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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 them in several Waters, till a straw will run through them, then
take to every Pound of Orange or Limon one Pound of fine Sugar, and one
quart of Water, make your Syrrup, and let your Oranges or Limons boil a
while in it, then let them stand five or six days in that Syrrup, then
to every Pound, put one Pound more of Sugar into your Syrrup, and boil
your Oranges till they be very clear, then take your Oranges out, and
boil your Syrrup almost to Candy, and put to them.


95. _To make Sugar Plate._

Take a little Gum-Dragon laid in steep in Rosewater till it be like
Starch, then beat it in a Mortar with some searced Sugar till it come
to a perfect Paste, then mould it with Sugar, and make it into what form
you please, and colour some of them, lay them in a warm place, and they
will dry of themselves.


96. _To make Artificial Walnuts._

Take some of your Sugar Plate, print it in a Mould fit for a Walnut
Kernel, yellow it over with a little Saffron, then take searced Cinamon
and Sugar, as much of the one as the other, work it in Paste with some
Rosewater, wherein Gum Dragon hath been steeped, and print it in a Mould
for a Walnut shell, and when they are dry, close them together over the
shell with a little of the Gum water.


97. _To make short Cakes._

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