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All Manner of Pastry-Works recommended by Mrs. Vobe
Snow Eggs $10
Beat the whites till you can turn the vessel bottom upward
without their leaving it, put in two spoonfuls of powdered sugar and a little orange water… dish up your whites with custard.
A little wine stirred in is a great improvement
(James Hemings, Chef d’ Cuisine to Thomas Jefferson, 1787-1794)
A Chocolate Tart $11
Take a quart of cream…sweeten it very well, lay in a spring
of rosemary, grate some chocolate, stir them over the fire till it is thick…
(The Complete Confectioner; Hannah Glasse, 1765)
Bread Pudding $10
Take the crumb of a Penny Loaf, and pour in good milk, butter, sugar to your palate nutmeg and eggs...Serve warm and pour it over with wine sauce
(The Experienced English Housekeeper, Elizabeth Raffald, 1769)
A Pecan Pie $9
Make a good paste add to it your pecans pick’d clean of any shell, eggs,
butter, unrefined sugar to your palate mixed together...
place in a moderate oven for one hour
King’s Arms Ice Cream Selection $8
Take some natural ice and beat it, and strew two or three handfuls of salt over it:
put some of this in the bottom of your bucket…put in your cream and let it stand half an hour…to serve it up…turn it out into your plate
(The Practice of Cookery, Pastry, Pickling, Preserving, &c., Mrs. Frazier, 1791)
