The young cooks monitor: or, Directions for cookery and distilling. Being a choice compendium of excellent receipts. Made publick for the use and benefit of my schollars. / By M.H.

To make Syrup of Cowslips.

Take a Gallon of Cowslips, cut off all the whites, then have a quart of Spring-water, which hath boyl'd a quarter of an hour, you must set so much water on the Fire, as to have a quart, when it is boyl'd so long, then put the Flowers into a new well Glass'd Pipkin, and pour the water boyling hot upon them, and set the Pipkin on hot Embers to keep hot six hours, then set it by till the next day, then set it on the Fire till it is ready to boyl, then squeeze out the Flowers very hard, and then put in as many Flowers as before, and set it on hot Embers as before, and then let it stand till the next day, then heat it again, and when hot take it off the Fire, and squeeze out the Flowers, and to every pint of this Liquor put two pound of good Sugar, set it on the Fire and

keep it stirring till you see the Scum do rise, and then take it from the fire, Scum it clean, and set it on again, and see if any Scum will rise more, and Skim it clean, but do not let it boyl, for then it will be apt to Candy, when cold Bottle it, and stop it, but not too close, and keep it for your use.