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The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
Digby, Kenelm
Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665; Liquors; Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800
Take middle Oat-meal, pick it very clean, steep it all night in Cream, half
a Pint of Oat-meal, to a quart of Cream, make your Cream scalding hot,
before you put in your Oat-meal, so cover it close. Take a good handful of
Penny-royal, shred it very small, with a pound of Beef-suet. Put it to your
Cream with half a pound of Raisins of the Sun, Sugar, Spice, four or five
Eggs, two whites away. So bake it three quarters of an hour; and then serve
it up.
A PLAIN QUAKING-PUDDING
Take about three Pints of new morning Milk, and six or seven new laid Eggs,
putting away half the whites, and two spoonfuls of fine-flower, about a
quarter of a Nutmeg grated, and about a quarter of a pound of Sugar (more
or less, according to your taste,) After all these are perfectly mingled
and incorporated together, put the matter into a fit bag, and so put it
into boiling water, and boil it up with a quick fire. If you boil it too
long, the Milk will turn to whay in the body or substance of the Pudding,
and there will be a slimy gelly all about the outside. But in about half an
hour, it will be tenderly firm, and of an uniform consistence all over.
You need not put in any Butter or Marrow or Suet, or other Spice, but the
small proportion of Nutmeg set down, not grated bread. For the Sauce, you
pour upon it thickened melted Butter, beaten with a little Sack, or
Orange-flower water, and Sugar; or compounded in what manner you please, as
in other such like Puddings.
A GOOD QUAKING BAG-PUDDING
Set a quart of good morning Milk upon the fire, having seasoned it with
Salt, and sliced or grated Nutmeg. When it beginneth to boil, take it from
the fire, and put into it four peny Manchets of light French-bread sliced
very thin (If it were Kingstone-bread, which is firmer, it must be grated)
and a lump of Sweet-butter as big as a Wall-nut, and enough Sugar to season
it; and cover the possnet with a plate to keep the heat in, that the bread
may soak perfectly. Whiles this standeth thus, take ten yolks of
New-laid-eggs, with one White, and beat them very well with a spoonful or
two of Milk; and when the Milk is cooled enough, pour it (with the bread in
it,) into the bason, where the beaten Eggs are, (which likewise should
first be sweetned with Sugar to their proportion,) and put about three
spoonfuls of fine flower into the composition, and knead them well
together. If you will, you may put in a spoonful of Sack or Muscadine, and
Ambared Sugar, working all well together; as also, some lumps of Marrow or
Suet shred very small: but it will be very good without either of these.
Then put this mixtion into a deep Woodden dish (like a great Butter-box)
which must first be on the inside a little greased with Butter, and a
little Flower sprinkled thereon, to save the Pudding from sticking to the
sides of the dish. Then put a linnen cloth or handkercher over the mouth of
the dish, and reverse the mouth downwards, so that you may tye the Napkin
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