LATER SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY HERBALS 179 



house in those days. We find — and I quote only a few — 

 recipes " to make morello cherry cakes," " apricock marmalett," 

 " to preserve Cherrys white," " to candy oranges or lemons or 

 any kind of sucketts," " to preserve almonds," " to preserve 

 damsons," " orange butter," " pippin creame," " to make 

 molds for apricock Plumbs," " apricock wine," " to keep cherrys 

 all the year," " to make cowslip wine," " cakes of clove gilly 

 flowers," " curran wine," " grapes in jelly," " cleer cakes of 

 goosberys," " fine cakes of lemons," ** to preserve Rasps whole," 

 " to make Lemon Creame," " lemon Syllibub," " orange biskett," 

 " cheese caks of oranges," " to preserve pippins in slices," " to 

 make plumb biskett," " to pickle Quinces," " to preserve 

 Wallnutts," " to preserve double blew violetts for Salletts," 

 " to candy Double marygold, Roses, or any other flowers," " to 

 make good sorrell wine," " sweet powders for linnen," " to 

 perfume gloves after the Spanish maner," " to souse a pigg," 

 " Almond milk," " to pickle cucumbers," " drinks to cause 

 sleep," " snaile broth," ** plasters for bruises," ** to make 

 pomades " and " past for the hands." The receipts for *' A 

 Pomander," for " Balme water," " to dry roses for sweet 

 powder," and " sl perfume for a sweet bagg " are particularly 

 attractive, and I give them below. 



" A Pomander. Take a quarter of an ounce of Civitt, a 

 quarter and a half-quarter of an ounce of Ambergreese, not half 

 a quarter of an ounce of ye Spiritt of Roses, 7 ounces of Ben- 

 jamin, allmost a pound of Damask Rose buds cutt. Lay 

 gumdragon in rose water and with it make up your Pomander, 

 with beads as big as nutmegs and color ym with Lamb [sic] black ; 

 when you make ym up wash your hands wth oyle of Jasmin 

 to smooth ym, then make ym have a gloss, this quantity will 

 make seaven Braceletes." 



" A receipt for Balme. Take 6 or 7 handfulls of balme, cut 

 it a Httle, put it in an Earthen pott wth a handfull of cowshp 

 flowers, green or dry, half an ounce of Mace, a little bruised 

 pow[d]er in ym, 4 quarts of strong ale, let ym stand a night to 



