Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take 8 quarts of new milk from y^e cow strain’d put to it 4 or 5 quarts
of cream strained and put to 8 quarts or little more of water very hot
then put in the runnet & stir it together then cover it very close till
it comes and so soon as it’s come put y^e cloth upon the cheese-vate
& lade the curds as whole as you can into it & let it whey draw it
self and when it hath done runing lay on ye cloth and the follower & a
weight so let it stand a pretty while then shift it into a dry cloth
and when it hath done weting the cloth it must be put into a piece of
bays or cloth & lay it on y^e floor and in 9 or 10 days it will be for
your eating.
467. _To make Angelot Cheese._
Take 2 gallons of new milk put to it 2 quarts of thick cream then
heat it some what more then blood warme then set it together with 2
spoonfulls of runnet, when it is run whey it not but set your fat ready
which must be about half a yard high turned round like a pint but biger
without a bottom it must be set upon a even board & the curd put into
it and ever as the whey runeth from it, it must be filled up it will
take a whole day to fill it, then let it stand and settle 3 days in the
fat untill it be so hardned that you may take off the moulds without
breaking when they be out salt them with white salt 3 or 4 hours at the
most strew’d all over y^m but never put in pickle then wipe them over
with a fair dry cloth as clean as possible the lest will best leper all
the cheese so let them dry upon clean cloths in a window turne them
every day and as they grow mouldy or fowle rub them easily with clean
and dry clothes this proportion will make 2 cheeses. these cheeses are
best to be made in may or september.
468. _To make Pastills._
Take a pound of Sugar a quarter of a pound of ambergreese & of musk
the 8th, 10th or 12th part let the Sugar be double refined beat it &
incorporate it well with the amber and musk then take gumdragon steep
it in oringe flower water Impast the Sugar with it make it into cakes
dry them in the Shade and Sun take heed of using to much gum for a very
little will serve besure to let your cakes dry well in the shade before
you put them in the Sun or they will crack.
469. _For Fine Linnen._
Take of orrice 4 pounds callamase half a pound benjamin a pound Storax
a pound cloves a quarter of a pound civet half an ounce muske an ounce
ointment of oringe flowers 2 ounces lignum alloes 2 ounces ambergreese
half an ounce rose wood half a pound the amber civet musk and ointment
of oringes must be mingled together & melt’d & you must either rub the
roses with it or else some wool the wool will keep the smell longest to
every pound of roses a pound of powder.
470. _Perfumes to Burn._
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