Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take 6 pound of flower 3 pound of currants 2 pound of reason of the Sun
Stoned one pound of almonds blancht and well beaten 20 eggs half the
whites one quart of cream 2 pound of butter ½ a pound of loaf Sugar
2 ounces of mace nutmegs and cinnamon half a pint of Sack beat your
almonds with rose water and a quart of ale yest let your flour be dry’d
and currants then put them together with the spices and reasons minced
Small beat your Sack and eggs and yest all together let your cream
boyle then melt your butter in it and stir it very well together then
put your flour in the middle of the Ewer and put the yest on one side
and the cream on the other Side and mix all together very well then put
in your almonds and mix them very well together and set it by the fire
and when the oven is hot put it into a paper coffin and bake it.
88. _To make Marmelade of Oranges._
Take of the fairest oranges and pare them very thin and put them into
fair water and shift them 3 times a day for 3 days together then boyle
them in cloths till they be very soft then take your oranges and cut
them small and take out the core and take to a pound of orange one
pound of Sugar take a pint of the Fairest pippin water let it be very
clear one pound of Sugar more then mix your pippin water to y^e 2 pound
of Sugar then boyle it and scumme it and put in your cut orange to it
and boyle it till it jellies, and squeeze a little lemon into it and
put it into glasses.
89. _To preserve Pippins._
Take a pound of Sugar to a pound of apples and boyle your Sugar to a
Sirrop then pare your aples and cut them in halfs and cut out the cores
and bruise them and put them into the Sirrop as you do them then put
them on a very quick fire and when you see them begin to clear put into
it a pint & half of apple jelly and a little renish wine and the juice
of 2 or 3 oranges and have some orange peel boyled very tender and cut
into long shreds and when you think they are enough put them into your
glasses with some orange peel under and at top and Sirrop.
90. _To make Small Meade._
Take 30 Ale pints of fair water one pound of reasons of the Sun Stoned
4 pints of virgin honey put your honey into the water and boyle it till
the 3^d part be boyled away as soon as the Scumme riseth take it off
and put in your raisons then let it stand in vessels till it be cold
then worke it up with yest and when it hath wrought in the vessel Stir
up the yest and that together and so tun it up if you please 2 or 3
days after it is tunned draw it out and put it into bottles and after 6
days twill be fit to drink.
91. _To make Sugar Cakes._
Take 2 pound of flour and one of butter half a pound of Sugar one ounce
of carraway Seeds a little mace Shred a little Sack and a little rose
water worke these into a paste and make your cakes thin and cut them
round with glass.
92. _To make Little Cakes._
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