Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
81. _To make Clear Cakes of either White Plummes, Red Plummes,
Damsens, Grapes, Rasberrys, Currants, or Cherrys._
Take your fruit and pare them and put them into a tankard and Set in a
Skillet of boyling water and let it boyle till they are very soft then
let your jelly run from them through a strainer then take the weight
of the jelly in Sugar and put it into a preserveing pan and put as
much fair water to it as will just melt it then set it on the fire and
let it boyle to a candie hight which it will soon do then put in your
jelly, and Stir it, not leting it boyle but take it off and put it into
your cake glasses and set them in a stove and in 2 or 3 days turn them
out of your glasses on pieces of glass and keep them turning once a day
till they are dry enough to put on paper.
82. _To make White Marmelade of Quinces or Pippins._
Take your quinces and pare them and cut them in pieces and take the
weight of it in Sugar and put your Sugar and quinces into your pan and
set it on the fire keeping it stiring and breaking the quinces with a
ladle all y^e while it boyles and let it boyle as fast as you can &
when the quinces is very soft take it off and put it in glasses.
83. _To make Almond Cream._
Take a quart of cream and boyle it with nutmeg and mace and take a
quarter of a pound of almonds blanch them in cold water and beat them
very well in a stone morter with Sack and rose water and let it boyle
till it is as thick as you will have it then Strain it through a corse
Strainer being well boyled then sweeten it with Sugar to your taste and
put in half a spoonfull of rose water and as much Sack.
84. _To make an Almond Pudding._
Take a quart of cream and 2 manshets grated half a pound of Almonds
blanch’d and beaten very finely with rose water then take a little
nutmeg and mace shred small take the yolkes of 6 eggs and some Sugar
tie it up in thick cloth and boyle it and Serve it with butter and Sack.
85. _To make a Quakeing Pudding._
Take 5 spoonfulls of flour and 9 eggs leave out 3 of the whites a pint
and half of cream not to good, a spoonfull of Sugar and nutmeg take
orange lemon citron mince it small and put to it tie it up in a thick
cloth and when tis boyled put Sack and Sugar and butter.
86. _To make a Carraway Cake._
Take 4 pound of flour 10 eggs but 5 whites a pint of ale yest and half
a pint of cream a quarter of a pint of Sack or rose water half a pound
of carraway cumfets half a pound of sugar half a pound of butter some
saffron half an ounce of nutmeg of mace and cinnamon let your flour be
dry’d very well then mix it with Sugar carrawayes and Spice beat your
eggs very well & yest and Sack together let your cream boyle and melt
your butter in it then temper your cake let it stand half an hour to
rise bake it in a paper coffin.
87. _To make a very good Cake._
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