22 To Conserve Cowslips.
Gather your flowers in the midst of the day, when all dew is off them: cut off all the white, leaving none but the yellow blossomes of them so picked and cut before they wither; weigh out ten ounces, taking to every ten oun∣ces of them (or greater proportions, if you please) eight ounces of the best refined sugar in fine powder: put the sugar into a pan, and candy it, with as little water as you can: then taking it off the fire, put in your flowers by little and little, never ceasing to stir them til they be dry and enough: then put them into Glasses or Gally-pots, and keep them dry for your use. These are rather candied then con∣served Cowslips.