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My Mother. To Extract the Spirit of Damask Roses

Take your roses, and stamp them in a Morter untill they
be thoroughly bruised then put them into a pipkin with
a layer of roses, and a layer of salt. Stop the pipkin
close with a Cork, and shut it up with clay, and set
them into a Cellar till Michaelmas- Then take them
up and put them into a brass pott with so much
water as will keep the pott from burning- Then set
a Lymbeck over them, and distill them, putting all
the water into a Cason while it is warm, and when
it is cold you shall have the spiritt swiming at the
top which you may skim oft with a feather- and
keep it for your use in a glass.

{Do}
Spirit of Roses.

Take of the best demask roses, and pott them up with
water and salt close till Christmas- then still them
in a Lym beck- Take the fat oft the water-
put it in a box.

For one That is Declining ---Do

Take 9 nuckle bones of a shoulder of Mutton-
wash them very well, Then take 4 quarts of water and
put these into it in a tin kettle- Then take the scum
that rises- Then take the Top and bottom of a [...]
white- loaf an handfull of hartshorn, and a little Mace- Then
let it boil till it comes to two quarts

To make the Hartshorn Drink

Take 2 ounces of burnt hartshorn 3 pints of Spring water
a Crust of bread and a little cinnamond