Image 097, third book, folio 50a, receipts 13 (contd) to 16
| is of cookerye. fo. 50. | ||||
| Liber 3. | ||||
| your past of wafers, & streeke* it abroade as even as you can, & pinch ye stuf | ||||
| aboute, as though there were an edge thereupon, & then put a paper under it, | ||||
| & set it on a fayre boarde, & lay a latten* bason over it, the bottome upwards, | ||||
| & then lay burning coales upon the bottome of the bason, & sometimes lifte up | ||||
| the bason to see how it baketh, & then if it happen to be browne, or to burne too | ||||
| fast in some places, lay papers as broade as the place is upon it, & thus wth | ||||
| tending you shall bake one in a quarter of an howre, & when it is baked, put | ||||
| on your golde, & by skets*, & sticke in longe comfictes**, but or ever you bake | ||||
| it, you must cast on fine sugar, & rose water, & ye will make it to crushe | ||||
| like yse*. | ||||
| 14. To make rosa solis* water. | ||||
| Take a gallon of the best aquacomposita* you |
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| glasse, & put thereunto a pottle* of the hearbe called rosa solis well picked, & | ||||
| set it in the sunne 3 or 4 dayes being close stopte, then take an ? cynamon | ||||
| bruised, i ? of ginger bruised, a quarter of i ? of whole mace, 3 spoonefuls | ||||
| of annisseeds bruised, two stickes of licoris scraped & bruised, i lb of white su= | ||||
| gar candye, 20 dates cut in small peices, & put them into an other gallon glas, | ||||
| & put thereunto your aquacomposita strayned from the rosa solis, & so let it | ||||
| stand till you have an occasion to occupye it. | ||||
| 15. Doctor Stephen his water. | ||||
| Take a gallon of good Gascoigne wine, then take ginger, gallingall*, cynamon, | ||||
| nutmegs, cloves, annisseedes, fennell seede, carraway seede, of every of them | ||||
| like much (1) a drame, then take sage, redmints*, roses, time, pellitorye of the | ||||
| wall, rosemarye, wilde time, cammamyll, & the flowers of small lavender, & for | ||||
| lacke of the flowers take ye leaves, of each of these an handfull, bray* ye spices | ||||
| small, & stampe* the hearbes likewise, & put them all into ye wine, & let it stand | ||||
| so 12 howres, stirring it divers times, & then still it by a lymbecke*, and keep the | ||||
| first water by it selfe, for it is best, then keepe the second water, for it is good, | ||||
| but not so good as the firste. | ||||
| 16. Aqua mirabilis, et praetiosa*. | ||||
| Take gallingall*, cloves, quibibis*, ginger, melilot*, cardimonia*, mace, & nutmegs, | ||||
| of each a drame, & of the juice of Sellendine* 4 ?, & mingle all these powders | ||||
| with this juice, in a pinte of aquavitae* & 3 pints of good white wine, & put | ||||
| all these together in a still of glasse, & let it stand so all nighte, & on the | ||||
| morrowe still it with an easye fire. | ||||
| This water is of a secret nature, it dissolveth the lungs without any grievace, | ||||
| it conserveth youth in her estate, it expelleth venime* mightelye, & profiteth | ||||
| the stomacke very muche, it healeth & comforteth ye lunges mightely being | ||||
| wounded or perished, & suffereth not the bloude to putrifie, but multipliethe | ||||
| the same into a greate quantitye, that allmost you shall never neede to bee | ||||
| let bloude, it suffereth not the bloud to be brente*, nor melancholy to arise, | ||||
| nor to have domination above nature, it gendreth a good coloure, preserveth | ||||
| the beautye from blemish & witherednes, it keepeth memory, & destroyeth | ||||
| the palsye, | ||||
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Transcribed by ALB and RMS