Image 110, third book, folio 56b, receipts 77 to 81.
| The thirde booke, | ||||
| 77. To make conserves of quinces. | ||||
| Take first 6 quartes of fayre water, & put it in a fayre panne, & put to | ||||
| that 4 lb of suger, & set it on a softe fire, & then take 8 lb of quinces, & pare | ||||
| them & core them, & 2 lb of them cut in quarters, & put them all in the water, | ||||
| & let them seeth untill the whole quinces waxe a litle softe, & then take | ||||
| them out & laye them in a fayre dishe, & cover them very close, & let all the | ||||
| reste seeth upon the fyre untill it waxe red, then take it of & strayne it | ||||
| through a fayre strayner into an other panne, & set it upon a softe fire, | ||||
| then put in your whole quinces, & let them seeth untill they be red, & then | ||||
| take them up, & let ye syrrop seeth, & put in it a litle cynamon, & when you | ||||
| thinke it is even as thicke as a cawdle*, take it up: put your syrroppe in | ||||
| glasses, & your quinces into it, & take heede that your quinces be covered wth | ||||
| syrroppe, and they will last twoe yeares. | ||||
| 78. To make conserves of cherries. | ||||
| Take j lb of very fayre red cherries, & put them in an earthen panne, and | ||||
| put to them 12 spoonefulls of rosewater, & set it upon the fire, & ye fire | ||||
| muste be of coales not flameinge, but a softe fire, & put to that halfe a | ||||
| pownde of suger, & let them boyle so symperlye* as they maye, & you muste | ||||
| take heede, for if they boyle faste, they will breake, & put to that 5 or 6 clovs, | ||||
| & when you feele that the cherries be softe, take them up, & put them with ye | ||||
| syrroppe into glasses, & it will continue twoe yeares | ||||
| 79. To make suger roset*. | ||||
| Take 4 lb of suger, beate it & serce* it through a very fayre sercer**, & put it in | ||||
| a dishe, then take j lb of damaske roses, clip them & beate them in a fayre morter, | ||||
| & strayne them to the suger, & put all these in albide* glasses, & set it in the sunne, |
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| sunne may have moste dominion of it, it muste stande the space of a monthe in | ||||
| the sunne, with dayly stirringe of it, then take it & set it where you will, it | ||||
| will continue a longetime, & is verye wholesome. | ||||
| 80. To make treacle*. | ||||
| First gather your hearbes, an handfull of rue, of wormwoode, of sorrell, of | ||||
| burnet, of marygoldes, & of dragons, of red fennell, of yarrowe, of pervirike, | ||||
| of borage, of rosemarye, of fotherfewe, of betonye, of scabyas, of matfellon, | ||||
| of planten, of dandalyon, of tanseye, of suthernewoode, of centory, of sinke= | ||||
| foyle, of eache an handfull, & let them be gathered about the middeste* of | ||||
| Maye, & drye all these hearbes upon a fayre cloth in the sunne, and after | ||||
| drye them in an oven, then beate all them into powder, & let them be serced*, | ||||
| then take a quarte of clarified honye, & thereto a quarter of a pownde of | ||||
| bay berries, & stirre it well untill it be blacke, then taste it whether it be | ||||
| bitter enough or not, & when it is thicke, then put in some of youre dra= | ||||
| gon water, & then stirre it, & put it into a vessell. | ||||
| 81. To make aqua composita*. | ||||
| In the harte of May or nye* after or afore gather these hearbes named, an hand= | ||||
| full of sage, of marioram gentle*, of rosemarye, of browne fennell, of elacam= | ||||
| pane rootes, of allecoste, of hysop, of horehownde, of time, of penyroyall, & | ||||
| you muste |
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