Replica Tudor distillation apparatus.

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

Replica Tudor earthenware distillation apparatus from the St Albans Museums teaching collection. The Tudor housewife at all but the very lowest levels of society needed to know how to make medicines for her family, as well as floral essences for perfuming clothes and linen, handwashing water etc. Distillation is a way of separating two liquids which have different boiling points, such as water and alcohol, or sometimes a liquid and a solid, such as water with salt dissolved in it

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Digital Camera

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