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

pound of quinces put a pound of sugar; put them into a pot or pewter flagon, the pewter makes them a much better colour; close them up with a little coarse paste, and set them in a bread oven all night; if the syrrup be too thin boil it down, put it to your quinces, and keep it for use. You may either do it with powder sugar or loaf sugar. 458. _To make_ Almond Cheesecakes _another Way_. Take the peel of two or three lemons pared thick, boil them pretty soft, and change the water two or three times in the boiling; when they are boiled beat them very fine with a little loaf sugar, then take eight eggs, (leaving out six of the whites) half a pound of loaf or powder sugar, beat the eggs and sugar for half an hour, or better; take a quarter of a pound of the best almonds, blanch and beat them with three or four spoonfuls of rose-water, but not over small; take ten ounces of fresh butter, melt it without water, and clear off from it the butter-milk, then mix them altogether very well, and bake them in a slow oven in a puff-paste; before you put them into the tins, put in the juice of half a lemon. When you put them in the oven grate over them a little loaf sugar. You may make them without almonds, if you please. You may make a pudding of the same, only leave out the almonds. _FINIS_. English Housewifry _improved_; OR, A SUPPLEMENT TO MOXON'S COOKERY. CONTAINING, Upwards of Sixty Modern and Valuable RECEIPTS IN PASTRY MADE DISHES PRESERVING MADE WINES, &c. &c. Collected by a PERSON of JUDGMENT. SUPPLEMENT TO MOXON'S Cookery. 1. _A_ GRANADE. Take the caul of a leg of veal, lie it into a round pot; put a layer of the flitch part of bacon at the bottom, then a layer of forc'd-meat, and a layer of the leg part of veal cut as for collops, 'till the pot is fill'd up; which done, take the part of