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A Queens Delight - The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. As also, A right - Knowledge of making Perfumes, and Distilling the most Excellent - Waters. by W. M.
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_To make Orange Water._

Take a pottle of the best Maligo Sack, and put in as many of the peels
of Oranges as will go in, cut the white clean off, let them steep twenty
four hours; still them in a glass still, and let the water run into the
Receiver upon fine Sugar-candy; you may still it in an ordinary Still.



_To dry Cherries._

Take a pound of sugar, dissolve it in thin fair water, when it is boiled
a little while, put in your Cherries after they are stoned, four pound
to one pound of Sugar, let them lye in the Sugar three dayes, then take
them out of the syrup and lay them on sieves one by one, and set them
before the Sun upon stools, turn them every day, else they will mould;
when they look of a dark red colour, and are dry then put them up. And
so you may do any manner of Fruit. In the Sun is the best drying of
them, put into the syrup some juyce of Rasps.



_To make juyce of Liquorish._

Take English Liquorish, and stamp it very clean, bruise it with a
hammer, and cut it in peices; to a pound of Liquorish thus bruised, put
a quart of Hysop water, let them soak together in an earthen pot a day
and a night, then pull the Liquorish into small pieces, and lay it in
soak again two dayes more; then strain out the Liquorish, and boil the
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