Take them about the end of July or when they are at their full bigness wipe them well then set on a skellet of fair water and when it boyles put in your Plummes and cover them up close and when your plumme begins to blister take them out of the water and peel off their skins then weigh them and to every pound of plummes allow a pound and 2 ounces of Sugar well beaten then set on a skillet of water and when it begins to boyle then put in your plummes again and let them boyle softly till they change their colour from yellow to green then take them off and cover them close and let them stand a quarter of an hour then strew on a handfull or 2 of your weighed Sugar on your plummes in the preserving pan you will preserve them in laying them one by one in your pan on your first part of your sugar and then throw on the 2^d part over them and as much water as will dissolve your sugar and let them boyle softly least they break in less than 1 hour they will be enough as you will find by the greeness of the sirrop then take out your plummes and put in your last quantity of Sugar to clear and thicken your sirrop and pour it on your plummes in your pot and when through cold tye them close & keep them for your use but if your sirrop grow thin never boyle your sirrop & pour it hot on your plummes & besure when you preserve them to boyle them in such a pan as you may lay them one by one y^t you may turn them as you see occasion. 365. _To Candie Flowers._ Take the flowers on the Stalk and wash them in rosewater wherein gumarrabeck hath been steep’d then take fine Sugar candie search it after finely beaten on your flowers and set them a drying in the bottom of a sive in an oven after the bread is drawn and the oven cold and they will glitter and look well. 366. _A Sack Posset._ Take 6 Naples Biskit beaten in a morter and boyle it in 2 quarts of cream till it be thick then have ale and Sack ready sweetned and warm & a few eggs let your cream coole else your eggs will be hard & to a quart of cream you must have a pint of ale and Sack pour it in your bason stir it a little & so serve it in. 367. _To make Barberrie Wine._ Take 20 quarts of water and 10 pound of Sugar boyle it half an hour and scume it then take 10 quarts of barberries mull them in an earthen stewing pot y^n bruise them and put your liquor on them very hot and when cold as wort put in some yest and set it a working and when it hath done working stop it up close and after 3 weeks bottle & keep So may you do with currance or Rasberrys only with a pound less of Sugar than the barberries wine. 368. _To make Apricocke Wine._ Take to every pint of water 10 or 12 apricockes let it boyle gently at first after a pace till it be strong of the fruit then let it stand and take of the clear and bottle it to a bottle take an ounce and half of Sugar and stop it close. The sirrop y^t comes from dryed apricocks put in white wine and bottled a month is very good.