The Queens closet opened incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented unto the queen / by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations.

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The Queens closet opened incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented unto the queen / by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations.
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London :: Printed for Nath. Brooke,
1659.
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Recipes.
Medicine, Popular.
Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Queens closet opened incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented unto the queen / by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52209.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.

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To make Paste of Genoa Citrons.

Take Citrons, and boil them in their skins then scrape all the pulp from the coar, strain it through a piece of Cushi∣on Canvas, take twice the weight of the Pulp in Sugar, put to it twice as much water as will melt it, that is half a pint to every pound of Sugar, boil it to a candy height; dry the Pulp upon a Chafing dish of Coales, then put

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the Syrup and the Pulp hot together, boil it with stirring until it will lie upon a Pie-plate, set it in a warm stone Oven upon two Billets of wood, from the heat of the Oven, all one night, in the morn∣ing turn it, and set it in the like heat a∣gain, so turn it every day till it be dry.

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