The anonymous seventeenth-century “Fairfax Household Book” contained an indispensable royal recipe called ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Potion for the Wind’. To make it, they advised: ‘Take ginger, cinnamon, galingale, of each one ounce; aniseeds, caraway seeds, fennel seeds, of each half an ounce; mace and nutmegs, two drams each; pound all together and add one pound of white sugar. Use this powder after or before meat at any time. It comforteth the stomach, helpeth digestion, and expells wind greatly.