Cooking (Flowers) -- Early works to 1800; Cooking (Fruit) -- Early works to 1800; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800
Take faire water, boyle it, scum it, and to every ounce of it so
boyled and scummed, take six ounces of the blew of _Violets_, only
shift them as before, nine times, and the last time take nine ounces
of _Violets_, let them stand between times of shifting, 12 houres,
keeping the liquor still on hot embers, that it may be milk warm,
and no warmer; after the first shifting you must stamp and straine
your last nine ounces of _Violets_, and put in only the juice of them,
then take to every pint of this liquor thus prepared, one pound of
_Sugar_ finely beaten, boyle it, and keep it with stirring till the _Sugar_
be all melted, which if you can, let be done before it boyle,
and then boyle it up with a quick fire. This doth coole and open
in a burning _Ague_, being dissolved in _Almond_ milk, and taken;
especially it is good for any Inflamation in Children. The Conserves
are of the same effect.
_The use of Conserve of Violets and Cowslips._
That of _Cowslips_ doth marvelously strengthen the Braine, preserveth
against Madnesse, against the decay of memory, stoppeth
Head-ache, and most infirmities thereof; for _Violets_ it hath the
same use the Syrupe hath.
[Illustration: Violets]
_To make Paste of Violets, or any kind of Flowers._
Take your Flowers, pick them, and stamp them in an _Alablaster_
morter, then steep them two howres in a sauser of _Rose_-water, after
straine it, and steep a little _Gum Dragon_ in the same water, then
beat it to past, print it in your Moulds, and it will be of the very
colour and tast of the Flowers, then gild them, and so you may
have every Flower in his owne colour, and tast better for the
mouth, then any printed colour.
_Powder of Violets._
Take sweet _Ireos_ roots one ounce, red _Roses_ two ounces, _Storax_
one ounce and a halfe, _Cloves_ two drams, _Marjerome_ one dram,
_Lavinder_ flowers one dram and a halfe, make these into powder;
then take eight graines of fine _Muske_ powdered, also put to it two
ounces of _Rose_-water, stir them together, and put all the rest to
them, and stir them halfe an hour, till the water be dryed, then
set it by one day, and dry it by the fire halfe an houre, and when
it is dry put it up into bagges.
_A good Plaister for the Strangury._
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