AN
APPENDIX.
Two years since I began to publish my new invented furnaces where
also there was mention made of some secrets, which though I thought
never to divulge; yet nevertheless I underwent many troubles for the
communicating of them. Wherefore I beseech every body that they would
no more create troubles to me or to themselves by their petitions or
writings, because for certain causes I shall for the future communicate
nothing but those things which follow. Expect therefore patiently
the time of another Edition, when these five parts shall come forth
more corrected and enlarged, and many most choice secrets shall be
communicated, which were for certain causes omitted in the first
Edition.
I shall now God willing communicate those things which follow, yet upon
this condition (because many are such, that by means thereof thou maist
with a good conscience, without hurt to thy neighbour, through Gods
blessing, get great riches) that thou be mindful of the poor, and a
good steward of riches got honestly, and use them to the glory of God
and the eternal salvation of thy soul.
The preparation of corn, as of Barley, Wheat, Oates, _&c._ of Apples,
Pears, Cherries, _&c._, where fermentation being made they do yield
by way of distillation a pure spirit very like to the spirit of wine
without great costs; of the remainders whereof if the matter were corn,
may be made good beer, or vinegar; but if the matter were any kinde of
fruit, as apples, pears, a very good drink like to wine, so that by
this means thou maist find a double profit, by which thou maist not
only have whereby to live honestly, but also to lay up for thy heirs.
An excellent and wholesome drink of fruit, and corn, that is durable
and like to Spanish, French, and Rhenish wine.
A distillation of the _Aqua vitæ_ of certain vulgar things not costly
and like to the _Aqua vitæ_ of French and Rhenish wine.
A preparation of sugar like to the Western, and of tartar like to the
natural Rhenish, out of honey and not costly; where one pound of sugar
doth not exceed the price of eight or ten stivers, and a pound of
tartar, that doth not exceed the price of two stivers.
A peculiar purification of crude tartar without loss, and a reduction
of it into great crystals not costly, so as the price of one pound doth
not exceed six stivers.
The taking away of the ingrateful tast and odour of honey so as
afterwards there may be made from thence a certain good _Aqua vitæ_
retaining no more the smell and taste of honey: also a very good Mead
or Methegline like unto very good wine, with which the same things may
be done as with the best wine.
A preparation of Mead out of raisins, great and small, very like in all
things to Spanish wine; out of which also is made a very good vinegar
without great costs.
A preparation of wine and good vinegar of wild grapes.
Durable and wholesome drinks of gooseberries, barberries, mulberries,
strawberries, and the like.