Alchemy

Recipe example:

The recipe of the alchemical flame of eternity is also in the old hand of the 1400’s, and some procedures described have been lost in translation or unidentified, so there is a good chance that the true recipe might be lost in the eaves of time forever. the recipe for such a flame is as follows.

Take 4 ounce of sulfur, & so much of calcined alum, bruise them together, put it into an earthen sublimatory, place it into a coal fire, well lighted, let the sulfur ascend through the alum, and in 8 hours it is prepared.

Thereof take at the less 2 1/2 ounces, and one ounce of good Christalle venetian porras, bruise them two small together, put it into a flat glass that it may lie flatly, pour upon it a strong sharp 4 times distilled spirit of wine upon it, & extract it in ashes softly to the oil, pour it upon again, extract it to the oil, pour it upon again & draw it of again; take a little of the sulfur, lay it upon a red-hot copper plate, and when it flows like wax without smoking then is it prepared, if not then must thou extract thereof more of the spirit of wine, till it sustained the prove & it is prepared.

Now take alumephume, make thereof a top not as long as a little finger, and half as thick, fouled it about with white silk, put it thus whole into a venetian little glass, & join thereunto of the prepared sulfur, place it a day & night in hot sand, that the top be continually in the sulfur. Now take the top thereabout, and put it into such a glass, that the top look out a little, add thereunto of the prepared incombustible chyburals, place the glass into hot sand till the sulfur melting, and cleave beneath and upward about the top, that it be seen but a little above, kindle the top with a common light, & it beginning to burn presently, and the sulfur remain flowing, take the light and place it where you wilt, and it burned continually for ever.