358 Directions for making of Syrups, (ffc, 



4. Having l)caten them, silt them through a fine tiffany siercc, 

 that no gruat pieces may be found in your electuary. 



5. To one ounoe of your powder add three ounces of clarified 

 honey ; this quantity I hold to be sufficient. If you would 

 make more or less electuary, vary your proportion accordingly. 



6. Mix them well together in a mortar, and take this lor a 

 truth, you cannot mix them too much. 



7. The way to clarify honey, is to set it over the fire in a coh- 

 venient vessel, till tiie scum rise, and when the scum is taken off, 

 it is clarified. 



8. The usual dose of cordial electuaries, is from half a dram 

 totwodram^; of purging elefluaries, from half an ounce to an 

 ounce. 



g. The manner of keeping them is in a pot. 



10. The time of taking them, is either in a morning fasting, 

 and fasting an hour after them ; or at niglit going to bed, three or 

 four hours after supper. 



CHAP. VI [. OfComenes. 



THE way of making conserves is twofold, one of herbs and 

 flowers, and the other of fruits. 



J. Conserves of herbs aad flowers, are thus made ; ifyou make 

 vour conserve of herbs, as of scurvy-grass, wormwood, rue, and 

 the like, take onlv the leaves and tender tops (for you may beat 

 your heart out, before vou can beat the stalks small) and having 

 beaten them, weigh them, and to every pound of them add 3 

 pounds of sugar, you cannot beat them too much. 



.'5. Conserves of fruits, as of barberries, sloes and the like, are 

 thus made ; fiisi, scald the fruit, then rub the pulp through a 

 thick hair sieve made for that purpose, called a pulping sieve j 

 you may do it for a need with tbe back of a spoon ; then tak^ 

 this pulp thus drawn, and add to it its weight of sugar, and no^ 

 more; put it into a pewter vessel, and over a charcoal fire; stir 

 it up and down till the sugar be melted, and your conserve it 

 made. 



4. Thus vou have the way of making conserves; the way of 

 keeping them is in earthen pots. 



5. The dose is usually the quantity of a nutmeg 5t a time, 

 morning and evening, or (unless they are purging,) when you 

 please. 



6. Of conserves, some keep many years, as conserves of robCs ; 

 others but a year, as conserve of borage, bugloss, cowslips, and 

 the like. 



7. Have a care of the working of some conserves presently 

 after ihev are made ; look to tliem once a Jay, and stir them 

 about; conserves of borage, bugloss, and wormwood, have got an 

 excellcut faculty at that sport. 



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