Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take a peck of fine flour dry’d 6 pounds of almonds blancht and beaten
with rosewater a pint of Sack 4 pints of ale barme breake in 4 pound
of butter carraway seeds and what spice you please mingle all well
together 10 pound of currants after it hath risen & some chopt raisons
will make it moist and some Salt.
395. _To make Jockallato drink._
Take half a pint of milk and as much fair water put both into a glass
bottle set it in a skellet of water when it boyles put to it an ounce
of jockallato finely scraped 2 eggs and 2 ounces of Sugar beat them
very well together and put it into your water in the bottle shaking it
together till it be coole enough to drink.
396. _To make Sugar Cakes._
Take half a pound of flour a quarter of Sugar as much butter 6
spoonfulls of rosewater make it into paste and bake them on plates it
will make 24.
397. _To make Almond Tarts._
Take a quart of cream and a quarter & half quarter of a pound of
blancht almonds beaten very small with a little rosewater and cold
cream put them to the boyling cream with the yolkes of 6 eggs let it
boyle till it be pretty thick still stiring it then take it from the
fire and put in a grain of musk dissolved in a little rosewater put in
a quarter of a pound of sweet butter Sugar to your taste your crust
must be made with an egg a little butter & fair water to your flour
then raise your dough of what fashion you please a little higher than
biskit pans & put no leds to it but pin them up in papers to keep them
up in y^e oven a little more than a quarter of an hour will bake them.
398. _To make Jellies._
Take a log of veal and a pair of calves feet boyle them in 4 gallons
of water and let it boyle 4 or 5 hours till it is a strong jellie then
strain it out through a linnen cloth and let it stand a little while
and take off the fat as clean as you can then put in an ounce of whole
cinnamon & the juice of 6 lemons a quarter of a pint of white wine
vinegar but I think rather white wine a little Salt half a pound of
white Sugar boyle all these in a stew pan or Skillet a little while
then put in the whites of 20 eggs pretty well beaten and let it boyle
half a quarter of an hour then put it into your jelly bag and hang
it as near the fire as you can & let it run into a large dish when
it is all run out put it into a stue pan again & clear it again with
the whites of 6 eggs then put it into your jelly bag again then what
you intend shall be clear let it run into a mazarine or flat dish &
what you would have white let it run through almonds finely beaten and
strain your jelly through them in a cloth into the dish you will serve
it in and you must have Scooped oringes and lemons & egg shells and
fill them with jelly of several colours as you will have them.
To make the red take half an ounce of Kucheneall half an ounce of Roach
allome half an ounce of cream of tartar boyle all these in a pint of
water till half be consumed then put it into a glass and stop it close
& it will keep a year.
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