The Accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery containing I. the art of preserving and candying fruits & flowers ..., II. the physical cabinet, or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery : together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body : and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling, 3. the compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, both in the English and French mode ...
Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.

256. To make Paste of Apricots.

Let your Apricots be very Ripe, and then pare them, then put them into a skil∣let, and set them over the fire without water, stir them very well with a skim∣mer, and let them be over the fire till they be very dry, then ake some Sugar and boyl it into a Conserve, and mix an equal Page  118 quantity of each together, and so make it into Paste.