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Rh by this means the wine will become very fragrant, and contain the whole virtue of the herb. Wormwood wine, wine of rue, carduus, and such strong physical herbs, may be made by infusion only, in small white wines, cyder, perry, or the like, adding a little sweets to them, that they may be more agreeable to the taste. That of black currants may be made as of other currants, and is very useful in all families.

Wines made of mint, balm, wormwood, rue, &c. resist pestilential air, are good in agues, and cold diseases, prevent fits of the mother, and agues; ease pains in the joints and sinews, cleanse the blood, and frequently prevent apoplexies, epilepsies, and the like; they are not only contain the virtues of the herbs, but greatly strengthen and revive the decay of nature.

Put twelve pounds of fine sugar, and the whites of eight eggs, well beaten, into six gallons of spring water; let it boil an hour, scumming it all the time; take it off, and when it is pretty cool, put in the juice of fifty Seville oranges, and six spoonfuls of good ale yeast, and let it stand two days; then put it in another vessel, with two quarts of rhenish wine, and the juice of twelve lemons; you must let the juice of lemons and wine, and two pounds of double refined sugar, stand close covered ten or twelve hours before you put it into the vessel to your orange wine, and scum off the seeds before you put in. The lemon peels must be put in with the oranges; half the rinds must be put into the vessel;