409. To make Red Currant Wine.
Let your fruit be full ripe and gather’d on a dry day and to every 3 pound of currants good weight with their stalks and stems on take one quart of water & one pound of sugar put your water to your currants & with your hands squeeze them through a hair Sive then put your Sugar to your juice and when it is well mingled together and the Sugar is dissolved then put it into a very dry and sweet vessel fill your vessel quite full and let it worke a week and then stop it up and let it not be tap’d under 10 weeks time and then draw it off as you drink it or bottle it which you please.
410. To make Aquamirabilis.
Take a pint of the juice of Sallendine and half a pint of the juice of balme and half a pint of the juice of Spermint of rosemary flowers cowslip flowers clovejilly flowers burrage and burglass flowers mellilot flowers of each one dram and all other cordiall flowers you think fit and of cubibs ginger cardimums gallingall cloves mace nutmegs of each one dram put all these ingredients in 3 pints of Sack with a pint of strong angelicoe water and half a pint of red rose water steep them one night and the next morning put it in a cold still and draw off 3 quarts of water first laying harts tongue leaves at the bottom of the still when the water is drawn off mingle it altogether sweetening it with white Sugar candie or very fine loafe Sugar bottle it close stopt and to stand cool.
411. To make Vinegar.
Take 6 gallons of fair water and put it into a 9 gallon vessel hoop’d with iron put thereto 18 pound of ordinary malligoe raisons washt a little in one water stalks and raisons altogether paste on a coarse strong cloth over ye bung hole with yest set in the hotest sun you can May June July and in September it may be used.
412. A Pickle for Brawn.
Take 9 gallons of water 2 handfulls and a half of bay salt an ounce of cloves mace and white pepper altogether and put it whole in and boyle it a full hour boyling in it a quart of milk scumme the milk clear off but leave your Spice at the bottom for your liquor to feed on and keep it sweet so keep it till the morrow to be through cold ere you put in your brawn and when your brawn is in keep it as coole as you can and twill keep a quarter of a year you may add jamacoe pepper and it will be the better.
413. For Fits.
Take of gentian roots grated as much as will lay on a 6 pence 3 nights before and 3 nights after every change of the moon in 2 or 3 spoonfulls of wine or beer.