^ Sweet Bag, ^Pot-pourri and other Recipes {j£ 



Fine Sweet Powder for the hair. 



Take one pound of the best starch you can get, put 

 into a Bason with half a pint of Rosemary water, as 

 much Rosewater, stir them well together with a spoon, 

 then dry them well in the Sun, then take the searced 

 Powder of Damask Roses, and four grains of Amber- 

 greece, mix it well with your Starch and sift it fine. 



The Pearle of Practice (1662). 



SCENTED OILS 



To make Oyle of Roses three wayes. 



The first way is, take a pound of red Rose buds, beat 

 them in a Marble morter with a woodden pestle, then 

 put them into an earthen pot, and poure upon them foure 

 pound of oyle of Olives, letting them infuse the space of 

 a moneth in the Sunne, or in the chimney corner stirring 

 of them sometimes, then heate it, and presse it, and 

 straine it, and put it into the same pot or other vessell to 

 keepe. 



The second is take halfe a pound of red Roses, and halfe 

 a pound of Damaske, beate them together in a marble 

 morter, and put them into a pot, and poure upon them 

 foure pounde of oyle, and let them infuse the space of 

 twelve houres, then pour them all into a pan and boyle 

 them two or three boylings, and straine them and presse 

 them in a strong towell in the presse, and in the meane 

 time put in the pot as many more Roses and poure the 

 oyle upon them and so beate them and presse them and 



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