The Housekeeper's Valuable Present

PART I. — To clarify Sugar. — To boil Sugar to the Degree called Smooth . — To boil Sugar to the Degree called Pearled . — To boil Sugar to the Degree called Blown . — To boil Sugar to the Degree called Feathered . — To boil Sugar to the Degree called Crackled . — To boil Sugar to the Degree called Carmelled .

PART II. — To preserve Oranges or Lemons whole. — To preserve Cherries without Stones. — To preserve Cherries with Stones. — To preserve White Pea Plums. — To preserve yellow Plums commonly called yellow Margates. — To preserve Damascenes. — To preserve Mogul, or large Egg Plums. — To preserve whole Strawberries. — To preserve Barberries in Bunches. — To preserve Red Currants in Bunches. — To preserve Green Gage Plums. — To preserve Green Orange Plums. — To preserve Apricots. — To preserve Green Apricots. — To preserve Green Gooseberries. — To preserve Angelica. — To preserve Apricot, or Peach Chips. — To preserve Figs. — To preserve dried Cherries. — To preserve Peaches whole. — To preserve Pine Apple Chips. — To preserve Pine Apples whole. — To preserve Medlars. — To preserve Pears. — To preserve Green Leaves. — To preserve Green Grapes. — To preserve Wine Sour Plums. — To preserve Green Limes.

PART III. — Rasberry Jam. — Apricot Jam. — Peach Jam. — Pine Apple Jam. — Barberry Jam. — Currant Jam. — Quince Marmalade. — Quince Paste. — Orange Marmalade. — Strawberry Jam. — Orange Paste. — Pippin Paste Knots. — Scotch Marmalade. — Orgeat Paste. — Almond Paste. — Marshmallow Paste. — Strasbourgh Paste, or Lozenges. — Black Currant Paste.

METHODS OF MAKING MARMALADES, JAMS, PASTES, &c.

Rub your rasberries through a sieve to a pulp: then measure it with a pint ladle (which is exactly a pound) into your preserving pan: boil it well, and stir it all the time to keep it from burning: 37to a pound of pulp, allow three quarters of sugar; when it has boiled till it becomes tolerably stiff, put in the sugar sifted fine, and boil it up well for half an hour: then put it into pots.

Boil your apricots to a pulp, then rub it through a sieve: to a pound of pulp, allow a pound of sugar and two ounces of bitter almonds pounded fine: dry the pulp well over the fire: then put in the sugar and almonds: boil all together for about an hour, and then it will be fit for use.

Proceed with this in the same manner as above, but allow one pound and a quarter of clarified sugar to a pound of pulp. Boil the sugar to the degree called blown, then put in the pulp, and boil it till it just drops off the skimmer.

38N.B. You should be careful to keep stirring this, and all other jams, while they are boiling.

Cut your pine apple into slices: cover it with powder sugar, and let it stand a fortnight; then pounding it in a mortar till it is fine, pulp it through a sieve; to a pound of pulp, allow half a pound of clarified sugar, boil the sugar to the degree called blown, and finish it in the same manner as peach jam.

Put your barberries into the oven till they become thoroughly hot, then pass them through a sieve. To a pound of pulp, allow a pound and a quarter of sugar sifted fine. Boil the pulp till one half is consumed, then put in the sugar, mix it well, and put it into pots.

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Take the currant pulp when you have strained the liquor from it for jelly. To a pound of pulp, allow a pound of sifted sugar. Boil the pulp well; then put in the sugar, and boil it all for about half an hour, and it will be fit for use.

N.B. The quicker your fire is for all red fruit, the better will be the colour.

Pare your quinces and cover them: then boil them till tender, and pulp them through a sieve, with half the quantity of apples boiled in the same manner. To a pound of pulp, allow a pound and a quarter of clarified sugar: boil the sugar to the degree called blown, then put in the pulp, and boil it all for about half an hour, then put it into pots.

The pulp being prepared in the manner abovementioned; allow a pound 40of sugar and boil it till it cracks: then put in the pulp, and having boiled it for a quarter of an hour, put it in pots, into the stove, and in about three or four hours you may turn them out; cut them into quarters, and dry them.

N.B. You must keep your stove in a temperate heat.

Boil the seville orange-peel till it is tender, and take the white from it; lay it in water all night, to take the bitterness off, then pound and pulp it through a sieve. To a pound of pulp, allow a pound of the best moist sugar; boil the pulp till it is near one half consumed, then put in the sugar; boil it all together for half an hour, and put it into pots.

This is made after the manner of the rasberry, except allowing to a pound of 41pulp, one pound of sugar. Be careful to boil it stiffer than any other jam.

Pulp your oranges with apple mixed with it. To a pound of pulp, allow a pound and a quarter of sugar: boil the sugar till it cracks; then put in the pulp, and boil it over a quick fire, stirring it all the time for about twenty minutes, then put it into tins made for the purpose, and dry them in the stove.

Boil your apples tender, and pulp them; to a pound of pulp, allowing a pound of sugar: boil it till it cracks, then put in the pulp, and boiling all together for ten minutes, run it on pewter plates, put it in the stove, and when dry, cut it into strips, make it up into knots, and dry them on sieves.

N.B. If you would colour them red, put in some prepared cochineal.

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When you make your orange marmalade, put a little by; then cut some orange-peel into fine strips, and giving them a boil in a little clarified sugar, mix them in the marmalade, and put them into pots.

Calcine a pound of Jordan almonds, and four ounces of bitter almonds, with water, and a little orange flower water: boil a pound and an half of clarified sugar to the degree called blown, then put in your almonds, boil all together for a quarter of an hour, and put it into pots.

To a pound of almonds calcined, allow two pounds of sugar sifted fine; pound the almonds with a little orange flower and rose water; put the paste into 43a preserving pan, dry it on the fire till it becomes stiff; put in the sugar and stir it till you perceive it will not stick to your finger; then put it on a marble, and roll it up in a lump for use.

Take a pound and a half of gum arabic, a pound of fine sugar, and six ounces of marshmallow root; pound the gum and sugar very fine, and put them into your preserving pan with half a pint of orange flower water and rose water mixed: then boil your marshmallow-root in a quart of water, drain the liquor, and put that to it: set it on a slow fire, and stir it till it becomes in some degree stiff, then put in the whites of twelve eggs, and stirring it till it becomes quite stiff, turn it out on a marble stone, and, when cold, cut it into square pieces, and put them in boxes.

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Boil a pound of clarified sugar, and two ounces of honey to a carmel height; then pour it on a marble stone, and before it becomes cold mark it in squares, and when cold break it in pieces, and keep it in boxes secure from damp.

Boil your black currants to a pulp. To a pound of pulp, allow half a pound of apple pulp: dry that on a slow fire, then put in a pound of sugar boiled to a crack, mix it well, then run it on pewter plates, put it in the stove, and when dry, cut it in small square pieces, and dry them.

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PART IV. — To make Capillaire. — To make Orgeat Syrup. — To make Lemon Syrup. — Currant Syrup. — Marshmallow Syrup. — To make Rasberry Vinegar. — To make Grape Essence, or Syrup. — To make Orange Essence. — Pine Apple Syrup, or Essence. — To make Currant Jelly. — To Candy Eringo Root. — To Cand Orange, or Lemon Peel. — Black Currant Jelly. — To make a Comport of Pippins. — Comport of Oranges. — To make Clear Cakes of the Jelly of any Fruit. — Calves-Foot Jelly. — Clear Orange Jelly. — Blanch Mange. — Ge Mange. — To make Lemonade. — To make Orgeat for present Use. — To make Orangeade. — To make Orange Prawlins. — Red Burnt Almonds. — Cedraty Essence. — To make a Conserve of Hips. — Conserve of Roses. — Conserve of Orange Flowers. — Rock Candy. — To make Gum Paste. — Mulberry Syrup.

Take twelve pints of clarified sugar; to which add one pint of good orange flower water, and the juice of eight good lemons; set it on a slow fire, and put in a pint of water with the whites of four eggs whisked: let it boil, and skim all the scum that rises, then strain it through a lawn sieve, or flannel bag, and put it into bottles.

Calcine a pound of blanched Jordan almonds, and a few bitter ones, mixed with a little orange flower water; then 46put in two quarts of water, strain all through a fine lawn sieve, or cloth; put what is strained into seven pints of sugar, boiled to the degree called cracked. Let it simmer for ten minutes, skim it well, and when cold put it in bottles.

Boil six pints of sugar, to the degree called blown, add the juice of twenty good lemons and the rind of two; clarify in the same manner as the capillaire.

N.B. Orange syrup is made in the same manner, except in allowing to six oranges the juice of two lemons.

Mash your currants, and let them be all night over a sieve to drain; strain the liquor through a flannel bag; to a pint of liquor, put a pound and a half of sugar: boil the sugar to the degree called blown, then put the liquor in, and boil all till 47the scum is entirely off, and put it into bottles.

Damascene syrup is made in the same manner.

Take one pound of marshmallow root, and put to it a gallon of water; reduce it on a slow fire to three pints, then strain it, and put it into a preserving pan, with seven pints of sugar, and three pints of clear water; clarify in the same manner as capillaire.

Extract a liquor from the rasberries, in the same manner as from currants: to a pint of liquor, add two pounds of clarified sugar, and a pint of the best white wine vinegar: boil all over a slow fire till the scum is taken off, and, when cold, put it in bottles.

To half a pound of good dry elder flowers, put three quarts of boiling water; let it stand close covered two hours; then strain it through a lawn sieve, and put to it the juice of twelve good lemons; boil ten pints of sugar to the degree called blown; put in the liquor, and boil till the scum is entirely off; then strain it through a lawn sieve, and put it into bottles.

Grate half a hundred of oranges, and put into your preserving pan, add ten pounds of sugar, and the juice of the oranges with the juice of twelve lemons. Boil all till it becomes tolerably thick, then put it in a stone jar for use.

N.B. You will find this exceedingly useful in making of ice in the summer time, when oranges are not to be had.

Drain the syrup from the chips, and clarify in the same manner as you would a pan of sugar; put in the juice of a few lemons.

Your currants being mashed on the fire, put them on a sieve all night to drain; then strain the liquor through a flannel bag: to a pint of liquor, allow three quarters of sugar; boil the sugar to the degree called crackled, then put in the liquor, and boil all till it jellies, which you may know by its hanging in flakes from the skimmer: be careful to skim it well.

N.B. If your jelly is for glasses, use half white currants and half red, and it will not look of too dark a colour.

Apple jelly, rasberry jelly, or jelly from any other fruit, may be made in a similar manner.

Take the roots pared and boiled to a proper softness, and put them into some sugar boiled smooth; then simmer them three times a day for three days; let them lay a month in the syrup, and when you cand them, boil some sugar to the degree called blown, and put them into it; let them remain about five minutes, and grain the sugar by rubbing it up the sides of the pan, then take them out, and lay them on sieves in a gentle stove.

Boil your peel tender, and take out the inside pith; lay them in cold water for a whole night, to take the bitterness off; pack them one within the other, in your preserving pan, cover them with clarified sugar, and let them boil gently for two hours every day for a week, then take them out and pack them in a 51jar, or cask; put more sugar to the syrup, boil it to a good height, pour it over the peels, and let them remain full a month; then drain the syrup from them, three or four different times, and they will be fit to cand, which you may do as follows:

Take them out of the syrup, and wash them in warm water; dry them in the stove, and put them into as much sugar, boiled to the degree called blown, as will cover them: boil them in the sugar to the same degree; then grain the sugar, take the peels out immediately, put them on a wire sieve, and when cold, they are fit for use.

Candied citron, orange, and lemon chips, are prepared exactly in the same manner.

Mash your black currants on the fire and pulp them; to a pound of pulp, 52allow a pound of sugar; boil the sugar till it cracks, then put in the pulp, and boil all till it begins to jelly.

Pare your pippins neatly, then take the cores out right down the middle, after that, scald your pippins till tender, put then into clarified sugar with a few cloves, a little mace, and the rind of a lemon, with the juice of four: let them simmer very gently for two hours, and when cold; they are fit to serve up to table.

Pears are done in the same manner, and you may colour them, as you do preserved quinces.

Carve your oranges neatly, cut them into eight parts, scald them tender, put them into clarified sugar with the juice 53of three or four oranges, let them simmer gently for two hours, then add half a pint of mountain wine, and when cold serve them up to table.

To half a pint of jelly, allow six ounces of sugar to a high degree of blown, then put in the jelly, and let it simmer but not boil; skim it well, put it into pots, and dry it in the same manner as quince paste.

Take two calves-feet ready cleaned, put to them six quarts of water; boil it on the fire till it is reduced to three, then strain, and put to it the juice of twelve lemons, the whites of eight eggs, a little cinnamon, a few corianders, and a little sugar; whisk all together, set it on the fire, and let it boil with half a pint of mountain in it, then strain it three times 54through a jelly bag, and put it in glasses.

Rasp the rind of your oranges, and squeezing six or eight oranges, and the juice of three lemons with four ounces of isinglass, whisk the whites of five eggs among it, and let it boil, then strain it through a lawn sieve, put it into moulds; allow to this quantity, six ounces of sugar.

Pound four ounces of almonds with a few bitter ones, and a little orange flower water, fine; mix them in a pint of cream, and half a pint of milk, put in six ounces of isinglass, and a quarter of a pound of sugar; boil all together till the isinglass is consumed, then strain, and put it into moulds.

Squeeze the juice of six oranges, and 55rasp the rinds of two, put it into a pint and a half of cream, with a little sugar, add to that about four ounces of isinglass; boil it till it is dissolved, put in a little saffron as it is boiling, and set it by in moulds.

To half a pint of clarified sugar, put the juice of five lemons, and rasp the rind of one, add to this a pint of spring water, then pass it through a lawn sieve, and set it by for use.

Pound four ounces of blanched almonds very fine, with a few bitter ones, and a little water, mix with that a quart of clear spring water, and a table spoonful of orange flower water: sweeten to your palate, and strain it through a lawn sieve for use.

To half a pint of sugar, put the juice of five oranges and two lemons: rasp the rind of one orange, add a pint of clear water, and strain it off for use.

Quarter your oranges, take the white out of the rind; cut them into thin strips, put them into your preserving pan, with just sufficient sugar to cover the bottom of the pan: let them boil till you perceive the sugar becomes thick, then take them off and stir them till the sugar grains and sticks to them. Lift the loose sugar from them, and set them by for use.

N.B. Lemon prawlins and orange flowers are prepared exactly in the same manner.

Take a pound of the best Jordan almonds, 57put them into a round bottom preserving pan, with a pint of clarified sugar, let it boil till the sugar comes to the degree called blown, and the almonds begin to crack: then take them off, and stir till they begin to cool; when the almonds clog to the sugar; lift the loose sugar from them, put in a pint of clarified sugar with the loose sugar, and boil it till it cracks; then put in the almonds, and stir them as before: sift them and part those that are coupled, boil a pint more of clarified sugar till it cracks, put in the almonds, and stir them till the sugar clings round them; then, put in a gill of cochineal, and shake them over the fire till they become dry: sift them, and put them in a gentle stove for two or three hours.

Brown burnt almonds are prepared in a similar manner.

Weigh a pound of cedraty essence, 58boil seven pints of clarified sugar to the degree called blown, then put in the essence, and the juice of twenty lemons: boil all together for about half an hour; skim it well, and when cold, put it into bottles.

Take two pounds of hips, stone them and lay them a whole night in spring water; then pound them to a mash, and put them into three pints of clarified sugar, boiled to the degree called blown: give all together a good boil, and set them by for use.

Take a quarter of a pound of damask rose leaves, beat up a pound of coarse sifted sugar, with the whites of three eggs, put in the rose leaves, and mix them; then roll them up in small balls on paper, and set them in the stove to dry.

59N.B. You may put in a little cochineal to colour it.

Boil a pint of sugar to a high degree, put in a quarter of a pound of orange flowers; boil it to the same degree again, then rub the sugar till it grains; pour it immediately on a marble stone, and when cold, break it into pieces.

Take different shapes, cut out of gum paste, or you must candy pippin paste knots; let them be very dry, then put them in a square tin box in layers, with a wire between each layer; fill the tin up with sugar, boiled to a strong degree; set it in the hot stove; the next day, drain it, take them out and put them on sieves in the stove to dry.

N.B. In this manner you may candy violets, or any other flower; but 60be careful they are very dry, else they will not take the sugar.

Take some gum tragant, and soak it in water, then squeeze it through a cloth, put it into the mortar, and pound it with fine sugar, sifted fine; then take it out, and mix it up with sugar till it becomes stiff.

Squeeze your mulberries: to a pint of fruit, put a pound of sugar; let it dissolve all night, then boil it up to a good height, with the juice of four lemons; skim it well, and put it in bottles for use.

PART V. — Cherries in Brandy. — Apricots in Brandy. — Peaches in Brandy. — Mogul Plums in Brandy. — Green Gages in Brandy. — Pears in Brandy.

Put your cherries into jars, and to a quart of French brandy, allow half a pint of clarified sugar: mix your sugar and brandy, cover the cherries with it, let them stand a month, then fill the jars again, and cover them up for use.

N.B. The morello cherries are the most proper, and you may infuse rasberries, or mulberries, in the same manner.

Take a pan and half, fill it with pump 62water, put in a little clarified sugar; then put in your apricots, and scald them till tender; put them into cold water with a piece of allum in it; let them lay in that state for two hours till quite cold; put them in jars, and cover them with white French brandy: to two quarts of brandy, allow three pints of clarified sugar.

Wipe the down off your peaches, prick them with a small knife in three places, scald them in some water, with the juice of three or four lemons in it; then take them out, put them in jars, and cover them with white brandy: to two quarts of brandy, put three pints of clarified sugar.

Take your mogul plums when they are half preserved, drain them dry, put 63them in jars and cover them with brandy. To a quart of brandy, allow half a pint of clarified sugar.

These are prepared in the same manner as any green plum.

Scald your pears tender, with some lemon juice in the water: put them into cold water and pare the rind off; lay them in allum and water all night, to keep them white; then drain and put them into jars: to a quart of brandy, allow a pint of clarified sugar.

PART VI. — Savoy Biscuits. — Spunge Biscuits. — Palace Royal Biscuits. — Royal Heart Biscuits. — Diet Bread Cakes. — Naple Biscuits. — Orange Heart Biscuits. — Queen Cakes. — Champaign Biscuits. — Fine Rusks. — French Rusks. — Yarmouth Cakes. — Tunbridge Water Cakes. — Cedraty Biscuits. — Italian Cakes. — Common Maccaroons. — French Maccaroons. — Ratafia Biscuits. — Orange Biscuits. — Spanish Rusks. — Merenges. — Ginger Cakes. — Ginger-Bread Nuts. — Filbert Biscuits. — Sweetmeat Biscuits. — Rock Almond Biscuits. — Syringe Biscuits. — Italian Maccaroons. — Milfruit Biscuits. — Marchpane Biscuits. — Biscuit Drops. — To make a Savoy Cake. — To make a Spunge Cake. — To make a Plum Cake. — To make a Rice Cake. — To make an Almond Cake. — To make a Ratafia Cake. — To make Anniseed Cakes. — Cinnamon Drop Biscuits.

It is here necessary to premise that particular care must be taken to keep the utensils entirely free from grease of any kind: and the flour and sugar quite dry, as in case of neglect you cannot make good biscuits.

Take one pound and a half of sugar, one pound and two ounces of flour, and twenty four eggs: separate the yolks from the whites, beat the yolks and sugar together with a spoon: whisk the whites up stiff, and mix with the yolks; whisk it all on a slow fire till warm, 65then take it off and whisk it till cold; mix in the flour, and drop them through a funnel made for the purpose.

N.B. They require a hot oven, and you should sift a little sugar over them, just before you put them in.

Take one pound of sugar, and three quarters of flour, and mix in the same manner as the savoy biscuits: these will not require so hot an oven as the former.

Are made in the same manner as savoy biscuits, and are baked in small paper boxes.

To a pound of almonds beat fine, put a pound and a half of sugar, half a pound of flour, sixteen whole eggs, and 66twelve yolks. Beat the sugar and almonds up well by degrees with the eggs; then put in the flour, and set it into moles, they will require a gentle oven.

Take one pound of moist sugar, one pound and a quarter of flour, and seven eggs: let your sugar boil with better than half a pint of water; then whisk your eggs and sugar up well: take it off, and whisk it till it is cold, then mix in your flour, and put it into moles.

Are made in the same manner as diet bread, but add a little more flour.

Take one pound and a half of sugar, three quarters of a pound of flour, one pound and a half of yolks of eggs, eight preserved orange peels, and two 67ounces of almonds; pound your peels and almonds fine, then beat it up and proceed in the same manner as in making the royal heart biscuits.

Take one pound and a quarter of flour, one pound of sugar, and one pound of butter, a quarter of a pound of currants, and eight eggs: cream your butter, and beat it up with the eggs and sugar, then put in the flour and currants.

Take the whites of eight eggs with some flour, and half a pound of butter; beat the eggs and sugar together: melt the butter, and beat it up; then put in the flour and a few carraway seeds: fold a paper up in the form of a fan, and drop them in the ridges: they will require a hot oven.

Make a good diet bread paste, bake it in long tins; when cold, cut it in slices, and brown them in the oven: put a few carraway seeds in the paste.

Take three pounds of sugar, four pounds of flour, and two pounds of yolks of eggs: beat the sugar and yolks together, then mix in the flour, and roll it up in long rolls; bake it, and when cold, cut it into thin slices.

Take one pound and a half of flour, one pound of sugar, and one pound of butter, six ounces of currants, and six eggs: beat the eggs and sugar together, melt the butter, and mix it and the flour up to stiff paste: part it half for plums, and half for seed; then roll it out, cut it into round shapes, and bake them in a gentle oven.

Take one pound of flour, one pound of butter, three quarters of a pound of sugar, half a pint of cream, and four eggs: mix the eggs, sugar, and cream together, put in the butter melted, and beat it up well; then mix in the flour, and a few carraway seeds, roll the part out quite thin; cut it into round cakes, and bake them in a slow oven.

Take one pound and three quarters of sugar, half a pound of yolks, and three quarters of a pound of butter: mix these together, then roll them up with as much flour as is necessary to stiffen it: make them into round rings, and bake them.

Take the whites of twelve eggs with some flour and sugar; whisk the eggs 70and sugar over the fire, till hot; then take it off, and whisk it till it is quite cold, and put in the flour: drop them in round cakes on paper, and bake them.

Take one pound of almonds, one pound of sugar, and the whites of ten eggs, and a little rose water: pound your almonds with the whites, and rose water; then mix in the sugar, and lay them out on wafer paper.

To a pound of almonds, allow two pounds of sugar mixed in the same way, and laid out in the same manner.

Take half a pound of sweet almonds, and half a pound of bitter: pound them fine, mixed with whites of eggs, then add two pounds and a half of sugar; 71beat it up well with whites of eggs, then drop them on paper, and bake them in a slow oven.

Mix one pound of almonds, with two pounds of sugar in the same manner as ratafia biscuits; but rasp the rind of eight China oranges among it, and drop them in small drops.

Lemon biscuits are made in the same manner.

Take half a pound of yolks, half a pound of sugar, and half a pound of flour; two ounces of butter, two lemons rasped, and a glass of brandy: mix all together, then roll it up stiff, and make it in rings, and bake them.

Take a pint of sugar, and the whites of six eggs; boil the sugar to the degree 72called blown, then grain it, and mix in the whites whisked stiff: lay them out in oval shapes, and brown them in the oven, put a piece of barberry jam in between, and put two halves together.

Take one pound of butter, three pounds of flour, one pound of sugar; a pint of cream, and five eggs: beat the eggs, cream, and sugar together; melt the butter and put it in, then mix in the flour with a few carraway seeds, and six ounces of ginger; roll them thin, and bake them in a slow oven.

To five pounds of flour, put six pounds of treacle, one pound and a half of sugar, and a pound and a half of butter: rub the butter with the flour and sugar, then mix it up with the treacle; and put in six ounces of ginger, 73and four ounces of pimento, and drop them in drops. They will require a slow oven.

Take a pound of nut kernels; let them be exceeding dry, pound them fine, with the whites of eggs; mix in two pounds of sugar, beat the paste up with whites of eggs. Drop them out in small drops.

Take a pound of sugar, a pound and a half of flour, the yolks of twenty eggs, with half a pound of almonds; pound the almonds fine with the yolks: mix in the sugar, and beat it up well, then mix in the flour, bake it in a square cake, afterwards ice it: cut it into shapes, and put orange peels on them.

Cut your almonds very fine: to a pound of which, allow four ounces of 74sugar, and the whites of six eggs; whisk the eggs stiff, then put in the sugar and almonds; set them in lumps on wafer paper, and bake them in a very slow oven.

To a pound of almonds, allow four pounds of sugar: pound the almonds fine, mixed with whites of eggs; then put in the sugar, mix it into a stiff paste; then push it through your jumbal mould, and form it into different shapes.

To a pound of almonds, allow two pounds and a quarter of sugar: mix it all in the same manner as ratafia biscuits. Drop it on wafer paper, and put some almonds cut small on the top of every drop.

Cut some almonds small, and colour some of the pieces red; then cut some 75orange-peel small, and mix them together: dip them in icing, and lay them on wafer paper, in the shape of rock biscuits.

Beat a pound of almonds in a mortar, with a little rose water, and the whites of four eggs: mix in a pound of sugar, roll it out, and put two pieces together, with some rasberry jam between: ice it, and cut it into different shapes; bake them in a slow oven.

To a pound of sugar, allow a pound and a quarter of flour, and eight eggs: mix them in the same manner as spunge biscuits; drop them on wafer paper.

Common savoys are made in the same manner.

Take the whites of six eggs, with some flour and sugar; beat the yolks 76and sugar together: mix it with the whites whisked stiff, then put in the flour, and bake it in a gentle oven.

Take the whites of six eggs in sugar, and the weight of four eggs in flour; mix it up in the same manner as a savoy cake.

To two pounds of flour, allow two pounds of sugar, two pounds of butter, and sixteen eggs: cream the butter, and beat it all up together; then mix in a pound of currants.

N.B. Seed Cake is made in the same manner.

To a pound of sugar, allow a pound of flour, and half a pound of rice pounded fine, and ten eggs: mix it up exactly in the same manner as diet-bread.

To half a pound of almonds, allow half a pound of sugar, and the yolks of sixteen eggs; beat it up well, then put in three whole eggs, and mix in six ounces of flour.

N.B. It will require a slack oven.

To a pound of sugar, allow three quarters of a pound of flour, and four ounces of bitter almonds pounded fine: mix it up with fourteen eggs, in the same manner as a savoy cake.

To half a pound of sugar, allow a pound of flour, three whites of eggs, and half a pound of butter: mix all these ingredients together with a little cream, then put in two ounces of anniseeds, roll it very thin, and cut it into round cakes.

To a quarter of a pound of sweet almonds, allow half a pound of sugar: pound the almonds fine with whites of eggs, put in a little cinnamon essence, or a little cinnamon pounded fine; then drop them on paper in small drops, and bake them in a slow oven.

PART VII. — Freezing of Ice. — To prepare the Cochineal for colouring different Sorts of Ice. — Ice Creams, or Rasberry Ice. — Strawberry Jam, — Apricot Ice. — Pine Apple Ice. — Barberry Ice. — Biscuit Ice. — Pistachia Ice. — Fresh Gooseberry Ice. — Chocolate Ice. — Fresh Rasberry Ice. — Fresh Strawberry Ice, — Royal Cream. — Lemon Cream. — Orange Cream, — Burnt Cream. — Plain Ice. — Coffee Ice. — Tea Ice , — Ratafia Ice. — Vernella Ice. — Orange Ice. — Lemon Ice. — Cedraty Ice. — Grape Ice. — Rasberry Water. — Currant Water. — Cherry Ice. — Punch Ice. — Pear Ice.

Have ready a freezing pot in ice and salt; put in your ice cream, cover the pot, keep turning it till the water comes round the pot; then open it and scrape it down: continue turning it, and scraping it down as it freezes, till it becomes quite hard and smooth.

If an ice cream is mixed too rich, put in a little more cream: if it is poor, put in some more jam. If a water ice is mixed too rich, it will require some 80more water: if it is too poor, put in some clarified sugar.

If an ice is poor, the first time you scrape it down, it will feel quite rough and hard: on the contrary, if an ice is too rich, it will not freeze at all.

All fruit ices that are put into the shapes of fruit, should have a paper round the moulds, just as you put them in the ice: let them lay in ice and salt for an hour. N.B. Before you turn your ices out, take care to make the water come up the sides of the tub, and in turning them out, put your moulds just into hot water, and then out again; then the ice cream will come out easily.

N.B. All ices that are in the shape of fruit, should be coloured according to the fruit they represent.

To an ounce of cochineal pounded fine, allow a quart of clear river water: let it boil, then put in the cochineal with a table spoonful of pounded rock allum, and the same quantity of cream of tartar; if it seems to be a purple colour, add a little more cream of tartar, let it all boil for two minutes, then strain it into a bottle for use.

To six ounces of rasberry jam, allow three quarters of a pint of cream, mix it well; then pass it through a sieve, and colour it.

Is mixed the same way, allowing the juice of two lemons.

To four ounces of apricot jam, allow three quarters of a pint of cream, and a few bitter almonds pounded, the juice of two lemons, and a tea spoonful of cochineal; pass it all through a sieve for use.

To four ounces of pine apple jam, put a table spoonful of pine apple syrup, and three quarters of a pint of cream, and pass it through a sieve, with the juice of two lemons.

To half a pound of barberry jam, put three quarters of a pint of cream: pass it through a hair sieve, and colour it.

To four yolks of eggs, allow three quarters of a pint of cream, three ounces 83of spunge biscuits, a little cinnamon, and four ounces of sugar: stir it all on the fire, till it begins to thicken, then pass it through a sieve.

To three yolks of eggs, allow three quarters of a pint of cream, two ounces of pistachia kernels pounded fine, and four ounces of sugar: boil your yolks and cream, put in your kernels pounded, then colour it green, and pass it through a sieve.

Scald half a pint of gooseberries tender, and pass them through a hair sieve; mix in four ounces of sugar, and three quarters of a pint of cream.

Melt three ounces of chocolate on the fire, then take three yolks of eggs, 84two ounces of sugar, and three quarters of a pint of cream; and boil it till it thickens, then put in the chocolate, and pass it through a sieve.

Take half a pint of fresh rasberries, pass them through a sieve, with the juice of two lemons; mix in half a pint of cream, and four ounces of sugar; then colour it.

Is prepared in the same manner.

To four eggs, allow three quarters of a pint of cream, a little cinnamon, four ounces of sugar, and a few coriander seeds: boil it all till it begins to thicken, then pass it through a sieve.

To five yolks of eggs, allow three quarters of a pint of cream, four ounces of sugar, and the rind of a lemon cut thin: boil it all till it thickens, then pass it, with the juice of four lemons, through a sieve.

Is prepared in a similar manner.

Take a little sugar and burn it on the fire in a dry stew pan; have ready a good royal cream, and mix in the burnt sugar.

N.B. This cream you may either freeze, or put it under a crocant.

Take half a pint of the best cream you can get; whisk it in your freezing pot till stiff, then put in a little clarified sugar, and freeze it.

To four whites of eggs, put three ounces of sugar, three quarters of a pint of cream, and an ounce of whole coffee; boil it all till it thickens, then pass it through a sieve for freezing.

Is prepared in the same manner.

To three eggs, allow four ounces of sugar, two ounces of ratafia biscuits, and three quarters of a pint of cream; boil it all till it thickens, then pass it for use.

To four eggs, allow three ounces of sugar, and half a pint of cream, put in half an ounce of vernella; boil it till it thickens, then pass it.

N.B. All ice creams that are mixed over the fire, should be stirred, to prevent 87their sticking to the bottom of the pan.

To half a pint of clarified sugar, allow the juice of five oranges, and two lemons: rasp the rind of two oranges, mix it all with a quarter of a pint of water, and pass it through a lawn sieve.

To half a pint of clarified sugar, allow the juice of six lemons, and the rind of one: mix it with a quarter of a pint of water, and pass it through a lawn sieve.

To a gill of cedraty essence, allow the juice of four lemons, a quarter of a pint of clarified sugar, and the same quantity of water, pass it through a lawn sieve.

Make a good lemon ice; then mix in a gill of grape essence, and pass it through a lawn sieve.

To three quarters of a pound of jam, allow a pint and a quarter of water, and the juice of two lemons; pass it through a hair sieve, and colour it.

Take a quart of fresh currants; rub them through a sieve, mix it with a quarter of a pint of clarified sugar, and the same quantity of water; then colour and strain it.

Take a pound of morello, or Kentish cherries; bruise them in the mortar, strain them through a hair sieve, and mix the juice with a quarter of a pint of water, and the same quantity of clarified sugar, pass it through a lawn sieve, and colour it.

All water ices may be made of the fresh fruit in a similar manner; but if you make a water ice of jam, you must 89allow double the quantity of fruit, to what you allow in making cream ices.

Make a good lemon ice, and mix with it a gill of brandy, and half a gill of rum, or arrack.

This ice is only fit for glasses.

Take four good mellow pears: rasp them, then mix it with the juice of four lemons, half a pint of clarified sugar, and a quarter of a pint of water; strain it through a sieve for use.

PART VIII. — To make Raisin Alder Wine. — Orange Wine. — Damascene Wine. — Gooseberry Wine. — Cowslip Wine. — Birch Wine. — Rasberry Wine. — Blackberry Wine. — Cherry Wine. — Currant Wine. — To make Raisin Wine. — To make Sage Wine. — To make Clear Wine. — To make Mead. — To make White Mead. — To make Milk Punch. — To make Citron Water. — Ratafia Cordial. — Orange Flower Brandy. — Surfeit Water. — Cinnamon Water. — Nutmeg Water. — Mint Water. — Lemon Water.

Take four gallons of boiling water: to every gallon, add five pounds of Malaga raisins cut small; pour the water boiling hot upon them, and let it stand nine days, stirring it twice a day: boil your alder-berries, as you do currants for jelly, and strain it; then add to every gallon of liquor, one pint of alderberry juice, and stir it all together with half a pint of yeast; let it work well, and remain in the cask for two or three months; then bottle it off.

Take six gallons of water, and twelve pounds of Lisbon sugar, the whites of six eggs well beaten; let all boil together, then put it into a large preserving pan, with the juice of half a hundred of oranges, twelve lemons, and the rinds of twelve oranges: give all a boil together, then put it into a barrel with ten quarts of Rhenish wine, and a pint and a half of good yeast; let it work well for a week, then stop it up for a month, and bottle it up.

To every gallon of water; put two pounds and a half of sugar, which you must boil and skim well: to every gallon of this, put five pints of damascenes stoned; let it boil, then put it into a cask: work it three or four days, then stop it up for use.

To every three pounds of ripe gooseberries, put a pint of spring water, bruise your fruit; put it into a tub, and pour the water on them; let them stand a whole day, then to every three pounds of fruit, put a pound of moist sugar: stir it till the sugar is dissolved, and let it stand twenty-four hours more; then skim the head clear off, and put the liquor into a cask; let it work three or four days before you stop it up: let it remain four months before you bottle it, and if it is not fine, let it stand in bottles till it is, and then rack it off into other bottles.

To six gallons of water, allow thirty pounds of Malaga raisins; boil the water, and measure it out of your copper on your raisins: cut small and put into a tub; let them work together twelve 93hours, at the end of that time strain off, and press the raisins hard, to extract the essence; then take a little good yeast, and mix it with some lemon syrup, put in two pecks of cowslips, and let your ingredients work together for three days, stirring them twice a day; then stop it up, and bottle off in three months.

Allow to every gallon of birch water, two pounds of sugar; boil it half an hour, skim it well, let it stand a little; then pour it off the grounds, work it well with yeast, before you put it into your cask, and smoke the cask with brimstone.

I would recommend a small bag of slit raisins, to be put in the cask, and let it stand three or four months before you bottle it off.

Put three pounds of raisins of the sun stoned, into two gallons of hot water, add to these, six quarts of rasberries, and two pounds of loaf sugar: let all stand three days, then strain, put in a pound more sugar; mix in a little yeast, let it work well, then bottle it off with a lump of sugar in each bottle.

Put five gallons of boiling water, to half a bushel of blackberries; let them stand forty-eight hours, then add half a peck of sloes, and ten pounds of sugar; boil all the ingredients together for an hour, work it with yeast, and let it stand three months in the cask before you bottle it.

Take fifty pounds of black cherries, picked from the stalks, bruise them well, 95then take half a bushel of currants, and four quarts of rasberries, and squeeze them; to this quantity of juice, allow forty pounds of sugar: dissolve it in water, and put all together into a cask with eight gallons of water, and a quart of good yeast, let it work well; you may bottle it at three months end.

To three pounds of currants picked from the stalks, allow a pound of sugar, and a quart of water: boil, and put them into a cask with a good allowance of British spirits; let it work for two weeks before you stop it up, then let it remain three months before you bottle it off.

To every gallon of water, put five pounds of Malaga, or Belvidere slit raisins; let them soak in the water for a fortnight, stirring them every day, then strain it through a sieve, and put it into 96a cask: to every gallon of liquor, allow a pint of French brandy; work it well, and let it remain stopped up close for four months, before you bottle it.

Boil twenty-six quarts of water, with twenty-five pounds of Malaga raisins cut small; then put it into a tub with two pecks of red sage, and half a pint of yeast; let all work well, then put it into a cask, let it remain a week before you stop it up, and two months before you bottle it up.

Take half a pound of hartshorn, and dissolve it in cyder; and if it be for cyder, Rhenish wine, or any other liquor, this quantity is enough for a hogshead.

To five quarts of honey, allow forty quarts of water, eighteen races of ginger, and one handful of rosemary; boil them 97together for three hours, and skim it perpetually: when it is cold, put your yeast to it, and it will be fit to bottle in eight or ten days.

Take three gallons of water, and one quart of honey, and if it be not strong enough, add more honey; boil it for an hour, then put it into a tub with ginger, and spice, the whites of eight eggs to it, work it well with yeast, and when you perceive it is done working, bottle it off for use.

Take two quarts of milk, a quart of good brandy, the juice of six lemons, and half a pound of sugar; mix them well, and strain it through a jelly bag, take a little lemon peel, and put into your bag; when it is strained bottle it up, and it will keep a considerable time.

Take a pound and a half of the best citron bruised, nine ounces of lemon 98peel, the same quantity of orange peel; nutmegs bruised, a quarter of a pound; strong proof spirits, three gallons; water two gallons; macerate, distil and dulcify with double refined sugar, two pounds.

Take three gallons of Molasses brandy, nutmegs three ounces and a half; bruise them, and infuse them in the brandy; adding ambergrease, three grains; bitter almonds, one pound and a half: mix the ambergrease with three pounds of fine Lisbon sugar, then infuse all for seven or eight days, and strain it off for use.

Take a gallon of French brandy, two pounds of sugar, two quarts of water, and half a pound of orange flowers; make a syrup of your sugar and water, put in your orange flowers, and give all a gentle boil; then mix in the brandy, 99and put all into a stone bottle close corked up for use.

Take a peck of red corn poppies, put them in a large bottle, and put to it a quart of aqua vitæ, a nutmeg, and a race of ginger, sliced, a small stick of cinnamon, a blade of mace, three or four figs, four ounces of raisins of the sun, four ounces of anniseeds, caraways and cardemum, mixed with two ounces of Spanish liquorish; put all these ingredients into the bottle; then add two quarts of white brandy, and cork it up; shake it every day for a week; then let it stand for two months, by which time it will be fit to drink.

Take cinnamon bruised, twelve ounces; proof spirits rectified three gallons; water one gallon and a half; macerate them twenty-four hours, then distil and draw off your spirits, and dulcify 100it with loaf sugar, two pounds and a half, and make it full proof.

Take nutmegs bruised, twelve ounces; proof spirits three gallons, water one gallon and a half; infuse, distil, and dulcify with two pounds of sugar for use.

Take mint two handfuls, proof spirits two gallons and a half; distil and dulcify with sugar, one pound and a half for use.

Take twelve large lemons, sliced thin, and put them into two pints of white wine, with a little cinnamon, and a handful of rose-leaves; the same quantity of burrage, and a drachm of yellow sanders: steep all this together twelve hours; mix in a pint and a half of water, two pounds of sugar, and two pints more wine, then distil it for use.