To make Gousberrey Clere Cakes [gooseberry clear cakes]
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Title
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To make Gousberrey Clere Cakes [gooseberry clear cakes]
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Date
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1694/1795
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Description
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A recipe for a small, transparent confection made by cooking gooseberries with refined sugar and water.
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Transcript
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Rx the ripest & the whitest gouseberres you can git pick them very clean, then put them in a marble morter & beat them to juse then strane them throw a peice of gaus then take a pint of the juce & seet it on the Fier in an Earthen pot to scald but not boyle, then take a pound of doble refined suger beaten small put to it a gill of fare water to boyle it to Candey hight- then put in your juce juce scoldin hot and make what haste you can to fill your glasses
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Contributor
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Caylor, Karmen
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Le, Vincent
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Grimm, Stephanie
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Bakir, Mehtap
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Source
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Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
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Publisher
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George Mason University Libraries
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Rights
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Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
