Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take almonds and blanch them out of seething water beat them in a stone
morter drop in now and then a drop or 2 of rosewater to keep them
from oyling now & then strew in a handful of searched Sugar to bring
it to paste when you have brought it to perfect paste rowle it abroad
as thin as you will have it set an edge about it as about a tart then
make little conceiptes to garnish it then set it in an oven as hot as
for manchet and bake it lay wafers under it upon a double paper bake
it on a pye plate, then ice it with the white of an egg rosewater and
searched Sugar beaten together as thick as batter for fritters when it
is half baked spread on this ice with a feather set it into the oven
again when the ice is risen take it out stick in your garnishing in
long cumfitts while it is hot then when it is cold gild it.
447. _To make Sugar Plate._
Take searched Sugar make it up to paste with gumdragon steep’d with
rosewater when you have brought it to a perfect paste rowle it as thin
as ever you can so print it in moulds & it will dry as it lies.
448. _To make Wallnuts Artificial._
Take some of the Sugar plate print it in a mould made for a wallnut
kernell and yellow it over with a little safforn water with a feather
take search’d cinnamon and Sugar as much of the one as the other make
it up to paste with gumdragon steep’d with rose water print that in a
mould made like a wallnut shell & when they be dry close them together
with a little gumdragon.
449. _To make Muskedyne Cumfits._
Take Sugar plate mould it in a little muske and ambergreese then rowle
it as thin as paper and cut it square like lozenges like small diamonds
then let it dry as it lyeth.
450. _To make Italyan Biskit._
Take Searched Sugar a little of the white of an egg a little
ambergreese and muske according to your taste and when you have beaten
this to paste in an Alleblaster morter then mould it in a little
annyseed finely dusted and make it up in loaves as big as crabs cut
them about like manchet and when they be risen Something high take them
forth upon the plate you baked them on remove them not till they cold
for if they be they will breake.
451. _To make French Biskit._
Take half a peck of flour 4 eggs half a pint of ale yest an ounce and
half of annyseeds make all these together in a loaf with a little sweet
cream and a little cold water make it in the fashion of a dutch loaf
something long cut it in good thick slices like toasts when it is 2 day
old then rub it over with powder Sugar and lay it in a warme Stove and
let it dry in and so you must Sugar it over 3 or 4 times & then box it.
452. _To make Macaroons._
Take almonds and blanche them take a quarter of a pound and 3 ounces
of Searched Sugar beat these in a morter with a little of the white of
an egg and rose water so beat it till it be a thicker than batter for
fritters drop it upon wafers and so bake it.
453. _To make Naples Biskit._
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