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To make Raisin Wine Mrs Jervis

Boyl 10 Gallons of water. put it when half cold to 50
pounds Malaga raisins chopt stems and all Let this
stand 10 days, stiring it twice a day. Squeeze the
liquor out with your hands, thro' an hair seive
put it up by degrees Let it stand about about 4 months
in the Vessele - adding to it 49 ts of brandy -
Let it work for 6 weeks with the bung open. Then
stop it up by degrees. Let it stand about 4 months
in the vesell. Then draw it off. When you have
drawn off little more than two thirds you will
perceive it run thick Catch that by itself in a
pan and all the Lees with it. philter it thro'
a flannel bag Let it be all put into the
Vessele again. whip't up with an ounce of iceing glass
stop it close till your taste tell you it is fitt for
bottleing

Lip Salve

A quarter of a pint of oyl of sweet Almonds half
an ounce of Sperma Ceti a penny worth of virgins
wax melt these over the fire in a silver thing
then put in a little Alkennet root to colour it

Shrewsbury Cakes Miss Wynne

A pound of flour half a pound of butter a quarter of
a pound of single refined sugar, and a glass of sack