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 the tender green stalks and boil them in water till they be tender,
then peel them, and put them into another warm water, and cover them
till they are very green over a slow fire, then lay them on a clean
Cloth to dry, then take their weight in fine Sugar, and boil it to a
Candy height with some Rosewater, then put in your stalks, and boil them
up quick, and shake them often and when you judge they be enough, lay
them on a Pie-plate, and open them with a little stick, and so they will
be hollow, and some of them you may braid, and twist some of them, so
keep them dry.
178. _To make Seed-stuff of Rasberries._
Take Rasberries and bruise them, and take their weight in fine Sugar,
and boil it to a Candy height with a little water, then put in your
bruised Rasberries, and boil them till you see they will jelly very
well.
179. _To make Syrup of Gilly-flowers._
Take Clove-gilly-flowers, and cut them from the Whites, then take their
weight in Sugar beaten fine, then put a little sugar into your
Gally-pot, and then a Lay of Flowers, and then sugar again, till all be
spent, and let sugar be the last, then put in a Clove or two, according
to your quantity, and a little Malago Sack; and so tie your Pot up
close, and set it into a Pot or Kettle of boiling water, and let them
stand till they are infused; then poure out the Liquor and strain the
rest, but not too hard, then take this liquor and vapour it away over
seething water till it be of a good thickness, then take your strained
Gilliflowers and put them into a Pot with some White-wine Vinegar, and
cover them over with fine Sugar, and so keep them; they are a better
Sallad than those you pickle up alone; as you make this, you may make
syrup of any Herbs or Flowers.
180. _To make most excellent Cake._
Take a strik'd Peck of Flower, six pounds of Currans, half an Ounce of
Mace, half an Ounce of Cinamon, a quarter of an Ounce of Cloves, as much
of Nutmeg, half a pound of fine Sugar, and as much Rosewater as you
please; beat your Spice, and put that and your Fruits with a little Salt
into your Flower, then take Cream or new Milk as much as you think fit,
dissolve thereinto two pounds of fresh Butter, then put it in a Basin
with the sugar and a Pint of Sack, knead it with a Wine-Pint of
Ale-Yest, knead it till it rise under your hand, let all things be ready
and your Oven hot before you go to knead the Cake.
181. _To make Pomatum the best way._
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