To Make red Clear Cake

Title: To Make red Clear Cake
Date: en 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for making a small, clear confection by stewing currants and mixing the juice with boiled sugar syrup.
Transcript: Rx your Corunes and put them into an earthen pot stew them very well then lett them run throw a pece of gause, take the very clearest you can git boyle a pound of duble refin'd suger to a pint of the juce, when it is Candy put in your juce make great hast to fill it oute
Subject: See all items with this value berries (fruits); See all items with this value currant; See all items with this value sugar; See all items with this value confectionery; See all items with this value boiling (cooking); See all items with this value stewing; See all items with this value scalding
Contributor: Abu-Bader, Nagham; Le, Vincent; en Grimm, Stephanie; en Bakir, Mehtap
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries; George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

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