[Sca-cooks] worms for Ro

[Stefan li Rous]

> no cookies for me yet. Poor Ro, nobody loves her, everybody hates her, guess
> she'll have to eat worms <---OFC. <ggg>
Well, when given lemons... or in this case worms...

This recipe can be found in my snails-msg file:
(*** emphasis is mine ***)

> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:57:24 -0600
> From: Magdalena <magdlena at earthlink.net>
> Subject: SC - yet more worms
>
> The Queens Closet Opened
> (1655)
>
> The Admirable and Most Famous Snail Water
>
>     Take a peck of garden shell snails, wash them well
> in small beer, and put them in a hot oven till they
> have done making noise, then take them out, and wipe
> them well from the green froth that is upon them, and
> bruise them shells and all in a stone Mortar, then take
> a quart of ***earth worms***, scower them with salt, slit
> them & wash them well with water from their filth, and
> in a stone Mortar beat them to pieces, then lay in the
> bottom of your distilled pot Angelica two handfuls, and
> two handfuls of Celandine upon them, to which put two
> quarts of Rosemary flowers, Bears foot, Agrimony, red
> Dock Roots, Bark of Barberries, Betony, Wood Sorrel, of
> each two handfuls, Rue one handful; then lay the Snails
> and ***worms*** on the top of the Herbs and Flowers, then
> pour on 3 Gallons of the strongest Ale, and let it
> stand all night, in the morning put on 3 ounces of
> cloves beaten, six penniworth of beaten Saffron and on
> top of the 6 ounces of shaved Harts-horn, then set on
> the Limbeck, and close it with a paste, and so recieve
> the water by pints, which will be nine in all.  The
> first is the strongest, whereof take in the morning 2
> spoonfuls in 4 spoonfuls of small Beer, and the like in
> the afternoon; you must keep a good Diet and use
> moderate excersize to warm the blood.
>     This Water is good against all Obstructions
> whatsoever.  It cureth a Consumption and Dropsie, the
> stopping of the Stomach and Liver.  It may be distilled
> with milk for weak people and children, with
> Harts-tongue and Elecampance.

Stefan
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