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en boyle it in a posnet to the height of _Manus Christi_, then put it into an earthen Pipkin and therewith the things that you will Candy, as _Cinamon, Ginger, Nutmegs, Rose buds, Marigolds, Eringo roots, &c._ cover it, and stop it close with clay or paste, then put it into a Still, with a leasurely fire under it, for the space of three dayes and three nights, then open the pot, and if the Candy begin to come, keep it unstopped for the space of three or four dayes more, and then leaving the Syrupe, take out the Candy, lay it on a Wyer grate, and put it in an Oven after the bread is drawne, and there let it remaine one night, and your Candy will dry. This is the best way for rock Candy, making so small a quantity. _The Candy Sucket for green Ginger, Lettice, Flowers._ Whatsoever you have Preserved, either Hearbs, Fruits, or Flowers, take them out of the Syrupe, and wash them in warm water, and dry them well, then boyle the _Sugar_ to the height of Candy, for Flowers, and draw them through it, then lay them on the bottome of a Sive, dry them before the fire, and when they are enough, box them for your use. This is that the _Comfet-makers_ use and call _Sucket Candy_. * * * * * _Of Grapes_. _Syrupe Gresta, or a Syrupe of Unripe Grapes_. Take a good basket full of unripe _Grapes_, set them three dayes in a vessel after they be gathered, stamp them, and straine out the juice out of them, take thereof six quarts, boyle it with a soft fire till the third part be consumed then four quarts will remaine, let that run through a woollen bagge, and stand till it be clear in it selfe, then take of the clearest of it, seven pints, put thereto five pound of Clarified _Sugar_, boyle them together to the thicknesse of a Syrupe, and keep it in a glasse; it is good for a perbreaking stomach, proceeding of Choller, and for a swelling stomach, it taketh away thirst and drynesse, and chollerick _Agues_, it is of great comfort to the stomach of Women being with child, it is a preservative against all manner of Venome, and against the Pestilence. * * * * * *OF PURGES.* _A Purge to drive out the French Pox, before you use the Oyntment._ Take halfe a pint of good _Aqua vitae_, one ounce of _Treacle_ of _Gene_, one quarter of an ounce of _Spermacaeti_, boyle all these together on a soft fire halfe a quarter of an hour, and let the Patient dri
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