My Lady Neviles orange Kakes [cakes]

Item

Title
My Lady Neviles orange Kakes [cakes]
Creator
Lady Nevile [Neville]
Date
en 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
Contributor
en Caylor, Karmen
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
Rights
Public domain. There are no known restrictions.