Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take your roots new gather’d without joints or knots boyle them tender
in fair water but let your water first boyle before you put them in
then peel them and slit them and wash them in 2 or 3 waters dry them
with a cloth then take twice as much sugar and when your sugar is
refin’d boyle them in one half till they be tender and clear and make
a sirrop of the other half to the hight of manus Christi that is till
it will draw off as fine as a hair then put in your roots again and
boyle them and when you find them enough take them up and shake them in
a bason till they be pretty dry after lay them on papers till they be
quite dry.
357. _To make a Sweetmeat like Rashers of Bacon._
Take some of your marshpane paste rowle it in sanders till it be red
then rowle abroad 3 rowles of the red and 4 of the white and so lay a
white and red & when all is so lay’d cut them a thwart in thin slices
and dry them & it will be like.
358. _To Preserve Oranges in Jelly._
Take thick rind oranges pare or grate them very thin lay them in water
3 or 4 days then boyle them tender in fair water then take them out and
put them into a pan of cold water all night next day dry them with a
cloth put them into so much clarified Sugar as will cover them so let
them boyle soberly close cover’d now and then turning them then let
them stand in an earthen pann all night the next day set them on the
fire again & when you see them look clear & tender then pour them into
a Sive and let your sirrop drain from them then put a quart of apple
water into that sirrop and a pound of fresh Sugar & that will make your
oranges lay in quaking jelly when it boyled with the other sirrop.
359. _Mathew Cariers Ollio or Pottage._
Take 13 pound of beef sliced small and boyle out the gravie of it then
strain it and stew in that broth 6 sweet breads 12 Squobe pigeons 6
pair of Lamb stones 6 sheeps tongues and pallets, 8 marrow bones the
bones boyle with your beef before you strain it and then take them out
and serve them in ye broth with the forementioned ingredients in your
strain’d broth and season it with convenient Salt and Sweet Spices and
put manchet cut grossly in it and raw cuccumber iff in season or a few
green pease or the like and so stew altogether & then serve it in hot
as possible & be sure to have broth enough therefore rather more than
less beef.
360. _To make Sugar Jumballs._
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