The art of cookery, made plain and easy; which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published ... / By a lady [Mrs. H. Glasse].

  • Hannah Glasse
Date:
1751
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Credit: The art of cookery, made plain and easy; which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published ... / By a lady [Mrs. H. Glasse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    You may leave out the Currants, for Change, nor need you put in the perfumed Plumbs, if you diflike them 3 and for Variety, when you make them of Mackeroons, put in as much Tin^ure of Saffron as will give them a high Colour, but no Currants. This we call Saffron Cheefecakes 3 the other without Currants, Almond Cheefecakes 3 with Currants, fine Cheefecakes 3 with Mackeroons, Mackeroon Cheeiecakes. To make Lemon Cheefecakes. np AKE the Peel cf two large Lemons, boil it very tender, then T pound it well in a Mortar, with a Quarter of a Pound or more of Loaf Sugar, the Yolks of fix Eggs, and Half a Eound of frein Butter 3 pound and mix all well together, lay a I ufr-palte m your Patty-pans, fill them Half full, and bake therm Orange Cheefecakes are done the lame Way, only you boil the Peel in two or three Waters, to take out the Bitterneis. /] fecond Sort of Lemon Cheefecakes. TAKE two large Lemons, grate off the Peel of both, and Iqueeze out the Juice of one, and add to it Half a Pound 01 double-refined Sugar, twelve Yolks of Eggs, eight Whites well beaten then melt Half a Pound of Butter, m four or five Spoonfuls of Cream, them ftir it all together, and let it over the Fire Birring it till it begins to be pretty thick 3 then ta*e it oft, and when it is cold, fill your Patty-pans little more than Halt lull. Put a Pafte very thin at the Bottom of your Patty-pans. Elad an Hour, with a quick Oven, will bake them. To make Almond Cheefecakes. TAKE Half a Pound o {Jordan Almonds, and lay them in cold Water all Night * the next Morning blanch them into cold Water, then take them out, and dry them in a clean Cloth, Deat them very fine in a little Orange-flower Water, then take fixEggs, leave out four Whites, beat them and Brain them, then Hair a Pound of White Sugar, with a little beaten Mace 3 beat them well together in a Marble Mortar, take ten Ounces of good fredi Butter, melt it, a little grated Lemon-peel, and put them in the Mortar with the other Ingredients 3 mix all well together, and fill your Patty-pans.