Of Coofery.

That Cbickins may rost whilst we ate in our Voyage : Pur a piece of steel into thefire , pne this into a Chi ken that is pulled afld his guts taken f orth , and cover himwell with clothes, that the heat breathe not out > and ihhe do itnell til, yet the meat i$good. Ifyouwant Servants to turn the spit, and you would have

■A Bird to rofl himself ,

do thus s For the Bird w ; ll turn himself. Albenus writes,That a Bird called a Ren,that is the smallest of all Birds, if yon put him on a spit, made of Hazel-wood, andput fire under, he will turn as if he turned himself Which c< mes from the proper-ty of the wood, not from the Bird : and that is false the Philosopher laid; for if youput fire under a Hazel-rod, it will twist, and seem to turn it self; and what flesh youput on it, ifit be not too weighty, wilt turn about with it. So

Eggs are rosted withou fire.

Eggs laid in quick Lime, and sprinkled with water, arerosted ; for the time willgrow as hot as fire. The Babylonians have their invention, when thev are in theWilderness,and cannot have an opporiunuy to boil Eggs - they put raw Eggs into afling, and turn them about till they be rolled. But if you

Want Salt

for your meats, the feed of c t?mjch strewed in with Berjimin, will season any thing.'Pliny. If you want Salt, and would

Keep flesh without Salty

Cover what flesh you will with honey, when they are fresh, bur hang up the vesselyou put it into, longer in winter, a less time in summer. If you would have

T hat Sdlt-jUjh should be made fresh.

First, boil yenr Salted flesh in mi.k, and then in water, and it will be fresh, aipicitts!You (hall learn thus

To wash Ipots from Unntn chtheSy

If you want Sope, for red wine will to stain them, that you can hardly wash them ovtwithour ii : Bm when it doth fall down and stain them, cast Salt upon th c m, and *£will take out the ipots. If i here wane

Groundlings , how to mal>e them.

Said at faith, That when Nicomedes. King ot Biihynia, longed for some cf these Fish,and living far from the Sea,could get none ; Apiciut the glutton, made the Picturesof the le Fish, and set them ruche Table, so like, as if they brdTieen rhesame, Theywere prepared thus: He cut the female Rape»root into long thin pieces, like to theseFisb, which be boil’d m 0.1,and strewed with <alt and Pepper, and so he freed himfrem his longing. A c *Æthen*ut uith, ial uphron. Comic. If there want hre, I havestrewed already how to make divers forts of Artificial fires.

Chap. XT.

Of divers Confetlions of Wines,

N Ow I come to drink, for I have spoken of meat sufficiently. And I will teachyou to ® kemany sorts of wines, and that they may be plfcasant and odorife-rous ; for I have laid already whit ways it may be made without pains. If you will

T hat your Wine shall smell of usk 9

Take a glass Vial, ar dwi shir, and fill it with Aquavit* , and put into it a littlemu:k ( op the mouth close, that it vent not ; set it in the surrmer-Sun two weeks,always flirting the water. Theufois, ^you put a drop of this into a gallon ot wine,all the wine will smell of Musk ; and to for C’nnamon or other Spices* So you maymake Xx a Htppocrat