Confectionery -- Early works to 1800; Pastry -- Early works to 1800
Lay a Pound of Almonds all Night in Water, and warm some Water the
next Day to make them blanch, and then beat them very fine with
Rose-Water; and to a Pound of Almonds take a Pound and a Quarter of
fine Sugar; wet it with Water, boil it to a Candy Height, and then
put to your Almonds three Spoonfuls of Rose-Water, mix it, and put
it to the Candy; set it over the Fire 'till it is scalding hot, then
put in the Juice of a Lemmon and the Rind grated; stir it over the
Fire, and then drop it on Glass or clean Boards: Put it in a hot
Stove; twelve Hours will dry it; then turn it, and dry it the other
Side.
_To make LONG-BISCUIT._
Take thirty Eggs, (the Whites of fourteen (break twenty eight of
them; beat them very well with two Spoonfuls of Rose-Water; then put
in three Pound of sifted Sugar, and beat it all the while the Oven
is heating; then dry two Pound and a Quarter of fine Flower, let it
be cold before you put it in, and put in the two Eggs left out; stir
it well, and drop it. It must have a very quick Oven. Bake it almost
as fast as you can fill your Oven; the Papers must be laid on
Tin-Plates, or they will burn at the Bottom. This fame Biscuit was
the Queen's Seed-Biscuit. Put to half this Quantity half a Pound of
Caraway-Seeds, and bake it in large square Tin-Pans, buttering the
Pans: It bakes best in a cool Oven, after the Drop-Biscuit is baked.
_To make SPUNGE-BISCUIT._
Take the Yolks of eighteen Eggs, beat them well, the Whites of nine
whip'd to a Froth, and beat them well together; put to them two
Pound and two Ounces of sifted Sugar, and have ready half a Pint of
Water, with three Spoonfuls of Rose-Water, boiling hot; and as you
beat the Eggs and Sugar, put in the hot Water, a little at a Time;
then set the Biscuit over the Fire, (it must be beat in a Brass or
Silver Pan) keeping it beating, 'till it is so hot that you can't
hold your Finger in it; then take it off, and beat it 'till 'tis
almost cold; then put in a Pound and Half of Flower well dry'd, and
the Rind of two Lemmons grated. Bake it in little long Pans
butter'd, and in a quick Oven: Sift Sugar over them before you put
them in the Oven.
_To make round BISCUIT with CORIANDER SEEDS._
Take nine Eggs, and but four of the Whites, beat them very well, put
to them eight Spoonfuls of Rose-Water, and eight of
Orange-Flower-Water; beat the Eggs and Water a Quarter of an Hour;
then put in a Pound of sifted Sugar, three Quarter of a Pound of
fine Flower well dry'd, beat this altogether an Hour and Half; then
put in two Ounces of Coriander-Seeds a little bruis'd: When the Oven
is ready, put them in little round Tin-Pans butter'd, and sift Sugar
over them. A cool Oven will bake them.
_To make HARTSHORN-JELLY._
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