To Candy Orange-flowers Recipe

Take the Flowers full blown, pick the white Leaves, and put them in

Water an Hour or two; then put them into boiling Water, letting them

boil 'till they are tender; then drain them from that Water, and let

them lye in cold Water, 'till you make a Syrup of very fine Sugar,

as much as you think will cover them; to a Pound of Sugar put three

Quarters of a Pint of Water; and when the Syrup is cold, put in the

Leaves, and let them lye all Night; scald them the next Day, and let

them lye in the Syrup two or three Days; then make a Syrup, (if you

have a Pound of the Flowers) with a Pound and Half of fine Sugar and

half a Pint of Water; boil and skim it, and when it is cold, drain

the Flowers from the thin Syrup, and put them in the Thick; let them

lye two or three Days; then make them just hot, and in a Day or two

more lay them out on Glasses: Spread them very thin, sift them with

fine Sugar, and put them in a Stove: Four or five Hours will dry

them on one Side; then scrape them on Paper with the wet Side

uppermost, and set them in the Stove 'till they are almost dry; then

pick them asunder, and let them be in a Stove 'till they are quite

dry: You may put some of them in Jelly, if you like it.