Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take green walnuts of bigest Size you can get and of the bigest kind
about a week after mid-summer put them in a bag and boyle them in a
great kittle of water till they be tender then peel off ye outward
skin that looks black and put into every second a clove put them into
somewhat more then the weight of powder Sugar and cover them in the dry
Sugar and let them lay a day or 2 then boyle them up 2 or walms on a
gentle fire. probatum.
103. _To make Cheesecakes._
Set your best milk which is Strokeing and put in as much runnet as you
think fit and when tis come brake it not but in a cloth and put it in
a vate and set a light press upon it and let it Stand cut your curd in
pieces and put it in a morter and grind and beat your curd put in the
quantity of half a pound of butter to as much curd as a little thin
cheese vate will hold when tis well beaten together put in a pound and
half of currants and Some cloves and mace and Some rosewater with the
eggs you must take 6 yolks and 2 whites and beat them well together
with rosewater and put in a pint of cream and a quarter of a pound of
sugar when you have prepared the coffins fill them not to full and see
you then put them in and when they are risen draw them out and then
mix them together some butter melted and some Sugar rosewater, take a
feather and wash them with it. your paste you must make as you do for
tarts.
104. _To Preserve Green Apricocks._
Take apricocks when the stones are firm in them and to every pound of
apricocks a pound of sugar pare them very thin slit them up the sceame
as you pare them put them into cold water else they will lose their
colour, being pared put them into a Skillet of cold water and set
them on a fire close cover’d till your water be scaulding hot and let
them stand till they are pretty cold then Set them on the fire again
till the water be Scaulding hot then take them off till the water be
Somewhat cold let the water be never more then scaulding hot and a
little colder after by degrees till they be as green and as tender as
you will have them then take them out of the water and lay them in
a dish and strew some of your weigh’d sugar on them else they will
presently loose their colour then put your Sugar into your preserveing
pan and to every pound of Sugar take a quarter of a pint of the same
water as the apricocks was boyled in then melt your sugar and put in
your apricocks and after a little boyling they will stone then put
them into the Sirrop again and being boyled a while take them out y^e
Sirrop and lay them in a broad silver dish and boyle the Sirrop to what
hight you please if you boyle it to little it will not keep you may if
you please put to these a grain or 2 of musk and Ambergrease pour the
Sirrop while it is hot on the apricocks so let them stand till y^e next
day then put them up into glasses.
105. _To Preserve Goosberrys._
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