Take 18 gallons of new milk 2 or 3 quarts of cream put a pint of good quick runnet when it is come gether it together with your hands drain out all the whey and wash it with warme water not to hot cut the curd very small and strewing it about a pint of salt strewing it in as you cut it then strain away the water then put it into your vates thin ones first to press out the water well then put the curd out into your thick vate besure to fill it full that it press close let it stand in the press 2 days and 2 nights, when well press’d rub salt on the outside as on other cheeses, when hard if any chink be in them rub them with fresh sweet butter keep them in a dry place a year old you may eat them.
286. Almond Butter.
Take a dish of butter boyle 2 eggs rare put the yolkes to the butter take 30 blancht almonds beaten fine with rose water or orange flower water Stir them in the butter strain them through a Cloth with a fit quantity of Sugar.
287. To Fat Poultrey.
For pullets or Capons take barley meale 3 parts and figg dust of oats one part and make crams of it in paste feeding them twice or thrice a day & for drink let it not be water, but broken beer mixt with the powdr of chalke and sowe up their vent holes with a needle & thread this fats them in 14 days therefore kill them or they will die wth fat.
288. Sr William Buttons for those wch make Bloody Water.
Take of red single holliehocks leaves and still them in a rose or ordinary still (the leaves of the flower) and of this water drink 4 or 5 spoonfulls then take of conserve of white lyllies, made of the leaves of the water lillies the quantity of a walnut a week or 10 days as you shall find good in it more or fewer days by him Probatum.
289. A Purge of the Lady Binions.
Take 3 drams of rubarbe and put in it a quarter of a pint of white wine seting it a stoop 12 hours then take it out of the embers in wch you must set it to steep and let it cool a little then put to it one ounce of Sirrop of roses if easie to worke if hard one ounce and half and drink of it blood warme & when it works take a drink of posset drink between every workeing.