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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
TO MAKE A CARAWAY-CAKE
Take three pound and a half of the finest flower and dry it in an oven; one
pound and a half of sweet butter, and mix it with the flower, until it be
crumbled very small, that none of it be seen; Then take three quarters of a
pint of new Ale-yeast, and half a pint of Sack, and half a pint of new
milk; six spoonfuls of Rose-water, four yolks, and two whites of Eggs; Then
let it lie before the fire half an hour or more. And when you go to make it
up, put in three quarters of a pound of Caraway-Confits, and a pound and
half of biskets. Put it into the oven, and let it stand an hour and half.
ANOTHER VERY GOOD CAKE
Take four quarts of fine flower, two pound and half of butter, three
quarters of a pound of Sugar, four Nutmegs; a little Mace; a pound of
Almonds finely beaten, half a pint of Sack, a pint of good Ale-yest, a pint
of boiled Cream, twelve yolks, and four whites of Eggs; four pound of
Currants. When you have wrought all these into a very fine past, let it be
kept warm before the fire half an hour, before you set it into the oven. If
you please, you may put into it, two pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned and
quartered. Let your oven be of a temperate heat, and let your Cake stand
therein two hours and a half, before you Ice it; and afterwards only to
harden the Ice. The Ice for this Cake is made thus: Take the whites of
three new laid Eggs, and three quarters of a pound of fine Sugar finely
beaten; beat it well together with the whites of the Eggs, and Ice the
Cake. If you please you may add a little Musk or Ambergreece.
EXCELLENT SMALL CAKES
Take three pound of very fine flower well dryed by the fire, and put to it
a pound and half of loaf Sugar sifted in a very fine sieve and dryed; Three
pounds of Currants well washed and dryed in a cloth and set by the fire;
When your flower is well mixed with the Sugar and Currants, you must put in
it a pound and half of unmelted butter, ten spoonfuls of Cream, with the
yolks of three new-laid Eggs beat with it, one Nutmeg; and if you please,
three spoonfuls of Sack. When you have wrought your paste well, you must
put it in a cloth, and set it in a dish before the fire, till it be through
warm. Then make them up in little Cakes, and prick them full of holes; you
must bake them in a quick oven unclosed. Afterwards Ice them over with
Sugar. The Cakes should be about the bigness of a hand-breadth and thin: of
the cise of the Sugar Cakes sold at Barnet.
MY LORD OF DENBIGH'S ALMOND MARCH-PANE
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