The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex — John Shaqi
The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sexWoolley, Hannah, active 1670
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The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670
Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800
Take two Ounces of Oil of sweet Almonds newly drawn, three spoonfuls of
Colts-foot Water, two spoonfuls of Red Rose-Water, two Ounces of white
Sugar-Candy finely beaten; mingle all these together, and beat it one
hour with a spoon, till it be very white; then take it often upon a
Licoras stick. This is very good.
101. _To preserve Grapes._
Take your fairest white Grapes and pick them from the stalks, then stone
them carefully, and save the Juice, then take a pound of Grapes, a pound
of fine Sugar, and a pint of water wherein sliced Pippins have been
boiled, strain that water, and with your Sugar and that make a Syrup,
when it is well scummed put in your Grapes, and boil them very fast, and
when you see they are as clear as glass, and that the Syrup will jelly,
put them into Glasses.
102. _To make Collops of Bacon in Sweet-meats._
Take some Marchpane Paste, and the weight thereof in fine Sugar beaten
and searsed, boil them on the fire, and keep them stirring for fear
they burn, so do till you find it will come from the bottom of the
Posnet, then mould it with fine Sugar like a Paste, and colour some of
it with beaten Cinnamon, and put in a little Ginger, then roll it broad
and thin, and lay one upon another till you think it be of a fit
thickness and cut it in Collops and dry it in an Oven.
103. _To make Violet Cakes._
Take them clipped clean from the whites and their weight in fine Sugar,
wet your Sugar in fair water, and boil it to a Candy height, then put in
your Violets, and stir them well together, with a few drops of a Limon,
then pour them upon a wet Pye-Plate, or on a slicked paper, and cut them
in what form you please; do not let them boil, for that will spoil the
colour: Thus you may do with any Herb or Flower, or with any Orange or
Limon Pill, and, if you like it, put in a little Musk or Ambergreece.
104. _To preserve white Damsons._
Take to every pound one pound of fine Sugar and a quarter of a pint of
fair water, make your Syrup and scum it well, then take it from the
fire, and when it is almost cold put in your Damsons, and let them
scald a little, then take them off a while, and then set them on again;
when you perceive them to be very clear, put them into Pots or Glasses.
105. _To make a very good Cake._
Take a peck of Flower, four pound of Currans well washed, dryed and
picked, four pounds of Butter, one pound of Sugar, one ounce of
Cinnamon, one ounce of Nutmegs, beat the Spice and lay it all night in
Rosewater, the next day strain it out, then take one pint and an half of
good Ale-Yest the Yolks of 4 Eggs, a pint of Cream, put a pound of the
butter into the warmed Cream, put the rest into the Flower in pieces,
then wet your Flower with your Cream, and put in your Currans, and a
little Salt, and four or five spoonfuls of Caraway-Comfits and your
Spice, mix them all and the Yest well together, and let it lie one hour
to rise, then make it up and Bake it in a Pan buttered: It may stand two
hours.
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