A closet for ladies and gentlevvomen. or, The art of preseruing, conseruing, and candying With the manner hovve to make diuers kinds of syrups: and all kind of banqueting stuffes. Also diuers soueraigne medicines and salues, for sundry diseases.

To Candie Eringus rootes.

TAke your Eringus ready to be pre∣serued, and weigh them, and to e∣uery pound of your rootes, you must take of the purest suger you can get, Page  20 two pound, and clarifie it with the whites of egges exceeding well, that it may be as cleere as Christall: for then it will be very commendable: it being clarified, you must boyle it to the height of Manus Christi, & then dippe in your rootes, two or three at once, till they be all candied, and so put them in a Stow, and keepe them all the yeare.