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 quarts of Cream and boil it with Whole Spice, then take twelve
Eggs well beaten and drained, take the Cream from the fire, and stir in
the Eggs, and as much Sugar as will sweeten it, then put in so much Sack
as will make it taste well, and set it on the fire again, and let it
stand a while, then take a Ladle and raise it up gently from the bottom
of the Skillet you make it in, and break it as little as you can, and so
do till you see it be thick enough; then put it into a Bason with the
Ladle gently; if you do it too much it will whey, and that is not good.
168. _Another way for a Posset._
Boil a Quart of Cream as for the other, then take the Yolks of fourteen
Eggs and four Whites, beat them and strain them, take the Cream from the
fire, and stir in your Eggs, then have your Sack warmed in a Bason, and
when the Cream and Eggs are well mixed, put it to the Sack, and sweeten
it to your taste with fine Sugar, and let it stand over a Skillet of
seething water for a while.
169. _To preserve Pippins in thin slices in Jelly._
Take of the fairest Pippins, pare them, and slice them into cold water,
to every pound of Pippins take a pound of Sugar, and a Pint of Water,
boil it and scum it, then shake your Pippins clean from the water, and
put them into the Syrup, boil them very clear and apace, then put in
some thin Chips, or Orange or Citron preserved, and to one Pound of
Pippin, put the Juice of two Oranges and one Limon, then boil them a
little longer till you see they will jelly, and then put them into
Glasses, but take heed you lay them in carefully, and lay the Chips here
and there between, and warm the Jelly and put softly over them.
170. _To preserve Currans in Jelly._
Take the fairest and pick them from the Stalks, and stone them, and take
their weight in sugar, wet it with water, boil it and scum it, then put
in your Currans, and boil them up quick, shake them often and scum them,
and when they will jelly, they are enough; then put them into Glasses;
thus you may do white and red both, and they will be in a stiff Jelly,
and cut very well, do not cover them before they be cold.
171. _To preserve ripe Apricocks._
Take them and stone them, and weigh them, and to every Pound of
Apricocks take a Pound of fine Sugar beaten small, then pare your
Fruit, and as you pare them, cast some Sugar over them, and so do till
all be done, then set them on the fire, and let the Sugar melt but
gently, then boil them a little in the Syrup, and set them by till the
next day, then boil them quick, and till they be very clear, then put
them in Pots, and boil the Syrup a little more, and put it to them, if
you would have them in Jelly, you must put some of the Infusion of
Goosberries, or of Pippins into your Syrup, and add more Sugar to it.
172. _To preserve Cornelions._
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