Cooking (Flowers) -- Early works to 1800; Cooking (Fruit) -- Early works to 1800; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800
Take the yolks of sixteene _Eggs_ well parted from the whites,
three quarters of a pound of _Butter_ well Clarified, and straine it
twice or thrice in a faire strainer, seasoned with _sugar_ and a little
_Rose water_, wherein _Spinage_ first a little boyled, hath been strained,
to make it green; be sure your paste be well made, and whole,
and so bake it up, and serve it.
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_Of Goose-Berries_.
_To keep Goose-Berries_.
Take a handfull or two of the worser of your _Goose-Berries_, cut
off their stalks and heads, and boyle them all to pieces, in a pottell
of water, putting into the boyling thereof, halfe a quarter of
_sugar_, then take the liquor, straine it through a haire strainer, and
while it cooleth cut off the stalks and heads of the fairest
_Goose-Berries_, being very carefull you cut not the skin of them
above or below; put them into a gally pot, and pour the liquor in
after them.
_Purslaine_ must be used as you doe the _Goose-Berries_.
_The best way to Preserve Goose-Berries_.
Gather them with their stalks on, cut off their heads, and stone
them, then put them in scalding water, and let them stand therein
covered a quarter of an hour, then take their weight in _sugar_
finely beaten, and laying first a lay of _sugar_, then one of your
_Goose-Berries_, in your Preserving Skillet or pan, till all be in,
putting in for every pound of _Goose-Berries_, six spoonfulls of water,
set them on the embers till the _sugar_ be melted, then boyle them up
as fast as you can, till the Syrupe be thick enough, and cold, and then
put them up. This way serves also for _Respasses_ and _Mulberries_.
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_Of Plums._
_The best way to dry Plums._
Take your _Plums_ when they are full growne, with the stalks
on them, but yet green, split them on the one side, and put them
in hot water, but not too hot, and so let them stand three or four
hours, then to a spoonfull of them, take three quarters of a pound
of _sugar_, beaten very fine, and eight spoonfulls of water to every
pound, and set them on hot embers till the _sugar_ be melted, and
after that boyle them till they be very tender, letting them stand
in that Syrupe three dayes to plump them; then take them out,
wash the Syrupe from them with warm water, and wipe them with
a fine linnen cloath, very dry, and lay them on plates, and set
them to dry in a Stove, for if you dry them in an Oven, they will
be tough.
_To Preserve Damsons._
Take _Damsons_ before they be full ripe, but new gathered off
the Tree, allow to every pound of them a pound of _sugar_, put a
little _Rose-water_ to them, and set them in the bottome of your
pan, one by one, boyle them with a soft fire, and as they seeth
strew your _sugar_ upon them, and let them boyle till the Syrupe be
thick enough, then while the Syrupe is yet warme, take the _Plums_
out, and put them in a gally pot, Syrupe and all.
_To Preserve Bullasses as green as grasse._
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