hree quarters of an
hour boiling, or rather more, and that very softly, keep the fruit
as whole as you can; your grapes and gooseberries must boil half an
hour something fast and they will be the fuller. Note also, that to
all your Conserves you take the full weight of sugar, then take two
skillets of water, and when they are scalding hot put the fruits
first into one of them and when that grows cold put them in the
other, changing them till they be about to peel, then peel them, and
afterwards settle them in the same water till they look green, then
take them and put them into sugar sirrup, and so let them gently
boil till they come to a jelly; let them stand therein a quarter of
an hour, then put them into a pot and keep them.

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SECTION XI.

_To make all manner of made Dishes, with or without Paste._

_To make a Paste for a Pie._

Take to a gallon of flour a pound of butter, boil it in fair water,
and make the paste up quick.

_To make cool Butter Paste for Patty-Pans or Pasties._

Take to every peck of flour five pound of butter, the whites of six
eggs, and work it well together with cold spring water; you must
bestow a great deal of pains, and but little water, or you put out
the millers eyes. This paste is good only for patty-pan and pasty.

Sometimes for this paste put in but eight yolks of eggs, and but two
whites, and six pound of butter.

_To make Paste for thin bak'd Meats._

The paste for your thin and standing bak'd meats must be made with
boiling water, then put to every peck of flour two pound of butter,
but let your butter boil first in your liquor.

_To make Custard Paste._

Let it be only boiling water and flour without butter, or put sugar
to it, which will add to the stiffness of it, & thus likewise all
pastes for Cuts and Orangado Tarts, or such like.

_Paste for made-Dishes in the Summer._

Take to a gallon of flour three pound of butter, eight yolks of
eggs, and a pint of cream or almond milk, work up the butter and
eggs dry into the flour, then put cream to it, and make it pretty
stiff.

_Paste Royal for made Dishes._

Take to a gallon of flour a pound of sugar, a quart of almond milk,
a pound and half of butter, and a little saffron, work up all cold
together], with some beaten cinamon, two or three eggs, rose-water,
and a grain of ambergriese and musk.

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