℞ the Juyce of Lemmons or Pomegranates, depurated in the sun, and trajected thorow a woollen strainer lb v. white sugar lb iij. boyl them gently to the consistency of a syrupe.
The COMMENTARY.
These two Syrupes are joyntly described, because their Prepara∣tions are one, the proportion of sugar to their succes the same, and their faculties similar and affine. Some coct the sugar to the con∣sistence of a solid Electuary: whereupon, they affund their limpid succe, agitate it with a Spatula, and by gentle coction reduce it to a Syrupe. And this preparation is good: for thus the faculty of the succes is not obtunded by the fire, but preserved whole and entire: others elixate the succes to the consumption of their third part, and thereupon affund a simple Julep, and coct them into a Syrupe.
Some take the succes, and dilute them in twice as much sugar, and withall califie them together, that they may better become a Sy∣rupe: and the Syrupe thus confected, will keep best, and hath a ve∣ry idoneous consistence. So the succes be acid enough, it may also be made by insolation, without fire, by the addition of more sugar: But the method prescribed, is the easiest, shortest, and best way of making it, and most in use.
Syrupe of Oranges, and many other fruits, may also be thus con∣fected.