Marmalade of Eggs in the Jewish Taste

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Instructions (7)
  1. Beat the yolks of twenty-four eggs for an hour.
  2. Clarify a pound of the best moist sugar.
  3. Stir the egg yolks, clarified sugar, four spoonfuls of orange-flower water, and one ounce of blanched and pounded almonds together over a very slow charcoal fire.
  4. Keep stirring it all the while one way, till it comes to a consistence.
  5. Put it into coffee-cups.
  6. Throw on little beaten cinnamon on the top of the cups.
  7. This marmalade, mixed with pounded almonds, with orange-peel, and citron, are formed in cakes of any shape, such as birds, fish, and fruit, &c.
Original Text
Marmalade of Eggs in the Jewish Taste. BEAT the yolks of twenty-four eggs for an hour; clarify a pound of the best moist sugar, four spoonfuls of orange-flower water, one ounce of blanched and pounded almonds; stir all to- gether over a very slow charcoal fire, keeping stirring it all the while one way, till it comes to a consistence; then put it into coffee-cups, and throw on little beaten cinnamon on the top of the cups. This marmalade, mixed with pounded almonds, with orange-peel, and citron, are formed in cakes of any shape, such as birds, fish, and fruit, &c.
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