Take them when they be ripe, stone them, and pare off their rindes very thin, then take halfe as much Sugar as they weigh, finely beaten, and lay them with that Sugar into a silver or earthen dish, laying first a lay of Sugar, and then of Fruit, and let them stand so all night, and in the morning the Sugar will be all melted, then put them into a Skillet, and boyle them apace, scumming them well, and as soon as they grow tender take them off from the fire, and let them stand two dayes in the Syrupe, then take them out, and lay them on a fine plate, and so dry them in a Stove.

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Clear Cakes of Quinces, or Apricocks.

Take of the best Sugar finely beaten and searced, one pound, to a pound of Quinces, or Apricocks, set your Sugar upon a chafin-dish of coales, and dry it above halfe an houre, then cooling it, stir into it a little Musk and Ambergreese finely beaten, and powdered, then pare your Quinces, and boyle them in faire water whole, till they be tender and not covering them for so they will be white; then take them, and scrape off all the Quince to the coare, into a silver dish, and boyle it therein till it grow dry, which you shall perceive by the rising of it up, when it is thus well dryed, take it off, let it coole, and strew on the Sugar, letting some other to strew it, till it be all throughly wrought in, then lay it out on glasses, plates, or prints of Flowers, or letters, an inch thick, or lesse as you please.

The best way to Preserve Apricocks

Take the weight of your Apricocks, what quantity soever you mind to use, in Sugar finely beaten, pare and stone the Apricocks, and lay them in the Sugar, in your preserving pan all night, and in the morning set them upon hot embers till the Sugar be all melted, then let them stand, and scald an hour, then take them off the fire, and let them stand in that Syrupe two dayes, and then boyle them softly till they be tender and well coloured, and after that when they be cold put them up in glasses or pots, which you please.

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Of Lillies.

The use of Oyle of Lillies.

Oyle of Lillies is good to supple, mollifie, and stretch sinews that be shrunk, it is good to annoynt the sides and veines in the fits of the Stone.

To Candy all kinde of Flowers as they grow, with their stalks on.

Take the Flowers, and cut the stalks somewhat short, then take one pound of the whitest and hardest Sugar you can get, put to it eight spoonfulls of Rose water, and boyle it till it will roule between your fingers and your thumb, then take it from the fire, coole it with a stick, and as it waxeth cold, dip in all your Flowers, and taking them out againe suddenly, lay them one by one on the bottome of a Sive; then turne a joyned stoole with the feet upwards, set the sive on the feet thereof, cover it with a faire linnen cloath, and set a chafin-dish of coales in the middest of the stoole underneath the five, and the heat thereof will run up to the sive, and dry your Candy presently; then box them up, and they will keep all the year, and look very pleasantly.