... cooked up by Anonymous (from 1659) for the Touch Recipe Book

Submitted by Daniela Cascella, from a recipe book from 1659, for the new Parliament

An Excellent Recipe to make a Compleat Parliament or (if you please) a New Senate Fitted to the English-Man's Palate

...one and fifty Anabaptists, blach't in fair river water, threescore Independents, a quarter of a pound of John Lillburn's bones beaten into a fine powder and sear'd, the better to unite with the rest; whereunto adde an ounce of Oyle of Saint-John's-Wort, a drachme of the scrapings of the Divell's cloven foot; five spoon-fulls of the marrow of old Oliver's nose; half a Committee man; two Gallons of Aquafortis, seventy Scot's haslets, together with a Kidderkin-full of Hugh Peter's sighs and tears, evaporated into water in an Alembiqu' made of an Organ-pipe..



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