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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 a small Cock-chick, when it is scalded, slit it in two pieces, lay it
to soak in warm water, until the blood be well out of it. Then take a
calves foot half boiled, slit it in the middle and pick out the fat and
black of it. Put these into a Gallon of fair-water; skim it very well; Then
put into it one Ounce of Harts-horn, and one Ounce of Ivory. When it is
half consumed, take some of it up in a spoon; and if it gelly, take it all
up, and put it into a silver bason, or such a Pewter one as will endure
Char-coal. Then beat four whites of Eggs, with three or four spoonfuls of
Damask-Rose-water very well together. Then put these into the gelly, with a
quarter of an Ounce of Cinnamon broken into very small pieces; one flake of
Mace; three or four thin slices of Ginger; sweeten it with loaf Sugar to
your liking; set it then over a chafing dish of coals; stir it well, and
cover it close; blow under it, until there arise a scum or curd; let it
boil a little, then put into it one top of Rose-mary, two or three of sweet
Marjoram; wring into it the juyce of half a Limon; let not your curd fall
again, for it will spoil the clearness of the gelly. If you will have it
more Cordial, you may grind in a Sawcer, with a little hard Sugar, half a
grain of Musk, a grain of Ambergreece. It must be boiled in an earthen
pipkin, or a very sweet Iron-pot, after the Harts-horn and Ivory is in it.
It must constantly boil, until it gellieth. If there arise any scum, it
must be taken off.
MARMULATE OF PIPPINS
Take the quickest Pippins, when they are newly gathered, and are sharp;
Pare and Core and cut them into half quarters. Put to them their weight of
the finest Sugar in Powder, or broken into little pieces. Put upon these in
your preserving pan, as much fountain water, as will even cover them. Boil
them with a quick-fire, till by trying a little upon a Plate, you find it
gellieth. When it is cold (which may be in less then half an hour) then
take it from the fire, and put into it a little of the yellow rind of
Limons rasped very small, and a little of the Yellow rinde of Oranges
boiled tender (casting away the first waters to correct their bitterness)
and cut into narrow slices (as in the gelly of Pippins) and some
Ambergreece, with a fourth part of Musk, and break the Apples with the back
of your preserving spoon, whiles it cooleth. If you like them sharper, you
may put in a little juyce of Limon, a little before you take the pan from
the fire. When it is cold, put it into pots. This will keep a year or two.
Try if the juyce of Apples (strained out of rasped Apples) in such sort, as
you make Marmulate of Quinces, with the juyce of Quinces, would not be
better, then fair-water, to boil your Apples and Sugar in.
GELLY OF QUINCES
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