_To make Spiced Bread._
Take two pound of Manchet paste, sweet _Butter_ halfe a pound,
_Currants_ halfe a pound, _sugar_ a quarter, and a little _Mace_, if you
will put in any, and make it in a loafe, and bake it in an Oven,
no hotter then for Manchet.
_To make Craknels._
Take five or six pints of the finest _Wheat_ flower you can get, to
which you must put in a spoonfull (and not above) of good _Yest_,
then mingle it well with _Butter, cream, Rose-water_, and _sugar_, finely
beaten, and working it well into paste, make it after what forme
you will, and bake it.
_To make Veale-tooh's, or Olives._
Take the _Kidney_ of a line of _Veale_ roasted, with a good deale of
the fat, and a little of the flesh, mingle it very small, and put to it
two _Eggs_, one _Nutmeg_ finely grated, a good quantity of _sugar_,
a few _Currants_, a little _salt_, stir them well together, and make them
into the form of little _Pasties_, and fry them in a pan with sweet
_Butter_.
_To make a Barley Creame to procure sleepe, or Almond
Milke._
Take a good handfull of French _Barley_, wash it cleane in warme
water, and boyle it in a quart of fayre water to the halfe, then put
out the water from the _Barley_, and put the _Barley_ into a pottell of
new clean water, with a _Parsley_, and a _Fennell_ root, clean washed,
and picked with _Bourage, Buglos, Violet_ leaves, and _Lettice_, of each
one handfull, boyle them with the _Barley_, till more then halfe be
consumed; then strayne out the liquor, and take of blanched
_Almonds_ a handfull, of the seeds of _Melons, Cucumbers, Citralls_, and
_Gourds_, husked, of each halfe a quarter of an ounce, beat these
seeds, and the _Almonds_ together, in a stone morter, with so much
_Sugar_, and _Rose-water_ as is fit, and strayne them through a cleane
cloath into the liquor, and drink thereof at night going to bed,
and in the night, if this doth not sufficiently provoke sleep, then
make some more of the same liquor, and boyle in the same the
heads, or a little of white _Poppey_.
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