tansey

One house would pride itself on its ham, another on its game-pie, and a third on its superior furmity or tansey-pudding.

Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends 1901

And I even went so fur as to recommend tansey and camomile tea, with a little catnip mixed in -- I did it fur blinders.

Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881

And I even went so fur as to recommend tansey and camomile tea, with a little catnip mixed in -- I did it fur blinders.

Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 4 Marietta Holley 1881

Tansey gyse, a, 52/749, a dish of tansey of some kind.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

About the time the menstrual discharge is expected, she should drink freely of tansey or some worm wood tea, and set over the steam of young cedar or pinetops; sweating teas should be drank freely just before going to bed; the patient should also make a daily use of some laxative tonic in bitters, or some of the preparations recommended under the head of bitter laxative tonics, in the dispensatory.

The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory. Richard Foreman 1849

About the time the menses should flow, the patient should drink freely of a tea of tansey, dittany, balm, rattle-root, penny-royal or some sweating tea.

The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory. Richard Foreman 1849

Bitter vegetables in decoctions and in dry powders, applied externally, as Peruvian bark, oak bark, leaves of wormwood, of tansey, camomile flowers or leaves.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Take an old penny loaf, cut off the out crust, slice it thin, put to it as much hot cream as will wet it, six eggs well beaten, a little shred lemon-peel, grate in a little nutmeg, and a little salt; green it as you did your baked tansey, so tie it up in a cloth and boil it; it will take an hour and a quarter boiling; when you dish it up stick it with candid orange and lay a Seville orange cut in quarters round the dish; serve it up with melted butter.

English Housewifery 2004

Take an old penny loaf and cut off the crust, slice it thin, put to it as much hot cream as will wet it, then put to it six eggs well beaten, a little shred lemon-peel, a little nutmeg and salt, and sweeten it to your taste; green it as you did your baked tansey; so tie it up in a cloth and boil it; (it will take an hour and a quarter boiling) when you dish it up stick it with a candid orange, and lie a sevile orange cut in quarters round your dish; serve it up with a little plain butter.

English Housewifery 2004

Put a sprig or two of _tansey_ at the bed head, or as near the pillow as the smell may be agreeable.’

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867