Take the best sort of gume dragon the weight of 6 pence steep it in a
good spoonfull of rose or orange flower water then beat an egg to froth
and let it stand to settle put the juice of a fair lemon into it and
when it hath stood a while strain it out clear then take a quarter
of a pound of double refined Sugar well sifted put it into a marble
morter with some ambergreese prepared then put in your gum and a little
spoonfull of the pure froth of the egg so grind it altogether now and
then puting in a spoonfull of sugar which you must keep out, if it grow
dry in ye doing put in a drop or 2 of juice of Lemon in a quarter of an
hour they will beat easie sift some sugar on a paper take out the stuff
which must be as thick as pap rowle it with your fingers into what form
you please but first sift Sugar on your paper you bake them on and set
them in the oven when white bread comes forth when they rise they are
enough and when you take them off the papers and your oven cooled set
them in again one night.