Sweet Bag, ^Pot-pourri and other ^Recipes 



SCENTED CANDLES 



Candles to perfume the Aire. 



Take Benjamin, Storax, of each foure ounces, Frank- 

 incense, Olibanum, of each twelve ounces, Labdanum 

 eighteen ounces, Nigella an ounce, Coriander seeds, 

 Juniper berries, of each halfe an ounce; liquid Storax 

 sixe ounces, Turpentine halfe an ounce, forme them 

 into Candles with gum : dragant and Rose water. 



The Charitable Physitian, by Philibert Guibert, 



Physitian Regent in Paris (1639). 



Odoriferous Candles against Venome and the plague. 



Take Labdanum three ounces, Storax ten drams, 

 Benjamin sixe drammes, Frankincense an ounce and a 

 halfe, Staechados two ounces, red Roses, Cloves, of each 

 three ounces, Citron peele, Yellow Sanders, of each three 

 drammes, Juniper berries halfe an ounce, Muske and 

 Ambergreece, of each halfe a scruple : forme them into 

 Candles with gum : dragant dissolved in Rose water. 



Ibid. 



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