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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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receiver; drink of it first and last, and at four a clock in the
afternoon, a wine-glass full at a time.



_Clary Water for the Back, Stomach, &c._

Take three gallons of midling Beer, put in a great brass Pot of four
gallons, and put to it ten handfuls of Clary gathered in a dry day,
Raisins of the Sun stoned three pounds, Anniseeds, and Liquorish, of
each four ounces, the whites and shells of twenty four eggs, or half so
many, if there be not so much need, beat the shells small, and mix them
with the whites; put to the bottoms of three white loaves, put into the
Receiver one pound of white sugar-candy, or so much fine loaf sugar
beaten small, and distill it through a Limbeck, keep it close, and be
seldom without it; for it reviveth very much the stomach and heart,
strengtheneth the back, procureth appetite and digestion, driveth away
Melancholly, sadness and heaviness of the heart, &c.



_Dr._ Montfords _Cordial Water._

Take Angelica leaves twelve handfuls, six leaves of Carduus Benedictus,
Balm & Sage, of each five handfuls, the seeds of Angelica and sweet
Fennil, of each five ounces bruised, scraped and bruised Liquorish
twelve ounces, Aromaticum Rosatum, Diamoscus dulcis, of each six drams;
the Herbs being cut small, the seeds and Liquorish bruised, infuse them
into two gallons of Canary Sack for twenty four hours, then distill it
with a gentle fire, and draw off onely five pints of the spirits, which
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