Take of Cherries, or of Apricots, what you will, stamp them in a mortar with sugar in powder, until they be stiffe enough for to be wrought; bake them before you doe glase
The French cook.: Prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite, or to advance the power of digestion. Also the preparation of all herbs and fruits, so as their naturall crudities are by art opposed; with the whole skil of pastry-work. Together with a treatise of conserves, both dry and liquid, a la mode de France. With an alphabeticall table explaining the hard words, and other usefull tables. / Written in French by Monsieur De La Varenne, clerk of the kitchin to the Lord Marquesse of Uxelles, and now Englished by I.D.G.
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- The French cook.: Prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite, or to advance the power of digestion. Also the preparation of all herbs and fruits, so as their naturall crudities are by art opposed; with the whole skil of pastry-work. Together with a treatise of conserves, both dry and liquid, a la mode de France. With an alphabeticall table explaining the hard words, and other usefull tables. / Written in French by Monsieur De La Varenne, clerk of the kitchin to the Lord Marquesse of Uxelles, and now Englished by I.D.G.
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- La Varenne, François Pierre de, 1618-1678.
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- London :: Printed for Charls Adams, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Talbot neere St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet,
- 1653.
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"The French cook.: Prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite, or to advance the power of digestion. Also the preparation of all herbs and fruits, so as their naturall crudities are by art opposed; with the whole skil of pastry-work. Together with a treatise of conserves, both dry and liquid, a la mode de France. With an alphabeticall table explaining the hard words, and other usefull tables. / Written in French by Monsieur De La Varenne, clerk of the kitchin to the Lord Marquesse of Uxelles, and now Englished by I.D.G." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A88798.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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them, and glase them at the top and under∣neath. The Pistaches and Almonds are made ready more easily and are easier to make cakes with.
For to make the sheets of them, steep some gum in water of orange flowers, stamp your al∣monds or pistaches in a mortar with a peece of gum; allay all together with sugar in pow∣der, then make & work up a paste as you will.
You may of the same paste make a glasing very clear, mixing a little musk with it, and be carefull to clense it well at the top, then cut it in length, in round, or into any other form.
The baking of it requires a great care and circumspection; put it in the oven, or in the tourte panne with fire under and above, but a little less above.