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 six Ounces of Hartshorn, put it into two Quarts of Water and let it
infuse upon Embers all night, then boil it up quick, and when you find
by the Spoon you stir it with, that it will stick to your mouth, if you
do touch it, and that you find the Water to be much wasted, strain it
out, and put in a little more than half a Pound of fine Sugar, a little
Rosewater, a Blade of Mace, and a Stick of Cinamon, the Juice of as many
Limons will give it a good taste, with two Grains of Ambergreece, set
it over a slow fire, and do not let it boil, but when you find it to be
very thick in your mouth, then put it softly into Glasses; and set it
into a Stove, and that will make it to jelly the better.
158. _To make Orange or Limon Chips._
Take the parings of either of these cut thin, and boil them in several
waters till they be tender, then let them lie in cold water a while,
then take their weight in Sugar or more, and with as much water as will
wet it, boil it and scum it, then drain your Chips from the cold water,
and put them into a Gally-pot; and pour this Syrup boiling hot upon
them, so let them stand till the next day, then heat the Syrup again and
pour over them, so do till you see they are very clear, every day do so
till the Syrup be very thick, and then lay them out in a Stove to dry.
159. _To make Cakes of Almonds in thin slices._
Take four Ounces of Jordan Almonds, blanch them in cold water, and slice
them thin the long way, then mix them with little thin pieces of Candied
Orange and Citron Pill, then take some fine Sugar boiled to a Candy
height with some water, put in your Almonds, and let them boil till you
perceive they will Candy, then with a spoon take them out, and lay them
in little Lumps upon a Pie-plate or sleeked Paper, and before they be
quite cold strew Caraway Comfits on them, and so keep them very dry.
160. _To make Chips of any Fruit._
Take any preserved Fruit, drain it from the syrup, and cut it thin, then
boil Sugar to a Candy height, and then put your Chips therein, and shake
them up and down till you see they will Candy, and then lay them out; or
take raw Chips of Fruit boiled first in Syrup, and then a Candy boiled,
and put over them hot, and so every day, till they begin to sparkle as
they lie, then take them out, and dry them.
161. _To preserve sweet Limons._
Take the fairest, and chip them thin, and put them into cold water as
you chip them, then boil them in several waters till a straw may run
through them, then to every pound of limon, take a pound and half of
fine Sugar, and a pint of water, boil it together, and scum it, then
let your Limons scald in it a little, and set them by till the next day,
and every other day heat the syrup only and put to them; so do 9 times,
and then at last boil them in the Syrup till they be clear, then take
them out, and put them into Pots, and boil the Syrup a little more, and
put to them; if you will have them in Jelly, make your Syrup with Pippin
water.
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