The compleat housewife: or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of several hundred of the most approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month in the year. : To which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, &c. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such publick-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbors.
Smith, E. (Eliza), d. ca. 1732.
To make Syrup of Garlick.
TAKE two Heads of Garlick, peel it clean and boil it in a Pint of Water a pretty while, then put a|way that Water and put a Pint more to your Garlick, and boil it till the Garlick is tender; then straining it off, add a Pound of double refin'd Sugar to it, and boil it in Silver or Tin till 'tis a thick Syrup; scum it well, and keep it for Use; and take a Spoonful in a Morning lasting, another last at Night, for a short Breath.
