Cooking (Flowers) -- Early works to 1800; Cooking (Fruit) -- Early works to 1800; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800
_A Lemmond Sallet_.
Cut out slices of the peele of the Lemmons, long wayes, a quarter
of an inch one piece from another, and then slice the _Lemmons_
very thin, and lay them in a dish crosse, and the peeles about
the _Lemmons_, and scrape a good deal of _Suggar_ upon them, and
so serve them.
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_Of Quinces_.
_The best way to Preserve Quinces._
First pare and coare the _Quinces_, and boyle them in faire water
till they be very tender, not covering them, then taking them
out of the water, take to every pound of them, two pound of _Sugar_,
and half a pint of water, boyle it to a Syrupe, scumming it well,
then put in some of the Jelly that is washed from the _Quince_ kernels,
and after that, making it boyle a little, put in your _Quinces_,
boyle them very fast, keeping the holes upward as neer as you
can, for fear of breaking, and when they are so tender that you
may thrust a rush through them, take them off, and put them up
in your glasses, having first saved some Syrupe till it be cold to fill
up your glasses.
_A speciall Remembrance in doing them_.
When you Preserve _Quinces_, or make _Marmalade_, take the Kernels
out of the raw _Quinces_, and wash off the Jelly that groweth
about them, in faire water, then straine the water and Jelly from
the kernels, through some fine Cobweb laune, and put the same
into the _Marmalade_, or preserved _Quinces_, when they are well
scum'd, but put not so much into your _Quinces_, as into the _Marmalade_,
for it will Jelly the Syrupe too much; put six or seven
spoonfulls of Syrupe into the Jelly. Before you put it into the
_Marmalade_, you must boyle your _Quinces_ more for _Marmalade_, then
to preserve your _Quinces_, and least of them when you make your
clear Cakes.
When you would preserve your _Quinces_ white, you must not
cover them in the boyling, and you must put halfe as much _Sugar_
more for the white, as for the other. When you would have them
red, you must cover them in the boyling.
[Illustration: Quince]
_To Pickle Quinces._
Boyle your _Quinces_ that you intend to keep, whole and unpared,
in faire water, till they be soft, but not too violently for feare you
break them, when they are soft take them out, and boyle some
_Quinces_ pared, quarter'd, and coar'd, and the parings of the _Quinces_
with them in the same liquor, to make it strong, and when
they have boyled a good time, enough to make the liquor of
sufficient strength, take out the quartered _Quinces_ and parings,
and put the liquor into a pot big enough to receive all the _Quinces_,
both whole and quartered, and put them into it, when the
liquor is thorow cold, and so keep them for your use close
covered.
_To make Quince Cakes_.
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