Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
the bottom upwards as being the best and put fresh butter to it and
when cold it will eat as if new done but while it is spending wherever
cut it must be cover’d again with butter or it will turn vinie if it
stand to take air where cut the pot you turn it into ought to be a
sweet and well seasoned pot w^{th} some fresh butter in it.
405. _To make Wigs._
Take 3 pound and a half of fine flour a pound of butter melt’d in a
pint of milk and a quart of good ale yest half a pound of Sugar mix’t
in your butter milk and yest halfe an ounce of cloves mace and nutmegs
a quarter of an ounce of carraway seeds a little salt mingle all these
well together in your flour working them all into a pretty stiff paste
w^{th} your hands & weigh out about 4 ounces to a wig and So rowle
them up into wigs and bake them upon paper or tin plates butter.
406. _To dry Goosberryes Plummes or Angelicoe._
Take your goosberries the fairest you can get or your plummes and slit
them on the side with a penknife or on the top and lay them in hot
water and so let them lay in the hot water till they be tender as you
will have them at all then take them out and put them into cold water
your goosberrys or plummes and let them lay a week or 10 days till the
water be very sharpe of the taste but the angelicoe must lay in water
but 4 days then make a very strong sirrop and so boyle them up you must
keep your angelicoe a fortnight in your sirrop then take it out of your
sirrop and lay it on a confectioners wyer to dry over a charcole fire
throughly kindled that there be no smoake in the kindled coales of
either wood or cole if you have occasion to dry oringes or lemons keep
y^m in a strong sirrop till a day or 2 before you use them and dry them
after the same manner they will be dry in half an hour or Less, dry
without & moist within and this way will make your fruit green enough
without any peeling and also your angelicoe.
407. _To Roste a Haunch of Venison._
Skin and bone your venison beat it and season it as you like best sweet
or hot spices salt and herbs such as please your taste best then coller
it as you do beef with some butter or bacon with your Seasoning tyeing
it hard with pack thread wraping it up first in the caul or skin of the
venison so tye it on to your spit Save what drops from it in rosting
for your Sauce rosting it very well and so Serve it up.
408. _To make the Cockleshell Sweetmeat._
Take some double refined Sugar and search it very fine through a fine
sive and beat it into a stiff paste with a white of an egg and rowle it
very thin and put it on your shells and dry it in a stove or in the sun
you may colour y^m as you please.
409. _To make Red Currant Wine._
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