[Sca-cooks] Re: Repost: Beeswax hand cream?

[Louise Smithson]

I knew I had seen this somewhere.
Taken from the Widowes Treasure, printed by Edward
Alde for Edward White 1588 at London.

To make the Oyntment of Roses
Take oyle of roses foure ounces, white waxe one ounce,
melte them together over seething water, then chafe
them together with Rosewater and a little white
vinegar.

Of course now you need to know how to make oil of
roses:

To make oyle of Roses
Take oyle washed eighteene ounces, the buddes of Roses
the white endes of them cut away thre ounces, lay the
Roses abroad in shadow foure and twenty howres, then
put them in a Glasse to the oyle, and stop the glasse
close and set it in the sunne at least forty dayes.

And how did they wash the oil?

The manner how to washe the oyle
Take and put it into a Bason of faire water, and heate
it well with your hande that the drosse may fall
downe, then take of that parte which remaineth above
on the water with a spoone, and put the same oyle into
an other bason of faire water and wash it as you did
before, and so purifie it three or four times.

Regular s substituted for long s throughout.
Hope this helps
Helewyse de Birkestad


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