English Housewifry: Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery

and an ounce and a half of beaten ginger, mix all these together and wet it pretty stiff with nothing but treacle; make it into rolls or cakes which you please; if you please you may add candid orange peel and citron; butter your paper to bake it on, and let it be baked hard. 429. _To make_ QUINCE CREAM. Take quinces when they are full ripe, cut them in quarters, scald them till they be soft, pare them, and mash the clear part of them, and the pulp, and put it through a sieve, take an equal weight of quince and double refin'd sugar beaten and sifted; and the whites of eggs beat till it is as white as snow, then put it into dishes. You may do apple cream the same way. 430. _To make_ CREAM _of any preserved Fruit_. Take half a pound of the pulp of any preserved fruit, put it in a large pan, put to it the whites of two or three eggs, beat them well together for an hour, then with a spoon take off, and lay it heaped up high on the dish and salver without cream, or put it in the middle bason. Rasberries will not do this way. 431. _To dry_ PEARS _or_ PIPPENS _without Sugar_. Take pears or apples and wipe them clean, take a bodkin and run it in at the head, and out at the stalk, put them in a flat earthen pot and bake them, but not too much; you must put a quart of strong new ale to half a peck of pears, tie twice papers over the pots that they are baked in, let them stand till cold then drain them, squeeze the pears flat, and the apples, the eye to the stalk, and lay 'em on sieves with wide holes to dry, either in a stove or an oven not too hot. 432. _To preserve_ MULBERRIES _whole_. Set some mulberries over the fire in a skellet or preserving pan, draw from them a pint of juice when it is strain'd; then take three