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To make a compound for a pome
by Fran Morrena Lo Madrid
Oct. 4 1665

Take a pound of y best Benjamin beat if
u searse it very fine. Thin put it into y
pomo, beat a quarter of an ounce of ambar
Greec into a fine powder; put y in likewise
thin put in half a quarter of an ounce of
sinett v about half an ounce of lemon pill
shred small, stir all these well together
with a spatila, thin powder m by little by little
as much rose water as fills it up to y top
stirring it continually, this is a proportion
for a pomo y holds 2 quarts, when you would
use of self upon y bossom of a perfuming
pan or chaffmy dish of fire for half an
hour then seft it by m a safe place till
next time you have occasion for it y
powders must never be ory, but as y water
consumes fill it up againe. This sint will
never be decay sed y powder be consumed
with will be some yeares first.

Take three gallons of fair roater, put to it 6 pound of the best powder
sugar, or if you please lofe sugar, boyl these together half an hour, or better,
as the seam riseth take it off; power it forth and set it a cooling; when tis
almost cold take a spoonfull of yeist beat well with six ounces of juice of estern
Brewing it up and downe with a dish in the liquor, then take a gallon if
Rockt conslips, brense them in in a stone morter, and put them to it; let them stand
Two or three days, then strain it forth and put it into a cask that it may fill;
and when it works, but not over, stop it up close: when it is three weeks or a month
old bottle it up and put into every bottle a lump of sugar.
For want of juice of citern, I put in a quart of white wine.

A drink for a cold.
Take two quarts of spring water, and put into it coftsfoot scabious& maiden hair
of each half a handfull an ounce of liquoris scrapt and sliced, a hanfull of
Rasins of the sun stond and a spoonful of anice seeds brused then let all these
Boyle softly till one pint be consumed then take it up and strain it the party
May drink as much and as often of this as they please, a little warme.

The milk surfitt water.
Take 6 handfulls of mint, and 6 cardus, 3 of wormwood shred these
Together and steepe them all night in 6 quarts of milke, and in the morning
drawe them in a common still, this will make 4 quarts of good water, the
slower the still is the better.