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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in fine powder of Sugar, and boil it on hot Embers and Coles softly, and
the house will smell as though it were full of Roses; but you must burn the sweet Cypress wood before, to take away the gross air. _Queen_ Elizabeths _Perfume._ Take eight spoonfuls of Compound water, the weight of two pence in fine powder of Sugar, and boil it on hot Embers and Coals, softly, and half an ounce of sweet Marjoram dried in the Sun, the weight of two pence of the powder of Benjamin. This Perfume is very sweet, and good for the time. _Mr._ Ferene _of the_ New Exchange, _Perfumer to the Queen, his rare Dentifrice, so much approved of at Court._ First take eight ounces of Ireos roots, also four ounces of Pomistone, and eight ounces of Cutle-bone, also eight ounces of Corral, and a pound of Brick if you desire to make them red; but he did oftener make them white, and then instead of the Brick did take a pound of fine Alabaster; all this being throughly beaten, and sifted through a fine searse, the powder is then ready prepared to make up in a paste, which must be done as follows. _To make the said Powder into Paste._ |
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