A choice manual of rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery collected and practised by the Right Honorable, the Countesse of Kent, late deceased ; as also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying, &c. ; published by W.I., Gent.
Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651., W. J. (W. Jar)

A Pudding.

Take a quart of Cream, and two Eggs, beat them, and strain them into the cream, and grate in a Nutmeg and half, take six spoonfuls of flower, beat half a pound of Almonds with that cream, and put it into the cream, and mix this together, boil your pudding an hour and no more; First flower the bag you put it in, then melt fresh butter, and take Sugar and Rosewater, beat it thick, and pour it on the pudding, you may put to a little Milk, and stick blanched Almonds, and Wafers in it; add to the same pudding, if you will, a pennie loaf grated, a quartern of Sugar, two Mar∣row bones, one glasse of Mallago Sack, Page  120 six dates minced, a grain of Amber-griece, a grain of Musk, two or three spoonfuls of Rosewater, bake this pudding in little wood dishes, but first butter them, your Marrow must be stuck to and again, then bake it half an hour, five or seven at a time, and so set them in order in the dish, and garnish them with a sprig in the mid∣dle, and wafers about it, strew Sugar about the branch, and sliced Lemon, set four round, and one in the top.