Take a quart of thick Creame, and five or six whites of Eggs, a sauser full of sugar finely beaten, and as much Rose water, beat them all together, and always as it riseth take it out with a spoon, then take a loaf of Bread, cut away the crust, set it in a platter, and a great Rosemary bush in the middest of it, then lay your Snow with a Spoon upon the Rosemary, and so serve it.
To make Spiced Bread.
Take two pound of Manchet paste, sweet Butter halfe a pound, Currants halfe a pound, sugar a quarter, and a little Mace, if you will put in any, and make it in a loafe, and bake it in an Oven, no hotter then for Manchet.
To make Craknels.
Take five or six pints of the finest Wheat flower you can get, to which you must put in a spoonfull (and not above) of good Yest, then mingle it well with Butter, cream, Rose-water, and sugar, finely beaten, and working it well into paste, make it after what forme you will, and bake it.
To make Veale-tooh's, or Olives.
Take the Kidney of a line of Veale roasted, with a good deale of the fat, and a little of the flesh, mingle it very small, and put to it two Eggs, one Nutmeg finely grated, a good quantity of sugar, a few Currants, a little salt, stir them well together, and make them into the form of little Pasties, and fry them in a pan with sweet Butter.
To make a Barley Creame to procure sleepe, or Almond Milke.
Take a good handfull of French Barley, wash it cleane in warme water, and boyle it in a quart of fayre water to the halfe, then put out the water from the Barley, and put the Barley into a pottell of new clean water, with a Parsley, and a Fennell root, clean washed, and picked with Bourage, Buglos, Violet leaves, and Lettice, of each one handfull, boyle them with the Barley, till more then halfe be consumed; then strayne out the liquor, and take of blanched Almonds a handfull, of the seeds of Melons, Cucumbers, Citralls, and Gourds, husked, of each halfe a quarter of an ounce, beat these seeds, and the Almonds together, in a stone morter, with so much Sugar, and Rose-water as is fit, and strayne them through a cleane cloath into the liquor, and drink thereof at night going to bed, and in the night, if this doth not sufficiently provoke sleep, then make some more of the same liquor, and boyle in the same the heads, or a little of white Poppey.