A daily exercise for ladies and gentlewomen. Whereby they may learne and practice the whole art of making pastes, preserues, marmalades, conserues, tartstuffes, gellies, breads, sucket candies, cordiall vvaters, conceits in sugar-vvorkes of seuerall kindes. As also to dry lemonds, orenges, or other fruits. Newly set forth, according to the now approued receipts, vsed both by honourable and vvorshipfull personages. By Iohn Murrell, professour thereof.

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A daily exercise for ladies and gentlewomen. Whereby they may learne and practice the whole art of making pastes, preserues, marmalades, conserues, tartstuffes, gellies, breads, sucket candies, cordiall vvaters, conceits in sugar-vvorkes of seuerall kindes. As also to dry lemonds, orenges, or other fruits. Newly set forth, according to the now approued receipts, vsed both by honourable and vvorshipfull personages. By Iohn Murrell, professour thereof.
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Murrell, John, 17th cent.
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London :: Printed [by T. Snodham] for the vvidow Helme, and are to be sould at her shop in S. Dunstans church-yard in Fleetstreet,
1617.
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Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
Canning and preserving -- Early works to 1800.
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"A daily exercise for ladies and gentlewomen. Whereby they may learne and practice the whole art of making pastes, preserues, marmalades, conserues, tartstuffes, gellies, breads, sucket candies, cordiall vvaters, conceits in sugar-vvorkes of seuerall kindes. As also to dry lemonds, orenges, or other fruits. Newly set forth, according to the now approued receipts, vsed both by honourable and vvorshipfull personages. By Iohn Murrell, professour thereof." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07931.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.

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Rough Rock Candies.

To make Rock de Cittron.

59 ROwle into little bals halfe a pound of rawe March∣pane Paste, flat them like Figges, then take prefered Pomecittrons, blunch Al∣monds, greene Ginger, cut each of these fruits an inch long, and prick them into the Marchpane stuffe, and set them in an Ouen, dry them, and ise them like a March∣pane, cast on Carrawaies, &c.

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To rough-Candie Orenges with Sugar.

60 TAke a deepe earthen Ba∣son, and fiue round wires, according to the bignesse of the Pan, lay your Orenge rindes on the lowest wire, and lay another wire on it, and then lade that wire also with your fruit, and lay on the third wire, and lade it also, and so with the rest, then co∣uer all with Sugar boiled to a Candie height, and set the Pan vpon a soft mat or cu∣shion seauen or eight houres, then poure out all the Sugar that will run from the wires.

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and let them drop an houre after, vntill it haue quite done, then take them out, &c.

To rough-Candie sprigs of Rosemarie.

61 LAy your Rosemarie bran∣ches one by one vpon a faire sheete of paper, then take Sugar-candie beaten smal like sparks of diamonds, and wet it in a little Rose-wa∣ter in a siluer spoone, and lay it as euen as you can vpon euery branch, and set them a drying a good way off from the fire, and in one houre they will be dry, then turne them, and candie the other side, and

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when both sides be throughly dry, box them & keepe them all the yeere they wil appeare to the eye in their natural co∣lour, and seeme to be couered with sparks of diamonds.

To rough-Candie all manner of flowers in their owne colours, tastes, and smels.

62 GAther what flowers you will in the heat of the day, when the Sun hath drawn away all the moisture from them, & vse them altogether as the Rosemarie. The like practise may be with whole Mace, Nutmegs, sticks of Ci∣namon, or any other dry fruit.

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