Sweet Bag, ^Pot-pourri and other Recipes 



POMANDERS, Etc. 



Orange stuck with cloves. 



Choose an orange that is (a) thin-skinned and (b) small. 

 Stick it all over with cloves as thickly as possible. When 

 done no particle of skin should be visible. If the skin is 

 rather tough use a bodkin to make each hole. Then roll 

 the orange in a powder consisting of equal parts of orris 

 root and powdered cinnamon. Rub the powder well in all 

 over the orange and leave it wrapped up in paper with 

 this powder for about a week. The orange is then ready 

 and will scent a drawer deliciously for well over a year. 

 In time it will shrink considerably. (We have one many 

 years old which is about the size of a walnut now.) 



A Pomander. 



Take Storax an ounce, Cloves two drammes, Benjamin 

 halfe an ounce, Ambergreece halfe a dram, Muske 

 fifteen graines, powder of Violets a little, incorporate 

 them all together with Rose water. 



A Pomander against Pestilentiall Aire. 



Take Labdanum, Storax of each a dram, Cloves halfe a 

 dram, Camphor, Spikenard, Nutmeg, of each seven 

 graines, beat them into fine powder and make them into 

 bullets with gum Fragrant dissolved in Rose water. 

 The Charitable Physitian by Philbert Guibert 

 Esq" and Physician Regent in Paris (1639). 



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