Cooking (Flowers) -- Early works to 1800; Cooking (Fruit) -- Early works to 1800; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800
Take of Jordan Almonds, one pound, beat them as you doe for
Almond milk, draw them through a strainer, with the yolks of two
or three Eggs, season it well with Sugar, and make it into a thick
Batter, with fine flower, as you doe for Bisket bread, then powre
it on small Trencher plates, and bake them in an Oven, or baking
pan, and these are the best Almond Cakes.
_To make Paste of Almonds_.
Take one pound of small Almonds, blanch them out of hot
water into cold, then dry them with a cloath, and beat them in a
stone Morter, till they come to Past, putting now and then a
spoonful of Rose water to them, to keep them from Oyling, when
they are beaten to fine past, take halfe a pound of _Sugar_ finely
beaten and searsed, put it to your past, and beat it till it will twist
between your fingers and thumb, finely without knots, for then it
is enough, then make thereof Pyes, Birds, Fruits, Flowers, or any
pretty things, printed with Molds, and so gild them, and put them
into your Stove, and use them at your pleasure.
_To make a Marchpine_.
Take a pound of small Almonds, blanch them, and beat them,
as you doe your past of Almonds, then drive it into a sheet of past,
and spread it on a botome of wafers, according to the proportion,
or bignesse you please, then set an edge round about it, as you doe
about a Tart, and pinch it if you will, then bake it in a pan, or Oven,
when it is enough, take it forth, and Ice it with an Ice made
of Rose-water and Sugar, as thick as batter, spread it on with a
brush of bristles, or with feathers, and put it in the Oven againe,
and when you see the Ice rise white and dry, take it forth, and
stick long comfits in it, and set up a staddard in the middest of it,
so gild it, and serve it.
_To make White-Broth with Almonds_.
First look that the Meat be clean washed, and then set it on the
fire, and when it boyleth, scum it clean, and put some salt into the
pot, then take _Rosemary, Thyme, Hysop_, and _Marjerome_, bind them
together, and put them into the pot, then take a dish of sweet
Butter, and put it also into the pot amongst the meat, and take
whole Mase, and bind them in a cloath, and put them into the
pot, with a quantity of Verjuice, and after that take such a quantity
of Almonds as shall serve turne, blanch them, and beat them
in the Morter, and then straine them with the broth when your
Meat is in, and when these Almonds are strained put them in a pot
by themselves, with some _Sugar_, a little _Ginger_, and also a little
Rose water, then stir it while it boyle, and after that take some sliced
_Oringes_ without the kernels, and boyle them with the broth
of the pot, upon a chafin-dish of coales, with a little _Sugar_, and
then have some Sipits ready in a platter, and serve the meat upon
them, and put not your Almonds in till it be ready to be
served.
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[Illustration: Straw-berries]
_Of Straw-Berries._
_A Tart of Straw-Berries._
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