A Cordial
Take seven lemons, one quart of rum or brandy, six ounces good loaf' sugar, one gill of new milk; simmer the sugar in half a pint of spring water, and skim it; let the milk be made as warm as it comes from the cow, put the very thin parings of the rinde of the lemons with the milk and syrup, into a jug with the rum, close stopped; shake well for three days, then filter through paper, and bottle it.