To make Bath Cakes the right way
Take a quarter of a pd of Flour, & beat in 4 Eggs, 3 spoonfulls of Ale Yeast; beat it all well together, & set it before the Fire for half an hour to rise; while this is rising, work half a pd of Butter with half a pd of Flour into Paist;when the Spunge is risen enough by the Fire beat the Spunge and Paist well together, & then stir in half a pd of Carraway Comfits, leaving out some to strew on the Tops. One spoonful make a Cake. Less than half and hour will bake them in a hot Oven.
To Pickle Barberries very good
Take of the bunches of Barberries when they are full ripe and put them into a Stone Jarr, and make a Pickle for them as follow. Thicken water with Salt till it near bear an Egg; and pick as many Barberries of the Stalks and pound them in a Mortar as will colour it of a deep redd, boyl the water a quarter of an hour and Scum it well, then Strain it off and set it by to cool,and when cold put as much as will cover the Barberries and and tye it down close with leather. They will keep a year, with boyling up the Pickle sometimes. Squeeze all the juice of the ?bad Barberries out thro' a cloth to put into the Pickle after it is boyl'd & cold.
To make Barley Water
Wash a Spoonfull of Pearle Barley in three or four parcels of Water very clean, then just boyl it up in a quart of Water, let it stand to settle about half an hour, then pour it gently off and throw the liquor away, then add to the same Barley an other quart of Water, which just boyl up as before and let it stand to settle an hour and half, then pour it off as gently as may be and keep it for use
With the same Spoonfull of Barley you may make four or five quarts a quart at a time in this manner as before directed, you need not throw away your first water but only when you make it with fresh Barley.
To Jelly Fish
Take 6 Live Tench draw them and Clean them, Boil them in as much Water as will Cover them with a little Vinigar, and Bay Leaves and Large Mace, whole Cloves, a bunch of Sweet Herbs, when boyld take out those you intend to Use and leave the other in, Put to Them as Little Ising Glass Steeped in Spring Water and Boil it more and when its Jelly Coat the whites of Four Eggs and Mix them together so that they do not Curdle and set it again on ye Fire till it rises with a thick Scum then strain it through a Napkin and turn it up again till it runs clear then lay ye Fish you intend to Jelly in a Dish being boyld and then run your Jelly over them.
To parch Almonds
Take half a pound of Almonds and half a pound of Sugar Loaf, put them into a Skillet, and set them over a Slow Fire; Stir them continually till ye Sugar be consum'd, then make the Fire somewhat Brisker, and keep them Stiring
till all ye Sugar is Candied upon them, and when they Rattle in the Skillet they
are sufficiently done
