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A Queens Delight - The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. As also, A right - Knowledge of making Perfumes, and Distilling the most Excellent - Waters. by W. M.
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_To make Walnuts artificial._

Take searsed Sugar, and Cinnamon, of quantity a like, work it up with a
little Gum Dragon, steep it in Rose-water, and print it in a mould made
like a Walnut-shell, then take white Sugar Plates, print it in a mold
made like a Walnut kernel, so when they are both dry, close them up
together with a little Gum Dragon betwixt, and they will dry as they
lie.



_To make Collops like Bacon of Marchpane._

Take some of your Marchpane Paste, and work it in red Saunders till it
be red; then rowl a broad sheet of white Paste, and a sheet of red
Paste, three of the white, and four of the red, and so one upon another
in mingled sorts, every red between, then cut it overthwart, till it
look like Collops of Bacon, then dry it.



_To make artificial Fruits._

Take a Mould made of Alablaster, three yolks, and tye two pieces
together, and lay them in water an hour, and take as much sugar as will
fill up your mold, and boil it in a _Manus Christi_, then pour it into
your mould suddenly, and clap on the lid, round it about with your hand,
and it will be whole and yellow, then colour it with what colour you
please, half red, or half yellow, and you may yellow it with a little
Saffron steept in water.
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