Lady Monmouth's Treacle Water

Take three ounces of hartshorn, shaved, and boiled in borage water, or succory, wood-sorrel, or respice water, or three pints of any of these waters boiled to a jelly, and put the jelly and hartshorn both into the still. Add a pint more of these waters when put into the still. Take the root of elecampane, gentian, cypress, tuninsil, of each an ounce; blessed thistle, called carduus, and angelica, of each an ounce; sorrel-roots, two ounces ; balm, sweet marjoram, and burnet, of each half a handful; lily-convally flowers,borage, bugloss, rosemary, and marigold flowers, of each two ounces; citron rinds, carduus seeds, citron seeds, alkermes berries, and cochineal, each of these an ounce. Prepare all these simples thus : Gather the flowers as they come in season, and put them in glasses with a large mouth. Put with them as much good sack as will cover them, and tie up the glasses close with bladders wet in the sack, with a cork and leather upon that, adding more flowers and sack. Put cochineal into a pint bottle, with half a pint of sack, and tie it up close with a bladder under the cork, and another on the top, wet with sack. Then cover it up close with leather, and bury it, standing upright in a bed of hot horse dung, nine or ten days. Then look at it, and if it is dissolved, take it out of the dung, but do not open it till it is distilled. Slice all the roots, beat the seeds and berries, and put them into another glass. Put no more sack among them than necessary; and when intended to distil, take a pound of the best Venice treacle, and dissolve it in six pints of the best white wine, and three of red rose water. Put all the ingredients together, stir them, and distil them in a glass still.

Lavender Water

Put a quart of water to every pound of lavender neps, put them into a cold still, and make a slow fire under it. Distil it off very slowly, and put it into a pot till all the water is distilled. Then clean the still well out, and put the lavender water into it, and distil it off as slowly as before. Put it into bottles, and cork it well.

Walnut Water

Bruise well in a large mortar a peck of fine green walnuts, put them into a pan, with a handful of balm bruised, and two quarts of good French brandy. Cover them close, and let them lie three days. Then distil them in a cold still; and from this quantity draw three quarts.

Aqua Mirabilis

Take cubebs, cardamums, galingal, cloves, mace, nutmegs, and cinnamon, of each two drachms, and bruise them small. Then take a pint of the juice of celandine, half a pint of the juice of spearmint, and the same quantity of the juice of balm; flowers of melilot, cowslip, rosemary, borage, bug-loss, and marigold, of each three drachms ; seeds of fennel, coriander, and carraway, of each two drachms; two quarts of the best sack, and a quart of white wine; brandy, the strong-est angelica water, and rose water, of each a pint. Bruise the spices and seeds, and steep them, with the herbs and flowers, in the juices, waters, sack, white wine, and brandy, all night. In the morning, distil it in a common still pasted up, and from this quantity draw off a gallon at least. Sweeten it to the taste with sugarcandy, then bottle it up, and keep it in a cool place.