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refined sugar in powder. Then take twenty drops of Rose- 

 water in a spoon, and in it a little Ambergris, and a little 

 Musk, and then pour that to your former Composition and 

 work all well together ; and if you find the matter too moist, 

 knead some more sugar amongst it. If you put a little of 

 this Composition into a quart of Wine, and make it sweet 

 with sugar besides, it will taste like excellent Hypocras. 

 Ibid. 



APPLE DRINK WITH SUGAR, HONEY, ETC. A very pleasant 

 drink is made of Apples, thus : Boil sliced Apples in water 

 to make the water strong of Apples, as when you make to 

 drink it for coolness and pleasure. Sweeten it with sugar 

 to your taste, such a quantity of sliced apples as would 

 make so much water strong enough of apples, and then 

 bottle it up close for three or four months. There will come 

 a thick mother at the top, which being taken off, all the rest 

 will be very clear, and quick and pleasant to the taste, 

 beyond any Cider. It will be the better to most taste, if 

 you put a very little Rosemary into the Liquor, when you 

 boil it and a little Limon peel into each bottle, when you 

 bottle it up. Ibid. 



CINAMON WATER. Make about a quart of water boil and 

 take it from the fire and break into it about a quarter of an 

 ounce of cinamon with a quarter of a pound of sugar, and 

 let it stand till it be cool. Then strain it out through a clean 

 cloth and so set it to cool and drink it when you please. 

 A Perfect School of Instructions for the Officers of the Month, 

 by Giles Rose, one of the Master Cooks to Charles II, 1682. 



HYPOCRAS OF WHITE WINE. Take about three quarts 

 of the best white wine, a pound and a half of sugar, an ounce 

 of cinamon, two or three leaves of sweet margerum, two 

 grains of whole pepper, let all this pass through your bag 

 with a grain of Musk, two or three slices of lemon when it 

 hath stood and infused altogether the space of three or four 

 hours. That of Claret may be made the same way. Ibid. 



