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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
Quarter and Core your Pippins; then stamp them in a Mortar, and strain out
the Juyce. Let it settle, that the thick dregs may go to the bottom; then
pour off the clear; and to have it more clear and pure, filter it through
sucking Paper in a glass funnel. To one pound of this take one pound and an
half of pure double refined Sugar, and boil it very gently (scarce
simpringly, and but a very little while) till you have scummed away all the
froth and foulness (which will be but little) and that it be of the
consistence of Syrup. If you put two pound of Sugar to one pound of juyce,
you must boil it more & stronglier. This will keep longer, but the colour
is not so fine. It is of a deeper yellow. If you put but equal parts of
juyce and Sugar, you must not boil it, but set it in a _Cucurbite in
bulliente Balneo_, till all the scum be taken away, and the Sugar well
dissolved. This will be very pale and pleasant, but will not keep long.
You may make your Syrup with a strong decoction of Apples in water (as when
you make gelly of Pippins) when they are green; but when they are old and
mellow, the substance of the Apple will dissolve into pap, by boiling in
water.
Take three or four spoonfuls of this Syrup in a large draught of fountain
water, or small posset-Ale, _pro ardore urinae_ to cool and smoothen, two or
three times a day.
GELLY OF PIPPINS OR JOHN-APPLES
Cut your Apples into quarters (either pared or unpared). Boil them in a
sufficient quantity of water, till it be very strong of the Apples. Take
the clear liquor, and put to it sufficient Sugar to make gelly, and the
slices of Apple; so boil them all together, till the slices be enough, and
the liquor gelly; or you may boil the slices, in Apple-liquor without
Sugar, and make gelly of other liquor, and put the slices into it, when it
is gelly, and they be sufficiently boiled. Either way, you must put at the
last some juyce of Limon to it; and Amber and Musk if you will. You may do
it with halves or quartered Apples, in deep glasses, with store of gelly
about them. To have these clear, take the pieces out of the gelly they are
boiled in, with a slice, so as you may have all the rags run from them, and
then put neat clean pieces into clear gelly.
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