A book of simples.

Date:
[1908]
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Credit: A book of simples. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    herbs fruits or flowers into your lugar your fruit muft be fpent but your herbs and flowers will keep all the year. 347. ‘To prejerve Chyna Oranges. Take what quantity you pleafe of chyna oranges and with a fmaller grater grate o^f the yellow peel (the deepefl; and ripefl: oranges do beft and cleareft) let your grater be very clean elfe it will change the colour, and take great care you grate not to deep and as you grate them put them in water or they will turn blackifh and when you have done them all wafh them in 2 or 3 waters and have a kettle of clear water to fet them over the fire for a quarter of an hour let them boyle in this firfl: water then have another kettle of water boyling and fhift them into it fo fhifting them into frefh kettles of boyling waters 5 or 6 times fo boyling them till they be fo tender as a ftraw may go through them then take them and with a penknife cut out a round piece in the bottome and keep it to go in again, after you have firfl: taken out all the feeds very clean with your little finger and preferved them and are going to pot them up then only you muft; put in the piece you cut out as a Stople to them you muft weigh them when they are boyled and to every pound of orange you muft take 2 pound and a half of double refined fugar and to every pound of fugar you may put almoft half a pint of fair water, divide your fugar into 3 parts then take one part and put into all the quantity of water ftir it together in a great Skellet and fet it on the fire and let it boyle a little and Scumme it clear then take it off the fire and let it be pretty coole then put in your oranges and fet them on a foft fire and let them not boyle but fimber a little while then take them off the fire puting your oranges into a pot and then pour on the firrop to them and let them ftand 3 days then take the oranges