Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take almonds as you did for macaroons to a quarter of a pound an ounce
of pine apple seeds bake it as before that is all the difference.
454. _To make any Artificial Fruits, as Oranges, Lemons, Cucumbers,
Radish, Herrings, Sprats, Oysters, or Mushells._
Take alleblaster moulds made in 3 pieces bind 2 pieces together water
them very well an hour or 2 take as much sugar as will fill your mould
by your own aime boyle it to a manus Christi that is till it be almost
Sugar again then pour it into your mould very quick put on the lid of
the mould & turn it round with your hand very quick & when it is cold
take it out it will be whole and hollow.
455. _To boyle Sugar to a Manus Christi._
Boyle it till it be almost Sugar again and the last drop of your spoon
there will a hair drop from it as fine as the hair of your head.
456. _To boyle Sugar to a Candy Hight._
Boyle your sugar till it will draw like a thread between your finger &
thumbe.
457. _To make a Pomander._
Take Benjamine, Storax, Labdanum, of each half an ounce Muske, civit,
of each six grains, 2 grains of ambergreese a dram of sweet balmesum
beat all these together in a hot morter then rowle it up in beads as
big or as little as you will have it while it is hot and so make holes
in them and so use them.
458. _To make a Perfume to burn in a Chamber._
Take Benjamine, Storax and Labdanum of each a like a little damaske
powder orace powder a little, a little frankensense and mirr powder
of Jewiper beat all these together to a paste in a hot morter and so
make it up in the fashion of great black cloves & so burn them when you
please it’s a pleasant smell.
459. _A Perfume to perfume Starch._
After you have made your starch something thick put in some rose water
w^{ch} musk and ambergreese have been Steed in all night and it will
make your linnen to smell most pleasently.
460. _To perfume Gloves._
Take benjamine, Storax, civit, muske and ambergreese with the oyle of
Sweet balsame with a little orace flower water grind all these very
well upon a painters stone and so wash your gloves with it and put them
upon sticks & dry them the oyle of balsame keeps y^m supple that they
will not dry stiff.
461. _To make a Mothes Powder to lay amongst your Linnen or Wollen
Clothes._
Take the moss of a sweet apple tree lay it in steep in rose water all
one night stop the vessel very close that it is in then lay it a drying
in a paper in a warme oven So steep it and dry it 3 times then beat it
very fine and put to the powder of cloves the powder of sweet marjerom
orace powder damaske powder as much musk and ambergreese as you please
no civit for that will clam it then put it in a taffety bag and so use
it.
462. _A Water to make the Breath Sweet._
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