Take to 3 pound of cherrys being through ripe and Stoned weigh them and to your 3 pound take a pound of the best hard Sugar beat it and put it into your preserving pan and put better than half a pint of water to it and with your hand stir it all together then put in your cherrys and Stir them in your water and Sugar and cover them and make them boyle as fast as possibly you can Scumme them and when they be a little soft take them off the fire and pour them Sirrop and all into a gally pot then cover them and so let them stand 24 hours then pour them into a Sive and let ye Sirrop run from them and then lay them on glass plates as close as you can one by one or upon a clean sive dry them ether in the Sun, Stove or oven when one side is pretty dry flat them and turn them and when through dry box them very close and let no air come to them they must be turned twice a day till through dry and on fresh things.
118. To make Bean Cakes.
Lay in water half an hour before you use them half a pound of almonds then blanch and slit them very thin as possible you may the long way of the almonds then take half a pound of Sugar finely beaten and search’d and mingle with the almonds that are well dry’d from ye water then take the whites of 2 eggs with butter and wet the sugar and almonds wherewith but not to much for they may be soon over wet then take of your fine wafer sheets that are made for bottom and cut out into round cases and so spread your almonds in little ruffles cakes the almonds being set with a bodkin edge long you must mingle also some cardimum or caraway seeds either will do well with Sugar yn put them on warm plates set them in a quick oven but not over hot neither must they stay to long for looseing their colour you must beat your eggs with a little rosewater.
119. The Cabbidge Cream.
Take 6 gallons of new milk and let it be ready to boyle then put in one porringer full of cold cream and stir it well about fill then 18 broad flat pans when tis cold take off the cream and lay it round in a dish like a cabbidge and sprinkle a little rose water and a little Sugar well beaten and sifted then Scauld your milk again and put ye same quantity of cream you did before till it be like a little cabbidge the last cream that you take off the Scauled milk lay plain upon the cabbidge but put no cold cream to it yn strew some rosewater upon it.
120. To make Paste of Apricocks.
Take apricocks before they be quite ripe and after you have coddled them then pare them let them not be to soft then they will not be so troublesome to pare then beat them very small in a morter then put them in a dish and Set them on a fire never leting them to be any hotter than you can indure your finger at the bottom of the dish never to boyle for if they should be to hot it would spoile the colour of your pulp and so let them stand on the fire till they be pretty dry which will be till the Sugar is boyled up to Sugar and that very high to dry Sugar again you must take to 4 pound of Sugar 4 pound of apricocks after you have coddled stoned and pared them and when it be so take it off and put it into your pulp till it be cold and when it is well mingled then set it on the fire again in a dish or bason that it was in before upon a chaffen dish of coales and not to be any hotter than it was before in the drying before the Sugar was in it and then you shall see it will thicken and come to a paste, then take your moulds and put in them and so let them stand to dry either in the sun or in a stove and when they be half dry cut them on ye edges and take your moulds off it must be very thick paste before you put it into your moulds or it will run about do what you can it will run a little. after the same manner you may make paste of coddleings only when they are coddled peel them and put them in hot water to green if one water will not do put in more till they are green then cover them close till they are green. you must dip your Sugar in water.
121. Angelicoe Cakes.
Put your angelicoe in hot water and so let it green boyle your Sugar to candie hight chop your angelicoe small and so stir it together drop it into cakes & so put it in a stove.