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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
Blanch Nut-Kernels from the Husks in the best manner you can. Then pun them
with a due proportion of Sugar, and a little Orange-flower, or Rose-water.
When it is in a fitting uniform paste, make it into round Cakes, about the
bigness of your hand, or a little larger, and about a finger thick; and lay
every one upon a fine paper cut fit to it; which lay upon a table. You must
have a pan like a tourtiere, made to contain coals on the top, that is
flat, with edges round about to hold in the coals, which set over the
Cakes, with fire upon it. Let this remain upon the Cakes, till you
conceive, it hath dryed them sufficiently for once; which may be within a
quarter of an hour; but you take it off two or three times in that time, to
see you scorch not the outside, but only dry it a little. Then remove it to
others, that lye by them; and pull the Papers from the first, and turn them
upon new Papers. When the others are dryed enough, remove the pan back to
the first, to dry their other side: which being enough, remove it back to
the second, that by this time are turned, and laid upon new Papers. Repeat
this turning the Cakes, and changing the Pan, till they are sufficiently
dry: which you must not do all at once, least you scorch them: and though
the outside be dry, the inside must be very moist and tender. Then you must
Ice them thus: Make a thick pap with Orange flower or Rose-water, and
purest white Sugar: a little of the whites of Eggs, not above half a
spoonful of that Oyl of Eggs, to a Porrenger full of thick Pap, beaten
exceeding well with it, and a little juyce of Limons. Lay this smooth upon
the Cakes with a Knife, and smoothen it with a feather. Then set the pan
over them to dry them. Which being if there be any unevenness, or cracks or
discolouring, lay on a little more of that Mortar, and dry it as before.
Repeat this, till it be as clear, and smooth, and white, as you would have
it. Then turn the other sides, and do the like to them. You must take care,
not to scorch them: for then they would look yellow or red, and they must
be pure, white and smooth like Silver between polished and matte, or like a
looking Glass. This Coat preserves the substance of the Cakes within, the
longer moist. You may beat dissolved Amber, or Essence of Cinnamon, with
them.
TO MAKE SLIPP COAT CHEESE
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