330. The Lady Buttons Almond Butter.
Take the best Jourdan almonds and blanch them beating them very small with sweet cream and strain it out and put in as much Sugar as will sweeten it beat your almonds after the first straining 3 or 4 times then set it over a gentle fire till it is pretty thick then put it in a cloth to whey So let it hang all night to drain then turn it into dishes.
331. The Lady Bidollyps Rasberry Wine.
Take to every gallon of white wine 2 quarts of rasberryes bruise them then put them and your wine into a stone pot and add to every gallon of wine a quarter of a pound of sugar so cover it close and let it stand steeping 5 days stiring it once every day then take an hipocras bag & wet it with milk and so run your wine through it several times till it run clear then draw it off into bottles and let it stand 3 week with the corkes but slightly put in then put into each bottle a knob of sugar and stop up your bottles then very close & tye down ye corke & set them in a coole place and it will keep a great while.
332. The Lady Ashfields Metheglin.
Take fair water and the best honey beat them well together but not in a wooden vessel for wood drinks up your honey put it together in a kittle and trye it with a new laid egg which will swim at top if it be very strong but if it bob up and sinke it will be to weake and you must add more honey one quarter of honey to a gallon of water will make it very strong then boyle it an hour and put in to it a bundle of herbs what sort you like best a little bag of spices of nutmegs, ginger, cloves and mace and cinnamon Scumme it well all the while it boyles when it hath boyled a full hour take it off and put it into earthen pans and so let it stand till the next day pour out all the clear of it into a good vessel that hath had sack or white wine in it let your bag of spices hang in it and so let it be very close stop’d & well filled and let it stand a month longer then if you desire to drink it quickly you may bottle it up if it be strong of the honey you may keep it a year or 2, but if weaker than the proportions above writen then it will be ready in 3 months to be spent rosemary time & sweet marjeron are ye herbs should go into it a sprig or 2 of each.
333. The Marleborow Cake.
Take a peck of fine flour to it 4 pound of currants 4 pound of butter of cloves mace nutmegs carraway (or corriander) of each a quarter an ounce but most of mace a pound of Sugar a pennyworth of Saffron Sack and rosewater ale yest something less than a pint so make them up into cakes about 2 inches thick prick them wth a bodkin and bake them for your use.
334. To make ye Spanish Cream.
Take 5 quarts of milk warm from the cow and when it’s boyl’d up to ye top of the Skillet have a quart of cream ready and put it into the milk and stir it well about while on the fire then take it off and put it in 3 or 4 Sallet dishes and let it stand in a coole place that day and a night ye next day take ye cream clean off and put it in a deep gally pot and put as much Sugar as will sweeten it and with a spoon beat it till it be as thick as cream in a churn when it is ready to break and then put it in a dish in what fashion you please with raw cream with it or rather about it.