Ros Solis: A Cordial Made With Drosera rotundifolia

"Paracelsus says that the herb called Ras Solis is, at noon and under a burning sun, filled with dew, while the other herbs around it are dry."

- Francis Bacon 

I learned the other day, that not only is there a poem about Drosera rotundifolia, but there also used to be a cordial known as Ros Solis which contained Drosera rotundifolia (Rosa Solis) and was a favorite of King Louis XIV (The Sun King). (I hope it was created from cultivated plants that did not contain buts, but I kind of doubt it). I did an internet search and found the following recipes (translated to modern English, where known):

Sir Hugh Platt, Delightes for Ladies (London: 1600): 

Take a gallon of (D. rotundifolia) leaves, with all the black moats (parts?) picked out, half a pound of dates, one ounce of cinnamon, one ounce of ginger, one ounce of cloves, half and ounce of grains, a pound-and-a-half of fine sugar, four handfuls of red rose leaves (green or dried). Steep all this in a gallon of "good Aqua Composita" (water?) in a glass bottle closed and stopped with wax for twenty days, shaking it once every two days. The sugar must be powered, the spices brused only or "grosseli beaten," the dates cut in long slices and the stones taken away. "If you add two or three graines of Ambergreece, and as much muske in your glasse amongst the rest of the Ingredients, it will have a pleasant smell. Some adde the gum amber with coral and pearle finely poudred , and fine leafe golde. Some vse to boyle Ferdinando bucke in Rosewater, till they haue purchased a faire deepe crimson colour, and when the same is cold, they colour their Rosa solis and Aqua Rubea therewith." 

Other recipes include: 

[L]ay the leaves of [D. rotundifolia] in the spirit of wine, adding thereto cinnamon, cloves, maces, ginger, nutmegs, sugar, and a few grains of musk; suffering it so to stand in a glass close stopped from the air, and set in the sun by the space of ten days more: then strain the same and keep it for use. 

[Alternatively, put] 8 handfuls of the [D. rotundifolia], in a gallon of brandy, 3 lb sifted fine sugar, 3 pints of milk-water, 1 oz. powdered cinnamon, 1 oz. white sugar-candy, 4 grains musk - all strained through a cloth.

If any of you carnivorous plant enthusiasts are into making your own liquors, you might try making Ros Solis sometime (and let the rest of us know how it is).