Take oranges or lemons large and well colour’d and with a little grater grate off the very outside and deep colour then lay them in water 3 or 4 days then boyle them very tender shifting your water 3 times but let your water be hot which you shift them with in boyling to take away their bitterness from them and when they be very tender then take them out into some earthen dish and with a penknife cut a little hole in the top and take out all the kernells, then take to every pound of oranges a pound and half of good loafe sugar and to every pound of Sugar half a pint of fair water and breake your sugar and mix it with your quantity off water and boyle it to a pretty sirrop then take it off the fire and when it is between hot and cold put in your oranges and let them simber a little but not boyle to fast, for fast boyling will make them hard and tough then put orange and sirrop together in a pot and let them stand 3 days then take out the oranges again and put some more Sugar into the Sirrop & boyle it something thicker and scumme it clean and when it is almost cold put in your oranges again and then set them on a soft fire as before leting them only simber half an hour and then put them up for 3 days more and the 3^d or 4^{th} day do likewise as before to take out the oranges again and let y^m simber another half hour then take them off the fire and put your oranges first in your pot you will keep them in then pour the sirrop on them and let them stand till they be cold then tie them up to keep. 343. _To preserve Pippins Green._ Take pippins when small and green off the tree pare a few and slice them and boyle them in a quart of fair water till they be pap then drain them through a cloth into a bason of earth then put the liquor into a skillet with a pound of clarified Sugar and put as many green pippins unpared as that liquor will cover and so let them boyle softly and when you see them boyled as tender as a colding then take them off and peel them the upermost white skin and then put them in your sirrop again & boyle them till the sirrop be thick and your pippins will be green and you must pot and keep your pot near y^e fire. Probatum. 344. _To preserve Cherries._