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How to make Lemon Cream
Take a pint of water, the thin rinde [rind] of 2
Lemons. Let it steip [steep] till the water taist [taste] strong
of the lemon, then take the whites of 6 eggs
beat them & put them to the water, and the
Juice of 5 Lemons, sweeten it with Doubel [double]
refined sugar, strain it throue [through] a hair sive [sieve]
put in a Littel [little] oring [orange] flower water, get it on
a Slow fire that it can not boyle [boil], stur [stir] it
allwais [always] one way till it be thick, which will be
Long a doeing, becaus if it be don Quick it
will not Louke Cleare, you may make oring
the same way puting in yolks in stead
of whites;
M^rs Bowes at [Bath]
1702