Desert Island

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791
Source
The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (9)
rock
figure
dish edge decoration
gravel walks
Chinese rails and entrance
Instructions (12)
  1. Take a lump of paste, and form it into a rock three inches broad at the top.
  2. Colour the rock.
  3. Set the rock in the middle of a deep china dish.
  4. Set a calf's figure on the rock, with a crown on its head, and a knot of rock candy at its feet.
  5. Make a roll of paste an inch thick, and stick it on the inner edge of the dish, two parts round.
  6. Glue eight pieces of eringo-roots, about three inches long, and set them upright to the roll of paste on the edge.
  7. Make gravel walks of shot comfits round the dish.
  8. Set small figures in the gravel walks.
  9. Roll out some paste, and cut it open like Chinese rails.
  10. Bake the Chinese rails.
  11. Fix the baked Chinese rails on either side of the gravel-walks with gum.
  12. Form an entrance where the Chinese rails are, with two pieces of eringo-root for pillars.
Original Text
Desert Island. TAKE a lump of paste, and form it into a rock three inches broad at the top; then colour it, and set it in the middle of a deep china dish. Set a calf's figure on it, with a crown on its head, and a knot of rock candy at its feet: then make a roll of paste an inch thick, and stick it on the inner edge of the dish, two parts round. Glue eight pieces of eringo-roots, about three inches long, and set them upright to the roll of paste on the edge. Make gravel walks of shot comfits round the dish, and set small figures in them. Roll out some paste, and cut it open like Chinese rails. Bake it, and fix it on either side of the gravel-walks with gum, and form an entrance where the Chinese rails are, with two pieces of eringo-root for pillars.
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