Take five gallons of Spring water put it into an earthen pot put to it
a bushell of pickt cowslips flowers and to them 20 pound of malligoe
raisons waished and shred stir them altogether, keep it close cover’d
with a sheet and blanket, let it stand as y^e fire may come to it, but
not to hot, keep it 9 days often stiring it in a day then Strain it
through a hair sive put it in a runlet it will be ready to drink in 14
days.