appendix to the Art of Cookery . 373 
Take a flag’s heart, and put off all the fat, and cut it very 
fmall, and pour in fo much Rhenifh or white wine as will cover 
it; let it ftand all night clofe covered in a cool place; the, next 
day add the aforefaid things to it, mixing it very well together; 
adding to it a pint of the beft rofe-water, and a pint of thejuice 
of celandine : if you pleafe you may put in ten grains of faffron, 
and fo put it in a glafs, {till diftilling in water, railing it well 
to keep in the fteam, both of the ftill and receiver* 
To make angelica water . 
TAKE eight handfuls of the leaves, wadi them and cut them* 
and lay them on a table to dry; when they are dry, put them 
into an earthen pot, and put to them four quarts of ftrong wine- 
lees; let it flay for twenty-four hours, but ftir it twice in the 
time; then put it into a warm ftil! or an alembeck, and draw it 
off; cover your bottles with a paper, and prick holes in it, fo 
let it ftand two or three days ; then mingle it all together, and 
fweeten it; and when it is fettled, bottle it up, and flop it 
clofe* 
To make milk water . 
TAKE the herbs agrimony, endive, fumetory, balm, elder 
flowers, white nettles, water creffes, bank crefles, fage, each 
three handfuls; eye-bright, brook-lime, and celandine, each 
two handfuls; the rofes of yellow dock, red madder, fennel, 
horfe-raddifh and liquorice, each three ounces ; raifins ftoned 
one pound, nutmegs fliced, winter bark, turmeric, galangal, 
each two drams; carraway and fennel feeds three ounces, one 
gallon of milk. Diftil all with a gentle fire in one day. You 
may add a handful of May wormwood. 
To make flip-coat cheefe . 
TAKE fix quarts of new milk hot from the cow, the ftroak- 
ings, and put to it two fpoonfuls of rennet; and when it is hard 
coming, lay it into the fat with a fpoon, not breaking it all ; 
then prefs it with a four pound weight, turning of it with a dry 
cloth once an hour, and every day fhifting it into frefh grafs. 
it will be ready to cut, if the weather be hot, in fourteen days. 
