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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.
kernels, and of Pistachios, ana^ four Ounces. Erin- go-roots, Candid-Limon peels, ana, three Ounces, Candid Orange peels two Ounces, Candid Citron- peels four Ounces, of powder of white Amber, as much as will lie upon a shilling ; and as much of the powder of pearl, 20 grains of Amber-greece, three grains of M usk,a book of leaf gold,Cloves and Mace, of each as much as will lie upon athree pence; cut all these as small as possible you can. Then take a pound of Sugar, and half a pint of water, boil it to a candy- height, then put in the Amber-greece and Musk, with three or four spoonfulls of Orange flower waterPleasant Cordial Tablets. Then put in all the other things and stir them well to- gether, and cast them upon plates, and set them to dry : when both sides are dry, take Orange-flower- water and Sugar, and Ice them. TO MAKE HARTS-HORN GELLY Take four Ounces of Harts-horn rasped, boil it in four pound of water, till it will be a gelly, which you may try upon a plate (it will be so, in four or five or six hours gentle boiling) and then pass the clear liquor from the horn (which will be a good quart) then set it on the fire again with fine Sugar in it to your taste ; when that is dissolved (or at the same time you put that in) put half a pound of white- wine or Sack into it, and a bag of Spice, containing a little Ginger, a stick of Cinnamon bruised,a Nut- meg quartered, two or three Cloves, and what other Spice you like, but Pepper. As soon as it begin- neth to boil, put into it the whites of three or four Eggs beaten, and let it boil up gently, till the Eggs harden into a curd. Then open it with a spoon, 240 SIR KENELMS DIGBIS and pour into it the juyce of three or four good LimonsHarts-Horn Gelly ; then take it presently off the fire, letting it not boil more above a walm : Then run it through a Hippocras bag, putting spirit of Cinnamon, or of Ambergreece, or what you please to it. For gelly of flesh you proceed in the same man- ner, with a brawny Capon or Cock, and a rouelle of Veal (first skinned, and soaked from the blood) in stead of Harts-horn: and when the broth will gelly, do as above, using a double or treble proportion of wine. Boil no Salt in it at first, for that will make the gelly black. HARTS-HORN GELLY Take a pound of Harts-horn, and boil it in five quarts of water, until it come to three pints, then strain it through a sieve or strainer, and so let it stand, until it be cold ; and accordi ng to the strength you may take more or less of the following Ingre- dients. First, take your stock of gelly, & put it into a skillet or pipkin with a pound of fine loaf Sugar, and set it over a fire of Charcoal ; and when it begins to boil, put in a pint or more of Rhenish-wine. Then take the whites of Eggs six or eight, beaten very well, with three or four spoonfuls of Rose-water, and put into the gelly. Then take two grains of Amber, and one grain of Musk, and put thereto, so let it boil a quarter of an hour, but not too violent ; Then put in three or four spoonfuls of Cinnamon- waterjwith thejuyce of seven or eightLimons; boil it one walm more,and run it very hot through your gelly-bag ; this done, run it again as cool and softly as you can into your Glasses and Pots. THE CLOSET OPEDjED 241 TO MAKE HARTS-HORN GELLY