Confectionery -- Early works to 1800; Pastry -- Early works to 1800
Beat a Pound of Almonds very fine, with Rose-Water, to keep them
from Oiling; mix them with half a Pound of sifted Sugar, make them
up into little long or round Cakes, which you like best; put them in
a Stove or before a Fire, 'till they are dry on one Side, and then
turn them; and when they are dry on both Sides, take very fine Sugar
sifted; to a Pound take as much White of Eggs as will just wet it;
beat it with a Spoon, and as it grows white put in a little more
Egg, 'till it is thin enough to ice the Cakes; then ice first one
Side, and when that is dry before the Fire, ice the other: Be sure
one Side is dry before you do the other.
_To make BEAN'D-BREAD._
Blanch half a Pound of Almonds, slice them thin the long Way, lay
them in Rose-Water all Night; then drain them from the Water, and
set them by the Fire, stirring them 'till they are a little dry and
very hot; then put to them fine Sugar sifted, enough to hang about
them. (They must not be so wet as to make the Sugar like Paste; nor
so dry, but that the Sugar may hang together.) Then lay them in
Lumps on Wafer-Paper, and set them on Papers in an Oven, after
Puffs, or any very cool Oven that Pies have been baked in.
_To make ORANGE or LEMMON-PUFFS._
Take a Pound of fine sifted Sugar, and grate the Outside Rind of two
large Oranges or Lemmons; put the Rind to the Sugar, and beat them
well together in a Mortar; grind it well with a Pestle, and make it
up to a stiff Paste with Gum-Dragon well steep'd; then beat the
Paste again, rowl or square it, and bake it in a cool Oven, on
Papers and Tin-Plates.
_To make ALMOND-PASTE, either BITTER or SWEET: The BITTER are
RATAFEA._
Blanch and beat a Pound of Almonds; put in just Rose-Water enough to
keep them from Oiling; then take a Pound of fine Sugar, and boil it
to a Candy; and when it is almost at a Candy Height, put in the
Almonds; stir them over a cool Fire 'till it is a very dry stiff
Paste, and almost cold, and set it by 'till it is quite cold; then
beat it well in a Mortar, and put to it a Pound and a Half of fine
sifted Sugar; rub it very well together, and make it up with a
Spoonful of well-steep'd Gum-Dragon and Whites of Eggs, whip'd to a
Froth; then squirt it, and bake it in a cool Oven; put into the
Sweet-Almonds the Rind of a Lemmon grated, but none in the Bitter:
If you don't make the first Paste stiff, they will run about the
Oven. Bake them on Papers and Tin-Plates.
_To make LITTLE ROUND RATAFEA-PUFFS._
Take half a Pound of Kernels, or Bitter-Almonds, beat very stiff,
and a Pound and a Half of sifted Sugar; make it up to a stiff Paste
with White of Eggs whip'd to a Froth; beat it well in a Mortar, and
make it up in little Loaves; then bake them in a very cool Oven, on
Paper and Tin-Plates.
_To make BROWN-WAFERS._
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