Cooking (Flowers) -- Early works to 1800; Cooking (Fruit) -- Early works to 1800; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800
Prepare your _Quinces_, and take the just weight of them in _Sugar_,
beaten finely, and searcing halfe of it, then of the rest make
a Syrupe, using the ordinary proportion of a pint of water to a
pound of _Sugar_, let your _Quinces_ be well beaten, and when the
Syrupe is cand height, put in your _Quince_, and boyle it to a past,
keeping it with continuall stirring, then work it up with the beaten
_Sugar_ which you reserved, and these Cakes will tast well of the
_Quinces_.
_To make Printed Quidony of Quinces_.
Take two pound of _Quinces_, paired, coared, and cut in small
pieces, and put them into a faire posnet, with a quart of faire water,
and when they are boyled tender, put into them one pound
of _Sugar_ clarified, with halfe a pint of faire water, let them boyle
till all the fruit fall to the bottom of the posnet, then let the liquid
substance run through a faire linnen cloath into a clean bason,
then put it into a posnet, and let it boyle till it come to a jelly,
then Print it in your Moulds, and turne it into your boxes. You
shall know when it is ready to Print, by rouling it on the back of
a Spoone.
* * * * *
_Of Roses_.
_To make sweet Bagges to lay Linnen in_.
Take _Damask Rose_ budds, pluck them, and dry the leaves in the
shadow, the tops of _Lavender_ flowers, sweet _Margerom_, and _Basill_,
of each a handfull, all dryed and mingled with the _Rose_ leaves, take
also of _Benjamin, Storax, Gallingall_ roots, and _Ireos_ or _Orris_ roots,
twice as much of the Orris as of any of the other, beaten in fine
powder: a peece of cotten wool wetted in _Rose_-water, and put
to it a good quantity of _Musk_ and _Ambergreece_ made into powder,
and sprinkle them with some _Civet_ dissolved in _Rose_-water, lay the
Cotten in double paper, and dry it over a chaffin dish of coales:
Lastly, take halfe a handfull of _Cloves_, and as much _Cinamon_ bruised,
not small beaten, mixe all these together, and put them up in
your Bagge.
_A very good Poultis for any Member swell'd and inflamed,
and not broken, to take away the paine_.
Take three pints of new milk, of stale Manchet crums two handfulls,
or so much as shall make the milk somewhat thick, and thereto
put two handfulls of dryed red _Rose_ leaves, and three ounces of
Oyle of _Roses_, boyle all these together to the thicknesse of a Poultisse,
then let it stand and coole, and while it cooleth rake a spoonfull
of Oyle of _Roses_, and with a warm hand rub the place grieved,
till the Oyle be dryed in, and then lay the Poultisse as warm as you
may endure it, to the part inflamed; doe this morning and evening
for three or four dayes, as you shall see cause.
_To make a sweet Cake, and with it a very sweet water._
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