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The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet - Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex by Hannah Wolley
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Boil a quart of Cream with whole spice then pour it out into a Dish, but
let it be one quarter consumed in the boiling, then stir it till it be
almost cold, then put some Runnet into it as for a Cheese, and stir it
well together, and colour it with a little Saffron, serve it in with
Sack and Sugar.


266. _To make a Posset Pie with Apples._

Take the Pulp of rosted Apples and beat it well with Sugar and Rosewater
to make it very sweet, then mix it with sweet Cream, and the yolks of
raw Eggs, some Spice and Sack, then having your Paste ready in your
Bake-pan, put in this stuff and bake it a little, then stick it with
Candied Pills, and so serve it in cold.


267. _To dry Pippins about_ Christmas _or before._

When your Houshold Bread is drawn, then set in a Dish full of Pippins,
and about six hours after take them out and lay them in several Dishes
one by one, and flat them with your hands a little, so do twice a day,
and still set them into a warm Oven every time till they are dry enough;
then lay them into Boxes with Papers between every Lay.


268. _To make Snow Cream._

Take a Quart of Cream, and 4 Ounces of blanched Almonds, beaten and
strained, with half a Pint of White Wine, a piece of Orange Pill and a
Nutmeg sliced, and three Sprigs of Rosemary, mix these things together,
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