Wellcome Collection: Cookery-books: 18th cent. (MS1810)

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{(No.34)} To Make Cheese Cakes

Take a Gallon of New milk & warm it, and put in it a Cupful of rennet, you must set the hight before a Bit of Rennet bagg, as bigg as a Crown peice in a Cupful of water, & the next day put the water to your new warm milk, & when the Curd is Come, put it in a Cheese Cloth and wave it back and forwards till the whey is out of it, Then take the same weight of new Butter as your Curd, and press it through a seive Together, & then put you sugar, with Eight Eggs, but 4 whites well beat, with Spice and Currants, into puff past. And Bake them in pans, the sugar & spice must be to your tast, the Spice must be mace & nutmeg, the Currants plumpt up

(No.34) (35) To Make force meat Balls

Take as much Veal as beef suet, some peices of stale Bread, beat them all in a Marble mortar, some sweet herbs, Chopt & put it in the mortar, with Nutmeg Mace peper and a Little salt, all beat together, the Yolk of an Egg & a Little milk And make them in Balls, & fry them,

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21 {(No.36)} To Make Mushroom Powder

Take a pack of mushrooms, wash them & wipe them clean with a flanel, & cut out the worms. and put them in a Broad earthen pan with 20 Cloves, & 8 Blades of mace, & as much beaten peper as will lie on half a crown, a Handful of salt, 3 small Onions, a peice of Butter the size of an Egg, & 1/4 a pint of Vinegar, let them Stew over the fire till the Liquor is wasted. then put them into the Oven after the bread is out, & when dry pound them to powder with the spice, it must be kept dry in a pot, or Glass

{(No.37)} To make Rich Pancakes

Take 8 Eggs, beat them with a Little of the best Brandyy, & 4 Large spoonfulls of the finest Flower, put in a Little Nutmeg, a Little salt, and 1/2 poundof Butter melted in a pint of Cream, and when its almost Cold, mix it altogether with 2 Ounces of fine sugar fry them in a Dry pan, without fat,& let the pan be hot when you begin, & fry them only on one side strew fine sugar between each pancake as you put them in the dish, & when they are all fry'd turn them upside Down in an other dish, that the brown side may be Upwards & strew over them some fine sugar

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22 {(No.38)} To Make Salsbury Pudding

Take 1/2[ pound] of rea raisins stone them, 1 [pound] of Beef suet & chop them all fine together, 4 spoonfulls of flower, 4 spoonfulls of sugar a little Salt 6 Eggs 3 whites beat them well This Quantity will require 3 hours Boiling tie the pudding Close & hard the Sauce is Butter melted with sack & sugar

{(No.39)} To make Orange Cheese Cakes

Take 1/2 [pound] of Blanch'd allmonds beat small with rose water, 1/2 [pound] of Loaf sugar beat fine, 3/4 [pound] of Butter melted & almost cold Again, & Yolks of Eggs, well beaten the Peel of a Large sivil Orange, boil'd till it's very tender & the Bitter almost out. then beat it well in a Mortar, then mix all These together & beat it well then put it in a Crust

{(No.40)} To Make water Cakes

Take a Quart of flower, A quarter of a pound of Butter, 1/4 pound of Sugar, one Egg, & 2 Ozs of Carrawayseeds, mix it with water, & roll them very thin, & bake them quick