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Title: A Book of Fruits and Flowers

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: August 23, 2004 [EBook #13265]

Language: English

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A BOOK OF

Fruits & Flowers.

SHEWING

The Nature and Use of them, either
for Meat or Medicine.

AS ALSO:

To Preserve, Conserve, Candy, and in Wedges,
or Dry them. To make Powders, Civet bagges,
all sorts of Sugar-works, turn'd works in Sugar,
Hollow, or Frutages; and to Pickell them.

_And for Meat._

To make Pyes, Biscat, Maid Dishes, Marchpanes, Leeches,
and Snow, Craknels, Caudels, Cakes, Broths, Fritter-stuffe,
Puddings, Tarts, Syrupes, and Sallets.

_For Medicines._

To make all sorts of Poultisses, and Serecloaths for any member
swell'd or inflamed, Ointments, Waters for all Wounds, and Cancers,
Salves for Aches, to take the Ague out of any place Burning or
Scalding; For the stopping of suddain Bleeding, curing the Piles,
Ulcers, Ruptures, Coughs, Consumptions, and killing of Warts, to
dissolve the Stone, killing the Ring-worme, Emroids, and Dropsie,
Paine in the Ears and Teeth, Deafnesse.

_Contra vim mortis, non est Medicamen in hortis._

_LONDON_:

Printed by _M.S._ for _Tho: Fenner_ at the South entrance of
the _Royall Exchange_, London, 1653.

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Of Lemmons.

[Illustration: Lemmon.]

_A Lemmon Sallet._

Take Lemmons, rub them upon a Grate, to make their rinds smooth, cut
them in halves, take out the meat of them, and boyle them in faire
water a good while, changing the water once or twice in the boyling,
to take away the bitternesse of them, when they are tender take them
out and scrape away all the meat (if any be left) very cleane, then
cut them as thin as you can (to make them hold) in a long string, or
in reasonable short pieces, and lay them in your glasse, and boyling
some of the best _White_-wine vineger with shugar, to a reasonable
thin Syrupe, powre it upon them into your glasse,