A choice manual, or Rare secrets in physick and chirurgery: collected, & practised by the Right Honourable the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the vertue of Gascon powder, and lapis contra yarvam by a professor of physick. As also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying &c.

How to make white Lemon-Cakes.

Take half a dozen of white Le∣mons, the best you can get, then cut and pare them, leave none of the yellow behind, then take a∣way the sowre meat of it, and reserve all the white, and lay it in water 2 days, then seeth it in fair water till it be soft, then take it out and set it by till the water be gone from it, then weigh it, and take twice the weight in Sugar, mince the white stuff very fine, then take an earthen Pipkin, and put therein some fair water, and some Rose-water? if you have a pound of Sugar, you must have half a pint of water, of both sorts alike, let your water and sugar boil together, then scum it, and put in the stuff, and so let them boil toge∣ther, always stirring it till it be

thick, it will shew very thin, and when it is cold, it will be thick enough.