To Make a Perfumed water

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Title

To Make a Perfumed water

Transcript

To Make a Perfumed water

Rx lavander tops 2 handfulls Bassell 2 handfulls sweet-margerom 3 handfulls Costmary; handfull bay Leaves 2 handfulls half a peck of pinks; bushill of Damaske roses pick these herbs clean from the stalks & lay them in steep in a Vessiell with a pottell of sack 12 houers in a Clean Earthen pot with these powders flowing storan 2 ounces Benjaman 2 ounces Orispouder 4 damask pdr one ounce Callamus one ounce Gallingall one ounce Cloves 2 ounces make a small bage & put muske & Civit in it put the nose of the still in to the bag, so lett the watter drop through the bag

Contributor

Caylor, Karmen
Le, Vincent

Source

Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Publisher

George Mason University Libraries

Rights

Public domain. There are no known restrictions.