Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
430. _To make Quidony of the Liquor you kept of your Plummes before._
Take a quart of that liquor and boyle it with half a dozen fair pippins
pared and cut in small pieces then strain all the thinest from it and
put to every pint of that liquor half a pound of Sugar and boyle it
until it will stand upon the back of your spoon like quaking jelly,
then pound it into your moulds your moulds being wett before and when
it is almost cold turn it off unto a wet trencher so slive it into a
box your box being wet also.
431. _To make Paste Royal of any Fruits._
Take marmalade before it be cold & then mould it up in searched Sugar
until it come to perfect paste then print it in your moulds & then dry
it.
432. _To preserve Fruits Green._
Take pippins apricocks pear plummes or peaches while they are green
scauld them in hot water and peel them the peaches and apricocks Scrape
the furr off them y^n boyle them very tender take as much Sugar as they
weigh put to it as much water as will make a Sirrop to cover them then
boyle them something leasurely and take them up then boyle the Sirrop
until it be something thick that it will button upon a dish side and
when they are cold pot them up together.
433. _To preserve these Plummes when ripe._
Take as much Sugar as they weigh and put not so much water to them as
you did to the green for they will yield liquor of them selves boyle
them not altogether so leasurely as you did the other if you do the
Sirrop will turn red and so when you have boyled them take them up and
pot them as aforesaid.
434. _To preserve Damosens Red or Black Plummes._
Take as much Sugar as they do weigh and as much water as will make a
Sirrop to cover them then boyle them a little while in the Sirrop close
covered and turn them very often for spoting them set them all night
in their own Sirrop and on the morrow set them upon a pot of seething
water and let them boyle no faster then the water seethe under them
then when they be through sweet and tender take them up and pot them
but let the Sirrop be boyled till it will button upon a dish side
before it be poted.
435. _To preserve Grapes Barberryes or Goosberrys._
Take as much Sugar as they do weigh and somewhat more and beat it very
fine take a preserving pan or skillet lay a lay of Sugar and a lay of
the fruit till you have laid all then take 6 spoonfulls of fair water
as much as will wet the bottom of your pan then boyle them as fast as
you can untill they be clear then boyle the sirrop until it will button
upon a dish side then when they are cold pot them up together.
436. _To preserve Quinces white._
Pare them and core them and take as much Sugar as they weigh & to every
pound of Sugar put but a wine pint of water put your quinces Sugar &
water together and boyle them as fast as you can uncover’d and this may
you preserve pippins.
437. _To keep Quinces raw all the year._
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