Name: The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened
Author: Sir Kenelm Digby

To keep Quinces all the year good 149 Gelly of Quinces 243 Preserved Quince with Gelly 245 To make fine white Gelly of Quinces 246 Paste of Quinces 248, 250 A smoothening Quiddany or Gelly of the Cores of Quinces 250 Rice & Orge monde 137 Boiled Rice dry 145 To Rost fine Meat 157 To make Red-Dear 163 Conserve of Red Roses 257, 259 S Sack with Clove gilly-flowers 22 To make Stepponi 1 06 To make a Sack-posset III A Barley Sack-posset 1 1 3 My Lord of Carlile's Sack-posset 1 15 A Syllabub 115 To make a whip Syllabub 120 To make Spinage-broth 123 270 THS TABLE Sauce of Horse-Radish 151 Very good Sauce for Partridges and Chicken To dress Stock-fish 186, 188 To prepare Shrimps for dressing To make Slip-coat-Cheese 223- -227 Sweet-meats of my Lady Windebanks Sucket of Mallow-stalks T Tea with Eggs 253 256 132 A Tansy 183, To souce Turkeys Pleasant Cordial Tablets XT .213; ,214 211 238 V To stew a breast of Veal 150 Vuova Lattate 165 Vuova Spersa Baked Venison 165 169 Tosts of Veal 193 W Morello Wine 97 Currants "Wine 98 The Countess of Newport's Cherry Wine Strawberry Wine To make Wine of Cherries alone 109 109 no To make Rasbery-Wine To make a White-pot MP: 148 .195 Buttered Whitings with Eggs To stew Wardens or Pears 187 201 Preserved Wardens 237 APPENDIX I SOME ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS 1 . Aqua Mirabilis. Sir Kenelm Digby's way. Take Cubebs, Gallingale, Cardamus, Mellilot-flowers, Cloves, Mace, Ginger, Cinammon, of each one dram bruised small, juyce of Celandine one pint, juyce of Spearmint half a pint, juyce of Balm half a pint. Sugar one pound, flower of Cowslips, Rosemary, Borage, Bugloss, Marigold, of each two drams, the best Sack three pints, strong Angelica- water one pint, red Rose-water half a pint; bruise the Spices & Flowers, & steep them in the Sack & juyces one night ; the next morning distil it in an ordinary or glass- still, & first lay Harts-tongue leaves in the bottom of the still. THE VERTUES OF THE PRECEDENT WATER This water preserveth the Lungs without grievances, & helpeth them; being wounded, it sufFereth the Blood not to putrifie, but multiplieth the same. This water suffereth not the heart to burn, normelancholly, nor the Spleen to be lifted up above nature : it expelleth the Rheum, preserveth the Stomach, conserveth Youth, & procureth a good Colour : it preserveth Memory, it destroyeth the Palsie : If this be given to one a dying, a spoonful of it reviveth him; in the Summer use one spoonful a week fasting; in the Winter two spoonfuls. The above receipt is given in the 3rd edition of The Closet Opened, i677j also in The Queeris Closet Opened. 2. Another more precious Cosmetich^ or beautifying Water ^ by Sir Kenelm Digby. Take White Lillies six drams, Florence Orrice Roots, Beans, Cicers, Lupins, of each half an ounce, fresh Bean- 271 272 APPE3\(piX II flowers a handful, Gum Tragant, White Lead, fine Sugar, of each half an ounce, Crums of white Bread, (steeped in Milk) an ounce, Frankincense, and Gum Arabick of each three drams. Borax, and feather'd Allom of each two drams, the White of an Egg, Camphire a dram and a half; infuse them four and twenty hours in a sufficient quantity of Rose and Bean-flower water, equal parts; then distil it in B.M.

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To keep Quinces all the year good 149 Gelly of Quinces 243 Preserved Quince with Gelly 245 To make fine white Gelly of Quinces 246 Paste of Quinces 248, 250 A smoothening Quiddany or Gelly of the Cores of Quinces 250 Rice & Orge monde 137 Boiled Rice dry 145 To Rost fine Meat 157 To make Red-Dear 163 Conserve of Red Roses 257, 259 S Sack with Clove gilly-flowers 22 To make Stepponi 1 06 To make a Sack-posset III A Barley Sack-posset 1 1 3 My Lord of Carlile's Sack-posset 1 15 A Syllabub 115 To make a whip Syllabub 120 To make Spinage-broth 123 Sauce of Horse-Radish Very good Sauce for Partridges and Chicken To dress Stock-fish 186, To prepare Shrimps for dressing To make Slip-coat-Cheese -227 Sweet-meats of my Lady Windebanks Sucket of Mallow-stalks T Tea with Eggs A Tansy 183, To souce Turkeys Pleasant Cordial Tablets XT .213; ,214 To stew a breast of Veal Vuova Lattate Vuova Spersa Baked Venison Tosts of Veal W Morello Wine Currants "Wine The Countess of Newport's Cherry Wine Strawberry Wine To make Wine of Cherries alone no To make Rasbery-Wine To make a White-pot MP: .195 Buttered Whitings with Eggs To stew Wardens or Pears Preserved Wardens APPENDIX I SOME ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS 1 . Aqua Mirabilis. Sir Kenelm Digby's way. Take Cubebs, Gallingale, Cardamus, Mellilot-flowers, Cloves, Mace, Ginger, Cinammon, of each one dram bruised small, juyce of Celandine one pint, juyce of Spearmint half a pint, juyce of Balm half a pint. Sugar one pound, flower of Cowslips, Rosemary, Borage, Bugloss, Marigold, of each two drams, the best Sack three pints, strong Angelicawater one pint, red Rose-water half a pint; bruise the Spices & Flowers, & steep them in the Sack & juyces one night ; the next morning distil it in an ordinary or glassstill, & first lay Harts-tongue leaves in the bottom of the still. THE VERTUES OF THE PRECEDENT WATER This water preserveth the Lungs without grievances, & helpeth them; being wounded, it sufFereth the Blood not to putrifie, but multiplieth the same. This water suffereth not the heart to burn, normelancholly, nor the Spleen to be lifted up above nature : it expelleth the Rheum, preserveth the Stomach, conserveth Youth, & procureth a good Colour : it preserveth Memory, it destroyeth the Palsie : If this be given to one a dying, a spoonful of it reviveth him; in the Summer use one spoonful a week fasting; in the Winter two spoonfuls. The above receipt is given in the 3rd edition of The Closet Opened, i677j also in The Queeris Closet Opened. 2. Another more precious Cosmetic, or beautifying Water, by Sir Kenelm Digby. Take White Lillies six drams, Florence Orrice Roots, Beans, Cicers, Lupins, of each half an ounce, fresh Bean- 272 APPE3\(piX II flowers a handful, Gum Tragant, White Lead, fine Sugar, of each half an ounce, Crums of white Bread, (steeped in Milk) an ounce, Frankincense, and Gum Arabick of each three drams. Borax, and feather'd Allom of each two drams, the White of an Egg, Camphire a dram and a half; infuse them four and twenty hours in a sufficient quantity of Rose and Bean-flower water, equal parts; then distil it in B.M.