TO MAKE OYLE [SIC] OF CAMOMILE

      Title: TO MAKE OYLE [SIC] OF CAMOMILE
  Categories: Seasonings
       Yield: 1 Batch
  
   1 1/2 pt Oyle
       3 oz Camomile [sic] flowers
  
   "- take oyle a pint and an halfe [sic], and three ounces of camomile
   flowers dryed [sic] one day after they be gathered. Then put the oyle
   and the flowers in a glasse [sic] and stop the mouth close and set
   into the Sun by the space of forty days."
   
   Cathy's note:  I do not know if this is edible.
   
   From _The Good Housewife's Handbook_, 1588.  In Steven Foster's
   "Chamomile" article in "The Herb Companion." Dec. 1992/Jan. 1993,
   Vol. 5, No. 2. Pg. 68.  Posted by Cathy Harned.

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