Illustration — a stand-in until there's a photo of the real thing.
Source Sir Hugh Plat, Delightes for Ladies (Humfrey Lownes, London 1609) — original
Ingredients
of muske sixe graines
of Cinamon and ginger of each one ounce
white sugar candy one pound
a gallon of Aqua composita
of turnsole one dram
Method
Take of muske sixe graines, of Cinamon and ginger of each one ounce, white sugar cany one pound, powder the sugar, and bruse the spices grossely,
binde them up in a cleane linnen cloth, and put them to infuse in a gallon of Aqua composita in a glasse close stopped twenty foure houres, shaking them togither divers times,
then put thereto of turnsole one dram, suffer it to stand one houre, and then shake altogether,
then if the colour like you after it is settled, poure the cleerest forth into another glasse: but if you will have it deeper coloured, suffer it to worke longer upon the turnsole.
Notes
A coloured (red) cordial made by tinting an existing aqua composita.
This recipe predates 1700 and is quoted from its original printed source. Spelling is left exactly as printed.
