Take seven large lemons, and pare them as thin
As a wafer, or, what is yet thinner, your skin;
A quart of French brandy, or rum is still better;
(For you ne'er in receipts should stick close to the letter:)
Six ounces of sugar next take, and pray mind
The sugar must be the best double-refin'd;
Boil the sugar in near half a pint of spring water,
In the neat silver sauce-pan you bought for your daughter;
But be sure that the syrup you carefully skim,
While the scum, as 'tis call'd, rises up to the brim;
The fourth part of a pint you next must allow
Of new milk, made as warm as it comes from the cow.
Put the rinds of the lemons, the milk and the syrup,
With the rum in a jar, and give 'em a stir up;
And, if you approve it, you may add some perfume;
Goa-stone, or whatever you like in its room.