Take a gallon of Spring water a handfull of lavender flowers and as
many pinks 3 handfulls of damaske roses as much sweet marjerum the
peels of 6 oranges 12 cloves bruise all these and put to them one ounce
of orrise powder 4 ounces of benjamin powdered put all in a rose stille
and draw off the first quart by its self and then a pint you may draw
after another water from the lees which will serve for present use but
not keep put into your quart bottle 12 penny worth of muske and into
your pint bottle six pennyworth tyed up in a piece of sersnet and a
little ginger sliced very thin about as much as will lay on a half
crown, 2 or 3 spoonfulls will sweeten a bason of water, Stop it close.
50. _To make Mumme according to the Direction recorded in the Town
House of Brumswick._
Take a vessel containing 63 gallons the water must be first boyled to
y^e consumption of a 3^d part at least let it then be brew’d according
to the act with 7 bushells of wheat malt one bushel of oat malt and
one bushel of ground beans and when it is tunn’d let not the hogshead
be to much filled at first, when it begins to work put to it of the
inner rine of firr trees 3 pounds of y^e tops of firs and birtch of
each one pound of cardus benedictus dryed 3 good handfulls of the
flowers of rosasolis 2 good handfulls, of burnet, betony marjorum
avens pennyroyall, elderflowers, wild time, of each a handfull and
a half, seeds of cardomum bruised 3 ounces, bay berries bruis’d one
ounce put the seeds in y^e vessel when the liquor hath wrought a while
with the herbs alone and after they are aded let the liquor worke over
the vessel as little as may be, fill it up to the top, and when ’tis
to be stop’d up, put into the vessel ten new laid eggs ye shells not
broken nor crackt then stop it very carefully and at 2 years end drink
of it, if it be transported by sea tis better. Dr Egidius Hofman adds
water creases brooke lime and wild parsley, 6 handfulls of horsraddish
scraped in every hogshead, and it was observed that the mumme in w^{ch}
y^e horsraddish was put did drink with more quickness then that which
had none.