the rinds, and boil them first in several waters, till the bitterness is boiled out.
How to make the clear lemon cream.
TAKE a gill of clear water, infuse in it the rind of a lemon, till it tastes of it; then take the whites of fix eggs, the juice of four lemons, beat all well together, and run them through a hair sieve, sweeten them with double-refined sugar, and set them on the fire, not too hot, keeping stirring; and when it is thick enough, take it off.
How to make chocolate.
TAKE six pounds of cocoa-nuts, one pound of aniseeds, four ounces of long pepper, one of cinnamon, a quarter of a pound of almonds, one pound of pistachios, as much achiote as will make it the colour of brick; three grains of musk, and as much ambergrease, six pounds of loaf sugar, one ounce of nutmegs, dry and beat them, and sieve them through a fine sieve: your almonds must be beat to a paste, and mixed with the other ingredients; then dip your sugar in orange-flower, or rose-water and put it in a skillet, on a very gentle charcoal-fire; then put in the spice, and strew it well together; then the musk and ambergrease; then put in the cocoa-nuts last of all; then achiote, wetting it with the water the sugar was dipt in; stew all these very well together over a hotter fire than before; then take it up, and put it into boxes, or what form you like, and set it to dry in a warm place. The pistachios and almonds must be a little beat in a mortar, then ground upon a stone.
Another way to make chocolate.
TAKE six pounds of the best Spanish nuts, when parched, and cleaned from the hulls; take three pounds of sugar, two ounces of the best cinnamon, beaten and sifted very fine; to every two pounds of nuts put in three good vanelas, or more or less as you please; to every pound of nuts half a dram of cardamum seeds, very finely beaten and fierced.
Cheesecakes without currants.
TAKE two quarts of new milk, set it as it comes from the cow, with as little runnet as you can; when it is come, break it as gently as you can, and whey it well; then pass it through a hair-sieve, and put it into a marble morter, and beat into it a pound of new butter, washed in rose-water; when that is wellmingled
