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To Make the best Surfeat water
1 ounce of Cardimon seed
take one gatt of the best brandy
and half a bushell of poppies two
ouncs of Annis [symbol?] three ouncs of
Caraway [symbol?], and three ouncs of sweet
fennell, [symbol?], two ouncs of Liquorish, and
one ouncs of [>atess], six penny worth
of saffron, and half a pound of figgs,
a quarter of a pound of raisings, of the
sun stoned half an ouncs of Cloves an
Mac half an ounce of nutmeggs a
quarter of an ounce of ginger a hadfull
of bame a handfull of mint put all
these slit your figgs pound your seeds and
spices and let stand in an Earthen pott
or glass 14 daies Close Stopt then strain
out your water and when you have
don soe put your drugs a steep in some
stronge beere let it stand 4 days then
distill it in a cold still and you will have
a good water that with sirrup of poppie
is a good surfit water, to every bottle of
surfit water you must put in an ounce
of suggar candyed.
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