207rTo make conserves of tender Fruits, and Berries./
Dissolue your plumms, as you did to make your paste, then streine it, and to
euery pinte of this liquor, take three quarters of a pound of suger, and so boyle it
vntill it be come somewhat thicke, that when you lay some of it vpon a cold
5dish it will runne no broader, and then it is enough, putt it vpp./
To drye any Fruits without suger./
Take pippins, or peares, or the like, and lay them in an earthen pan, one by one
bake them fully, then lay them on a Ciue bottome, in an Onen, only in a dryinge
heate, and so every day turne them vntill they be drye./
10To Candy Flowers after the Spannish Fashion./
Take yout Flowers, and haue first ready, a sirrupe of the best suger, then put
in as many Flowers as the syrupe can couer, boyle these with stirringe, vntill
it be turned to suger againe, then with the backe of a spoune breake the suger
in peeces, and thus you shall haue them finely candied, and theire cullor
15very faire, and louely./
To make Lozenges of any Flowers./
Boyle your suger to the height of a lozenge, then haue your_Flowers in a
readines to putt in, beinge pickt very cleane, and shreaded on a trencher
put so many of them, as will giue the suger their cullor, and tast also,
20and so make it vp, as you doe all other Lozenges./
To make any Artificiall Fruits, as Orrenges, Lemmons.
Cowcumbers, Radish, Herrings, Spratts, Oysters and Mussels./
Take Alabaster Moulis made in three peeces, binde two of the peeces together,
water them very well, an hower, or two, then take as much suger as will fill
25your Moulds, boyle it to the height of manus christi, then powre it quickly
into your Moulds, and couer them, so lett it coole, and then take it out./
To make sweet Fennell water, called aqua Feniculi./
Take ten Gallons of strong proofe spirrit of sacke, sweet Fenelseeds Fuie pounds
carroway seeds Fower Ounces, Amisseeds one pound, distill them into stronge
30proofe spirritt, and dulcifie it with white suger, as much as will suffice, and
if you will inrich it, ad to it Fine pounds of sweet Fenell seeds, Carraway seeds
Fowre Ounces, Anniseeds one pound, Cinamon eight Ounce, cloues two Ounces
and suger two pounds and a halfe./
To make Aqua Florum, water of Flowers./
35Take tenn Gallons of stronge proofe spirritt of sacke, and putt it into a
wide mouthed pott, or other vessell stopt very close, then take these severall
Flowers Followinge in their seasons, and beinge cleane pickt, putt them
to the spirritt in your pott, Cowslipps, Woodbine stockgilleflowers of