Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
When you have any cold veale Turkey Capon or rabbit a small quantity
will serve mince it very small. put about twice as much sewit minced
fine grate a penny loafe & put into it mince a few sweet herbs as
marjorum, penny royall, Spinnage &c., season it with nutmegs Sugar
cinnamon a little Salt, rose water a little verjuice 5 or 6 eggs some
currants worke it up altogether between your hand then put it into the
pye, and put upon the meat marrow dates, lemon and orange peels canded
and citheron and Suckets slicet lemon and some barberrys when it is
baket fill it up with a good liquor made of half a pint of vergise the
juice of a lemon butter and sugar and thicken’d with eggs like Caudle
y^e bread will soake a great deal.
278. _To make Spanish Biskits._
Take the yolks of 10 eggs and the whites of 5 and a pound of sift’d
loafe Sugar half a spoonfull of orange flower water beat all these
together 3 quarters of an hour then shake in 12 ounces of fine flour
and beat it a quarter of an hour more, have the pans ready butter’d &
almost fill them let not the oven be to hot very little will bake them
and slide them out before the pans are cold.
279. _To pot Hare._
First take all the meat clean from the bones and beat it very well as
to draw out all the sinews and strings then season it with cloves mace
and white pepper pounded very fine there must be as much again pepper
as other spices then mixt it with a sufficient quantity of salt, season
the meat and work it in your hands then have ready some thin slices
of fat bacon free from rasty and take a narrow high crutch and put a
little butter in the bottom of the pan then a laying of slices of bacon
then a laying of hare then bacon, so do till all is in the pot, lay
good store of butter upon top and paste it very close let it be close
stopt in the oven 3 hours, then press it into your other pot with the
back of a spoon very Close puting over it 6 spoonfulls of the butter
it was baked in. So let it stand till the next morning then fill it up
with the same butter if that be not enough add more the pot must be
dry’d at y^e fire.
280. _To wash Gloves._
Take yolkes of eggs and wheat flour and rub over the gloves like soap
then take a hard brush and warme water and lay them on a board and
scowre them well then take whiteing and water and mix it as thick as
batter and dip your gloves in it and when they are half dry draw them
on your hands and when they are dry beat out the dust and Gum them with
gum dragon with a spunge the gum must be steep’d with cold water the
Coulours are Spanish brown oaker, umber and red ledd.
281. _Eye Water._
Red rose water and white rose water of each a penny worth, 2 penny
worth of powder of Putty a quarter as much white Sugar candy shake it
altogether in a bottle & drop it into y^e eyes night and mornings.
282. _A Rich Cordiall._
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