Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take some of the worst quinces and cut them in small pieces boyle them
in water till it be strong of the quince put into in the boyling to
every gallon 2 spoonfulls of Salt as much of english honey half a pint
of white wine vinegar then strain it and when it is cold put it into
a wooden vessel and take as many of your best quinces as will go into
that liquor then stop them up very close that no air get into them and
they will keep all the year.
438. _To candy Barberries Grapes and Goosberries._
After you have preserved them by Numb^r 435 dip them in warme water
very sodainly to wash off the ropie Sirrop then strew them over with
searched Sugar as you would do flower upon fish to fry and so set them
in a warme oven or Stove 3 or 4 times and never let them be cold untill
they be dry and they will look like sparkling diamonds.
439. _To make Clear Cakes._
Take plummes of any sort Rasberries are best put them in a stone jugg &
when they are dissolved strain them through a fair cloth and take to a
pint of that a pound of Sugar and put to it as much water as will melt
it & boyle it to a candie hight boyle the liquor likewise in another
possnet by them put them seething hot together boyle them a little
while together with seething then put them into glasses made like
marmalade boxes and so set them in a warm oven or stove in a drying
heat let them stand so a fortnight or 3 weeks and never be cold remove
them from one warm place to another that they may not be cold they will
turn in a week beware you set them not to hot they will be tough & so
every day turn them till they be dry & they will look very clear canded
without and moist within.
440. _To Dry any Fruit after they are Preserved._
Take pippins pears or plummes wash them out in warme water from that
sirrop they are preserved in and strew them over with searched Sugar as
you would do flour upon fish to fry them set them in a broad earthen
pan that they may lie one by one then set them in a warme oven or stove
to dry if you will candie them with all you must strew on Sugar 3 or 4
times in drying.
441. _To Dry any Fruit without Sugar._
Take pears or pippins and lay them in an earthen pan one by one and
bake them full but not let them brake then lay them upon seafe bottomes
in an oven and so dry them up in a drying heat and so every day turn
them till they be dry.
442. _To candie the Clear Rock Candie._
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