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 five Pounds of Manchet Paste mingled very stiff and light without
Salt, cover it, and let it be rising half an hour, when your Oven is
almost hot, take two pounds and half of Butter, very good, and melt it,
and take five Eggs, Yolks and Whites beaten, and half a pound of Sugar,
mingle them all together with your Paste, and let it be as lithe as
possible you can work it, and when your Oven is hot and swept, strew
into your Cake one Pound of Caraway Comfits, then butter a baking-Pan,
and bake it in that, let it stand one hour and quarter; when you draw
it, lay a course Linnen Cloth and a Woollen one over it, so let it lie
till it be cold, then put it into an Oven the next day, for a little
time, and it will eat as though it were made of Almonds, you must put in
your Sugar after your Butter.
184. _To make Diet Bread or Jumbolds._
Take a Quart of fine Flower, half a Pound of fine Sugar, Caraway seeds,
Coriander seeds and Aniseeds bruised, of each one Ounce, mingle all
these together, then take the Yolks of eight Eggs, and the Whites of
three, beat them well with four spoonfuls of Rosewater, and so knead
these all together and no other Liquor, when it is well wrought, lay it
for one hour in a linnen cloth before the Fire, then rowl it out thin,
tie them in Knots and prick them with a Needle, lay them upon Butter'd
Plates, and bake them in an Oven not too hot.
185. _To make Cider or Perry as clear as Rock water._
Take two Quarts of Cider, half a Pint of Milk, put them both in an
Hipocras bag, and when it runs clear, bottle it up, and when it is a
Month old, it will sparkle in the Glass as you drink it.
186. _To make Almond Bread._
Take a pound of Almonds blanched, and beaten with Rosewater, then take a
pound of Sugar beaten fine, and a little grated Bread finely searced,
put them into a Platter with your Almonds, and stir them well together,
set them over a Chafing dish of Coals, and boil them till they are as
stiff as Paste, stirring them continually, then mould them well and put
them in what shape you you please; print them, and set them into some
warm place to dry.
187. _To make good Almond Milk._
Take Jordan Almonds blanched and beaten with Rose water, then strain
them often with fair water, wherein hath been boiled Violet Leaves and
Sliced Dates; when your Almonds are strained, take the Dates and put to
it some Mace, Sugar, and a little Salt, warm it a little, and so drink
it.
188. _To make white Leach._
Take sweet Almonds blanched and beaten with Rosewater, then strained
with fair water, wherein hath been boiled Aniseeds and Ginger, put to it
as much cream, wherein pure Isinglass hath been boiled, as will make it
stiff, and as much Sugar as you please; let it be scalding hot, then run
it through a strainer, and when it is cold, slice it out, it is very
good for a weak body.
189. _To make Red Leach or Yellow._
Red by putting Tornsel into it, or Cochineal; Yellow by putting Saffron
in it.
190. _Cinamon or Ginger Leach._
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