20. _Cowslip Wine aproved._

Take 3 gallons of fair water put to it the best of powder Sugar or Loaf

Sugar 6 pound boyle it together half an hour or better, and as the

Scumme riseth take it off then pour it forth and set it a cooleing

and when ’tis almost cold take a spoonfull or better of good barm beat

it well together with 12 spoonfulls of Sirrup of cittorn or lemons

then put it some of the liquor being almost cold let it stand a while

to rise put in a Gallon of cowslip flowers bruised in a marble morter

into the other liquor the while then put it altogether brewing it up

and down with a dish then let it stand in an earthen pot close covered

with a cloth, to worke 2 or 3 days then strain it forth and put it into

a runlet that will just hold it and when it worketh not over Stop it

close and 3 or 4 weeks after bottle it putting into each bottle a knob

of Loaf Sugar it must not be dranke in a month twill keep good a year.

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