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well, make them into a Batter with cream and double- 

 refined sugar, pour it on very thin, and bake it on Irons. 

 From The Receipt Book of John Nott, Cook to the Duke of 

 Bolton, 1723. 



To MAKE CONSERVE OF RED ROSES. Let your Roses be 

 gather 'd before they are quite blown, pound them in a stone- 

 mortar, and add to them twice their weight in double- 

 refined sugar, and put them into a glass close stopt up, 

 but do not fill it full. Let them stand three months before 

 you use them, remembring to stir them once a Day. Ibid. 



To DRY OR KEEP ROSES. Take the Buds of Damask 

 Roses before they are fully blown, pull the leaves and lay 

 them on Boards, in a Room where the Heat of the Sun 

 may not come at them; when they are pretty dry, let a 

 large Still be made warm, and lay them on the Top of it 

 till they are crisp ; but let them not lie so long as to change 

 their Colour. Then spread them thin; and when they are 

 thoroughly dry'd, press them down into a Earthen Pan, 

 and keep close cover'd. Ibid. 



To MAKE CONSERVE OF ROSE HIPS. Gather the hips 

 before they grow soft, cut off the heads and stalks, slit 

 them in halves, and take out all the seeds and white that 

 is in them very clean ; then put in an earthen pan, and stir 

 them every day else they will grow mouldy ; let them stand 

 till they are soft enough to rub through a coarse hair sieve ; 

 as the pulp comes take it off the sieve; they are a dry 

 berry, and will require pains to rub it through; then add 

 its weight in sugar, and mix it well together without boiling ; 

 keeping it in deep gallipots for use. E. Smith, The 

 Complete Housewife, 1736. 



To MAKE ROSE-DROPS. The roses and sugar must be 

 beat separately into a very fine powder, and both sifted; 

 to a pound of sugar an ounce of red roses, they must be 

 mixed together, and then wet with as much juice of Lemon 

 as will make it into a stiff paste ; set it on a slow fire in a 

 silver porringer, and stir it well, and when it is scalding 



