A Book Of Fruits & Flowers

shewing the Nature & Use of them, either for Meat or Medicine

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Table Of Contents

Of Lemmons

Lemon Salad (Preserved Lemon Rind)

To Preserve Oranges or Lemons

To Make Lemon Paste

Sweet Bags to Lay Among Linen

Medicines made of Lemmons

To Remove Facial Spots or Red Pimples

A Very Good Medicine for the Stone

To Roast a Shoulder of Mutton with Lemons

To Boil a Capon with Oranges and Lemons

A Lemon Salad


Of Quinces

The Best Way to Preserve Quinces

A Special Reminder When Preparing Quinces

To Pickle Quinces

To Make Quince Cakes

To Make Printed Quidony of Quinces


Of Roses

To Make Sweet Bags for Storing Linen

A Very Good Poultice for Swollen, Inflamed Areas (Not Broken), to Ease Pain

To Make a Sweet Cake, and With It a Very Sweet Water

Oil of Roses

Syrup of Roses

A Conserve of Roses

To Preserve Roses (or Any Other Flowers)


Of Barbaries

How to Preserve Barberries

To Keep Barberries for Garnishing Meat

Conserve of Barberries


Of Almonds

To Make Almond Biscate

To Make Almond Milk

An Approved Medicine for the Running of the Reins

Oil of Almonds

A Barley Cream to Encourage Sleep, or Almond Milk

An Ointment to Kill Worms in Little Children

To Make the Best White Puddings

An Almond Caudle

To Make Fine White Leach of Almonds

To Make Almond Butter

To Make Almond Cakes

To Make Paste of Almonds

To Make a Marchpane

To Make White Broth with Almonds


Of Strawberries

A Tart of Strawberries

Of Hartichoakes

How to Make an Artichoke Pie

To Keep Artichokes for the Whole Year

To Preserve Artichokes

To Make a Maid Dish of Artichokes


Of Medicines

An Excellent Salve for Aches Caused by Cold

To Drive an Ague (Cold‑Ache) Out of Any Place

For Ague (Chill/Fever Fits) in Children or Pregnant Women

To Strengthen a Weak or Diseased Back

For Pain or Ache in the Back

For Sudden Bleeding at the Nose

A Medicine for Burns or Scalds

For Canker in Women’s Breasts

For Canker in the Mouth

To Make a Tooth Fall Out on Its Own

To Take Away the Cause of Tooth Pain

For a Consumption

An Excellent Medicine for a Lung Cough


Of Violets

The Use of Oil of Violets

The Syrup of Violets

The Use of Conserve of Violets and Cowslips

To Make Paste of Violets, or Any Kind of Flowers

Powder of Violets

A Good Plaster for Strangury

A Medicine for Sore, Bloodshot, and Rheumatic Eyes

A Glister to Open and Loosen the Body When Constipated

To Cleanse the Head and Ease Headache

A Medicine That Has Healed Old Sores on the Legs

An Ointment for a Rupture

A Barley Water to Purge the Lungs of All Diseases

To Treat “Diseases of the Mother”

To Kill Warts — An Approved Remedy

For the Piles

A Medicine for the Piles

A Diet for a Patient with Ulcers or Wounds That Do Not Heal Easily


Of Cowslips

Oil of Cowslips

The Use of Oil of Wormwood and Oil of Mint

Syrup of Cowslips

To Keep Cowslips for Salads

To Conserve Cowslips


To Preserve All Kinds of Flowers in Spanish Candy, in Wedges

A Remedy to Break and Heal Sore Breasts

A Remedy That Has Helped Some with Dropsy After Physicians Gave Them Up

A Special Remedy for All Kinds of Poison

Doctor Lewin’s Rose Ointment


Of Beanes

To Keep Humours from Flowing to the Eyes

To Dissolve the Stone

Unguentum Sanativum

A Cerecloth for All Aches

An Ointment for Use at Any Time of Year

An Ointment for Sciatica

A Water to Drive Away Any Infection

An Excellent Conserve for the Stomach

An Ointment for Any Wound or Sore

An Excellent Ointment for Any Bruise or Ache

A Plaster for a Boil or Pustule

An Approved Good Drink for the Plague

For Rheum in the Gums or Teeth

For Haemorrhoids

An Approved Medicine for Dropsy

A Powder for Wounds

An Approved Medicine for Green Sickness

A Medicine for Pleurisy, Stitch, or Wind in Any Part of the Body

An Approved Medicine for Gout in the Feet

For Someone Who Cannot Pass Urine

To Kill Ringworm and the Heat It Causes

A Water for All Wounds and Cankers

For a Swelling that Comes Suddenly in a Person’s Limbs


Of Apricocks

To Dry Apricots

Clear Cakes of Quinces or Apricots

The Best Way to Preserve Apricots


Of Lillies

The Use of Oil of Lilies

To Candy All Kinds of Flowers as They Grow, With Their Stalks On

To Make Rock Candy on Spices, Flowers, and Roots

The Candy Sucket for Green Ginger, Lettuce, and Flowers


Of Grapes

Syrupe Gresta, or Syrup of Unripe Grapes


Of Purges

A Purge to Drive Out the French Pox Before Using the Ointment

The Ointment for the French Pox

Where to Anoint for the French Pox

For Pain in the Ears or Deafness


Of Marigolds

A Very Good Plaster to Heal and Dry Up a Sore or Cut Quickly

The Use of Conserve of Marigolds


Of Cherries

A Way to Dry Cherries

How to Preserve Cherries

To Make All Manner of Fruit Tarts

To Make a Closed Tart of Cherries

To Make Fine Pippin Tarts

To Make a Tart of Butter and Eggs


Of Goose-Berries

To Keep Gooseberries

The Best Way to Preserve Gooseberries


Of Plums

The Best Way to Dry Plums

To Preserve Damsons

To Preserve Bullaces as Green as Grass

To Preserve Pears, Pare‑Plums, and Plums


Of Medlers

To Preserve Medlars

To Make a Tart of Medlars


Of Cucumbers

How to keep Cucumbers.

To Keep Boiled Cucumbers

To Pickle Cucumbers to Keep All Year


Of Cookery

To Make Snow

To Make Spiced Bread

To Make Cracknels

To Make Veal‑Tooths, or “Olives”

To Make a Barley Cream to Encourage Sleep, or Almond Milk

To Pickle Oysters

To Make Very Fine Sausages

To Cast All Kinds of Sugar Works into Moulds

To Make Hollow Sugar Fruits

To Make a Salad of All Kinds of Herbs To Make Fritter‑Stuff