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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_Conserve of Sage._ Take new flowers of Sage one pound, sugar one pound; so beat them together very small in a Marble Mortar, put them in a vessel well glassed and steeped, set them in the Sun, stir them daily; it will last one year. _The Vertues._ It is good in all cold hurts of the brain, it refresheth the Stomach, it openeth obstructions and takes away superfluous and hurtfull humours from the stomach. _Conserve of flowers of Lavender._ Take the flowers being new, so many as you please, and beat them with three times their weight of white Sugar, after the same manner as Rosemary flowers; they will keep one year. _The Vertues._ The Brain, the Stomach, Liver, Spleen, and Womb it maketh warm, and is good in the Suffocation of the Womb, hardness of the spleen and for the Apoplexy. |
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