A daily exercise for ladies and gentlewomen. Whereby they may learne and practice the whole art of making pastes, preserues, marmalades, conserues, tartstuffes, gellies, breads, sucket candies, cordiall vvaters, conceits in sugar-vvorkes of seuerall kindes. As also to dry lemonds, orenges, or other fruits. Newly set forth, according to the now approued receipts, vsed both by honourable and vvorshipfull personages. By Iohn Murrell, professour thereof.

To preserue Damsons.

25 TAke two pounds of the fairest Damsons, and one pound of hard Sugar, halfe a pinte of faire water, set it on the fire vntill it be dissolued in a preseruing pan, lay your Damsons in milke-warme water, and put them into the dissolued Sugar, make a soft fire, and when it beginneth

to boyle: scum it continually an houre long, but let it boile softly vncouered, for breaking the Damsons, then take them out, and lay them in an earthen or siluer dish, and let your sirupe boile a∣lone, and when they be al∣most colde, put them in a∣gaine, and let them boile soft∣ly, vntill the kernell be both sweet and tender, cracke the stone, and trie, then take your Damsons vp, and be∣twixt hot and colde pot them, and put them in glasses.