The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet - Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex by Hannah Wolley
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of {Camomile-water} Ounce.
{Succory-water } of Cedar wood one Ounce, of Cinamon three drams, of Cloves three drams, bruise all your forenamed things; Then take of Epithimum two ounces and a half, of Cerratch six ounces, of Carduus and Balm, of each two handfuls, of Burrage Flowers, Bugloss Flowers, Gillyflowers, of each four ounces, of Angelica root, Elecampane root beaten to a Pap, of each four ounces, of Andronichus Treacle and Mithridate, of each four ounces; mix all these together, and incorporate them well, and grind them in a Stone Mortar, with part of the former Liquor, and at last, mix all together, and let them stand warm 24 hours close stopped, then put them all into a Glass Still, and sprinkle on the top of _Species Aromatica rosata_ and _Diambre_, of the Species of _Diarodon abbatis_, _Diatrion Santalon_, of each six drams; then cover the Still close, and lute it well, and distill the water with a soft fire, and keep it close. This will yield five Pints of the best water, the rest will be smaller. 12. _The Cordial Cherry Water._ Take nine pounds of red Cherries, nine pints of Claret Wine, eight ounces of Cinamon, three ounces of Nutmegs; bruise your Spice, stone your Cherries, and steep them in the Wine, then add to them half a handful of Rosemary, half a handful of Balm, one quarter of a handful of sweet Marjoram, let them steep in an earthen Pot twenty four hours, and as you put them into the Alembeck, to distil them, bruise them with your |
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