Detail View: LUNA: Folger Manuscript Transcriptions Collection: Cookbook of Ann Smith [manuscript].
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Digital Image File Name:
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127417
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Source Call Number:
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V.a.434
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Source Title:
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Cookbook of Ann Smith [manuscript].
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Source Creator:
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Smith, Ann, fl. 1698.
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Source Created or Published:
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1698
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Physical Description:
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folio 12 verso || folio 13 recto
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Digital Image Type:
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FSL collection
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Hamnet Catalog Link:
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http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=224531
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Transcription:
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To rise one houre by the fire then
strew into itt oneli of Double Refined sugar
Beaten & searched & 2 ounce symbol of Carraway seeds
make itt vp quick or if you will Instead of
sugar you may putt in 1li of sugar Carraway
or 1/2 on & 1/2 the other Doth very well Butter the
paper you putt vnder: one houre & 1/4 will
bake itt you may Ice itt if you please
22 To Make Wiggs
Take one pottle of fine flower & rubb
in itt 1li of Butter wett itt with one pint
of Ale yeast if itt will nott Doe putt
in one or 2 spoonfulls of water then rowle
in 1/2li of Carraway Comfitts
23 To Make A Plaine Cake
To one peck of flower 5li of Butter 1/2 melted
& 1/2 Rubed in 3 pints of new ale yeast & 26
Eggs the whites outt 3 pints of milke heated
hott 1 ounce symbol of Cloves mace & Cinamon nutmegg
Dryed & beaten very small 6li of the best
Carraway Comfitts & 1li of Colliander seeds &
4 ounce symbol of Citterne Cutt them 6 ounce symbol of Apricock slips
1/2 Doz heart Cakes grated in 2li of sugar beat
small mixt in, Ice itt as the Plumbe Cake
folio 13 recto
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24 To Make A Plumbe Cake
To one peck of flower 4li of Butter rub & Dry
1 quarter of new Ale yeast 16 Eggs 1/2 of the whites
cutt 10li of Currants 2li of Raisons stoned and
Cutt small 2li of Almonds Blanched and
Beaten 6 ounce symbol of Citterne Cutt thinn & small
mix in itt 4 ounce symbol of Apricocks Chips 1 ounce symbol 1/2 of nutmeggs
Cloves & mace & Cinamon 4 grains of Amber and
musk mixtt one quarte of Creame or else one
quarte of new milke heated hott & 1li of sugar
when your Currants are well washd & Dryed
putt them in A greatt pueter Dish vpon A
Chaffin dish of Coale then take the best parte
of A pinte of sack & putt in by Degreess and
keep them very well stirring till they are well
plumptt & very hott soe mix it in the parte &
Knead itt very soft then putt itt into A hoope
& soe into the Oven: Take the white of 4 eggs
& beate them till they be in A froth & 1/2li
of pure Loafe sugar beaten small and
sifted through A fine seive take some
Rose water & stirr thatt & the beaten whites of
eggs & some sugar & mix itt thick & take A
Bunch of strong feathers x wash itt with
itt & thatt ywill make itt a very good Ice
so putt itt into the Oven againe
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Credit:
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Transcriptions made by Shakespeare’s World volunteers (shakespearesworld.org), participants in EMROC classes and transcribathons (emroc.hypotheses.org), participants in Folger paleography classes and transcribathons, and Folger docents.
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