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A Book of Fruits and Flowers by Anonymous
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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,
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