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burridg two pounds of the juice of buglosse two pounds mingle these with twelve pounds of clarrified honey the whitest you can gett let them boyle together aboyling and paas them through a hypocras bag of new flannell infuse in three pints of white wine a quarter of a pound gentian root and half a pound of irish root or blew flower de lis let them be infused twenty fower houers then straind without squeezing put the liquor to that of the herbs and hony boyle them well together to constistence of a surrup you must order the matter so that one thing stays not for the other but that all be ready together a spoonfull of this surrup is to be taken every morning fasting to make surrupe of clove gily flowers take a pound of the flowers when they are cleane cut from their white bottom and beat them into a stone mortar till they be very fine all then haveing fair watter very well boyled take a quart of it boyling hott and pour it to them in the mortar then cover it close and let it stand all night and the next dat streyne them out and to every pint of this liquor take a pound and a half of duble refine lofe sugar beaten then put your sugar and set it on the fire and boyle it and when it is clean scimed take it of and pour it into a silver or earthen bason and so let it stand uncovered till the next day then glass it up and stop it close and set it not but where it may stand coole it will keep the better a snayle watter is good in a consumption or jaundice to clear the skin or revive ye spirrits take a peck of garden snayles in their shells gather them as near as you can out of lavender or rosemary and not in trees or grass wash them in a tubb three times in beere then make your chimney very clean and power out a bushall of charcole and when they are well kindled make a great hole with a fire shovell and put in your snayles and put in some of your cleane burnt coals among them and let roast till they leave makeing a noise then you must take them forth with a knife and clean them with a cleane cloathpick and wipe away the coales and green froth that will be upon them then beat them in a mortar shells and all take also a quart of earthworms slitt and scower them with salt then wash them in whitewine till you have taken away all the filth from them and put them into a stone mortar and beat them to peices then take a sweet clean iron pott which you will sett your limbeck on then take 2 ms of angellica and lay it in the bottome of your pott and 2 ms of sallendine on the top of that putt in 2 quarts of rosemary flowers bearsfoot egrimony the redest dock roots you can get the barbery bark wood sorrell bettony of each three handfulls 1 handfull of rue of flengreek and turmerick of each one ounce well beaten then lay your snayles and wormes on top of your herbs and flowers and power upon them the strongest ale you can gett fower gallons and two gallons of the best sack and let it stand all night or longer stirring divers times in the morning put in two ounces of cloves twelve ounces of hartshorne six ounces of ivory the waight of two shillings of saffron the cloves must be bruised you must not stir it after these last things are in then set it on your limbeck and close it fast with rye past and receive your water in pintes the first is the strongest and so smaller the smallest may be mended by puting in some of the strongest when you use it take three spoonfulls of beere or ale to two spoonfulls of the strongest and to this three quarts of cowslips flowers one quart of buglose and buridg flowers and 3 ms of liverworth if you will you should feed your snayles with sallendine and barbery leaves and bough and the wash them in new milk fower times and then in a tubb of strong ale so that they may be very cleane and then burn them you may also like to read about strange terrible news from spittle fields nicholas culpeper s herbs leave a comment from culinary life past life shaun caton s songs seldom heard april 24 2026 by the gentle author in the six days since we launched our crowdfund fifty people have contributed 4 639 click here to support publication of sarah ainslie s women at work artist and collector shaun caton currently has an exhibition of his authentically surreal photo collages at the bookartbookshop 17 pitfield st hoxton n1 6hb until 8th may coinciding with the publication of his chapbook songs seldom heard sharp eyed readers may spot images by harold burdekin from london night 1938 for want of a more useful occupation i have been collecting and recording my dreams since 1988 while creating the montages i had continual dreams that seeped erratically into an ever evolving visual language helping to shape the images towards a non literal iteration the montages are all interconnected by propagating urban themes and reappearing characters shaun caton montages copyright shaun caton 2 comments from cultural life literary life at paul rothe sons april 23 2026 by the gentle author five days ago we launched our crowdfund and have raised 4 264 towards our target so far click here to support our crowdfund to publish sarah ainslie s women at work it is my pleasure publish this piece by julia harrison author of the fascinating literary blog the silver locket portrait of paul rothe by sarah ainslie i have known paul rothe s delicatessen cafe in marylebone lane for as long as i can remember back in the late sixties and early seventies my mother used to travel up to town from putney with me and my sister for a lunchtime treat at paul rothe s before having our haircut by mr john of charles bruno and john in their salon round the corner in hinde st i still have my hair cut by andrew who was a young apprentice in those days and now has his own salon andrew k nearby on marylebone st he told me on my recent visit that during the salon s heyday they used to cater for their clients and would often order sandwiches from paul rothe i think it is these connections and the continuity they represent which make paul rothe so special to me today i work at daunt books on marylebone high st and often seeking a moment to myself at lunchtime my footsteps lead me in paul rothe s direction whether i am having a good day or a bad one i know when i walk through the door a sense of inner peace will descend paul and his son stephen will be there in their smart white grocer s coats lively smiles combined with looks of concentration on their faces as they deal expertly with the lunchtime rush office workers will be ordering take aways together with locals settling down for a bowl of homemade soup while a happy customer chooses their favourite jam chutney or sauce from the colourful range lining the shelves in the summer snatches of music and occasionally operatic voices drift over from the rehearsal rooms across the road then i am drawn back to those innocent days long ago when my sister and i would look forward to window shopping at the button queen opposite before ordering our homemade liptauer and cucumber sandwiches at paul rothe eating at the iconic fifties flip up seats and formica tables where i sit today on a recent visit in the company of spitalfields life contributing photographer sarah ainslie i sat down with paul to learn the story of his shop rothe is a german name i am named after my grandfather who came from saxony and worked his way over on a coal barge in 1898 most german people at the end of the nineteenth century thought that the streets of london were paved with gold my father didn t know a lot about his father s early life in germany except he met my grandmother in london there was a flower shop in jason s court called schillers they were german and they introduced my grandmother and grandfather to each other they got married and my father was born in 1915 paul started in partnership in soho the reason he opened there was that the man he was in partnership with was meant to open early then they overlapped in the middle of the day and my grandfather would stay open late but a lot of the customers were saying that his partner wasn t in the store until about two hours after he should have been so my grandfather decided to come here to marylebone lane and open on his own instead in my grandfather s day it was purely a retail shop much smaller than you see now there was a parlour at the back with a fireplace my grandmother didn t want the shop made bigger but my dad was always moaning that it was too small after my grandfather had passed away when his mother was on holiday my father knocked the wall down and made that area part of the shop the shop opened on august 2nd 1900 we traded as a german deli in one of the old photographs of the shop you can see the words deutsche delicatessen we still make liptauer which is an austrian cheese and my dad made a cheese of his own invention with caraway seeds called kummelkase a lot was imported from germany and most of the staff spoke german my grandfather was in the german army before he came over here and then he served in the british army in the second world war my father was a conscientious objector he worked in the middlesex hospital on mortimer st he never heard his parents speak to each other in german they only spoke in english there was quite a german community round here then and we used to get a lot of customers coming to us because they felt at home until the first world war we had deutche delicatessen on the windows but they took that off now we have evolved and trade as an ordinary deli but at christmas time we still have stollen and lebkuchen we lived in harrow when i was a child and i will always remember coming in to the shop we had the freestanding tables in those days dad had a pole attached to the ceiling which is still there hidden behind the wooden beam where customers hang their coats and we used to play here we go round the mulberry bush i had a great time with my sisters dancing round the shop after the second world war we started becoming what you see today a lot of other food stores opened up nearby and we had to change the way we operate there was a europa food store in marylebone high st and in recent years waitrose rather than having a general store where you could buy cornflakes and self raising flour we reduced our stock but specialised a lot more so now we do every single jam and marmalade that tiptree makes for example and all the sauces too the brands that we stock we have every option available cottage delight from staffordshire is another one and thursday cottage which is a separate entity within tiptree they ve got their own little factory and their own manufacturing process we do well with regent s park honey when it is in season in the summer the biggest change in how we operate was when we had parking restrictions imposed in my dad s day anyone could pull up their car and do a week s grocery shop but because of the lack of parking we don t have that trade now at christmas time we provide stocking fillers little gifts that people will take home on the train we don t do a vast range we specialise in particular things my son is very artistic and he gets the aesthetics of the displays just right he is computer literate too which i am not and looks after the social media side of things putting the soup of the day up so people know what it is my father was very fortunate to buy the freehold of the shop when it came up for sale there was an auction and no one else was bidding that day apparently someone else had been interested but they got caught in traffic quite reluctantly i leave paul and his son stephen to go back to my late shift at the bookshop i am captivated by the stories he has shared in his breezy good natured way he brought to life not just the history of his family but a century of shopkeeping our bookshop has been in existence since 1910 and still has its original fittings so i like to imagine book lovers of the edwardian era choosing the latest volume before walking down marylebone lane to buy their groceries at the deutsche delicatessen a photograph from 1914 showing deutsche delicatessen on the windows the girls were from the newsagents next door paul rothe s grandfather in the early twenties with his assistant ernie robert karoline helmut and thomas c 1956 we stayed open during the war my aunt ran the shop with one other member of staff called thomas as a young boy i remember we had helmut who was a german prisoner of war who stayed over here he always wore a little bow tie and we had a german student here i would have been about ten and my grandmother was serving behind the counter robert rothe 1961 my dad was full of adrenaline trying to serve quickly at lunchtime he didn t like anything that slows things down so he didn t do toast wouldn t do lettuce he wanted everyone served quickly he didn t want a long queue three generations of the rothe family on the shop s hundredth anniversary stephen paul rothe today stephen paul rothe stephen demonstrates the fine art of a pastrami sandwich adding the pickles the complete sandwich wrapping the sandwich expertly a magnificent sandwich david prepares the soup of the day freshly in the kitchen at some point after the second world war my father started doing catering on the premises and we had freestanding tables with four chairs round each table but you would get a group of six in and they would move the chairs around we were already getting long queues and dad would have to stop serving and put it all back to where they belonged so he ordered these that were screwed down to the floor so that people couldn t move them they are very fifties with their formica tops we had two more put in in 1964 and they ve been here ever since stephen paul rothe photographs copyright sarah ainslie paul rothe son 35 marylebone lane w1u 2nn you may also like to read about at kc continental stores at rogg s delicatessen 4 comments from culinary life market life vagabondiana april 22 2026 by the gentle author four days ago we launched our crowdfund and have raised 4 014 towards our target so far click here to support our crowdfund to publish sarah ainslie s women at work this is william conway of crab tree row bethnal green who walked twenty five miles every day calling hard metal spoons to sell or change born in 1752 in worship st spitalfields he is pictured here forty seven years into his profession following in the footsteps of his father also an itinerant trader conway had eleven walks around london which he took in turn wore out a pair of boots every six weeks and claimed that he never knew a day s illness this is just one of the remarkable portraits by john thomas smith collected together in a large handsome volume entitled vagabondiana published in 1817 that it was my delight to discover in the collection of the bishopsgate institute john thomas smith is an intriguing and unjustly neglected artist of the early nineteenth century who is chiefly remembered today for being born in the back of a hackney carriage 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