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38 - To make green ginger upon sirup. Take Ginger one pound: pare it clean: steep it in red wine and vinegar equally mixed: let it stand for XII daies in a close vessell, and every day once or twice stir it up and down: then take of wine one gallon, and of vinegar a pottle: seethe all together to the consumption of a moity or half: then take a pottle of clean clarified honey, or more, and put thereunto, and let them boyle well together: then take halfe an ounce of saffron finely beaten, and put it thereto, with some sugar if you please. [Delights for Ladies (England, 1609)] (permanent link)