please you.
_Dr._ Kings _way to make Mead._
Take five quarts and a pint of water, and warm it, then put one quart of
Honey to every gallon of Liquor, one Lemon, and a quarter of an ounce of
Nutmegs; it must boil till the scum rise black, that you will have it
quickly ready to drink, squeeze into it a Lemon when you tun it. It must
be cold before you tun it up.
_To make Syrup of Rasberries._
Take nine quarts of Rasberries, clean pickt, and gathered in a dry day,
and put to them four quarts of good Sack, into an earthen pot, then
paste it up very close, and set it in a Cellar for ten days, then
distill it in a Glass or Rosestill, then take more Sack and put in
Rasberries to it, then when it hath taken out all the colour of the
Raspis, strain it out and put in some fine Sugar to your taste, and set
it on the fire, keeping it continually stirring till the scum doth rise;
then take it off the fire, let it not boil, skim it very clean, and when
it is cold put it to your distilled Raspis; colour it no more than to
make it a pale Claret Wine. This put into bottles or Glasses stopt very
close.
_To make Lemon Water._
Take twelve of the fairest Lemons, slice them, and put them into two
pints of White wine, and put to them Cinamon two drams, Gallingale two
drams, of Rose-leaves, Borage and Bugloss flowers, of each one handful,
of yellow Saunders one dram; steep all these together twelve hours; then
distill them gently in a Glass still untill you have distilled one pint
and an half of the Water, and then adde to it three ounces of Sugar; one
grain of Ambergreese, and you will have a most pleasing cleansing
Cordial water for many uses.
_To make Gilly-flower Wine._
Take two ounces of dryed Gilly-flowers, and put them into a pottle of
Sack, and beat three ounces of Sugar-candy, or fine Sugar and grind some
Ambergreese, and put it in the bottle and shake it oft, then run it
through a gelly bag, and give it for a great Cordial after a weeks
standing or more. You may make Lavander as you do this.
_The Lady_ Spotswood _Stomach Water._
Take white Wine one pottle, Rosemary and Cowslip flowers, of each one
handful, as much Betony leaves, Cinamon and Cloves grosly beaten, of
both one ounce; steep all these three dayes, stirring it often; then put
to it Mithridate four ounces, and stir it together, and distil it in an
ordinary still.
_Water of Time for the Passion of the Heart._
Take a quart o
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