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To make the Purge of Tartar, what quantity you will, two pound or more.

TAke the best white Tartar, and pound it very smal, and put it into a well glased Pipkin, and boyl it strongly, and skim it continually until there ariseth no skim, then have a good many of broad, and flat milk pans, into which you must pour your boyled Tartar, being clean skimmed as aforesaid, and let them cool, and in the cooling there wil arise a cream upon the top, which take off with a Lanthorn-horn, and within half an hour after you may skim it again, and again, as oft as any cream ariseth, if the water consume put in more cold water, and then put it on upon the fire, and boyl it again, and pour it again in∣to the milk-pans, and skim it as before as oft as any cream ari∣eth, and so boyl it, and skim it in like manner so long as a∣ny cream ariseth, then wash it if you will have it pure, with two or three waters, or else dry it and grind it smal.