Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take half a peck of flower, 2 ounces of carraway and anyseeds then take
a pint of yest the yolkes of 3 eggs a little Salt one nutmeg half a
pound of Sugar beat the Sugar and nutmegs bruise the Seeds take a quart
of milk Scaulding hot but not to boyle then put into your milk half a
pound of butter, & break another half pound of butter into the flower
if you please put in 6 or 7 spoonfulls of Sack and as much rosewater
w^{th} your other things then put in your milk by degrees mix it
together well but knead it not at all then pull it in little bitts 2 or
3 times then mix it up again and mak them up in wigs lying will make
them heavy. half an hour will bake them.
13. _For the Giddiness in the Head._
Take an ounce of comming Seed and Steep it in white wine all night
as much wine as will cover it and then you must dry it in an oven
after the bread is drawn and dry with it an ounce of Juniper berrys
& a handfull or rue then you must beat all these together to a fine
powder and when you use it take as much of the powder as will lay on a
Sixpence in a Spoonfull of honey well mixed together or in a Spoonfull
of Sugar and take it dry.
14. _How to Stue a Rump of Beef._
Take the rump of beef and Stuff him with parsley and broad time & about
half a nutmeg with a little beef Sewet then put him in your pan with
as much water as will cover him & so lett him stew with whole pepper,
Cloves and mace of each a little quantity till he is tender then you
must take him out & stick him w^{th} cloves then stew him again with 3
pints of the first liquor and 2 quarts of claret, then you must Scrape
in 2 nutmegs 4 anchovise the bottoms of 4 hartichokes a little shellot
half a lemon a few pickled oysters, half a score of turnips cut in half
quarters & fry them in Sweet butter till they be tender then put in
some Sasages: for herbs lettice and spinnage and green beets of each
half a handfull boyle them in a Skillet of water so drop them out & put
them in the stewing; if your Soope be not thick enough then thicken it
w^{th} crums of brown bread.
15. _To make Almond Cakes._
Take one pound of Almonds blancht in cold water beat them in Rose water
take a pound of double refined Sugar beaten and Searcht, 8 spoonsfull
of fine flower 8 new laid eggs both whites and yolkes Some Corriander
Seed prepared, butter your plats and Shake some double refined Sugar on
them.
16. _To make Biskit._
Take 2 pound of fine Sugar beaten and searched then to a pound and a
half of it put a pound of the finest wheat flower, take 8 eggs and
beat them with 2 spoonfulls of Rose water, mingle your flower and eggs
together, then take an ounce of anyseeds being a quarter of an hour
in white wine and as you beat your biskit put in your Seeds and when
the biskit begins to look white put In your plats & Shake Some double
refined Sugar on them.
17. _To Bake a Rump of Beef._
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