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 preserve Quinces.

2 Take Quinces, and wipe them cleane, and coare them into a faire platter, that you may save the seeds; then take cleare Conduit water, and put it into a faire Earthen pot that is somewhat broad in the bottome, that the Quinces may lie one by one; then put in your Quinces with the Kernels, and Ielly about them, but no part of the Coares, for it will make the Sirrup bitter; then set them on the fire, and let them seethe gently till the Quinces be soft, and breake not; then take them out, and lay them in a faire dish, and when they are cold pare them, but let the Kernels, and the Water seethe a while after the Quinces are out; then take the Water, and straine it cleane from the Kernels, and to every pound of Quinces put a pinte of that Water, and a pound of fine beaten Sugar, and put the Sugar into the Liquor, and stir it well untill the Sugar be melted; then let it seethe, and when it hath sodden a while, and is scummed, put in your Quinces, and let them seethe ve∣ry softly a good while till they be red, for with long seething they will be red of themselves; you must turn them often that they may be all of one colour, and when you thinke they be red enough, skin them cleane, and when they be cold, put them up.