Grate your quinces and strain them in a corse strainer and strain your
juice through a flanin to every gallon of juice take a pound of fine
sugar Stir it untill your sugar be melt’d then put it into a barrel and
bottle it after 24 hours.
52. _Captain Greens Powder for to make Water for Sore Eyes and Sores,
the Powder to be Calcinde._
Take 4 ounces of vitriol and one ounce of camphire after it is finely
beaten with an almond shake it lightly into a black earthen pot well
glazed, then shake the vitriol after it is finely beaten and search’d
and shake it in lightly upon the top of the camphire and set it in a
deep chafing dish and keep as soft a fire as can be possible about
it and let it stand there till it be first dissolved to a water and
then to a hard stone you must take care it do not smoke for y^t will
spoil the camphire as soon as the camphire is melt’d that the vitriol
is sunke down then cover it with a paper and a saucer upon that with
a weight, and continue to keep a soft fire under it till it be turn’d
to a stone and then take off the pot and let it alone till the next
day and then you must break the pot to gett it out, and when out you
must beat and search it very fine, and when it is as fine as you can
possible make it then bake 4 ounces of bole armeniack and beat again
with it till they be well mingled together, then weigh it into half
ounces, and every half ounce will make a quart of water, an ale quart
for eyes and a wine quart for sores the bole Armeniack must be finely
beaten and search’d before it is mingl’d with the other.