The family dictionary

Or, houshold companion. Containing, I. Cookery in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs, roots, making sawces, &c. II. Pastry, making pyes, pasties, puddings, pancakes, cheesecakes, custards, tansies, &c. III. Confects, candies, conserves, preserves, creams, gellies, pickles, &c. IV. Potable liquors, as ale, beer, mum, mead, cider, perry, rape, english wines, chocolet, coffee, tea, &c. V. Perfuming sweet balls, pouders, pomanders, essences, sweet waters, beautifying washes, &c. VI. Husbandry, as it relates to the improvement of our barren and waste lands, manufactures &c. VII. Preparations galenick and chymick' relating to physick and chirurgery, as cordial waters, spirits, tinctures, elixirs, syrups, pouders, electuaries, pills, oils, balsams, cerecloths, and emplasters, fitted for curing most diseases incident to men, women, and children

By William Salmon, M.D.