and keep them for
your use.
_To Preserve Oranges or Lemmons_.
Take your _Oranges_ or _Lemmons_, lay them in water three dayes, and
three nights, to take away their bitternesse, then boyle them in faire
water till they be tender, make as much Syrupe for them as will make
them swim about the pan, let them not boyle too long therein, for it
will make the skins tough; then let them lie all night in the Syrupe,
to make them take the Syrupe in the morning, boyle the Syrupe to his
thicknesse, and put them in gally pots or glasses, to keep all the
yeare, and this is the best way to Preserve _Orenges, Lemmons_, or
_Citrons_.
_To make Past of Lemmons_.
Take halfe a dozen of thick-rined _Lemmons_, cut them through the
middest, and boyle them tender in faire water, then stamp them in a
Morter, strayne the juyce or pulp from them, and dry it, and put two
pound of _Shugar_ to it, then make it into what fashion you will, on a
sheet of white paper, dry it in an Oven, and turne it often for two
dayes and two nights, for in that time it will be dry enough; box it
thus up, and it will endure all the Yeare.
_Sweet Bagges to lay amongst Linnen_.
Take _Orris, Cypris, Calamus, Fusis_, all of them grosse beaten, and
_Gallingall_ roots, of each a handfull, and as much of the small tops
of _Lavender_, dryed, and put them into baggs to lay among your
cloaths. You may put in a handfull or two of _Damask Rose_ leaves
dryed, which will somewhat better the sent.
Medicines made of Lemmons.
_To take away the Spots, or red Pimpels of the face_.
Take halfe a pint of raine water, and halfe a pint of good _Verjuice_,
seeth it till it be halfe consumed, then whilst it boils fill it up
againe with juyce of _Lemmon_, and so let it seeth a pretty while;
then take it from the fire, and when it is cold put to it the whites
of four new laid Eggs, well beaten, and with this water annoynt
the place often.
_A very good Medicine for the Stone_.
Make a Posset of a quart of _Rhenish_ wine, a pint of _Ale_ and a
pint of _Milke_, then take away the curd, and put into the drink,
two handfulls of Sorrell, one handfull of _Burnet_, and halfe a handfull
of _Balm_, boyle them together a good while, but not too long,
least the drink be too unpleasant, then take of the drink a quarter
of a pint, or rather halfe a pint, at once, at morning, and to bed-ward,
putting therein first two or three spoonfulls of juice of _Lemmons_,
this is an
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