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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 four ounces of blanched Almonds; of Pine kernels, and of Pistachios,
_ana_, four Ounces. Erin-go-roots, Candid-Limon peels, _ana_, three Ounces,
Candid Orange peels two Ounces, Candid Citron-peels four Ounces, of powder
of white Amber, as much as will lie upon a shilling; and as much of the
powder of pearl, 20 grains of Ambergreece, three grains of Musk, a book of
leaf gold, Cloves and Mace, of each as much as will lie upon a three pence;
cut all these as small as possible you can. Then take a pound of Sugar, and
half a pint of water, boil it to a candy-height, then put in the
Ambergreece and Musk, with three or four spoonfulls of Orange flower water.
Then put in all the other things and stir them well together, and cast them
upon plates, and set them to dry: when both sides are dry, take
Orange-flower-water and Sugar, and Ice them.
TO MAKE HARTS-HORN GELLY
Take four Ounces of Harts-horn rasped, boil it in four pound of water, till
it will be a gelly, which you may try upon a plate (it will be so, in four
or five or six hours gentle boiling) and then pass the clear liquor from
the horn (which will be a good quart) then set it on the fire again with
fine Sugar in it to your taste; when that is dissolved (or at the same time
you put that in) put half a pound of white-wine or Sack into it, and a bag
of Spice, containing a little Ginger, a stick of Cinnamon bruised, a Nutmeg
quartered, two or three Cloves, and what other Spice you like, but Pepper.
As soon as it beginneth to boil, put into it the whites of three or four
Eggs beaten, and let it boil up gently, till the Eggs harden into a curd.
Then open it with a spoon, and pour into it the juyce of three or four
good Limons; then take it presently off the fire, letting it not boil more
above a walm: Then run it through a Hippocras bag, putting spirit of
Cinnamon, or of Ambergreece, or what you please to it.
For gelly of flesh you proceed in the same manner, with a brawny Capon or
Cock, and a rouelle of Veal (first skinned, and soaked from the blood) in
stead of Harts-horn: and when the broth will gelly, do as above, using a
double or treble proportion of wine. Boil no Salt in it at first, for that
will make the gelly black.
HARTS-HORN GELLY
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