always sweet in their trough, and no sowerness
there to turn the Milk. They will be prodigiously
fat in about twelve days : And you must kill them,
when they are at their height : Else they will soon
fall back, and grow fat no more.
Others make their Paste of Barley meal with
Milk and a little course Sugar, and mingle with it
a little (about an eight part) of powder of green
Glass beaten exceeding small. Give this only for
two days to cleanse their stomacks. Then feed them
with paste of Barley-meal, made sometimes with
Milk and Sugar, and sometimes with the fat skim-
med off from the pot, giving them drink as above.
Others make a pretty stiff paste for them with
Barley-meal (a little of the coursest bran sifted from
it) and the fat scummed off from the boiling pot, be
itof Beef (even salted) or Mutton, &c. Lay this be-
fore them for their food for four days. Then give
them still the same, but mingled with a little powder
of Glass for 4 or five days more. In which time they
will be extremely fat and good . For their drink, give
them the droppings of good Ale or good Beer.
When you eat them, you will find some of the pow-
der of glass in their stomacks, i.e. gizzards.
TO FEED POULTRY
My Lady Fanshaws way of feeding Capons, Pullets,
Hens, Chickens or Turkies, is thus. Have Coops,
wherein every fowl is a part, and not room to turn
in, and means to cleanse daily the ordure behind
them, and two troughs ; for before that, one may
be scalding and drying the day the other is used,
and before every fowl one partition for meat, another
230 SIR KENELMS DIGBIS
for drink. All their Meat is this: Boil Barley in
water, till it be tender, keep some so, and another
parcel of it boil with Milk, and another with strong
Ale. Let them be boiled as wheat that is creed. Use
them different days for variety, to get the fowl ap-
petite. Lay it in their trough, with some Brown-
Sugar mingled with it. In the partition for Liquor,
let them have water or strong Ale to drink. They
will be very drunk and sleep ; then eat again. Let
a Candle stand all night over the Coop, and then they
will eat much of the night. With this course they
will be prodigiously fat in a fortnight. Be sure to
keep them very sweet. This maketh the taste pure.
ANOTHER WAY OF FEEDING CHICKEN
Take Barley meal, and with droppings of small Ale,
(or Ale it self) make it into a consistence of batter
for Pan-cakes. Let this be all their food. Which
put into the troughs before them, renewing it thrice
a day, morning, noon and evening ; making their
troughs very clean every time, and keeping their
Coops always very clean and sweet. This is to serve
them for drink as well as meat, and no other drink be
given them. Feed them thus six days ; the seventh
give them nothing in their troughs but powder of
brick searced, which scowreth and cleanseth them
much, and makes their flesh exceeding white. The
next day fall to their former food for six days more,
and the seventh again to powder of Brick. Then
again to barley Meal and Ale. Thus they will be ex-
ceeding fat in fifteen days, and purely white and
sweet.
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always sweet in their trough, and no sourness there to turn the Milk. They will be prodigiously fat in about twelve days : And you must kill them, when they are at their height : Else they will soon fall back, and grow fat no more.
Others make their Paste of Barley meal with Milk and a little course Sugar, and mingle with it a little (about an eight part) of powder of green Glass beaten exceeding small. Give this only for two days to cleanse their stomacks. Then feed them with paste of Barley-meal, made sometimes with Milk and Sugar, and sometimes with the fat skimmed off from the pot, giving them drink as above.
Others make a pretty stiff paste for them with Barley-meal (a little of the coarsest bran sifted from it) and the fat skimmed off from the boiling pot, be itof Beef (even salted) or Mutton, &c. Lay this before them for their food for four days. Then give them still the same, but mingled with a little powder of Glass for 4 or five days more. In which time they will be extremely fat and good . For their drink, give them the droppings of good Ale or good Beer. When you eat them, you will find some of the powder of glass in their stomacks, i.e. gizzards. TO FEED POULTRY
My Lady Fanshaws way of feeding Capons, Pullets, Hens, Chickens or Turkies, is thus. Have Coops, wherein every fowl is a part, and not room to turn in, and means to cleanse daily the ordure behind them, and two troughs ; for before that, one may be scalding and drying the day the other is used, and before every fowl one partition for meat, another
for drink. All their Meat is this: Boil Barley in water, till it be tender, keep some so, and another parcel of it boil with Milk, and another with strong Ale. Let them be boiled as wheat that is creamed. Use them different days for variety, to get the fowl appetite. Lay it in their trough, with some Brown- Sugar mingled with it. In the partition for Liquor, let them have water or strong Ale to drink. They will be very drunk and sleep ; then eat again. Let a Candle stand all night over the Coop, and then they will eat much of the night. With this course they will be prodigiously fat in a fortnight. Be sure to keep them very sweet. This maketh the taste pure. ANOTHER WAY OF FEEDING CHICKEN Take Barley meal, and with droppings of small Ale, (or Ale it self) make it into a consistence of batter for Pan-cakes. Let this be all their food. Which put into the troughs before them, renewing it thrice a day, morning, noon and evening ; making their troughs very clean every time, and keeping their Coops always very clean and sweet. This is to serve them for drink as well as meat, and no other drink be given them. Feed them thus six days ; the seventh give them nothing in their troughs but powder of brick searced, which scowreth and cleanseth them much, and makes their flesh exceeding white. The next day fall to their former food for six days more, and the seventh again to powder of Brick. Then again to barley Meal and Ale. Thus they will be exceeding fat in fifteen days, and purely white and sweet.
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