CHAP. XLI. Our Sirrup of a Capon, that is made with Consumato.
THis Sirrup is a restorative of great vertue, never seen or heard of before, and is of such vertue that it is able to su∣stain a sick person many dayes without taking any other meat, because it is of flesh and blood, for the flesh sustain∣eth the flesh, and the blood sustaineth the blood, and the or∣der to make it is thus.
Take a great fat Capon that is well-fleshed, and pull it while it is alive, and take forth onely the gutts and the belly, and when he is dead, stamp it in a Morter grossely, and put it in a distilling glasse with twentie pound of good white wine, and ℥. ss. of Salt, and four ounces of Sugar, and ℥. ss. of Cin∣namon, then distill it in Balneo untill the two thirds be con∣sumed, then keep that which is distilled, and that which re∣mained in the glasse strain through a cloth, and presse out all the juyce of the flesh with a Presse, then passe all that through a filter, and then with Sugar make it in form of a Sirrup, but boil it not too much, then put therein that which ye distilled from the Capon, and aromatise it with Cinnamon half a dram, Saffron one scruple, Musk four grains, Rosewater ℥. ii. then keep it in a glasse close stopped, and this hath no dose, be∣cause it is taken onely to sustain a weak nature; you may p••t