The queen-like closet; or, Rich cabinet stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying & cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. By Hannah Wolley.
Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670., Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670. Second part of the queen-like closet.
XVI. To make a green Tansie to fry, or boil over a Pot.
Take a quart of cream, the yolks of one dozen of Eggs & half their Whites well beat mix them together, and put in one Nutmeg grated, then colour it well with the Iuice of Spinage, and sweeten it with Sugar; then fry it with Butter as you do the other, and serve it in the same manner; but you must lay thin slices of Limon upon this.
If you will not fry it, then Butter a Dish, and poure it therein, and set it upon a Pot of boiling water till it be enough; this is the better and easier way.
Thus you may make Tansies of any other things, as Cowslips, Rasberries, Violets, Marigolds, Gilliflowers, or any such like, and colour them with their Iuice; you may use green Wheat instead of Spinage.
