Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take your Apricocks, pare, stone, and quarter them then take the weight
of them in Sugar and put half of it to the Apricocks and set them on
the fire and keep them Stiring lest they burn and when they are tender
take them off and mash them small then take the other half of Sugar and
melt it with water and let it boyle a little then take it off and put
in the Apricocks and stir it well together and put it in your glasses
and in 2 days turn out your cakes on glasses to dry.
66. _To make White Quince Marmelade very good._
Take a pound of quince and a pound and quarter of Sugar wet your Sugar
pretty thin with water then put to it half a pint of stronge jelly made
with the cores of quinces, pare your quinces and core them & quarter
them and put them into your sugar and jelly, set it on a very quick
fire and let it boyle as fast as possible it can and Stir it all the
time you must keep out a little of the Sugar to Strew over it when its
almost boyl’d, and when its enough and taken off y^e fire Stir into it
3 spoonfulls of y^e juice of lemons.
67. _To make a very good Posset._
Take 3 pints of cream and boyle it with cinnamon and mace and one
nutmeg quartered take a pint of Sack and the yolkes of 18 eggs beaten
put your Sack and eggs and about three quarters of a pound of sugar
altogether into a bason set it on a chafen dish of coles and keep it
Stiring till its ready to boyle then take it off and set your Bason
on the ground and take your cream boyling hot only first take out the
whole spice then pour the cream into the bason holding your skillet as
high from the bason as you can that it may froth with the pouring then
stir the posset a little and set it on the coles again, close cover’d
about half a quarter of an hour then strew on some Sugar & serve it in.
if you make it with milk you may put in half the whites of the eggs
takeing out the treds and beat your eggs very well.
68. _To make an Orange Pudding._
Take 12 eggs throw away half the whites beat them very well and then
put into them a little salt and 3 quarters of a pound of Sugar and 3
quarters of a pound of butter melt’d and the yellow rine of 3 oranges
grated, make some good puff paste and cover your dish and pour in the
pudding and cover it over with more paste 3 quarters of an hour will
bake it, then eat it with orange. To make your paste to cover your
pudding take 3 quarters of a pound of butter to one pound of flower
breake your butter into the flower and temper it with warme water make
it pretty stiff and rowle it quick.
69. _To preserve Damsens._
Take a pint of jelly of Damsens and let it boyle a pretty while then
put to it a pound of Sugar and let it boyle together a little while,
Scumme it very well and let it stand till its almost cold then put into
it a pound of damsens and let them just boyle up & let them stand till
y^e next day then boyle them up again then put them into glasses.
70. _To preserve Rasberrys._
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