Part 4

Take 4 calves feet and when they be blanched put them into a pot with a gallon of fair water and let them boyle till they be consumed to half Scumming it as it riseth very well then strain it through a coulender into a dish and let it Stand till the next day and through cold Slice it through in great pieces taking the top and bottom as thin as you can and make of the rest putting it into a clean Skillet then take a pint of Sack or white wine and put to it and the whites of 6 eggs very well beaten to a froth one nutmeg 2 races of ginger both sliced one Sprig of rosemary and a little Salt and half a pound of Sugar and you must Sharpen it with a little lemon and a little vergis if it be sack then set all these in Skillet on a gentle fire Stiring it till tis ready to boyle & let it boyle a quarter of an hour without Stiring and Strain it through a jelly bag of cotton and put a lemon peel into it & let it run through of itself and keep it for your use.

102. _To preserve Green Walnuts._

Take green walnuts of bigest Size you can get and of the bigest kind about a week after mid-summer put them in a bag and boyle them in a great kittle of water till they be tender then peel off ye outward skin that looks black and put into every second a clove put them into somewhat more then the weight of powder Sugar and cover them in the dry Sugar and let them lay a day or 2 then boyle them up 2 or walms on a gentle fire. probatum.

103. _To make Cheesecakes._

Set your best milk which is Strokeing and put in as much runnet as you think fit and when tis come brake it not but in a cloth and put it in a vate and set a light press upon it and let it Stand cut your curd in pieces and put it in a morter and grind and beat your curd put in the quantity of half a pound of butter to as much curd as a little thin cheese vate will hold when tis well beaten together put in a pound and half of currants and Some cloves and mace and Some rosewater with the eggs you must take 6 yolks and 2 whites and beat them well together with rosewater and put in a pint of cream and a quarter of a pound of sugar when you have prepared the coffins fill them not to full and see you then put them in and when they are risen draw them out and then mix them together some butter melted and some Sugar rosewater, take a feather and wash them with it. your paste you must make as you do for tarts.

104. _To Preserve Green Apricocks._

Take apricocks when the stones are firm in them and to every pound of apricocks a pound of sugar pare them very thin slit them up the sceame as you pare them put them into cold water else they will lose their colour, being pared put them into a Skillet of cold water and set them on a fire close cover’d till your water be scaulding hot and let them stand till they are pretty cold then Set them on the fire again till the water be Scaulding hot then take them off till the water be Somewhat cold let the water be never more then scaulding hot and a little colder after by degrees till they be as green and as tender as you will have them then take them out of the water and lay them in a dish and strew some of your weigh’d sugar on them else they will presently loose their colour then put your Sugar into your preserveing pan and to every pound of Sugar take a quarter of a pint of the same water as the apricocks was boyled in then melt your sugar and put in your apricocks and after a little boyling they will stone then put them into the Sirrop again and being boyled a while take them out y^e Sirrop and lay them in a broad silver dish and boyle the Sirrop to what hight you please if you boyle it to little it will not keep you may if you please put to these a grain or 2 of musk and Ambergrease pour the Sirrop while it is hot on the apricocks so let them stand till y^e next day then put them up into glasses.

105. _To Preserve Goosberrys._

Gather the fairest round goosberrys when they are at their full bigness & before they begin to be soft when they are new gather’d cut off the black tops and stone them strewing fine Sugar upon them as you Stone them then to 3 quarters of a pound of stoned goosberrys take a pound of double refined Sugar finely beaten and lay half of it in the bottom of your pan then lay in your goosberrys one by one all over upon the Sugar, then put in y^e rest of your Sugar but keep a Spoonfull or more of it to Strew upon it in the boyleing then Stamp a few goosberrys the black being taken off and Strain the juice out of them and of that juice put in 12 Spoonfulls to this proportion drop it out of the Spoon all over the Sugar and goosberrys then set them on a very quick fire to boyle as fast as you can to boyle up to the top of the pan then take them off and shake the pan and strew on some of the Sugar and presently set it on the fire again to boyle up then take it off and shake it and set it on again to boyle fast and when you see the goosberrys look very clear take them off and when they are a little cold put them up in glasses take them up with Sirrop for if you take them without the Sirrop they will not be plump then put them up but let them not be covered till they are cold you must try to see whether the Sirrop will jelly before you put them up.

106. _To Preserve Sweet Lemons or Oranges._

Take your oranges and pare them very thin and lay them all night in cold water then boyle them half an hour and put them into cold water y^n make holes on the top where the stalk growes and take out the seeds as clean as you can and let them lay in that water till the next day then boyle them again almost half an hour then take them up and Set them upon a double cloth and cover them with a cloth till they be almost cold then weigh them and take to every pound of orange a pound and half of Sugar and to every pound of Sugar a wine pint and half of water boyle your sirrop and strain it and when it is almost cold put in your oranges and boyle them with a soft fire till they look clear and the Sirrop of a good hight about a fortnight or 3 weeks after take your Sirrop from your oranges and boyle it again and when it is cold put your oranges in it and keep it in glasses. y^e great red oranges will do best this way.

107. _To make Black Puddings._

To make 3 dozen of puddings take a quarter of a peck of grots and 2 quarts of milk boyle it and then put in your grots and stire them close and let them stand all night and in the morning take 2 handfulls of sweet herbs Shred small, and one pint of blood 3 pounds of Suit Shred Small put all these things to your grots and season it with a little cloves & mace one nutmeg pepper & one ounce of annyseeds and Salt 6 eggs whites and all.

108. _To make White Puddings._

To make 3 dozen take a quart of Stired grotts one penny loafe grated 6 eggs yolkes and whites beat with rose water half a pound of Sugar and a pound of currants, half a pint of cream mix all these things with your grots and season it with cinnamon.

109. _To make a Posset._

Take a quart of cream and half a nutmeg quarter it then take a stick of cinnamon and a quarter of a pound of Sugar and then set it on the fire and keeping it stiring always one way and let it boyle together a quarter of an hour then take 6 eggs puting away the whit’s then beat them very well and put them into the cream still constantly stiring it and so soon as it boyles take it off the fire and let it coole a little it must cool but a little then take a quarter of a pint of Sack made very hot in a bason then take your cream and stand upon a stoole as high as you can & pour your cream into your bason very softly as high as you can pour it right then set it to the fire till it be ready to be eaten this will be all curd & no drink.

110. _To make a Sullibub._

To every quart of cream take about 3 quarters of a pint of Sack boyle the cream and make the Sack almost as sweet as a Sirrop then set it on the fire and make it reasonable hot and when the cream is a little cooled with a wooden Spring draw up the cream and so squirt it in till the pot be full if you make it in the morning very early twill be ready to eat y^t afternoon. Some boyle a blade of mace in the cream.

111. _To make a Snow to put on the Sullibub._

Take a pint of cream and the whites of 4 or 5 eggs and a little rose water Sweeten this with Sugar beat this with a stick which must be cloven in 5 or 6 parts beat it till you find it begin to rise in bubbles with a spoon take off those and lay them in a dish so beat till you have all that will rise y^n when your sullibubs is ready to be used lay on the upermost of the snow and heap it high.

112. _To make Clouted Cream._

Take the top of your milk after it has stood one hour and make it scaulding hot let it not boyle then put it into an earthen pan then leave it half an hour to make it froth as much as you can then set it into the oven as soon as bread is drawn out of it let it stand in 7 or 8 hours then take it out gently and let it stand at lest 24 hours before you use it make a bottom to it with Sweet cream boyle it and boyle large mace with it y^n beat the yolks of 2 or 3 eggs with a little rose water then take the cream from the fire and put 2 or 3 Spoonfulls of it to the eggs then Stir them together and put them into a posnet to cream then Set it over the fire & let it boyle one walme then take it off and sweeten it with Sugar if you should put the eggs into it whilst it is over the fire it will be apt to curdle Stir it all the while it stands on the fire after the eggs are put in when it’s Sweeten’d let it stand being Stir’d with a Spoon till it be paste creaming at top when it is cold take off the top of the baked cream with a Skimer and lay it upon the other Scrape Sugar on it and so serve it the baked cream will be near an inch thick if it stand 2 or 3 days.

113. _The Red Surfet Water for any Surfet._

Take a gallon of the best aquavite a pint of the best damaske rose water a pound of white Sugar candy put all these into a large stone jug to steep a day and a night then put in half a pint of poppy water distilled as you do your rose water with a pound and half of raisons of the Sun Stoned with half a pound of dates the Stones taken out and the white skins, and then slice them very thin then take of mace cinnamon and anyseeds of each an ounce of cloves bruised half an ounce liquorish scraped and sliced a quarter of a pound, your anyseeds must be rubed and dusted then put all these into your aquavite after all these things have steeped 4 days put into it 6 good handfulls of red poppie leaves it is the red single poppies that growes amongst the corn and if the colour be not red enough put in more leaves & after 10 days let it run through a jelly bag and put it into your glass and so stop it very close and put in to your glass to it 2 pounds of your smooth musk carraway comsets, and so keep it for your use, the Spice and Seeds must be bruised if you do not squeeze those things when you strain it you may put it into the jug again w^{th} a gallon more of aquavite and half a pint of poppie water and a pound of Sugar candie more, Stir it every day twice or thrice for ten days together and keep it close stoped and then you may mix some of that smaller with the first which was the strongest of all. This water is good for any surfet what so ever by any accident and they may give 2 or 3 Spoonfulls last at night and if the Surfet be dangerous give it once in 6 or 8 hours for 3 several times or in necessity oftner.

114. _To make French Bread._

Take to a peck of flour 2 ounces of salt and a pint or more of very good ale yest and knead it up as other bread with warm water as light as possible then let it lye half an hour to rise then cut it to the bigness you will have every loafe, which is about y^e bigness of a penny loafe and make them up very lightly not moulding it at all and put them into dishes flouring the dishes first with flour and cut off that may be on the top to much then cover them up close again and let them stand and rise again till they have risen their full which you may know by the flour on the top which will begin to be crakling on the top then haveing your oven ready hot and pretty quick turn them out of the dishes upon a peele flour’d ready and so set them in as fast as you can never pricking or cuting them round, Set the oven led up close but not Stop it approved of your dough must be as light as any cake bread so some flour will require more yest and water than other this is left to y^e bakers discretion.

115. _To Dry Apricocks._

Take a pound of Apricocks 3 quarters of a pound of double refined Sugar pare the apricocks very thin and slit them in the Seame of the apricocks then forth the stones then strew the silver bason or deep dish you boyle them in with the lesser half of the Sugar being finely beaten and searched then set the apricocks in the bason or dish that end downward which grew in the stalk with them. Strew the rest of the Sugar upon them and cover y^m and let them stand one night or one day while it be dissolved then let it boyle for one quarter of an hour upon a quick fire before they be half boyled turn them with a spoon when boyled let them stand 2 days in the Sirrop before you take them forth so dip them in the Same then lay them on tin plates in the Sun and turn y^m every morning.

116. _To make Plumme Gimbols._

Take your plummes when full ripe and put them in a porringer and set them over the fire and stir them continually with a Spoon and when they begins to brake and be soft take them out and pick off all their skins stalks and stones very clean when you have done so sett them on the fire again still stirring till such time all the moisture be almost dryed up and the plum stuff be pretty stiff then take it off the fire so let it stand till it cold then take double refined Sugar and put to the plumme stuff and take as much Sugar as will make it paste and rowle it and worke it together and let it be as thick as paste then rowle it in works as you do gimbols in what faishon you please you need not oven them they will be dry of themselves.

117. _To dry Cherrys Red._

Take to 3 pound of cherrys being through ripe and Stoned weigh them and to your 3 pound take a pound of the best hard Sugar beat it and put it into your preserving pan and put better than half a pint of water to it and with your hand stir it all together then put in your cherrys and Stir them in your water and Sugar and cover them and make them boyle as fast as possibly you can Scumme them and when they be a little soft take them off the fire and pour them Sirrop and all into a gally pot then cover them and so let them stand 24 hours then pour them into a Sive and let ye Sirrop run from them and then lay them on glass plates as close as you can one by one or upon a clean sive dry them ether in the Sun, Stove or oven when one side is pretty dry flat them and turn them and when through dry box them very close and let no air come to them they must be turned twice a day till through dry and on fresh things.

118. _To make Bean Cakes._

Lay in water half an hour before you use them half a pound of almonds then blanch and slit them very thin as possible you may the long way of the almonds then take half a pound of Sugar finely beaten and search’d and mingle with the almonds that are well dry’d from y^e water then take the whites of 2 eggs with butter and wet the sugar and almonds wherewith but not to much for they may be soon over wet then take of your fine wafer sheets that are made for bottom and cut out into round cases and so spread your almonds in little ruffles cakes the almonds being set with a bodkin edge long you must mingle also some cardimum or caraway seeds either will do well with Sugar y^n put them on warm plates set them in a quick oven but not over hot neither must they stay to long for looseing their colour you must beat your eggs with a little rosewater.

119. _The Cabbidge Cream._

Take 6 gallons of new milk and let it be ready to boyle then put in one porringer full of cold cream and stir it well about fill then 18 broad flat pans when tis cold take off the cream and lay it round in a dish like a cabbidge and sprinkle a little rose water and a little Sugar well beaten and sifted then Scauld your milk again and put y^e same quantity of cream you did before till it be like a little cabbidge the last cream that you take off the Scauled milk lay plain upon the cabbidge but put no cold cream to it y^n strew some rosewater upon it.

120. _To make Paste of Apricocks._

Take apricocks before they be quite ripe and after you have coddled them then pare them let them not be to soft then they will not be so troublesome to pare then beat them very small in a morter then put them in a dish and Set them on a fire never leting them to be any hotter than you can indure your finger at the bottom of the dish never to boyle for if they should be to hot it would spoile the colour of your pulp and so let them stand on the fire till they be pretty dry which will be till the Sugar is boyled up to Sugar and that very high to dry Sugar again you must take to 4 pound of Sugar 4 pound of apricocks after you have coddled stoned and pared them and when it be so take it off and put it into your pulp till it be cold and when it is well mingled then set it on the fire again in a dish or bason that it was in before upon a chaffen dish of coales and not to be any hotter than it was before in the drying before the Sugar was in it and then you shall see it will thicken and come to a paste, then take your moulds and put in them and so let them stand to dry either in the sun or in a stove and when they be half dry cut them on y^e edges and take your moulds off it must be very thick paste before you put it into your moulds or it will run about do what you can it will run a little. after the same manner you may make paste of coddleings only when they are coddled peel them and put them in hot water to green if one water will not do put in more till they are green then cover them close till they are green. you must dip your Sugar in water.

121. _Angelicoe Cakes._

Put your angelicoe in hot water and so let it green boyle your Sugar to candie hight chop your angelicoe small and so stir it together drop it into cakes & so put it in a stove.

122. _To make a Lemon Cream._

Take your best cream and boyle it well and when it is ready take it off put in the yolkes of 2 eggs well beaten and let it have a boyle the Sugar must be boyled in the cream before the eggs be in y^n have in readiness the juice of 2 lemons in a dish and when your cream is pretty cold Stir the juice of lemon and Sugar and keep it well Stiring till tis almost cold then put it into a dish for your use.

123. _A Clouted Cream._

Take 2 gallons of new milk and put into 5 or 6 pans and let it stand all night and next day upon a charcole fire set the pans gentlely on the fire and as it creams take it off and lay it in your dish and as you lay it in Strew on a little fine Sugar and when you have taken all the cream put to it a little cold cream & so use it.

124. _To pickle Mushroms._

Gather them early in a morning about the bigness of a walnut let them be fresh and red underneath and of one nights growth blanch them of the outside and pare them within with some part of the stalks if it be tender and then Strew them into a pan of fair water and a small quantity of salt shift them so 3 times and then take them out of the water and put them into a skillet w^{th} as much fair water as will cover them a little Salt a faggot of herbs and an oynion and when they do begin to boyle besure to Scumme it very carefully and put 3 spoonfulls of white wine vinegar and when they are so done strain them let them stand till they be cold make them a pickle 2 parts white wine it Self and the other part elder vinegar and put them all into a glass or pot and put the pickle to them, with a little long pepper a few cloves one or two nutmegs quarter’d a little mace a little Salt, and besure to Stop them up very close that no air may enter.

125. _To preserve White Quinces whole._

Take a handfull of the kernells that will jelly and put them in a little Spring water over night then take your quinces that are of a greenish colour and doth cut tender as any apple core it very well with a Scoop and pare it and put it into a Skillet that will hold but one at once take as much double refined Sugar as the weight of the quince and as much water as will cover the quince Set y^e same water and Sugar over the fire keeping it boyling as fast as may be and when you see it to be clear and tender take it up and put it into your glass or pot crushing it flat down with the back of a Spoon then put into the Sirrop 6 spoonfulls of pippin liquor and 2 Spoonfulls of the jelly from the kernells then set it on the fire Stiring it still and when it boyles Scumme it clean and then put in your quinces again and let it boyle 6 walms keeping it still Shaking lest it burn so then take it up and put it into your glass again you must be sure to have Sirrop enough for ever and anone there will rise a coat upon it y^t must be taken off and fresh Sirrop put in.

126. _To preserve Goosberrys._

Take as much double refined sugar as y^e goosberrys weigh unpicked and unstoned and to a pound of Sugar take half a pint of water and when your goosberrys are clean pickt and stoned set your Sugar and water over the fire and make your Sirrop and when it is clean scummed put in your goosberrys and let them boyle as fast as possibly you can till they clear and the sirrop thick enough which will be in less than a quarter of an hour.

127. _To make Jelly._

Take a nuckell of veal cut off the fat and skin 2 calves feet very white lay the veal and feet in warm water to soak out the blood shift it into fresh water till all the blood be out then set it to boyle in 3 gallons of Spring water boyleing it continually till it come to a pottle or 3 pints then if you will have it white put in a pint of white wine, if red put in red wine, and boyle it a quarter of an hour then take it and strain it and when tis cold take off all the fat and leave the dross in the bottom and to every quart of clear broth take cinnamon and nutmegs of each an ounce half an ounce of ginger sliced break your cinnamon in pieces and quarter your nutmegs, then take 2 spoonfulls of corriander seed half a pound of Sugar 6 Spoonfulls of rosewater put all these into a new pipkine w^{th} the whites of 8 new laid eggs well beaten stir all these very well together and set them over boyling them a quarter of an hour & stiring them all the while then pour it into your bagg with 2 handfulls of rosemary in the bottom of ye bag run it through y^e bag twice or thrice.

128. _To preserve Rasberrys._

Take the juice of rasberrys and make your Sirrop of it to a pound of rasberrys take a pound of sugar and put half the Sugar to ye juice and let it boyle, the put in the rasberrys and let them boyle as fast as they can take them off and Shake them oft put in y^n then rest of the Sugar by degrees as they boyle but touch them not, when they are enough the stones will look clear So you may do currants or cherrys.

129. _To preserve Oranges._