In the mean time prepare a high Syrup of pure
Sugar, and put the boiled stalkes into it, whiles it is boiling hot, but
taken from the fire. Let them lie soaking there till the next morning. Then
take out the stalks, and heat the Syrup again, scalding hot, and return the
stalks into it, letting them lie there till next morning; (Note, that the
stalks must never boil in the Syrup,) Repeat this six, or eight, or nine
times, that is to say, till they are sufficiently Imbibed with the Syrup.
When they are at this pass, you may either keep them as a wet sucket in
Syrup, or dry them in a stove upon Papers, turning them continually, in
such sort as dried sweet-meats are to be made. I like them best dry, but
soft and moist within _(Medullosi)_ like Candied Eryngos. In Italy they eat
much of them, for sharpness and heat of Urine, and in Gonorrhoea's to take
away pain in Urining.
A Sucket is made in like manner of the Carneous substance of stalks of
Lettice. It is the knob, out of which the Lettice groweth, which being
pared, and all the tough rind being taken off, is very tender and so it is
a pretty way downwards the root.
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