Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take of the best sort of cherries full ripe Stone them then breake
them to mash and let them stand all night in something that will not
change the colour of the cherrie liquor next day strain them out in a
jelly bagg & press out all the juice let it run upon Sugar and to every
gallon put a pound of Sugar then tun it up stop it up close and let
it stand a month or 6 weeks then draw it out into bottles & in every
bottle put a little loaf Sugar & stop it up close.
379. _The Portugal Cake._
Take a pound of loafe Sugar beat and search it very fine through a sive
w^{th} a pound of very well dryed and fine flour that the Sugar and
flour may be well mingled together then take a pound of butter and wash
it well in rose water and then worke it with your hand till it be very
soft then strew your flour and Sugar in by degrees till it be half in
then put in 6 yolkes of eggs and but 4 whites then by degrees worke in
the other half of flour and Sugar and when the oven is hot or ready put
in 2 spoonfulls of rosewater and a pound of currants or 3 quarters of
carraway comfits which you like best and have your plats ready buttered
and fill them but half full & sift on some double refined Sugar on
them let the oven be pretty hot and set up the Lid these will keep and
Spend well.
380. _To Cure the Heart Burning._
Take of the Stone under the crafish eyes taken from the crafish when
the Sun is in cancer is best take as much of these stones in powder as
will lay on a 6 pence in a morning and fast after it in some small ale
posset drink or burrage water aproved in its cure and the quality of
the stone in powder it will turn vinegar sweet if steep’d in it.
381. _A Cream Cheese._
Take a gallon of stroakings and 2 quarts of cream you must take a pint
of new milk and put to your cream your cream must be very sweet cream
then take as many pickt marigold flowers as you can hold in your hands
pound them and strain them into the stroakings you must but boyle up
your cream and run it up almost scaulding hot you must not breake your
curd but cut it a cross and a thwart into your vate about an inch deep
your vate must be. So set it in ye press & when you take it out you
must keep it in rushes it will be ready in 10 days or a fortnight.
382. _The Lady Ashfields Almond Puffs, Jumballs Beaten Small with Rose
Water or Orange Flower Water._
Take 5 or 6 almonds to a quarter of a pound of Sugar a quarter of the
white of an egg froth’d so made up and dryed in an oven. Her Angelicoe
cakes thus pour your angeligoe into hot water to green boyle your Sugar
to a candy hight chop your angeligoe when green’d and peeled & so boyle
them in your sirrop and drop them into cakes and strew them till dry &
they will keep all the year.
383. _The Lady Fusts Hipoccras._
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