Steevens Aqua composita #2

Ingredients

• a gallon of Gascoign wine
• ginger, galingale, cinamon, nutmegs & graines, Annis seeds, Fennel seeds, and carroway seeds, of each a dram
• Sage, mints, red Roses, thyme, Pellitory, Rosemary, wild thyme, camomil, lavender, of each a handfull

Method

1. Take a gallo of Gascoign wine, of ginger, galingale, cinamon, nutmegs & graines, Annis seeds, Fennel seeds, and carroway seeds, of each a dram; of Sage, mints, red Roses, thyme, Pellitory, Rosemary, wild thyme, camomil, lavender, of each a handfull,
2. bray the spices small, and bruise the herbs, letting them macerate 12 houres, stirring it now & then,
3. then distill by a limbecke of pewter keeping the first cleare water that cometh, by it selfe, and so likewise the second.
4. You shall draw much about a pinte of the better fort from everie gallon of wine.

Notes

• Gives an expected yield of about a pint per gallon.