et them
lie half an hour on a stove or before the fire; pound them very fine
with two table-spoonfuls of rose or orange-flower water; put in the
stewpan half a pound of fresh butter, add to this the almonds, six
ounces of sifted loaf-sugar, a little grated lemon-peel, some good
cream, and the yolks of four eggs; rub all well together with the
pestle; cover the pattypans with puff paste, fill them with the mixture,
and bake it half an hour in a brisk oven.

_Cocoa-nut Cheesecakes._

Take a cocoa-nut, which by many is thought far superior to almonds;
grate it the long way; put to it some thick syrup, mixing it by degrees.
Boil it till it comes to the consistence of cheese; when half cold add
to it two eggs; beat it up with rose-water till it is light: if too
thick, add a little more rose-water. When beaten up as light as
possible, pour it upon a fine crust in cheesecake pans, and, just before
they are going into the oven, sift over some fine sugar, which will
raise a nice crust and much improve their appearance. The addition of
half a pound of butter just melted, and eight more eggs, leaving out
half of the whites, makes an excellent pudding.

_Cream Cheesecake._

Two quarts of cream set on a slow fire, put into it twelve eggs very
well beat and strained, stir it softly till it boils gently and breaks
into whey and a fine soft curd; then take the curd as it rises off the
whey, and put it into an earthen pan; then break four eggs more, and put
to the whey; set it on the fire, and take off the curd as before, and
put it to the rest: then add fourteen ounces of butter, half a pound of
light Naples biscuit grated fine, a quarter of a pound of almonds beat
fine with rose-water, one pound of currants, well washed and picked,
some nutmeg grated, and sugar to your taste: a short crust.

_Curd Cheesecake._

Just warm a quart of new milk; put into it a spoonful of runnet, and set
it near the fire till it breaks. Strain it through a sieve; put the curd
into a pan, and beat it well with a spoon. Melt a quarter of a pound of
butter, put in the same quantity of moist sugar, a little grated nutmeg,
two Naples biscuits, grated fine, the yolks of four eggs beat well, and
the whites of two, a glass of raisin wine, a few bitter almonds, with
lemon or Seville orange-peel cut fine, a quarter of a pound of currants
plumped; mix all well together, and put it into the paste and pans for
baking.

_Lemon Cheesecake._

Grate the