Take oranges or lemons large and well colour’d and with a little grater
grate off the very outside and deep colour then lay them in water 3 or
4 days then boyle them very tender shifting your water 3 times but let
your water be hot which you shift them with in boyling to take away
their bitterness from them and when they be very tender then take them
out into some earthen dish and with a penknife cut a little hole in the
top and take out all the kernells, then take to every pound of oranges
a pound and half of good loafe sugar and to every pound of Sugar half a
pint of fair water and breake your sugar and mix it with your quantity
off water and boyle it to a pretty sirrop then take it off the fire and
when it is between hot and cold put in your oranges and let them simber
a little but not boyle to fast, for fast boyling will make them hard
and tough then put orange and sirrop together in a pot and let them
stand 3 days then take out the oranges again and put some more Sugar
into the Sirrop & boyle it something thicker and scumme it clean and
when it is almost cold put in your oranges again and then set them on a
soft fire as before leting them only simber half an hour and then put
them up for 3 days more and the 3^d or 4^{th} day do likewise as before
to take out the oranges again and let y^m simber another half hour then
take them off the fire and put your oranges first in your pot you will
keep them in then pour the sirrop on them and let them stand till they
be cold then tie them up to keep.