Image 100, third book, folio 51b, receipts 24 (contd) to 27
| The thirde booke, | ||||
| seethinge, take your quinces out of the water, & put them into an other panne of | ||||
| fayre water, & parboyle them fayre & softlye, so that in no wise they breake, and | ||||
| when they bee indifferentlye parboyled, then take them out, & lay them upon a | ||||
| fayre boarde ye coores downewarde, that the water may drayne out of them, and | ||||
| when they be cleane drayned, take your syrrop & set it on the fire, & let it boyle | ||||
| agayne, & in the meane season pricke in every quinch* 3 or 4 cloves, & put them | ||||
| into the syrrop, & let them boyle softlye, & many wise turne them with a pretye | ||||
| stirrer that in any wise they breake not, & skymme of the skymme* that shall | ||||
| arise of them, & let not one side be more boyled than another, they put into your | ||||
| 30 quinces halfe a pinte of pure red rose water, & two whole stickes of cyna= | ||||
| mon each of them a large handfull longe, & breake them into small peices twoe | ||||
| inches longe, & so put them into your quinces & syrrop, & let them boyle a while | ||||
| after you have put in your cynamon, then take them out & put them into a faire | ||||
| charger*, & lay the coores downewardes that they may drayne cleane, & let ye | ||||
| syrrop boyle still on the fire tyll it be so thicke that it will hang on a spoone, then | ||||
| take it of the fire & let it coole, then put the quinces into a fayre stone pot, & | ||||
| powre the syrrop upon them, & cover them close with a paper over the potts | ||||
| mouthe, & with a fayre lynnen cloth over the paper, bynd it faste about the | ||||
| pots mouthe, & so let them stande one monthe. | ||||
| 25. To make very fine powder of violets. | ||||
| Take flowerdeluce* roots j lb, red roses j ?, of storax calaminte** di i ?, cloves | ||||
| twoe drames, marioram 2 drames, of lavender flowers a drame, & make them | ||||
| into powder, & put thereunto of fine rose water 2 ?, & stirre them all together | ||||
| by the space of an howre tyll the water be dryed up, then set it aside one day, | ||||
| & after than dry them by ye fire halfe a howre, & when the powder is well | ||||
| dryed, put it up. | ||||
| 26. To make damaske water. | ||||
| Take 4 ? of orris*, j ? of cypers*, j ? of dry spikeflowers*, 2 ? of roseleaves | ||||
| dryed, j ? of orange pills*, j ? of nugillere maior, 4 ? of fustis*, of cloves j ?, | ||||
| of beniamin* 2 ?, of lapis danidone* j ?, of calimus calimaticus* di j ?, of | ||||
| storax calaminte* j ?, & beate them into powder, then take a pinte of aquavite, & | ||||
| put the powder & it together into an earthen pot for the space of 4 dayes, and | ||||
| then when you still them laye the bottome of your still with bay leaves, & a | ||||
| line of rose leaves, & straw a certayne of your powder thereon, & alwayes | ||||
| your rose leaves uppermoste, & lay it with bassell*, or els wth mariora gentle*, | ||||
| & fill your glasse but three quarters full, as it may worke in ye sunne, then | ||||
| take 8 graynes of muske*, & binde it in a cloth, & put it into your glasse. | ||||
| 27. To make cherries in confection. | ||||
| Take ripe chosen cherries, cut of the stalke halfe, & put them in a fryinge | ||||
| panne over a softe fire, & to every pownde of cherries take j lb of fine suger | ||||
| in powder, & boyle them so till the third parte bee wasted awaye, then put | ||||
| a little rose water to them with a little cloves beaten, & cynamon, & let | ||||
| them coole | ||||
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