The accomplisht cook, or The art and mystery of cookery.: Wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, then hath been publisht in any language. Expert and ready wayes for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish; the raising of pastes; the best directions for all manner of kickshaws, and the most poinant sauces; with the tearms of carving and sewing. An exact account of all dishes for the season; with other a la mode curiosities. Together with the lively illustrations of such necessary figures as are referred to practice. / Approved by the fifty years experience and industry of Robert May, in his attendance on several persons of honour.

To make a Jelly of Almond as white as Snow.

TAke a pound of almonds, steep them in cold water six hours, and blanch them into cold water, then make a decoction of half a pound of isingglass, with two quarts of white wine and the juyce of two lemons, boil it till half be wasted, then let it cool and strain it, mingle it with the almonds, and strain them with a pound of double refi∣ned sugar, and the juyce of two lemons, turn it into co∣lours, red, white, or yellow, and put it into egg shells, or orange-peels, and serve them on a pie plate upon a dish.