Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take a rump of beef and bone it Season it with pepper and salt put it
into a pan and then put to it a little quantity of claret & ale enough
to cover it about 8 anchovies 2 handfulls of capers 6 hole oynions, 3
or 4 branches of Sage, time and winter Savory, 3 or 4 heads of Shollot
a little quantity of Iamakoe pepper whole, lay the bones on the top of
the beef and cover it close with paste and lett it Stand in the oven
six hours the oven being very hot.
18. _The Black Seare Cloth._
Take half a pound of the best virgins wax and half a pint of oyle of
roses and half a pint of oyle of olive melt them altogether let them
coole in a pan till it be half cold then take half a pound of the
finest white lead you can get, pound it as fine as possibly you can put
this into the oyle and put it over a fire of coles and let it boyle
half an hour then take 2 ounces of mastick 2 ounces of frankincense 2
ounces of mirrh 2 ounces of Gum oblibanum beat them into fine powder
then put it in and let it boyle half an hour more, then take a quarter
of an ounce of camphir and put it in and Stir it till it be black then
take it from the fire and dipe your cloth or make it up in roles for
your use.
19. _To make Lemon or Orange Water._
Take the peels of 8 lemons or oranges and pare of the white very clean
from them then put them into a quart of brandy, then take one pound of
double refined Sugar or other loafe Sugar and put it into a quart of
water and let it stand 24 hours then mix the water and brandy together
and strain them through a double flanin bag so bottle it up for use.
Some steep y^e peel 3 days before and after y^e water is added sweeten
it with white Sugar Candy & hang a grain of musk & ambergreese in the
glass.
20. _Cowslip Wine aproved._
Take 3 gallons of fair water put to it the best of powder Sugar or Loaf
Sugar 6 pound boyle it together half an hour or better, and as the
Scumme riseth take it off then pour it forth and set it a cooleing
and when ’tis almost cold take a spoonfull or better of good barm beat
it well together with 12 spoonfulls of Sirrup of cittorn or lemons
then put it some of the liquor being almost cold let it stand a while
to rise put in a Gallon of cowslip flowers bruised in a marble morter
into the other liquor the while then put it altogether brewing it up
and down with a dish then let it stand in an earthen pot close covered
with a cloth, to worke 2 or 3 days then strain it forth and put it into
a runlet that will just hold it and when it worketh not over Stop it
close and 3 or 4 weeks after bottle it putting into each bottle a knob
of Loaf Sugar it must not be dranke in a month twill keep good a year.
21. _For the Worms._
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