A book of simples.

Date:
[1908]
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Credit: A book of simples. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    99- Bijkit jdpprovea. Take a pound of fine Sugar beaten and fearched one pound of flower 4 grains of Amber greafe 3 grains of mufk grind them with Sugar mingle them with the flour and Sugar altogether you mufl; dry your flour then take 8 new laid eggs whites and yolks beat them in a ftone morter with a wooden peflle for the fpace of an hour put your Sugar and flour in by little and little till it be all in then beat it for y® fpace of 2 hours together you mufl: not let it ftand ffill at no time for the good beating makes it white and light then put in 2 fpoonfulls of anyfeeds and Stir them together then let your plat be buttered very thin then warm your plats and difh it as faft as you can then have your oven ready not very hot and put them in prefently Sifting Sugar over them, when baked enough then take them out & pare y® bottoms of them and lay them upon paper to dry & harden you mufl: take them off y® plats while warme. AKE 2 pound of flour dryed & fearched one pound of loaf Sugar dryed and Searched one pound of butter, 6 eggs leaveing out the whites then beat them very well & take a little cream & make it into pafte then rowle it & flat it as you will have it & then cut it round w*^ a glafs and bake then in a cool oven you mufl: wafh y® butter with a little rofe water & fee you dry it out. Take 4 calves feet and when they be blanched put them into a pot with a gallon of fair water and let them boyle till they be confumed to half Scumming it as it rifeth very well then ftrain it through a coulender into a difli and let it Stand till the next day and through cold Slice it through in 100. Sugar Cakes, loi. make Jelly.