Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take the top of your milk after it has stood one hour and make it
scaulding hot let it not boyle then put it into an earthen pan then
leave it half an hour to make it froth as much as you can then set
it into the oven as soon as bread is drawn out of it let it stand
in 7 or 8 hours then take it out gently and let it stand at lest 24
hours before you use it make a bottom to it with Sweet cream boyle it
and boyle large mace with it y^n beat the yolks of 2 or 3 eggs with
a little rose water then take the cream from the fire and put 2 or 3
Spoonfulls of it to the eggs then Stir them together and put them into
a posnet to cream then Set it over the fire & let it boyle one walme
then take it off and sweeten it with Sugar if you should put the eggs
into it whilst it is over the fire it will be apt to curdle Stir it
all the while it stands on the fire after the eggs are put in when
it’s Sweeten’d let it stand being Stir’d with a Spoon till it be paste
creaming at top when it is cold take off the top of the baked cream
with a Skimer and lay it upon the other Scrape Sugar on it and so serve
it the baked cream will be near an inch thick if it stand 2 or 3 days.
113. _The Red Surfet Water for any Surfet._
Take a gallon of the best aquavite a pint of the best damaske rose
water a pound of white Sugar candy put all these into a large stone
jug to steep a day and a night then put in half a pint of poppy water
distilled as you do your rose water with a pound and half of raisons of
the Sun Stoned with half a pound of dates the Stones taken out and the
white skins, and then slice them very thin then take of mace cinnamon
and anyseeds of each an ounce of cloves bruised half an ounce liquorish
scraped and sliced a quarter of a pound, your anyseeds must be rubed
and dusted then put all these into your aquavite after all these things
have steeped 4 days put into it 6 good handfulls of red poppie leaves
it is the red single poppies that growes amongst the corn and if the
colour be not red enough put in more leaves & after 10 days let it
run through a jelly bag and put it into your glass and so stop it
very close and put in to your glass to it 2 pounds of your smooth musk
carraway comsets, and so keep it for your use, the Spice and Seeds must
be bruised if you do not squeeze those things when you strain it you
may put it into the jug again w^{th} a gallon more of aquavite and half
a pint of poppie water and a pound of Sugar candie more, Stir it every
day twice or thrice for ten days together and keep it close stoped and
then you may mix some of that smaller with the first which was the
strongest of all. This water is good for any surfet what so ever by any
accident and they may give 2 or 3 Spoonfulls last at night and if the
Surfet be dangerous give it once in 6 or 8 hours for 3 several times or
in necessity oftner.
114. _To make French Bread._
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