This extract includes a recipe for Plague-Water which, the author writes, 'was most esteemed of in the late great Visitation'. Image taken from The Qu

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This extract includes a recipe for Plague-Water which, the author writes, 'was most esteemed of in the late great Visitation'. Image taken from The Queen-like Closet; or, rich cabinet; stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying, and cookery. Originally published in London, 1670.

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