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POTATON TARTE THAT IS A COURAGE TO MAN OR WOMAN (APHRODISIAC SWEET POTATO PIE WITH COCK SPARROW BRAINS)
Thomas Dawson’s The Good Housewife’s Jewell, 1587

To make a tarte that is a courage to a man or woman. Take twoo Quinces, and twoo or three Burre rootes, and a potaton, and pare your Potaton, and scrape your rootes and put them into a quart of wine, and let them boyle till they bee tender, and put in an ounce of Dates, and when they be boyled tender, Drawe them through a strainer, wine and all, and then put in the yolkes of eight Egges, and the braynes of three or foure cocke Sparrowes, and straine them intothe other, and a little Rose Water, and seeth them all with suger, Cinamon and Gynger, and Cloues and mace, and put in a little sweet butter, and set it vpon a Chafingdish of coles betweene two platters, and so let it boyle till it be something bigge.