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[Note: edge damage] [m]aiden hairz halfe and ounce of surope of jsope half and ounce of surope of lickrish then mixe them all together and set them one the fire and let them stew gintly together then take the quantity of a small nut at night going to bed and the like quantity in the morning 2 hours befor they rise in the morning = this surope cured a child that was trubled with it for many years a great cofe and this suropes = and poudrs cured it when noe other things wold 
when you pickel coucombrs if you find them more lily put in a litel Allome beat small into the crock and it will. fetch them a gaine and make them keepe longer Anne Bucher recait :::
To Dry figes a good way
Take 12 figes pare them and boyle them very tender the take a pound of suger lay halfe of it in to a bason and lay them one by one and strow the rest one them let them stand till it be all melted and set them upon the coles till they be scalding hott so doe till the surope be dryed up :::
For defness an aproved thing
Take the ayle of hege hoges and drope in to the eare and stop it with a litel wooll this hath cured them that have bene very defe [note: water damage/added later/ink different or discolored] put a litel juce of bituny in to the ayle and mix it