How to Make a Salad, 1660
Take the buds of all good sallets herbs, capers, dates, raisins, almonds, currans, figs, orangado…
How to Make Someone Die of Laughter, 13th century
Beneath the armpits are certain veins called “ticklish”…
How to Tell a Secret, 1660
Voices may be concealed six wayes. First by absence, and this is the safest way…
How to Use Tomatoes, 1794
Love-Apples… The fruit of the wild sort is no bigger than a cherry…
How to Cure Cramps, 1739
For the Cramp. Take of rosemary-leaves, and chop them very small, and sew them in fine linen…
How to Tell Time With Your Hand, 1633
To see onely by the hand what of the clocke it is… may bee practiced by the left hand in this manner…
How to Eat Politely, 1651
If thou soakest thy bread or meat in the sauce, soak it not againe, after that thou hast bitten it…
How to Make an Ice Velocipede, 1869
The machine is intended to be used on ice or frozen snow…