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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
Pare and Core the Wardens, and put a little of the thin rind of a Limon
into the hole that the Core leaveth. To every pound of Wardens, take half a
pound of Sugar, and half a pint of water. Make a Syrup of your Sugar and
Water; when it is well scummed, put it into a Pewter dish, and your Wardens
into the Syrup, and cover it with another Pewter dish; and so let this boil
very gently, or rather stew, keeping it very well covered, that the steam
get out as little as may be. Continue this, till the Wardens are very
tender, and very red, which may be in five, or six, or seven hours. Then
boil them up to the height the Syrup ought to be to keep: which yet will
not be well above three or four months. The whole secret of making them
red, consisteth in doing them in Pewter, which spoileth other preserves,
and in any other mettal these will not be red. If you will have any Amber
in them, you may to ten or twelve pounds of Wardens, put in about twenty
grains of Amber, and one, or at most, two grains of Musk, ground with a
little Sugar, and so put in at the last. Though the Wardens be not covered
over with the Syrup in the stewing by a good deal, yet the steam, that
riseth and cannot get out, but circulateth, will serve both to stew them,
and to make them red and tender.
SWEET MEAT OF APPLES
My Lady Barclay makes her fine Apple-gelly with slices of John apples.
Sometimes she mingles a few Pippins with the John's to make the Gelly. But
she liketh best the John's single, and the colour is paler. You first fill
the glass with slices round-wise cut, and then the Gelly is poured in to
fill up the vacuities. The Gelly must be boiled to a good stiffness. Then
when it is ready to take from the fire, you put in some juyce of Limon, and
of Orange too, if you like it: but these must not boil; yet it must stand a
while upon the fire stewing in good heat, to have the juyces Incorporate
and Penetrate well. You must also put in some Ambergreece, which doth
exceeding well in this sweet-meat.
A FLOMERY-CAUDLE
When Flomery is made and cold, you may make a pleasant and wholesome caudle
of it, by taking some lumps and spoonfuls of it, and boil it with Ale and
White wine, then sweeten it to your taste with Sugar. There will remain in
the Caudle some lumps of the congealed flomery, which are not ungrateful.
PLEASANT CORDIAL TABLETS, WHICH ARE VERY COMFORTING, AND STRENGTHEN NATURE
MUCH
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