Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take Spices or flowers or any dryed sucket any fruits after they be
preserved and dry again lay them upon round wyers in an earthen pan
the pan narrow at the bottom and broad on the top and take as much
refine Sugar or Craseel powder you must neither take barberry Sugar nor
maderous they are to fat put to it as much water as will melt it that
is half a pint to every pound and something more and when your Sugar
is all melt’d take the white of an egg and a dozen spoonfulls of fair
water beat it together in a bason w^{th} a burchen rod till it come to
a froth then put the froth of the egg into the hot Sirrop set it on the
fire again and when it is boyled and when it riseth drop a drop or 2 of
cold water amongst it then set it on the fire and scumme it then boyle
it to a candie hight that is when it will draw like a thread between
your finger and your thumbe then pour it seething hot into your pan
amongst your fruit set it upon a cushen in a warme chimney corner cover
it close with a blancket on the morrow pour out all the Sirrop that
will run from it and then set your pot in a warme place again to dry
pick up your wyer take of all your fruits lay them on paper to dry y^n
box y^m.
443. _To sucket Candie Oringes Lemons Pome-Citerons & Lettice Stalks._
Boyle them tender in water and then Candie y^m as you do Ringoe roots
by Re^{ct} 356.
444. _To candye Flowers the Spanish Fashion._
Take flowers of any Sort whatsoever and picke off the leaves from the
flower and make a Sirrop of Sugar and put in the blossoms of your
flowers as many as will go into the Sirrop boyle them with stiring
until it be turned to Sugar again set it off the fire and with the back
of a spoon stir them and bruise the sugar from them and they will be
canded and no Sugar seen upon them.
445. _To make Lozenges of any of these Flowers._
Make a Sirrop of Sugar as before and take the blossoms of what flowers
you will & sherd them on a trencher or beat them in a wooden dish then
put in as many as will colour the Sirrop of that colour the flowers are
of and boyle it with stiring till it will come clear from the bottom
of the Skillet and so thick that it will scarce drop out of your spoon
then pour it upon a wet trencher w^{th} a wet knife spread it abroad
not very thin when it is cold cut it in square lozenges like square
diamonds.
446. _To make a March Payne Ice it Garnishe it & Gild it._
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