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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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Touching Candies, as followeth.


_To Candy Rosemary-flowers in the Sun._

Take Gum-Dragon, and steep it in Rose-water, then take the Rosemary
flowers, good coloured, and well pickt, and wet them in the water that
your Gum dragon is steeped in, then take them out, and lay them upon a
paper, and strew fine Sugar over them; this do in the hot sun, turning
them, and strewing Sugar on them, till they are candied, and so keep
them for your use.



_To Make Sugar of Roses._

Take the deepest coloured red Roses, pick them, cut off the white
bottoms, and dry your red leaves in an Oven, till they be as dry as
possible, then beat them to powder and searse them, then take half a
pound of Sugar beaten fine, put it into your pan with as much fair water
as will wet it; then set it in a chaffing-dish of coals, and let it boil
till it be sugar again, then put as much powder of Roses as will make it
look very red stir them well together, and when it is almost cold, put
it into pailes, and when it is throughly cold, take them off, and put
them in boxes.



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