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Wine, Gilliflower

To three gallons of water put six pounds of the best powdered white sugar; boil the sugar and water together for half an hour, keep skimming as the scum rises; let it stand to cool. Beat up three ounces of syrup of betony with a large spoonful of ale yeast, put this into the liquor, and brew it well together; then, having a peck of gilliflowers cut from the stalks, put them into the liquor, let them infuse and work together three days covered with a cloth; strain the wine, put it into a cask, and let it settle for three or four weeks; then bottle it.