Take tongues par-boyled cut the roots and hard all off then to 4 pound of meat take 8 pound of the best sewit cut the tongues in little square pieces like dice then shred it fine do the sewit the same then put it to the meat by degrees and stir it lightly to keep it from lumping then chop meat and sewit together & sift it through a fine split sive save the lumps that remain behind chop them again and sift them as before till all are gone to this proportion of meat and sewit take half an ounce of nutmegs half an ounce of cinnamon almost as much mace half a quarter of an ounce of cloves beat the spice all but the nutmegs very fine then sift it through a sive as you strain water grewel through let your sive be very dry that done and your meat ready then put in your spice and salt to your taste 2 pound and a half of the best raisons of the Sun Stoned and shred as fine as can be dates half a pound shred as fine as the raisons, cittern above a quarter of a pound, a quarter of a pound of canded lemon not quite a quarter of a pound of canded oringe shred them but not so fine as the rest 10 or a dozen of the best pippins par’d and shred as fine as can be but neither pare nor shred them till just you put them into yr meat then rub in everything severally into your meat & well without clodding have 4 pound of the best currants clean wash’d pick’d and dryed 2 pound of Sugar or something better beat fine a quarter of a pint of the best rose water of the best canary a pint and a quarter, 3 quarters of a pint of the best verges lay more sliced cittern on the top of the pyes if you keep any of the meat by to make up after the first time stir it well every day & do not put in the juice of Lemon for it will not do well to stand in long you must mingle your Sack rosewater & verges together then turn up your meat and sprinkle it in by degrees yt all the meat may fare alike & not Lump to this quantity you may put the juice of 2 lemons but not to stand in longer then just while you make ym up.
484. An excellent Water for ye Head & for Sleep called ye Emperour Charleses Water.
When roses are blown, take a quart of good aquavite in a glass with a narrow neck and when the roses are half blown take a handfull of the leaves without ye seed put them into the glass and when the marioran bloweth & the Apiastrum take then a handfull of their buds chop them small and put them into the glass Take also cloves nutmegs cinnamon mace cardamum of each an ounce & a half bruise all these grossly and put it in the glass and when the lavender and rosemary are blown add a handfull of each flowers also shake them well together and stop it close let it stand 10 days in a hot sun it must be used by anointing the temples and nostrells it fortifieth and Corroborateh the head and memory.
485. The Lady Drakes Rect to cure the Stone.
Take Saxafrage, Pellitory of the wall parsley, mother of time of each a handfull clean pickt 3 or 4 radish roots scrap’t and sliced steep these in a gallon of new milk at night cover it close distill it in the morning in a common still let it run while good mix it all of a strength take 6 spoonfulls of this water with as much white or renish with a little nutmeg & sugar just warmed and drink it nights & mornings 3 days before the new and the full of the moon for a year together. Probatum Est.
486. Cere Clothes.
Dissolve on the coals an ounce and half of virgins wax and put to it as much Spermacitti as will lye on a shilling and a spoonfull of oyle of sweet almonds a few drops of oyle of cloves dip your cloths in it and when they are cold wring them in a cloth and clap them between your hands.
487. Almond Custards.
Take 2 pound of almonds stamp them with rose water strain them into a quart of thick cream washing them through with a little of the cream till you have got out the best of them but reserve one spoonfull to put to it without straining put to it 14 whites of eggs well beaten sweeten & bake it as you please.