Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take to every gallon of white wine 2 quarts of rasberryes bruise them
then put them and your wine into a stone pot and add to every gallon of
wine a quarter of a pound of sugar so cover it close and let it stand
steeping 5 days stiring it once every day then take an hipocras bag &
wet it with milk and so run your wine through it several times till it
run clear then draw it off into bottles and let it stand 3 week with
the corkes but slightly put in then put into each bottle a knob of
sugar and stop up your bottles then very close & tye down y^e corke &
set them in a coole place and it will keep a great while.
332. _The Lady Ashfields Metheglin._
Take fair water and the best honey beat them well together but not in a
wooden vessel for wood drinks up your honey put it together in a kittle
and trye it with a new laid egg which will swim at top if it be very
strong but if it bob up and sinke it will be to weake and you must add
more honey one quarter of honey to a gallon of water will make it very
strong then boyle it an hour and put in to it a bundle of herbs what
sort you like best a little bag of spices of nutmegs, ginger, cloves
and mace and cinnamon Scumme it well all the while it boyles when it
hath boyled a full hour take it off and put it into earthen pans and
so let it stand till the next day pour out all the clear of it into
a good vessel that hath had sack or white wine in it let your bag of
spices hang in it and so let it be very close stop’d & well filled and
let it stand a month longer then if you desire to drink it quickly you
may bottle it up if it be strong of the honey you may keep it a year
or 2, but if weaker than the proportions above writen then it will be
ready in 3 months to be spent rosemary time & sweet marjeron are ye
herbs should go into it a sprig or 2 of each.
333. _The Marleborow Cake._
Take a peck of fine flour to it 4 pound of currants 4 pound of butter
of cloves mace nutmegs carraway (or corriander) of each a quarter an
ounce but most of mace a pound of Sugar a pennyworth of Saffron Sack
and rosewater ale yest something less than a pint so make them up into
cakes about 2 inches thick prick them w^{th} a bodkin and bake them for
your use.
334. _To make ye Spanish Cream._
Take 5 quarts of milk warm from the cow and when it’s boyl’d up to ye
top of the Skillet have a quart of cream ready and put it into the milk
and stir it well about while on the fire then take it off and put it
in 3 or 4 Sallet dishes and let it stand in a coole place that day and
a night ye next day take ye cream clean off and put it in a deep gally
pot and put as much Sugar as will sweeten it and with a spoon beat it
till it be as thick as cream in a churn when it is ready to break and
then put it in a dish in what fashion you please with raw cream with it
or rather about it.
335. _A Cabbidge Cream._
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