To Make Mrs Fleetwoods Surfeit Watter
Item
Title
To Make Mrs Fleetwoods Surfeit Watter
Date
en
1694/1795
Transcript
To Make Mrs Fleetwoods Surfeit Watter
[inserted left: fo th 39] Rx 6 pound of Rasins of the Sun stone them 4 pound of figes Slise them 2 pound of dates shreed 8 ounces of liquoorist scrapt & sliced halfe an ounce of Cinnamon as much of - Mace & Cloves bruies these Spices & let them all infuse in 3 Gallons of Aquavite & [strikeout] 3 Gallons of Anniseed watter in an Earthen-jar 14 days sturing it once every day then put to it 2 quarts of disstilled popy watter & as much of red rose watter a peck of Clove July Flowers Cut the topes in & as many popy Flowers as will Colour it Claret Colour clean pickt & sifted from the seeds then strain it through a jelly bag let it stand a day & a night then bottell it up you must keep it close coverd all this while Swetten it when you bottell it wth very fine pouder Suger, you may destill the druges and will yield you an Excelent white Surfiet Watter
[inserted left: fo th 39] Rx 6 pound of Rasins of the Sun stone them 4 pound of figes Slise them 2 pound of dates shreed 8 ounces of liquoorist scrapt & sliced halfe an ounce of Cinnamon as much of - Mace & Cloves bruies these Spices & let them all infuse in 3 Gallons of Aquavite & [strikeout] 3 Gallons of Anniseed watter in an Earthen-jar 14 days sturing it once every day then put to it 2 quarts of disstilled popy watter & as much of red rose watter a peck of Clove July Flowers Cut the topes in & as many popy Flowers as will Colour it Claret Colour clean pickt & sifted from the seeds then strain it through a jelly bag let it stand a day & a night then bottell it up you must keep it close coverd all this while Swetten it when you bottell it wth very fine pouder Suger, you may destill the druges and will yield you an Excelent white Surfiet Watter
Subject
raisins See all items with this value
aquavite See all items with this value
anniseed water See all items with this value
distilled poppy water See all items with this value
red rose water See all items with this value
glove gilly flowers See all items with this value
poppy flowers See all items with this value
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.