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To make Cheese Cakes --- Ditto

Take 10 quarts of new milk from the Cow - [run] it tender - put it
in a cloth to drain out the whey, then beat it in a Mortar with
a pound of butter, the yolks of 8 Eggs - the whites of 4 one Nutmeg
and sweeten it to your taste

For Lemon or Oringe Peels --- Ditto

Soake your peels 3 or 4 days in fresh water - boil them in 2
or 3 fresh waters - put them into boiling water each time
after the first which must be cold, in the last time of boiling
they must be very tender, to each pound of peel before they are
soak'd, must be allowed a pound and an half of Sugar and a pint
of water, clarifye the Sugar, and boil it into a low syrup
pour the Syrup boiling hot upon them and let them
stand at least a week - that the sugar may get through
them Then set them in an Oven that is just drawn -
with a paper tyed on the top of your pott - repeat this
till the peels are clear and the Syrup thick

Calves Lungs Water -- Ditto

Take a gallon of new milk the Lungs of a Calf
whilst warm cut in pieces a Peck of garden
snails whash'd in water, then beat them in a stone
mortar till the shels are broke 12 Whites of Eggs
4 Nutmegs quarter'd distill it together in a
cold still - this water is excellent in a Hectick
Fever or any Consumption Drink of it sweeten'd
with sugar Candy or Loaf Sugar