^ Sweet 'Bag, ^Pot-pourri and other Recipes f%£ 



To perfume a House, and -purify the Air. 



Take a root of Angelica, dry it in an oven, or before the 

 fire, then bruise it well and infuse it four or five days in 

 White Wine Vinegar. When you use it, lay it upon a 

 brick made red hot, and repeat the operation several times. 



The Toilet of Flora. 

 To make Court perfumes. 



Take three Ounces of Benjamin, lay it all night in 

 Damask Rose Buds clean cut from the white, beat them 

 very fine in a stone Mortar till it come to a Paste, then 

 take it out and mix it with a dram of Musk finely beaten, 

 as much Civet, mould them up with a little seazced Sugar, 

 and dry them very well and keep them to burn, one 

 at a time is sufficient. Ibid. 



A very good perfume. 



Six spoonfuls of Rosewater, Musk, Ambergreece and 

 Civet, of each two grams, a little Sugar beaten fine, 

 mould them together with Gum-Dragon steeped in 

 Rosewater, make them in little Cakes and dry them. 



Ibid. 

 Perfumes to burn. 



Take Damaske rose buds and cut off the whites, then 

 beat them very small ; take half a pound of them when 

 they are beaten and put to them 3 ounces of benjamine, 

 half a quarter of an ounce of Muske, as much of civet and 

 as much ambergreese : then mingle it all well together and 

 make it up in little thin cakes and lay them upon rose 

 leaves and dry them in the sun till they be very dry. 



The Book of Simples {circa 1650). 



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