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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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Candied Fruits, as Barberries, Plums, and the like, then when all is
done, sprinkle it over with Rosewater, with a Grain or two of Musk or
Ambergreece in it; your Glass must be made with a reasonable proportion
of bigness to hold the Wine, and from that, in the middle of it, there
must be a Conveyance to fall into a Glass below it, which must have
Spouts for the Wine to play upward or downward, then from thence in
another Glass below, with Spouts also, and from thence it hath a
Conveyance into a Glass below that, somewhat in form like a Sillibub
Pot, where the Wine may be drunk out at the Spout; you may put some
Eringo Roots, and being coloured, they will shew very well among the
other Sweet-Meats, tie your Basket about with several sorts of small
Ribbons: Do not take this for a simple Fancy, for I assure you, it is
the very same that I taught to a young Gentlewoman to give for a Present
to a Person of Quality.




TO THE READER.


_Courteous Reader,

I Think it not amiss, since I have given you, as I think, a very full
Direction for all kinds of Food both for Nourishment and Pleasure, that
I do shew also how to eat them in good order; for there is a Time and
Season for all things: Besides, there is not anything well done which
hath not a Rule, I shall therefore give you several Bills of Service for
Meals according to the Season of the Year, so that you may with ease
form up a Dinner in your Mind quickly; afterwards I shall speak of
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