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A Book of Fruits and Flowers by Anonymous
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Whatsoever you have Preserved, either Hearbs, Fruits, or
Flowers, take them out of the Syrupe, and wash them in warm
water, and dry them well, then boyle the _Sugar_ to the height of
Candy, for Flowers, and draw them through it, then lay them on
the bottome of a Sive, dry them before the fire, and when they
are enough, box them for your use. This is that the _Comfet-makers_
use and call _Sucket Candy_.

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_Of Grapes_.


_Syrupe Gresta, or a Syrupe of Unripe Grapes_.

Take a good basket full of unripe _Grapes_, set them three dayes
in a vessel after they be gathered, stamp them, and straine out
the juice out of them, take thereof six quarts, boyle it with a
soft fire till the third part be consumed then four quarts will remaine,
let that run through a woollen bagge, and stand till it be
clear in it selfe, then take of the clearest of it, seven pints, put
thereto five pound of Clarified _Sugar_, boyle them together to the
thicknesse of a Syrupe, and keep it in a glasse; it is good for a
perbreaking stomach, proceeding of Choller, and for a swelling
stomach, it taketh away thirst and drynesse, and chollerick _Agues_,
it is of great comfort to the stomach of Women being with child,
it is a preservative against all manner of Venome, and against the
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