Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take a quart of new milk and a pottle of cream boyle them with whole
cinnamon large mace and sliced nutmeg then take the whole spice out
and coole the cream very well then wring a whole lemon into a little
whitewine vinegar as much as will turn the curd then take the curde
off with your hand and put it into a clean cloth tye it with a thread
& hang it up y^t the whey may drain out of it, in the mean time take
a quarter of a pound of almonds blanch them and grind them very well
as fine as you can then mingle the curd and the almonds being finely
beaten together and put 2, 3 or 4 spoonfulls of rosewater 2 grains of
ambergrease one grain of musk Sugar as much as you please and being
mixt together rub them through a hair sive with a spoon.
314. _To make Dutch Waffers._
Take a pottle of milk and warme it 2 spoonfulls of yest temper it with
a little cold milk and a pretty quantity of salt as may season your
waffers then put it into your milk and 3 manchets which you must first
soake in your milk cuting away the crust then breake it small and put
to it so much flour as will make it batter as thin as pancake batter
beat 18 eggs very thin with a little salt and put them first to your
milk if you will you may grate your bread and mingle it with your flour
and then stir it very well in your milk and eggs melt half a pound of
butter and put it to your batter and set it ariseing in the chimney
corner being cover’d with a cloth till it rise very well and then heat
your irons and take a piece of a bottom cruste and spread it with
butter and so anoint the irons with it then put some of your butter in
ye irons but not to much bake it awhile on that side then turn it on
the other side in like manner and Serve it up w^{th} butter and Sugar.
Probatum.
315. _To make Cracknells._
Take a pound of fine flour and half a pound of fine Sugar finely
searched mingle 3 parts of the flour with the sugar and a few anyseeds
and colliander seeds take 2 ounces of sweet butter and melt it with
2 spoonfulls of rosewater put in it one grain of musk one grain of
ambergreese made into dust with a little sugar mingle it with your
flour and sugar and make your paste with your liquor make it into thin
round cakes and so bake them no thicker than a plate make them up with
the rest of the flour and dust your paper very thick prick your paper
very thick before you lay them on when you set them in the oven wett
them over with the yolk of an egg and rosewater beaten together so bake
them in a reasonable hot oven.
316. _The Lady Jenkinsons Ointment for ye Pain in ye Stomach._
Take one handfull of garden tansey the like quantity of rosemary one
handfull of cammomile shred all these and then boyle them in one pound
of fresh butter till the strength of the herbs be boyled out then
strain it and keep it for your use.
317. _To stop vomitting for one in a Consumption._
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