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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 a pottle of half-cut Groats; pick them clean, that there may be no
husks nor foulness in them; then put them into a Mortar, bruise them a
little with a Pestle; then have ready either Milk, or fresh meat-broth
boiled up, and the Oat-meal immediately put into it; It must be just so
much as will cover it; then cover the thing close that it is in, and let it
steep twenty four hours; To this two quarts of Oatmeal, put a pint and
half of blood, season it well with Salt, and a little Pepper, and a little
beaten Cloves and Mace, eight Eggs, yolks and whites, five pound of
Kidney-beef-suet shred, but not too small; then put in of these herbs;
Peny-royal, Fennel, Leek-blades, Parsley, Sage, Straw-berry-leaves and
Violet leaves, equal parts, in all to the quantity of a good handful; let
them be pick'd and washed very clean, and chop'd very small, and mingled
well with the former things; Then fill your Puddings.
Make ready your guts in this manner. Cleanse them very well, when they are
fresh taken out of the Hog; and after they are well washed and scowred, lay
them to soak in fair water three days and three nights, shifting the water
twice every day: and every time you shift the water, scour them first with
Water and Salt. An hour and a quarter is enough to boil them.
TO PRESERVE PIPPINS IN JELLY, EITHER IN QUARTERS, OR IN SLICES
Take good sound clear Pippins, pare, quarter and coar them; then put them
into a skillet of Conduit-water, such a proportion as you intend to make;
boil it very well: then let the liquor run from the pulp through a sieve,
without forcing, and let it stand till the next morning. Take Orange or
Limon peel, and boil in a skillet of water, till they are tender; then rowl
them up in a linnen cloth to dry the water well out of them; let them lie
so all night. Then take of double refined and finely beaten and searced
Sugar a pound to every pint of Pippin Liquor that ran through the sieve,
and to every pound of Sugar, and pint of liquor, put ten Ounces of Pippins
in quarters or in slices, but cut them not too thin; boil them a little
while very fast in the Pippin-liquor, before you put in the Sugar, then
strew in the Sugar all over them as it boileth, till it is all in, keeping
it still fast boiling, until they look very clear; by that you may know
they are enough. While they boil, you must still be scumming them; then put
in your juyce of Limon to your last, and Amber, if you please; and after
let it boil half a dozen walms, but no more. Then take it from the fire,
and have ready some very thin Brown-paper, and clap a single sheet close
upon it, and if any scum remain, it will stick to the Paper. Then put your
quarters or slices into your Glasses, and strew upon them very small slices
of Limon or Orange (which you please) which you had before boiled; then
fill up your Glasses with your jelly.
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