Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Clip the whites from the flowers bruise them a little in a stone
morter then take y^e weight of your flowers in fine beaten sugar, take
a silver or stone pot put a laying of flowers then of sugar do this
till all be in then close y^e pot and in boyling water keep it still
seething for 4 or 5 hours then straine it and set it by the fire till
y^e scumme rise take that off when cold then bottle it, you may put
the flowers in sack or french wine and let them lye 9 or 10 days close
stop’t then strain it and bottle, it will be very pleasant and Cordial,
if you make your sirrop by infusion tis best to do it either with
pinke, balme, or burrage water which you must warme a little and pour
on your flowers as much as will cover them, let it stand 12 hours then
strain it and put in fresh flowers so do 4 or 5 times then to every
pint of liquor take a pound and half of Sugar finely beaten, put it in
a Stone pot set it to y^e fire in a Skillet of water till the sugar be
all melt’d then scumme it and keep it for use.
55. _To make small Mead._
Take 10 quarts of water to one quart of honey first boyle your water
and in it a handfull of herbs made into a bundle such as you best like,
as rosemary balme, Sweet marjerum and the like Scumme your water very
well and when boyled half an hour or more take out the herbs, then put
in your quart of honey to your ten quarts of water and boyle it near an
hour scumming it all the while it boyls, pour it then into some coolers
and when as cool as wort put in some ale yest, if but 10 quarts of
liquor then 2 spoonfulls of yest is enough, if more you must proportion
your yest to it, let it stand in the cooler till it be white all over
then tun it up into a good vessel that hath had sack or white wine in
it and when it hath done workeing Stop it very close and let it stand
in the barrel a week or 10 Days then draw it into bottles keeping it
close Stop’d and in a months time you may drink of it keep it as coole
as you can.
56. _A brewed Drink for Rickets._
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