Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	beat_v	put_v	sugar_n	3,307	5	10.5618	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34122	The Belgick, or, Netherlandish hesperides that is, the management, ordering, and use of the limon and orange trees, fitted to the nature and climate of the Netherlands / by S. Commelyn ; made English by G.V.N.; Nederlantze Hesperides. English	Commelin, Johannes, 1629-1692.; G. V. N.	1683 (1683)	Wing C5544; ESTC R16507	51,718	210

Tree as well for Delight as for necessary Use The Leaves are good for a broken or bruised Shin and heals it when they are laid on fresh twice a Day these Leaves chewed in the Mouth cause a sweet Breath There is a Water Distilled of Orange Blossoms which is of a pleasant Smell and is useful for many things in Physick chiefly to cause Sweating to strengthen the Heart and many Distempers more whereof the Writings of Physitians and Herbalists are full To make this Water the Orange Blossoms shall be gathered in the Morning before the Sun hath Shone on them and Distilled in a Pewter Still with a slow Fire that they may not in the least be Burnt for this Distilling must only be done by Steaming out whereby we shall get though but a little yet nevertheless a very Pleasant and strong Water Ye may likewise if ye desire a greater Quantity Distil them in a Limbeck but then the Water shall not smell so Sweet The Blossoms of Orange Trees are very good to be laid in a Chest of clean Linnen to give it a pleasant Smell But to draw Oyl out of the Blossoms by Distillation is not well possible here in these Countries because the abundance which is hereunto required is too great for six hundred Pounds do scarce yield two or three Ounces Yet that we may not be wholy deprived of this pleasant Smell here is afterward Taught how we shall Prepare this another way To make an Extraction with Brandy from the Orange Blossoms take to every Pint two Ounces of Blossoms set them in the Sun to Distil fourteen Days long and use thereof a spoonful together against many several cold Distempers and Aills and especially against the Cholick or shrinking of the Guts To Preserve these Blossoms in Sugar which is commonly called Confiting they shall be gathered just before they open and boiled in clean rain-Rain-Water till they be soft and have in part lost their Bitterness after boyl the Sugar to a convenient thickness of a Syrop and pour the same after it is well Purifyed with Whites of Eggs and thoroughly Clear warm upon the Blossoms and let them stand cooling together if the Syrop be too thin or becomes so afterwards ye must boil the same again to its convenient Thickness that the Blossoms may be kept and preserved the better This is a most excellent Remedy against bad Airs foul and stinking Vapours and also an excellent Dainty Furthermore of Orange Blossoms there are made Pastilli or little Balls after this following Fashion Take fifty Blossoms which are quite open pluck them off by the Stalk that ye may not touch the Leaves as little as is possible that the Sent may not be spoiled cut the Leaves with Scissers very small one by one To this take a pound of the best Loaf-Sugar-Candy that may be got beat the same fine and put them in a little brass Bason and add three Ounces distilled Water of Orange Blossoms thereunto stir it with a Spatula till it be mingled together which then set upon Coals thoroughly kindled and let it boil leisurly till when taken up between your Fingers it begins to stick to them as it were with fine small Threds then take it from the Fire and put the clean cut Orange Blossoms into the boyled Sugar stirring the same together with a Spatula till it be well mixed then take a Board of hard Wood which is full of little hollow Places and strow it thick with fine beaten Sugar then fill all the holes full with a silver Spoon of this mingled Syrop which when cold and then taken out the Sugar which hangs about them must be taken off with a Knife from these little Balls and then you have Pastilli which are very Good Pleasant and Useful for many things especially to strengthen the Heart and against all Faintings They are also a good Means against all bad unhealthful and pestilential Airs the same melted in Rose-Water or Sorrel-Water are very usefully Taken and Used with Benefit in all malignant Agues and other Sicknesses which have their Original from Cold. There is yet an Oyl made of these Blossoms on this manner Take Nuts of Egypt Pistaches or for want of them sweet Almonds the newer the better press the Oyl out of them but without Fire that it may keep Sweet the longer then take white and purified Cotton which is free from all Spots foul or musty Sent otherwise it must be made Clean on this manner following viz. It must be soaked in a Pot of strong Brine till all bad Scents be drawn out of it and being washed again in fresh Water wet it again in the forementioned Oyl yet so that the Oyl doth not drop out of it of it self take then a new Earthen Pot and cover the Bottom with new gathered Orange Blossoms lay thereon a Laying of this oyled Cotton and then Blossoms again and so on a Laying of the one and a Laying of the other till the Pot be filled which then cover close with a Bladder and put it in a dry Place not Cold nor yet too Warm these Blossoms shall be changed every Day taking away the Old and putting in fresh ones instead thereof and that five or six Days one after another and then Squeese or Press the oiled Cotton which Oyl gives a most sweet and pleasant Smell fit to be used in many Perfumes As soon as this hath stood some time the Dirt and Waterishness being setled and the Oyl Clarified from it and become clear you may use it as your Occasion serves This kind of Oyl of Orange Blossoms is taken out of Ferrarius who had Learned it of one Franciscus Dagus and hath been made several times by others according to this Prescript and is found very Good The same Author Relates yet another much shorter Way after this manner Take a Pound of Oyl of Nuts of Egypt Pistaches or of sweet Almonds new pressed a Pound of Orange Blossoms pick off the Leaves of them which only must be used beat them in a stone Mortar put them in a glass-Bottle and pour the Oyl on them and having stood three or four Days strain the Oyl from the Blossoms through an hairy Strainer and part it from the watry Moisture which is mixt therewith throw the old Blossoms away and put in fresh ones and that to the third time then separate and draw off your Oyl and make it clear to Perfume Gloves and other things The same may be done with the Blossoms of Gessamines There is also a Salve made of Orange Blossoms Take white Wax Sperma-Caeti of each an Ounce melt them over a soft Fire and being taken off put to it of our above mentioned Oyl of Orange Blossoms as much as is convenient which shall be stirred together with a Spatula or little Ladle till it be well mixt together and cold It shall be cooled as soon as is possible that through too much Heat the Oyl