A Book of Fruits and Flowers by Anonymous
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_Oyle of Roses._
Take Sallet Oyle and put it into an earthen pot, then take _Rose_ leaves, clip off all the white, and bruise them a little, and put them into the Oyle, and then stop the top close with past, and set it into a boyling pot of water, and let it boyle one hour, then let it stand al one night upon hot embers, the next day take the Oyle, and straine it from the _Rose_ leaves, into a glasse, and put therein some fresh _Rose_ leaves, clipt as before, stop it, and set it in the Sun every day for a fortnight or three weeks. _Syrupe of Roses._ Take _Damask Roses_, clip off the white of them, and take six ounces of them to every pint of faire water, first well boyled and scummed, let them stand so as abovesaid, twelve hours, as you doe in the Syrupe of _Violets_, wringing out the _Roses_ and putting in new eight times, then wringing out the last put in onely the juice of four ounces of _Roses_, so make it up as before, if you will put in _Rubarb_, take to every two drams, slice it, string it on a thred, hang it within the pot after the first shifting, and let it infuse within your _Roses_: Some use to boyle the _Rubarb_ in the Syrupe, but it is dangerous, the Syrupe purgeth _Choller_ and _Melancholly_. _A Conserve of Roses._ Take red _Rose_ buds, clip of all the white, bruised, and withered from them, then weigh them out, and taking to every pound of |
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