William Salmon, The Family Dictionary (1695)
Date
1695
Author
Book title
The Family-Dictionary; Or, Houshold Companion: Wherein are Alphabetically laid down Exact Rules and Choice Physical Receipts For The Preservation of Health, Prevention of Sickness, and Curing the several Diseases, Distempers, and Grievances, incident to Men, Women, and Children. Also, Directions for Making Oils, Ointments, Salves, Cordial-Waters, Powders, Pills, Bolus's, Chymical Preparations, Physical-Wines, Ales and other Liquors, &c. and Descriptions of the Virtues of Herbs, Fruits, Flowers, Seeds, Roots, Barks, Minerals, and Parts of Living Creatures , used in Medicinal Potions, &c. Likewise, Directions for Cookery, in Dressing Flesh, Fish, Fowl, Seasoning, Garnishing, Sauces, and Serving-up in the Best and most acceptable Manner. The Whole Art of Pastry, Conserving, Preserving, Candying, Confectioning, &c. Also, The Way of Making all sorts of Perfumes, Beautifying-Waters, Pomatums, Washes, Sweet-Balls, and Essences: Taking Spots, and Stains out of Garments, Linnen, &c. and Preserving them from Moths, &c. Washing Point, Sarsnets, and Restoring Faded Linnen; and Scowring, or Brightning Tarnished Gold, or Silver Lace, Plate, &c. Together with the Art of Making all sorts of English Wines, as Currants, Cherries, Gooseberries, and Cyder, Mead, Metheglin, &c. And the Art of Fining, and Recovering Foul or Faded Wines. The Mystery of Pickling, and keeping all Sorts of Pickles throughout the Year. To which is Added, as an Appendix, The Explanation of Physical Terms, Bills of Fare in all Seasons of the Year. With the Art of Carving. And many other Useful Matters
Publication place
London
Publisher
H. Rhodes
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- cooking
- herbal
- medicine
Summary
Alphabetical encyclopaedic entries -- the majority are recipes -- make up almost all the book, but "Terms of Carving now in Use" also appears at the close (aa5r-aa6r)
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Oyl of Violets, in Latin, Oleum Violaceum. It is made of Omphacin Oyl and Flowers of Violets, as Oyl of Roses is. Virtues. It moistens, cools, and mollifies. (p. 101) To Display a Crane. Unfold the Legs, and cut off the Wings by the Joints; then take up the Wings and Legs and Sauce them with Powder of Ginger, Mustard, Vinegar, and Salt. (aa5v)
sample: Oyl of Violets, in Latin, Oleum Violaceum. It is made of Omphacin Oyl and Flowers of Violets, as Oyl of Roses is. Virtues. It moistens, cools, and mollifies. (p. 101) To Display a Crane. Unfold the Legs, and cut off the Wings by the Joints; then take up the Wings and Legs and Sauce them with Powder of Ginger, Mustard, Vinegar, and Salt. (aa5v)
Alston
XVII.I.391
Wing
H66
Criticisms
- Oxford (1913): 45-46
