Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
To make 3 dozen take a quart of Stired grotts one penny loafe grated 6
eggs yolkes and whites beat with rose water half a pound of Sugar and a
pound of currants, half a pint of cream mix all these things with your
grots and season it with cinnamon.
109. _To make a Posset._
Take a quart of cream and half a nutmeg quarter it then take a stick
of cinnamon and a quarter of a pound of Sugar and then set it on the
fire and keeping it stiring always one way and let it boyle together a
quarter of an hour then take 6 eggs puting away the whit’s then beat
them very well and put them into the cream still constantly stiring it
and so soon as it boyles take it off the fire and let it coole a little
it must cool but a little then take a quarter of a pint of Sack made
very hot in a bason then take your cream and stand upon a stoole as
high as you can & pour your cream into your bason very softly as high
as you can pour it right then set it to the fire till it be ready to be
eaten this will be all curd & no drink.
110. _To make a Sullibub._
To every quart of cream take about 3 quarters of a pint of Sack boyle
the cream and make the Sack almost as sweet as a Sirrop then set it
on the fire and make it reasonable hot and when the cream is a little
cooled with a wooden Spring draw up the cream and so squirt it in till
the pot be full if you make it in the morning very early twill be ready
to eat y^t afternoon. Some boyle a blade of mace in the cream.
111. _To make a Snow to put on the Sullibub._
Take a pint of cream and the whites of 4 or 5 eggs and a little rose
water Sweeten this with Sugar beat this with a stick which must be
cloven in 5 or 6 parts beat it till you find it begin to rise in
bubbles with a spoon take off those and lay them in a dish so beat till
you have all that will rise y^n when your sullibubs is ready to be used
lay on the upermost of the snow and heap it high.
112. _To make Clouted Cream._
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