an Exciseman, who also acted as a Surgeon at Ivinghoe.

A strong Ointment for the Itch.

A very strong Ointment for the Itch.

How a Smith in Hertfordshire cured his Family of the Itch, without Mercury or Sulphur.

Itch cured by white Hellebore-root.

Itch said to be cured in a certain Workhouse.

A most potent Remedy for curing the Itch.

A Leprosy cured by the Herb Fumitory.

A sure Cure for the Itch without Sulphur or Mercury, by which a poor Man cured his own Family and others.

A Scald-Head cured by a Beggar Woman.

The Traveller's Remedy for curing the Itch.

To cure Wounds, Swellings, and Burns, and how to make Ointments and Salves.

A Quick Cure for a green Wound.

To heal a green Wound with Copper Oar.

To cure a Wound with Leaves.

A Swelling in a Man's Leg attended with great Pain cured.

A ready cheap Way to cure a green Wound.

A Doctress's cure for a green Wound.

A good Housewife's Salve for curing Wounds.

A ready, cheap, good Balsam for curing green Wounds.

The most excellent of all Balsams, Salves, or Ointments, for curing Wounds, Bruises, Strains, Burns, Bleeding, &c. &c.

A Poultice to disperse a Swelling.

A Brine Ointment to reduce Swellings.

To make a cooling Elder Ointment.

A Turnep Poultice to reduce a Swelling.

A Woman's sore Breast cured by herself.

A Country Housewife cured her Neighbour of a sore Breast.

To keep back a Humour from falling into a Wound.

To prevent and cure proud Flesh.

Burns and Scalds cured by a Country Housewife.

Burns and scalds cured by another Country Housewife.

To cure Burns or Scalds by a third Country Housewife.

An excellent Ointment for curing Burns, Scalds, &c.

An excellent Salve for Burns or Scalds.

To break a Swelling by a Country Housewife.

A swelled Leg cured.

To stop Bleeding inwardly and outwardly.

A Woman cured of spitting of Blood.

How a Girl's Arm was stopt bleeding by a Surgeon's Advice.

A Labourer's Finger stopt bleeding by Tobacco.

Bleeding at the Nose stopt by a Woman.

Bleeding at the Nose stopt by Frogs.

Bleeding stopt by Vinegar.

Of making an Issue, and of several Cases relating to the same.

How an Issue presently after cutting became inflamed, but cured by Vine-Leaves.

Of Plaisters and Peas, &c. for Issues.

To make an Issue or a Seaton run.

Sprains and Bruises.

To cure a sprained Wrist in Harvest.

A second To cure a sprained Wrist in Harvest.

A third To cure a sprained Wrist in Harvest.

A fourth To cure a sprained Wrist in Harvest.

A fifth To cure a sprained Wrist in Harvest or for a Bruise.

A sixth To cure a sprained Wrist in Harvest.

Inward Bruise.

A Woman bruised and cured.

Sprain.

Bruise.

A Man almost bruised to Death cured.

Consumption and Inflammation of the Lungs.

A Person, given over by two Physicians, cured of a Consumption.

A Woman cured of a Consumption.

A Remedy for a Consumption.

A second Remedy for a Consumption.

A Gentlewoman prodigiously relieved in a deep Consumption, if not cured.

Inflammation of the Lungs cured.

A young Man cured of a Consumption in a very particular Manner.

A Drink for a Consumption.

Ague.

A Young Man cured of an Ague.

A young Woman cured of an Ague.

A Woman cured of an Ague by a Country Apothecary's Advice.

A Schoolmaster in Ivinghoe cured of an Ague

My Collar-maker's Boy cured of an Ague.

Ague cured by Dr. Quincy

A very excellent Receit for an Ague

Stone and Wind Cholick.

A Woman troubled with the Stone-Cholick lived to a great Age, by an excellent Remedy.

Stone and Gravel.

How a young Woman was cured of the Stone-Cholick.

Wind-Cholick relieved and cured.

For a Stone-Cholick.

Wind-Cholick.

Promiscuous Receits for various Diseases.

Pain in a Man's Legs and other Parts cured.

For curing a Fever.

A Man cured of a Scarlet-Fever by his Wife.

Cramp.

Pain in the Stomach.

Loss of Appetite.

Rising of the Lights.

To stop Looseness.

Scurvy

Another Scurvy Receit.

An antiscorbutick Cordial Elixir.

An excellent Receit for scorbutick Humours.

An Antiscorbutick Electuary.

A sharp scorbutick Humour in the Skin.

A Wen cured.

To draw out a Thorn.

To cure Shingles.

Sore Mouth.

Chilblains and Kibeheels

Canker.

To fasten Teeth.

To cure the Tooth-ach.

How a young Woman lost several of her Teeth.

Madam Howard's Diet-Drink.

The travelling Beggars Way of clearing their Bodies of Nits, Lice, and Fleas.

To destroy Worms in the human Body.

To destroy Worms.

To stop a Looseness or Flux.

The Evil cured by Advice of a Beggar.

The Evil in a Girl's Eye helped.

Pain in the Head cured.

Sneezing.

Small-Pox.

To prevent catching the Small-Pox.

Deafiness.

Sore Eyes.

To take away Wrinkles from the Face.

A Wine good for the Palsey.

A swelled Arm that wasted, cured.

To cure a Dog bit by mad Dog.

Tea Caudle.

Diabetes.

The Healthfulness of warm Drink.

Earwig, how one got into a Girl's Ear, and cured.

A Cat cured Pain.

A Purge.

For a Vomit.

Bite of a mad Dog.

Measles.

Whitloe cured.

Coffee

To make artificial Coffee.

Cutting and curing Corns.

Chopt Hands.

To relieve a Traveller's Feet.

Tobacco

Too much Physick does Harm.

The Case of a Child of three Years old, which had liked to have died by catching cold in the Measles.

Sir Hans Sloan's Eye-Salve.

The Character of a Lord's great and unparallel'd Charity.

Of the Butter and Cheese Dairy.

Of a Vale Butter Dairy.

Furniture necessary for carrying on a Butter Dairy in Vale or Chiltern Countries.

The Improvement of Milk and Cream.

The Use of the new-invented Barrel Churn in Winter.

The Use of the Barrel Churn in Summer.

The Use of the Upright Churn, &c.

How to make Butter from the Food of Clover, Trefoil, Ray-grass, or Lucern Grasses.

The Loss that a Gentleman sustained by keeping a lazy sluttish Dairy-maid.

The Nature and Value of After-Butter.

Artifices sometimes made use of to expedite the Churning of Butter.

How a certain Farmer manages his Milk and Cream, and churns his Butter.

How a neat Housewife had the sweetest of Butter.

Of several Sorts of Food, that occasion Cows Milk to make indifferent Butter, with Ways to help it.

The Character of the Lady-finger Grass and its Hay, &c.

The exact Method of preparing Scalded Cream for making it into Butter the Devonshire Way, by a Correspondent at Stowford, near Ivy-bridge, Feb. 25, 1746-7.

The exact Method of churning scalded Cream into Butter, according to the Devonshire Way.

A Somersetshire Dairy-Maid's Account of making Butter with scalded Cream.

The Somersetshire Way to secure their earthen glazed Pans from cracking, that are to be used for scalding Milk.

The Hertfordshire Way to prevent earthen Pans from cracking.

The Welsh Way of colouring Butter.

Of salting, potting, and barrelling Butter, and how to know good Butter from that which is bad.

Author's Method of salting down or potting Butter for his Family Uses.

What an ancient Author writes of potting and barrelling Butter.

Remarks on the aforesaid ancient Author's potting of Butter.

Butter-milk Porridge.

Butter-milk Hasty-pudding.

Butter-milk with Apples and Toast.

Butter-milk Pancakes and Puddings.

Butter-milk Curds.

Of the Repository or Dairy-Room.

What an ancient Author writes of keeping Cream.

What an ancient Author writes of churning Butter in an upright Churn.

Remarks on this ancient Author's Account of churning Butter.

The Practice of a Vale Dairy Farmer, that generally milk'd thirty Cows.

The Nature and Conveniency of Chiltern Lands for sowing them with foreign Grass Seeds, &c. for carrying on a Dairy.

Of a Cheese Dairy.

A Cheshire Maid's Account of her making Cheese, as she gave it me in Hertfordshire on the 25th of November, 1746.

A Way that some take in Cheshire to make large Cheeses with a few Cows.

The Somersetshire Dairy-maid's Way of making their common Cheese.

A further Account from the same Somersetshire Dairy-maid, how they make their Cheese from the Feed of marsh Grounds.

The Somersetshire Dairy-maid's Way to make Cream Cheese.

The Somersetshire Dairy-maid's Way to make Cheese from the Feed of Clover.

Gloucestershire Cheese.

Shropshire Way of making Cheese.

To make a compound Cheese.

To make soft or what they call Cream Cheese.

To make Slipcoat Cheese.

A second Way of making Slipcoat Cheese.

A third Way of making Slipcoat Cheese.

A short Way to make a Cream Cheese.

Fresh Cheese.

Rich fresh Cheese.

Winter Cream Cheese.

To make a Cream Cheese in a Cabbage-Net.

Welch Cheese.

Cream Curds.

Of the Cheese or Rennet Bag, as wrote of by an ancient Author.

A Buckinghamshire Dairy Woman's Account for using her Rennet Bags and Rennet.

When Cheese is best made.

The Artifice of a Dairy-Maid to get rid of a slovenly Boy milking her Cows.

The sluttishness of a Dairy-Maid, who milk'd her Cows with foul Fingers.

How a Gentleman obliged his Boy or Man Servant to clean his Cow-house every Morning and Evening before his Cows were milked.

The cleanly Kudnal Dairy-maid's Account how she preserves her Cream sweet all the Summer.

The Character of a certain sluttish Maid-servant.

Cheese-making by a Widow in the County of Bucks.

To make a scalded Cheese.

To make toasted or melted Cheese eat savoury.

Of Calves.

OF suckling Calves for weaning, with a Case of the same.

Weaning a Calf at Christmas.

Weaning a Calf in April.

Weaning Calves in Cheshire and Lancashire.

Of suckling and fatting Calves for the Butcher.

The Method of suckling Calves as practised by this Author.

To cure a suckling Calf of its scouring.

Of bleeding suckling Calves.

Of cramming Calves.

To make a Calf suck that has lost its Appetite.

How long Calves ought to be suckled for the Butcher.

Observations on the Goodness and Badness of Veal.

Of Cows hoving or what some call swelling, by their eating Clover-Grass, or Rapes, or Turnip Tops.

How the Care and Inspection of Cows belongs to the Country Housewife.

Of preserving the Health of Cows, and of Remedies when they are sick or hurt.

A Drink to be given a Cow presently after Calving.

A Soot Drink to preserve a Cow in Health all the Year.

A Drink to make a Cow glean.

A second Drink to make a Cow glean.

A third Drink to make a Cow glean.

A fourth Drink to make a Cow glean.

A fifth Drink to make a Cow glean.

Of the ill Effects that attend the gleaning of Cows.

A safe Way make a Cow glean.

How to cure a Cow that by straining has her Bearing come out behind.

A knavish Trick that has been made use of to sell a Cow that withers, or has had her Bearing come out.

The Case of a Buckinghamshire Gentleman's two Cows, whose Bearings came out; one died of it by wrong Management, the other was saved by right Management.

The Nature and Cause of a Cow's pissing bloody Water.

The Method that some take to prevent a Cow's pissing bloody Water.

The Cure for a Cow's pissing bloody Water.

A second Receit The Cure for a Cow's pissing bloody Water

A sure Cure for a Cow that scours.

How an ignorant Farmer, by suffering his Cow to drink Dunghill Water, had near kill'd her by the Scour.

How a Farmer presumptuously bought a scouring Cow, in Assurance of his curing and fattening her.

To cure an inflamed snarl'd Bag or Udder of a Cow.

The Hertfordshire Method to cure a gargetty or inflamed Bag of a Cow.

The Damage of suffering long Hairs to grow on a Cow's bag or Udder.

Various Receits.

To roast a Pound of Butter or more the Irish Way.

Another Irish Country Dish.

To make a Herricane.

To collar a Breast of Mutton.

To dress a Loin of Mutton.

The best Way to roast Pigeons

Jugging Pigeons

To eat raw Cucumers in a wholesome pleasant Manner.

The best Way to pickle Walnuts after the French Method.

To pickle Cucumers.

To pickle Walnuts white.

To pickle Oisters.

Mrs. Hays's Receit to make a Seed Cake.

A notable Oxfordshire Housewife's common Way of makeing Marrow Puddings.

The Process of making Hogs large Gut white delicate Puddings.

To preserve the Chine, the Tongue, the Spare Ribs, short Ribs, But-Pieces, Hocks, and Head of a Porker or Baconer.

To make a Mince-Pye costly and rich.

How a poor Woman makes palatable Mince-Pyes of stinking Meat.

How to make Hertfordshire Cakes, Nuts, and Pincushions.

How much the Guts of Chauldron of a Calf in Esteem with the People in and about the Town of Tring in Hertfordshire, for making Pyes of them.

How the Guts or Chauldron of a Calf is to be clean'd and prepared for making Pyes with them, or to eat them otherwise.

How the Guts or Chauldron of a Calf is to be made into a Pye.

A Second Receit to make a Chauldron Pye, or to make a delicious sweet Chauldron Pye

A third Receit to make a Chauldron Pye.

To make a Pudding of a Calf's Chauldron.

To fry a Calf's Chauldron.

Of Brewing Malt Liquors.

Why so little good Malt is made in England.

To know good Malt.

Hops.

Of Water for brewing.

Of keeping brewing Utensils clean and sweet.

A good plain Way to brew a Hogshead of October or March stout Beer.

A Proposal for putting a Stop to that pernicious, but too common Practice, of beating Yeast into strong Beer and Ale.