Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take a pound of Sugar and a pound of apricocks Stone them and pare them
very thin let the Sugar be beaten very fine lay the apricocks in 3
parts of the Sugar all night the next morning boyle them in their own
Sirrop and when you have Scummed them cast in the rest of the Sugar in
the boyling & when they are enough and Scummed put in your ambergrease
& take y^m up.
132. _A Sweet Bag._
TAKE half a pound of benjamin and half a pound of Storacks half a pound
of orris an ounce of cloves and a few orange peels dryed a little sweet
marjerrum dryed beat all these pretty gross and take half a bushel of
damask roses, and a gentle fire under a Still fill the Still w^{th}
roses just damp them then take them out and put them into a large dish
and pull them all to pieces while they be hot Strew these powders being
mixt on the roses work all these together so that the powder may stick
on the roses do thus till all the roses be done then take a great
preserveing glass or 2 that will more than hold it and lay in a lay of
roses and strew in some powder so do till all be in the glasses then
bind it up close with a double white paper and leather on the top then
set it as hot as you can in the Sun every day Shake the glasses very
well if you find it do cake in the middle put your hand in the glasses
and stir it very well and when tis very dry put some amber grease
pounded & some civet rub it about the leaves what quantity you please
so you may keep it in bags as long as you please.
133. _To coller Beef._
Bone the beef and rub the inside of it with Saltpeeter a handfull and
salt it with as much bag Salt as will season it then lay it in pump
water 4 days then let it hang to run dry then season it with cloves
mace nutmegs, marjerom persly time, Seewory Sage, Shred small then
rowle it upward and bind it very hard with broad inkle and bake it in a
pot filled half full of water w^n tis baked take it out of the liquor
and keep it dry.
134. _Cherry Wine._
24 Pound of cherrys stalk’d and stoned and prest in a pot and so stand
30 hours or more then put all in a cotton bag strain it in an earthen
pan and one pound of Loafe Sugar in 24 hours twill run out six quarts
then vessel it for a month then bottle it, lay down the bottles in a
fortnight it may be drank.
135. _Little Cakes to be baked in Pans._
Take a pound of flour and dry it well and a pound of loafe Sugar beaten
and dryed search them both and mingle them together a pound of sweet
butter and wash it in rose water and worke it very much with your hand
and strew in a little of the flour and Sugar still workeing it till tis
half in then put in 6 eggs but 4 whites and so by degrees worke in the
rest when the oven is sweeping put in four spoonfulls of rose water a
little beaten mace a pound of currants your pans must be ready buttered
then fill them half full and search some double refined Sugar on them
bake them half an hour this proportion will fill 2 dozen of pans.
136. _To make a Carrot Pudding._
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