50pTo make an exellent broth or restoratiue to restore ye strength of such as are brought very weake with long sicknesse. or with consumpti=on.
Take a very wett flesh capon yat hath not bein
cramed, strangle him, but let him not bleed, yen
flea him and take out his crop, his gall ye inside
5of ye gisard, and ye guts but nothing else chop off
his head and feete and take away ye fat from him as
cleane as you can. Take allsoe a couple of
partriges, and vse yem in ye same sorte, and halfe a
very good flesht pig flead, beate all yese in a stone
10mortar till yey be like pap. Then take a handfull
or raysons of ye sunne stone, 20 cap dates stoned,
allsoe, and steepe yem all night in pleasant sack, as
much and noe more yan yey can drinke into yem and this
powder following. Take of cinamon, of white
15and yellow saunders of each 1/4 ounce. of nutmegs,
maces and gallingall of each third weight. of saffron
second weight. of musk and Amber of each 10 grame
beate all yese in fine powder, and mix yem together and
yen put vpon it as much rosewater as it can
20drink vp. Then put all yese 3 things together (1) ye
flesh, ye fruites and ye powder, and when yey are well
mixed, put yem into an ale pot with a narrow
mouth yat will hold twice as much, yat yese things may
haue roome enough to work in, yen stop ye mouth, as
25close as possibly you can first wth a corke, and yen
with a cloth or peece of leather bound fast vpon
yt. and soe let it vp to ye brim 12 howres in boyling
water. Then open ye pot, and powre out all yat
will run without pressing, and saue yt by it selfe,
30and put as much sugar to it as you think good. but
first take off ye fat as cleane as you can, and
season it reasonably with salt, at ye first beating
beating of ye flesh. Then with a hooked forke
pluck out ye rest, and straine it and spend yt first.
35This perhaps is too strong to take alone, and go you
may take 2 spoonefulls of this with 6 of some other broth
This is ye quintessence of ye flesh, and yat which ye weakned
stomack would draw of it selfe.