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Madrid the 10 of August 1665 I. N.
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To make Lemonado
Take 4 quarts of the best fountaine water & 2
quarts of the best white wine, cut into it 3 Large
Lemons, rine & all, in square bitts of an Inch
bigg, squize the juyce of one whole Lemon into this
Likewise, & put in a pound and a halfe of the best
white sugar, stop all these close in an Earthen
pitcher, setting it in a coole place for 2 houres
during which time you must stirr it very well,
with a wooden Ladle, or spatula 3 or 4 times, -
then passe it thorough a course Canvas strainer
& put to it a dragme of Ambar-Greece ground
very small, then bottle it vp, & keepe it very
coole, after 4 hours you may drinke it, it will
keep good 2 days & 2 nights & noe Longer, this
drink is only for the summer time.
{Madrid 10 August 1665}
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To make Synamon water
Take 6 quarts of the best fountaine water put it in a
new Earthen pipkin, & sett it vpon the fire, when
it just ready to boyle take it off, put into it two
ounces of Sinamon bruis'd, stop the jugg very close,
& let it boyle till 3 pints be consumed, then take
it off, & put to it, 2 [ti] of the best white sugar, & a
dragme of Ambar Greece, which must not be put in
till the Liquor be strain'd, & the sugar consumed in it.

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HillaryNunn

This page was originally transcribed by Elizabeth Emerson as part of an EMROC transcription project in 2013 at The University of Akron.

EK

On 6 March 2021, I found this page without a transcription, so I transcribed it. In line 31, the strange symbol looking like "ti" may be a symbol for pound?