beat them with a quart of rose water: then have a decoction of half
a pound of ising-glass, boil'd with a gallon of fair spring-water,
or else half wine, boil it till half be wasted, then let it cool,
strain it, and mingle it with your almonds, and strain with them a
pound of double refined sugar, the juyce of two lemons, and cast it
into egg shells; put saffron to some of it, and make some of it
blue, some of it green, and some yellow; cast some into oranges, and
some into lemon rindes candied: mix part of it with some almond
paste colored; and some with cheese-curds; serve of divers of these
colours on a great dish and plate.
_To make other white Jelly._
Boil two capons being cleansed, the fat and lungs taken out, truss
them and soak them well in clean water three of four hours; then
boil them in a pipkin, or pot of two gallons or less, put to them a
gallon or five quarts of white wine, scum them, and boil them to a
jelly, next strain the broth from the grounds and blow off the fat
clean; then take a quart of sweet cream, a quart of the jelly broth,
a pound and half of refined sugar, and a quarter of a pint of rose
water, mingle them all together, and give them a warm on the fire
with half an ounce of fine searsed ginger; then set it a cooling,
dish it, or cast it in lemon or orange-peels, or in any fashion of
the other jellies, in moulds or glasses, or turn it into colours;
for sick folks in place of cream use stamped almonds.
_To make Jellies for sauces, made dishes, and other works._
Take six pair of calves feet, scald them and take away the fat
between the claws, as also the great long shank bones, and lay them
in water four or five hours; then boil them in two gallons of fair
spring water, scum them clean and boil them from two gallons to
three quarts, then strain it through a strong canvas, and let the
broth cool; being cold cleanse it from the grounds, pare off the top
and melt it, then put to it in a good large pipkin, three quarts of
white-wine, three races of ginger slic't, some six blades of mace,
a quarter of an ounce of cinamon, a grain of musk, and eighteen
whites of eggs beaten with four pound of sugar, mingle them with the
rest in the pipkin, and the juyce of three lemons, set all on the
fire, and let it stew leisurely; then have your bag ready washed,
and when your pipkin boils up, run it, _&c._
_Harts horn Jelly._
Take half a pound of harts-horn, boil it in fair spring water
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