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Doctor Bacon useth to make a pleasant Julep of this Conserve of Roses, by putting a good spoonful of it into a large drinking glass or cup; upon which squeese the juyce of a Limon, and clip in unto it a little of the yellow rinde of the Limon; work these well together with the back of a spoon, putting water to it by little and little, till you have filled up the glass with Spring-water: so drink it. He sometimes passeth it through a Hypocras bag, and then it is a beautiful and pleasant Liquor.

Kenelm Digby, ‘Another Conserve of Roses’, from The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened, 1669.

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iznogoodgood:

Angelica Huston

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Oct 18 2010 ∞

boundaires:

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The blossoms are said to be in their prime 150 days after the winter solstice, or 7 days after the equinox; but it is on the whole correct to say 75 days from the first of spring.

Kenkō, Essays in Idleness, trans G B Sansom (Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 1998), p. 69.

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ther is also an excelent whit to be made of quicksilver / which draweth a very fine lyne / this wit the women painters vsse / noet also the sattine seruce grinded with oyle of whit popy, whitneth vpp peales in oyle coullors most excelently […].

Nicholas Hilliard, A Treatise Concerning the Arte of Limning, 1598-1602.

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Theda Bara, via omgthatdress.

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A glass-making furnace dating back 2,000 years has been found in Pasimedu, India.

A mound in this region [the Porunthal village on the left bank of the Porunthal river, near Palani] called pasimedu’ (mound of beads) was found to be covering an Iron Age’ grave dating back to 500 B.C., that is 2,500 years ago.

Text and photo via ablogabouthistory.

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