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To Preserve Apricoks

Take your apricocks before they be full ripe slit them in half then
pare them make a Surrup with sugar to every pound of sugar
put no more water then will just melt the Sugar set it over the
fire till it be Melted keep it sturing & [scwmed] then take it & put in
your Apricoks with the flatt sides downward when your surrup is
almost Cold set them over a very quick fire that they may boil very
fast not [...] then take them off & let them stand till they are almost
cold then turn the round sides down & put them over a quick
fire again let them boil as fast as possible but a little while then
take them off & let them stand as before then turn them and let
them boil a little then take them off & put them as you can put
half cover together take them clean from the surrup & give your
syrrup a little more boiling & so pour it upon your Apricoks
let these stand in a room where fire is but not two near these
must be done in a broad Puter dish that will hold so many as
you please to do at a time they must be donewith the best sugar

A receit To Cure a Cough of the Lungs

too ounces of fox lungs in powder too ounces of alicompain
roots in powder 4 ounces of whight sugar candy in powder six
peny worth of lyquorish powder & grated nutmeg mix them
together & take a spoonfull in [...] of bear & take every morning
and fast an hour

To make Almond Butter

Take a quart of cream fore score Almonds blanched & beaten
very small with 2 spoonfull of oringe flower watter mix your
Cream & Almonds together & set it over the fire & let them boil
till it be as thick as Pap keeping it stiring all the while then
take the yolks of 2 eggs well beaten mix your eggs & cream well
together then take if off & set it by till you use it if it stand 10
days it is the beeter then take off the top & sweeten it to your
taste so beat it up