Saturate a certain quantity of water in a moderate heat, with three
ounces of sugar; and when it will no longer receive that there is still
room in it for two ounces of salt of tartar, and after that for an
ounce and a drachm of green vitriol, nearly six drachms of nitre, the
same of salammoniac, two drachms and a scruple of alum, and a drachm
and a half of borax.