hese fruits, and strew fine sifted sugar on them, as you do
flower on frying fish, lay them on a lattice of wier in a deep earthen
pan, and put them into an Oven as hot as for Manchet; then take them
out, and turn them and sugar them again, and sprinkle a little
Rose-water on them, pour the syrup forth as it comes from them, thus
turning and sugaring them till they be almost dry, then take them out of
the earthen pan, and lay them on a lattice of wire, upon two billets of
wood in a warm Oven, after the bread is drawn, till they be dry and well
candied.
_To Candy Suckets of Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, and Angelica._
Take, and boil them in fair water tender, and shift them in three
boilings, six or seven times, to take away their bitterness, then put
them into as much Sugar as will cover them, and so let them boil a walm
or two, then take them out, and dry them in a warm Oven as hot as
Manchet, and being dry boil the Sugar to a Candy height, and so cast
your Oranges into the hot Sugar, and take them out again suddenly, and
then lay them upon a lattice of Wyer or the bottom of a Sieve in a warm
Oven after the bread is drawn, still warming the Oven till it be dry,
and they will be well candied.
_To Candy the Orange Roots._
Take the Orange Roots being well and tenderly boiled, petch them and
peel them, and wash them out of two or three waters; then dry them well
with a fair cloth; then pot them together two or three in a knot, then
put them into as much clarified Sugar as will cover them, and so let
them boil leisurely, turning them well until you see the Sugar drunk up
into the Root; then shake them in the Bason to sunder the knits; and
when they wax dry, take them up suddenly, and lay them on sheets of
white Paper, and so dry them before the fire an hour or two, and they
will be candied.
_Candy Orange Peels after the Italian way._
Take Orange Peels so often steeped in cold water, as you think
convenient for their bitterness, then dry them gently, and candy them
with some convenient syrup made with Sugar, some that are more grown,
take away that spongious white under the yellow peels, others do both
together.
_The Vertues._
They corroborate the Stomach and Heart.
_To Candy Citrons after the Spanish way._
Take Citron Peels so large as you please the inner part being taken
away, let them be steeped in a clear lye of water and ashes for nine
dayes, and shift them the fifth day, afterward
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