3*4 The Art of Cookery , 
have enough to keep the ftill at work, mind all the time to keep 
a wet cloth all over the head of the ftill all the time it is at 
work, and always obferve not to let the ftill work longer than 
the liquor is good, and take great care you don’t burn the ftill ; 
and thus you may diftil what you pleafe. If you draw the ftill 
too far it will burn, and give your liquor a bad tafte* 
3Tb make treacle-water. 
TAKE the juice of green walnuts four pounds, of rue, car- 
duus, marygo’d, and balm, of each three pounds, roots of 
butter-bur half a pound, roots of burdock one pound, angelica 
and mafter-wort, of each half a pound, leaves of fcordium fix 
handfuls, Venice treacle and mithridate of each half a pound, 
old Canary wine two pounds, white wine vinegar fix pounds., 
juice of lemon fix pounds, and diftil this in an alembick. 
T !0 make Hack cherry water . 
TAKE fix pounds of black cherries, and bruife them finally 
then put to them the tops of rofemary, fweet marjoram® 
fpearmint, angelica, balm, marygold flowers, of each a handful, 
dry’d violets one ounce, annifeeds and fweet fennel feeds, of 
each half an ounce bruifed; cut the herbs fmall, mi^ all toge¬ 
ther, and diftil them off in a cold ftill. 
To make hyfterical water . 
TAKEbetony, roots of lovage, feeds of wild parfnips, of 
each two ounces, roots of Angle piony four ounces, of mifletoe 
of the oak three ounces, myrrh a quarter of an ounce, caftor 
half an ounce; beat all thefe together and add to them a quar¬ 
ter of a pound of dried millepedes ; pour on thefe three quarts 
of mugwort- water, and two quarts of brandy; let them ftand 
in a clofe veffel eight days, then diftil it in a cold ftill pofted 
up. You may draw off nine pints of water, and fweeteii it to 
your tafte. Mix all together, and bottle it up. 
To diftil red-rofe buds. 
WET your rofes in fair water; four gallons of rofes will 
take near two gallons of water, then ftill them in a cold ftill 5 
take the fame ftilled water, and put it into as many fre£h rofes 
as it will wet, then ftill them again. 
Mint, balm, pariley, and penny-royal water, diftil the fame 
way. 
