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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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liquor a good while. Stir it often; then put in half a pound of
Sugar-candy, or Loaf-sugar finely beaten, four grains of Musk, as much
Ambergreece, bruise them small with a little Sugar; then boil them
together till it be good & thick, still have care you burn it not; then
put it out in glass plates, and make it into round rolls, and set it in
a drying place till it be stiff, that you may work it into rolls to be
cut as big as Barley corns, and so lay them on a place again: If it be
needful strew on the place again a little Sugar to prevent thickning; so
dry them still if there be need and if they should be too dry, the heat
of the fire will soften them again.



_A Perfume for Cloths, Gloves._

Take of Linet two grains, of Musk three, of Ambergreece four, and the
oyl of Bems a pretty quantity; grinde them all upon a Marble stone fit
for that purpose; then with a brush or sponge rake them over, and it
will sweeten them very well; your Gloves or Jerkins must first be washed
in red Rose-water, and when they are almost dry, stretch them forth
smooth, and lay on the Perfumes.



_To make Almond Bisket._

Take the whites of four new laid Eggs, and two yolks, then beat it well
for an hour together, then have in readiness a quarter of a pound of the
best Almonds blanched in cold water, & beat them very small with
Bose-wart, for fear of Oyling; then, have a pound of the best Loaf-sugar
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