feet, six ears, & six snouts or noses, being finely
scalded, & lay them in soak twenty four hours, shift & scrape them
very white, then boil them in a fair clean scoured brass pot or
pipkin in three gallons of liquor, five quarts of water, three of
wine-vinegar, or verjuyce, and four of white-wine, boil them from
three gallons to four quarts waste, being scum'd, put in an ounce of
pepper whole, an ounce of nutmegs in quarters, an ounce of ginger
slic't, and an ounce of cinamon, boil them together, as is
abovesaid, to four quarts.
Then take up the meat, and let them cool, divide them into dishes, &
run it over with the broth or jelly being a little first setled,
take the clearest, & being cold put juice or orange over all, serve
it with bay-leaves about the dish.
_To make a Crystal Jelly._
Take three pair of calves feet, and scald off the hair very clean,
knock off the claws, and take out the great bones & fat, & cast them
into fair water, shift them three or four times in a day and a
night, then boil them next morning in a glazed pipkin or clean pot,
with six quarts of fair spring water, boil it and scum it clean,
boil away three quarts or more; then strain it into a clean earthen
pan or bason, & let it be cold: then prepare the dross from the
bottom, and take the fat of the top clean, put it in a large pipkin
of six quarts, and put into it two quarts of old clear white-wine,
the juyce of four lemons, three blades of mace, and two races of
ginger slic't; then melt or dissolve it again into broth, and let it
cool. Then have four pound of hard sugar fine beaten, and mix it
with twelve whites of eggs in a great dish with your rouling pin,
and put it into your pipkin to your jelly, stir it together with a
grain of musk and ambergriese, put it in a fine linnen clout bound
up, and a quarter of a pint of damask rose-water, set it a stewing
on a soft charcoal fire, before it boils put in a little ising
glass, and being boil'd up, take it, and let it cool a little, and
run it.
_Other Jelly for service of several colours._
Take four pair of calves feet, a knuckle of veal, a good fleshie
capon, and prepare these things as is said in the crystal jelly:
boil them in three gallons of fair water, till six quarts be wasted,
then strain it in an earthen pan, let it cool, and being cold pare
the bottom, and take off the fat on the top also; then dissolve it
again into broth, and divide it into 4 equal parts, put it i
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