A Profitable Booke was printed in 1586 (the facsimile copy I reviewed was published in 1588) and appears to have many recipes translated directly from Tbouck van Wondre.
Recipes reviewed from this text:
- To make a sope to take foorth greace or other spots whatsoeuer they be. (Soap Ball)
- To make a sope to take out spottes of oyle and of greace. (Soap Ball)
- A sope to take out all spottes in woolen cloth (Soap Ball)
- Another for the same. (Soap Ball)
- To take away all spottes on coloured clothes, be they linnen or woolen. (Lemon Juice)
- A sope water to take out all spots. (Strawberry Water)
- Another against staines in linnen cloth. (Salt & Orange Lye Treatment)
- Another good way to take foorth spottes of greace out of any woolen or linnen. (Fullers Earth)
- Another good way to take out spots out of clothes with a lye. (Lye Treatment)
- A verie good way to take out spottes of clothes. (Lye Treatment)
- A good way to take out spottes out of woollen. (Lye & Alum)
- A way for to take out spottes of wollen clothes. (Lye & Alum)
- Against clothes stained with wine or vinegar. (Milk)
- A verie good way to take forth waxe or rosin dropt on silke, wollen, or linnen. (Tallow & Hot Iron)
- Another way to take out all waxe, Rosin or pitch, on Silkes or other clothes. (Tallow & Hot Iron)
The Spinning Sheep 