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To candy Eringus.

TAke of your roots new gathered, and clean washed from the sand, four pound, then set on your water in a clean Vessell so as you will cover your roots, and when the water is boiling put in the root and colour the same, let them boil untill your root be ••ender, then take out the pith and pill them, lay them upon a hairing searce until the water be drained away, and the root dry, then take six pound of fine Sugar, beat it in a mor∣ter and put it in your pan, with two pints of fair Rosewater, and stir it throughly with a rod of dryed birch, or such like, then have in readiness the Whites of four Eggs well beaten, and mixt with Rosewater, still well wrought with the rod, and when the Sugar is dissolved, then put in your Whites, then labour it again with the rod upon a soft fire, let it boil until it be clean, strain it through a wooden strainer, and then boil it, in the boi∣ling put in your roots, and take them off and skum them, set it on again to boil, and oft in the boiling take them off, to the end they may take in the syrrup the better, when they be boiled e∣nough take them off and set them by, being clean scummed un∣till they be almost cold, then put them in your pots, and after a while take them out and dry them, if they stand in some warm place, it is the better three daies together, if they be candyed, dissolve them, setting the pot in warm water, and lay them on clean boards, and dry them in a Stove without smoak.

Mr. Birch.