My Lady Neviles orange Kakes [cakes]

Title: My Lady Neviles orange Kakes [cakes]
Creator: Lady Nevile [Neville]
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for making a confection by mixing orange peel and fruit with boiled sugar.
Transcript: [inserted left margin, text mostly lost: must be squeased from the peils] Take of oranges & Suger an Equall weight then quarter your oranges as you do China oranges, take the peils & put them in to a cloth boyll them very Tender then pare them not very thin & shred them very Small take the Seeds out of the pulph & put the pulph in to a Silver Bason then put to it the Shred Peill you must boyll your Suger to a Candy height then put your orange in so fill your glases they must Candy much Longer than any other kakes for thay are very aptt to run a broad once in too days Lay the Syrop on to the Kake for it will run on the Glass
Subject: See all items with this value oranges; See all items with this value sugar; See all items with this value water; See all items with this value confectionery; See all items with this value boiling (cooking)
Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Grimm, Stephanie; Bakir, Mehtap
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.