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
162. _To make a Custard for a Consumption._
Take four Quarts of Red Cows Milk, four Ounces of Conserve of Red Roses,
prepared Pearl, prepared Coral, and white Amber, of each one Dram, two
Ounces of white Sugar Candy, one grain of Ambergreece, put these into an
earthen pot with some leaf gold, and the yolks and whites of twelve
Eggs, a little Mace and Cinamon, and as much fine Sugar as will sweeten
it well; Paste the Pot over and bake it with brown Bread, and eat of it
every day so long as it will last.
163. _To make Chaculato._
Take half a Pint of Claret Wine, boil it a little, then scrape some
Chaculato very fine and put into it, and the Yolks of two Eggs, stir
them well together over a slow Fire till it be thick, and sweeten it
with Sugar according to your taste.
164. _To dry any Sort of Plumbs._
Take to every pound of Plumbs three quarters of a pound of Sugar, boil
it to a Candy height with a little water, then put in your Plumbs ready
stoned, and let them boil very gently over a slow fire, if they be white
ones they may boil a little faster, then let them by till the next day,
then boil them well, and take them often from the fire for fear of
breaking, let them lie in their Syrup for four or five days, then lay
them out upon Sieves to dry, in a warm Oven or Stove, turning them upon
clean Sieves twice every day, and fill up all the broken places, and put
the skins over them, when they are dry, wash off the clamminess of them
with warm water, and dry them in the Oven, and they will look as though
the dew were upon them.
165. _To make Jelly of Quinces._
Take your Quinces, pare them and core them, and cut them in quarters,
then put them into a new earthen pot with a narrow mouth, put in some
of the cores in the bottom, and then the Quinces, paste it up and bake
it with brown Bread, then run it thorough a bagg of boulting stuff as
fast as you can, and crush it pretty hard, so long as it will run clear,
to every pound of it take a pound of fine Sugar, and put into it, and
let it stand till it be dissolved, then set it over a slow fire, and
scum it well, and keep it stirring till it jelly, then put it into
Glasses and keep it in a stove.
166. _To make a Posset._
Take a Quart of White-wine and a quart of Water, boil whole Spice in
them, then take twelve Eggs and put away half the Whites, beat them very
well, and take the Wine from the fire, then put in your Eggs and stir
them very well, then set it on a slow fire, and stir it till it be
thick, sweeten it with Sugar, and strew beaten Spice thereon, then serve
it in.
You may put in Ambergreece if you like it, or one perfumed Lozenge.
167. _To make a Sack Posset._
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