HERB - linen waters/spray

[Jenne Heise]

A couple of period linen waters recipes:

Jeanne Rose quotes a 'Sweet Water for Perfuming Clothes' which she says is
a sixteenth-century recipe: 

     "To 1 qt. rose water, add the following: 1/2 oz. lavender, 2 oz.
orris, 1/2 oz. jasmine flowers, 1 t.
     musk, a pinch of ambergris and civet, 5 drops of clove oil. Put it
all into a glass jar, fasten down
     the lid, and place it in a sunny window for 10 days. Then strain and
set aside the liquid for use."

>From Bulleins Bulwarke, 1562 (quoted by Jacqueline Heriteau, in Potpourris
and other Fragrant Delights):

Sixteenth-Century Sweet Water for Linens 

     Three pounds of Rose water, cloves, cinnamon, Sauders [sandalwood], 2
handful of the flowers
     of Lavender, lette it stand a moneth to still in the sonne, well
closed in a glasse; Then destill it in
     Balneo Marial. It is marvellous pleasant in savour, a water of
wondrous swetenes, for the bedde,
     whereby the whole place, shall have a most pleasaunt scent.

>From Hugh Platt's Delights for Ladies, 1594 (quoted by Jacqueline
Heriteau, in Potpourris and other
Fragrant Delights) 

     To make a special sweet water to perfume clothes in the folding being
washed. Take a quart of
     Damaske-Rose-Water and put it into a glasse, put unto it a handful of
Lavender Flowers, two
     ounces of Orris, a dram of Muske, the weight of four pence of
Amber-greece [ambergris], as
     much Civet, foure drops of Oyle of Clove, stop this close, and set it
in the Sunne a fortnight: put
     one spoonfull of this Water into a bason of common water and put it
inot a a glasse and so
     sprinkle your clothes therewith in your folding: the dregs, left in
the bottome (when the water is
     spent) will make as much more, if you keepe them, and put fresh Rose
water to it.


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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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