[Sca-cooks] Horse Dung and Pregnancy

[Marie Alessi]

Ooooo...and here I am searching for menu ideas for the feast I'm
stewarding....I could have some fun with the peas recipe!

Thyri
On Sep 8, 2013 7:42 AM, "Daniel And elizabeth phelps" <
dephelps at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> The Perfumed Garden as translated by Burton has some positively marvelous
> recipes
> http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/garden/index.htm
>
> The chapter titled "Concerning the Causes of Enjoyment in the Act of
> Generation" has a number of interesting recipes.  This one would appear
> easily fixed and not particularly toxic:
>
> Green peas, boiled carefully with onions, and powdered with cinnamon,
> ginger and cardamoms, well pounded, create for the consumer considerable
> amorous passion and strength in coitus.
>
> The chapter titled "Description of the Uterus of Sterile Women, and
> Treatment of the Same" suggests some rather interesting rubs and elixers.
>
> The chapter titled "Undoing of Aiguillettes (Impotence for a Time)" has
> interesting recipes.  Here is one:
>
> To cure the tying of aiguillettes you must take galanga, cinnamon from
> Mecca, cloves, Indian cachou, nutmeg, Indian cubebs, sparrowwort, cinnamon,
> Persian pepper, Indian thistle, cardamoms, pyrether, laurel seed, and gilly
> flowers. All these ingredients must be pounded together carefully, and one
> drinks of it as much as one can, morning and night, in broth, particularly
> in pigeon broth; fowl broth may, however, be substituted just as well.
> Water is to be drunk before and after taking It. The compound may likewise
> be taken with honey, which is the best method, and gives the best results.
>
> The chapter titled "Prescriptions for Increasing the Dimensions of Small
> Members and for Making Them Splendid" Provides recipes for topical
> applications for the generative member. I will admit that the treatment
> requiring repeated applications of hot pitch and a leather wrap upon one's
> "staff of life" makes me shudder and twitch.
>
> Daniel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elise Fleming" <alysk at ix.netcom.com>
> To: "sca-cooks" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 4:57:48 PM
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Horse Dung and Pregnancy
>
> Greetings! I think I've found one recipe for women in labor that
> contains horse dung. There may be another, earlier recipe but this one
> is from "The Receipt Book of Ann Blencowe", 1695.
>
> To make ye horse dunge water.
>
> Take horse dunge & putt to it so much Ale as will make it like hasty
> puding, and put it into your still. Then putt on ye topp one pound of
> reakell, and a quarter of a pound of genger in powder, and a quarter of
> a pound of sweet anniseeds, and so distill all these together. This
> water is good for women in labor and in childbed, for Agues and feavers
> and all distempers.
>
> There are numerous recipes for concoctions relating to women and their
> ailments or conditions in Robert May's "The English Housewife". They are
> in the physical receipt section and deal with topics such as increasing
> women's milk, drying it up, poultice for sore breasts, for ease in
> childbearing, for a dead child in the womb, a general purge for a woman
> in child bed, etc.
>
> I've come across two recipes using doves' dung. One is in the aforesaid
> "English Housewife"
>
> May also has a recipe for the "flux" which includes a dried, grated up,
> stag's pizzle, drunk in either beer, wine or ale.
>
> Think I'll go have dinner now...
>
> Alys K.
> --
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