Aqua Mirabelis

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Title: Aqua Mirabelis
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for aqua mirabilis ("miracle water"), a medicinal drink, made with aquavit, cloves, mace, ginger, nutmeg,
Transcript: thre quarts of the best white wine one of the best Aqavite, Cloves Mace, Ginger, Nutmeg Galingall, carde Mum Seedes. Each 2 drames, Balm juce, & speremnt juce. Each a pinte, juce of Celendine a quart beat the Spices and mingle these well to gether put thm to the wine & aquavitey, let them stand 24 - houres in an Earthen pot close stoped. thn distill it in a coled filld with a gentle fire Lite your still very close sweten it with fine suger & Dy it with Saferon
Subject: See all items with this value cloves; See all items with this value mace (spice); See all items with this value ginger; See all items with this value nutmeg; See all items with this value sugar; See all items with this value saffron; See all items with this value aquavit; See all items with this value wines; See all items with this value galangal; See all items with this value cardamom; See all items with this value balm (Melissa officinalis); See all items with this value spearmint (Mentha spicata); See all items with this value celandine (Cleome chelidonii)
Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Le, Vincent
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Health and Medicine; Drinks; Health Waters