Sack with Clove-gilly flowers #2

Ingredients

• Clove-gillyflowers, wiped and cut — a good half pound to every gallon of Sack
• Sack

Method

1. Prepare your Gillyflowers, as is said before, and put them into great double glass-bottles, that hold two gallons a piece, or more; and put to every gallon of Sack, a good half pound of the wiped and cut flowers, putting in the flowers first, and then the Sack upon them.
2. Stop the glasses exceeding close, and set them in a temperate Cellar.
3. Let them stand so, till you see that the Sack hath drawn out all the principal tincture from them, and that the flowers begin to look palish; (with an eye of pale, or faint in Colour)
4. Then pour the Sack from them, and throw away the exhausted flowers, or distil a spirit from them; For if you let them remain longer in the Sack, they will give an earthy tast to them.
5. You may then put the tincted Sack into fit bottles for your use, stopping them very close.
6. But if the season of the flowers be not yet past, your Sack will be better, if you put it upon new flowers, which I conceive will not be the worse, but peradventure the better, if they be a little dried in the shade.

Notes

• A flavored wine rather than a distilled cordial.