To distill PEPPER-MINT WATER

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Instructions (7)
  1. Get your pepper-mint when it is full grown, and before it seeds, cut it in short lengths.
  2. Fill your still with it, and put it half full of water.
  3. Make a good fire under it.
  4. When it is nigh boiling, and the still begins to drop, if your fire be too hot, draw a little out from under it, as you see it requires, to keep it from boiling over, or your water will be muddy.
  5. The flower your still drops the water will be the clearer and stronger, but do not spend it too far.
  6. The next day bottle it, and let it stand three or four days, to take off the fire of the still.
  7. Cork it well, and it will keep a long time.
Original Text
To distill PEPPER-MINT WATER. GET your pepper-mint when it is full grown, and before it seeds, cut it in short lengths, fill your still with it, and put it half full of water, then make a good fire under it, and when it is nigh boiling, and the still begins to drop, if your fire be too hot, draw a little out from under it, as you see it requires, to keep it from boiling over, or your water will be muddy; the flower your still drops the water will be the clearer and stronger, but do not spend it too far; the next day bottle it, and let it stand three or four days, to take off the fire of the still, then cork it well, and it will keep a long time.
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