pin
through them, and then make a strong water of ashes, and cast them into
the hot standing lye to take off the fur from them, then wash them in
three or four waters warm, so then put them into so much clarified Sugar
as will candy them; so boil them, and put them up, &c.

_To dry Pippins, or Pears without Sugar._

Take Pippins or Pears and prick them full of holes with a bodkin, & lay
them in sweet wort three or four dayes, then lay them on a sieves
bottom, till they be dry in an Oven, but a drying heat. This you may do
to any tender Plum.

_To make Syrup of Clove-gilly flowers._

Take a quart of water, half a bushel of Flowers, cut off the whites, and
with a sieve sift away the seeds, bruise them a little; let your water
be boiled, and a little cold again, then put in your Flowers, and let
them stand close covered twenty four hours; you may put in but half the
flowers at a time, the strength will come out the better; to that liquor
put in four pound of Sugar, let it lye in all night, next day boil it in
a Gallipot, set it in a pot of water, and there let it boil till all the
Sugar be melted and the syrup be pretty thick, then take it out, and let
it stand in that till it be through cold, then glass it.

_To make Syrup of Hysop for Colds._

Take a handful of Hysop, of Figs, Raisins, Dates, of each an ounce, of
Collipint half an handful, French Barley one ounce, boil therein three
pints of fair water to a quart, strain it and clarifie it with two
whites of Eggs, then put in two pound of fine sugar, and boil it to a
syrup.

_To make Orange Water._

Take a pottle of the best Maligo Sack, and put in as many of the peels
of Oranges as will go in, cut the white clean off, let them steep twenty
four hours; still them in a glass still, and let the water run into the
Receiver upon fine Sugar-candy; you may still it in an ordinary Still.

_To dry Cherries._

Take a pound of sugar, dissolve it in thin fair water, when it is boiled
a little while, put in your Cherries after they are stoned, four pound
to one pound of Sugar, let them lye in the Sugar three dayes, then take
them out of the syrup and lay them on sieves one by one, and set them
before the Sun upon stools, turn them every day, else they will mould;
when they look of a dark red colour, and are dry then put them up. And
so you may do any manner of Fruit. In the Sun is the best drying of
them, put into the syrup some juyce of Rasps.