Take tongues par-boyled cut the roots and hard all off then to 4 pound
of meat take 8 pound of the best sewit cut the tongues in little square
pieces like dice then shred it fine do the sewit the same then put it
to the meat by degrees and stir it lightly to keep it from lumping then
chop meat and sewit together & sift it through a fine split sive save
the lumps that remain behind chop them again and sift them as before
till all are gone to this proportion of meat and sewit take half an
ounce of nutmegs half an ounce of cinnamon almost as much mace half a
quarter of an ounce of cloves beat the spice all but the nutmegs very
fine then sift it through a sive as you strain water grewel through let
your sive be very dry that done and your meat ready then put in your
spice and salt to your taste 2 pound and a half of the best raisons of
the Sun Stoned and shred as fine as can be dates half a pound shred
as fine as the raisons, cittern above a quarter of a pound, a quarter
of a pound of canded lemon not quite a quarter of a pound of canded
oringe shred them but not so fine as the rest 10 or a dozen of the
best pippins par’d and shred as fine as can be but neither pare nor
shred them till just you put them into y^r meat then rub in everything
severally into your meat & well without clodding have 4 pound of
the best currants clean wash’d pick’d and dryed 2 pound of Sugar or
something better beat fine a quarter of a pint of the best rose water
of the best canary a pint and a quarter, 3 quarters of a pint of the
best verges lay more sliced cittern on the top of the pyes if you keep
any of the meat by to make up after the first time stir it well every
day & do not put in the juice of Lemon for it will not do well to stand
in long you must mingle your Sack rosewater & verges together then turn
up your meat and sprinkle it in by degrees y^t all the meat may fare
alike & not Lump to this quantity you may put the juice of 2 lemons but
not to stand in longer then just while you make y^m up.
484. _An excellent Water for ye Head & for Sleep called ye Emperour
Charleses Water._
When roses are blown, take a quart of good aquavite in a glass with a
narrow neck and when the roses are half blown take a handfull of the
leaves without ye seed put them into the glass and when the marioran
bloweth & the Apiastrum take then a handfull of their buds chop them
small and put them into the glass Take also cloves nutmegs cinnamon
mace cardamum of each an ounce & a half bruise all these grossly and
put it in the glass and when the lavender and rosemary are blown add
a handfull of each flowers also shake them well together and stop it
close let it stand 10 days in a hot sun it must be used by anointing
the temples and nostrells it fortifieth and Corroborateh the head and
memory.