The marrow of physicke, or, A learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body being a medicamentary, teaching the manner and way of making and compounding all such oyles, unguents ... &c. as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... : and also an addition of divers experimented medicines which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body : together with some rare receipts for beauties ... / collected and experimented by the industry of T.B.

To dry Apricocks very Orient and cleare.

16 Take Apricocks which be not over ripe, take out the Stones, put them into as much clarified Sugar as will cover them; boyle them leasurely often stirring them, then take them off the fire, and let them stand all the night in the Sirrup, the next day warme them againe in that Sirrup; when they be through hot, set them to draine, then take another fresh Sugar, and boyl it a little higher; boyle them in it leasurely, and turne them now and then, and scumme them; so let them stand untill the next day in that Sirrup; then warme them throughly, and lay them again to dry: take the third fresh Sugar, boyle it to a Candie height, put in your Apricocks to that hot Sugar, boyle them, now and then taking them off to skumme them: your Sugar being boyled to a Candie height, take out your Apri∣cocks, lay them upon a faire board: then put them into

a warme Oven, the next day turne them, and put them againe into an Oven; within one weeke they will be dry, and as yellow as gold.