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To dry Pears or Pippins without Sugar Do

Take your pears or apples, and wipe them
clean, and take a bodkin and run it in at the
head and out at the stalk and pput them in a
flat earthen pot, and bake 'em but not too
much You must put a quart of new strong Ale to
half a pack of pears tye white paper over the
pott, that they may not be scorched in baking
and when they are bak'd let 'em stand to be cold
and take 'em out to drain Squeeze the pears
flat and the Apples the eye to the stalk and
lay 'em on Seives with wide holes to dry either
in a stove or an Oven that is not too hott

Spirit of Saffron Do

Take 4 drachms of the best saffron, open it and
pull it assunder, and put it in a quart bottle and pour
on it a pint of the Ordinary spirit of wine That
of 12^d [?] quart, and add to it half a pound of white sugar
Candy beaten small. Stop it close with a Cork and
a bladder tied over it Let it in the Sun and
shake it twice a day, till the candy is dissolv'd
and the spiritts of a deep orange colour Let it
stand two days longer to settle, and clear it off in
another bottle and keep it for use A small spoonfull
for a child and a large one for a Man or
Woman. It is Excellent in any Pestilentiall
desease against Colds or Consumptive Coughs