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The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened

1910

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Presented as published in 1910. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Take a Pint and half of good Sweet-cream ; set it on the fire, and let it just boil up, take a peny Manchet, not too new, cut off the crust, and slice it very thin, put it into a clean earthen pan, and pour the Cream upon it, and cover it very close an hour or there- abouts, to steep the bread ; when it is steeped enough, take four New laid-eggs, yolks and whites, beat them with a spoonful of Rose-water, and two of Sack; grate into it half a Nutmeg, and put into it a quarter of a pound of good white-Sugar finely beaten, stir all this together v/ith the Cream and Bread ; then shred very small half a pound of good Beef-kidney-suet, and put this to the rest, and mingle them very well together with a slice or spoon; then size your dish, that you intend to bake it in, and rub the bottom of it with a little sweet- Butter ; then putyour pudding into it,and take the Marrow of two good bonesAnother Baked Pudding, and stick it in lumps here and there all over your Pudding ; so put it into the oven three quarters of an hour, in which time it will be well baked. Strew on it some fine Sugar, and serve it. TO MAKE BLACK PUDDINGS Take a pottle of half-cut Groats ; pick them clean, that there may be no husks nor foulness in them ; then put them into a Mortar, bruise them a little with a Pestle ; then have readyeitherMilk,or fresh meat-broth boiled upjand the Oat-meal immediately put into it ; It must be just so much as will cover it; thencoverthethingclosethat it isin,andlet it steep twenty four hours ; To this two quarts of Oat- i8o SIR KENELMS DIGBIS meal,putapintand half of blood, season it well with Salt, and a little Pepper, and a little beaten Cloves and Mace, eight Eggs, yolks andwhites,five pound of Kidney-beef-suet shred, but not too small ; then put in of these herbs ; Peny-royal, Fennel, Leek- blades, Parsley, Sage, Straw-berry-leaves and Vio- let leaves, equal parts, in all to the quantity of a good handfulBlack Puddings ; let them be pick'd and washed very clean, and chop'd very small, and mingled well with the former things ; Then fill your Puddings. Make ready your guts in this manner. Cleanse them very well, when they are fresh taken out of the Hog ; and after they are well washed and scowr- ed, lay them to soak in fair water three days and three nights, shifting the water twice every day : and every time you shift the water, scour them first with Water and Salt. An hour and a quarter is enough to boil them. TO PRESERVE PIPPINS IN JELLY, EITHER IN QUARTERS, OR IN SLICES Take good sound clear Pippins, pare, quarter and coar them ; then put them intoa skillet of Conduit- water, such a proportion as you intend to make ; boil it very well : then let the liquor run from the pulp through a sieve, without forcing, and let it standtillthenext morning. Take Orange orLimon peel, and boil in a skillet of water, till they are ten- der ; then rowl them up in a linnen cloth to dry the water well out of them ; let them lie so all night. Then take of double refined and finely beaten and searced Sugar a pound to every pint of Pippin Liquor that ran through the sieve, and to every THE CLOSET OPEDjED i8i To Preserve Pippins in Jelly