Take equal parts of cloves, ginger, and fowers of rosemary, infuse them in very good wine the space of eight days: distil the whole. This water comforteth the stomacke, assuageth the pains and wringings of the belly, killeth worms, and maketh fat folk to becom leane, or maketh fat the leane, if they drink it mixt with sugar.

The first is an extract from which cordials and liqueurs could be made. The second and third recipes are liqueurs distilled from various herbs and spices steeped in wine in a similar fashion to the recipe from Maison Rustique above. The last recipe in this section is a sweet cordial, made from the liqueur in the third recipe, further infused with other spices and sweetened with sugar. Please note that a 'white sugar candy', is called for. Yes, this is yet another example of sugar specifically called for in a period recipe.

Distill with a gentle heat either in balneo, or ashes, the strong and sweet water, wherewith you have drawen oile of cloves, mace, nutmegs, Juniper, Rosemarie, &c. after it hath stood one moneth close stopt, and so you shall purchase a delicate Spirit of each of the said aromaticall bodies.

Macerate Rosemarie, Sage, sweet Fennel seeds,Marjerom, Lemmon or Orenge pils, &c. in spirits of wine a daie or two, and then distill it over againe, unless you had rather have it in his proper colour: for so you shall have it upon the first infusion without any farther distillation: and some young Alchymists doe hold these for the true spirits of vegetables.

Take a gallo of Gascoign wine, of ginger, galingale, cinamon, nutmegs & graines, Annis seeds, Fennel seeds, and carroway seeds, of each a dram; of Sage, mints, red Roses, thyme,Pellitory, Rosemary, wild thyme, camomil,lavender, of each a handfull, bray the spices small, and bruise the herbs, letting them macerate 12 houres, stirring it now & then, then distill by a limbecke of pewter keeping the first cleare water that cometh, by it selfe, and so likewise the second. You shall draw much about a pinte of the better fort from everie gallon of wine.

Take of muske sixe graines, of Cinamon and ginger of each one ounce, white sugar cany one pound, powder the sugar, and bruse the spices grossely, binde them up in a cleane linnen cloth, and put them to infuse in a gallon of Aqua composita in a glasse close stopped twenty foure houres, shaking them togither divers times, then put thereto of turnsole one dram, suffer it to stand one houre, and then shake altogether, then if the colour like you after it is settled, poure the cleerest forth into another glasse: but if you will have it deeper coloured, suffer it to worke longer upon the turnsole.