The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far excels any thing of the kind yet published ... in which are included one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, not inserted in any former edition with a copious index / By a lady [Mrs. H. Glasse].

  • Hannah Glasse
Date:
1796
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Credit: The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far excels any thing of the kind yet published ... in which are included one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, not inserted in any former edition with a copious index / By a lady [Mrs. H. Glasse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    them a little with a wath-ball fcraper, and Jet them lie in the and agreeable to your mind, | if you would have them adi bled, after wae fcented with oil of ‘thyme and oil of carraways (ast in the firft procefs), cut them into pieces, about as much as will make a ball each, and dip it into the powder-blue, -yermilion, or rofe pink, (ac- ing to your-mind; double it up, make it into a hard and round bal], and ule the fame Procefs as beforementioned. White Almond Wajfp- Balls. TAKE fome white foap and flice it thin, put it into a Beha: box on the top of an oven to dry, three weeks or more; when it is dry, beat it in a mortar till it is a powder; to every four ounces of foap add one ounce of hair-powder, half an ounce of white-lead ; put them into a pan, and damp them with rofe- water to make it of a proper confiftency ; make them into balls as hard and clofe as poffible, fcrape them with a ball-fcraper, and ufe the fame procefs as beforementioned, Jetting them lie three weeks in a ficve to dry; then fnifh them with a ball- {craper to your mninidy | Brown Main’ Wapp- Balls. Space of three weeks, or more; when quite dry, beat itin a “mortar to a powder ; to every three ounces of foap add one ounce of brown almond-powdéer ; ; put it ina mortar, and damp _ it with rofe-water, to make it of a proper confiftency ; beat it very well, then make them into balls according to a procefs | before-mentioned, letting them lie three weeks in a fieve to dry; then finith them with a ball- (craper, agreeable to your mind. Windfor Soap. —Two failings per Pound. meltiit in a ftew-pan over a fow fire, and fcent it very flrong Pieces to your santle ~ 4 . Lo make (sh Sled ise TAKE half a pound of hog’s lard, put it into a pan, with one ounce and a half of virgin-wax; let it ftand on a flow fire till it is melted; then take a {mall tin- “pot, and fill i: with water, red om