Take of the poppie flowers pluck them from the stalks then sift y^m
from the seeds and weigh out 4 pounds then steep them in 3 gallons of
strong ale and with them half a pound of liquorish and half a pound
of annyseeds and let them steep a whole night then distill them in
your limbeck the first runing will be very strong the second somewhat
smaller when you have drawn a quart or 2 then take 2 handfulls of
poppie flowers being pickt and sift’d and let them lye in the water 5
or 6 days till it comes to the colour of a peal claret wine and upon
any indisposition of the stomach sickness or surffit 5 or 6 spoonfuls
of this is very cordiall the 2 quarts will be strong and you must
strain out the leaves after 5 or 6 days. Probatum est.