Creamed Sack

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (11)
Instructions (6)
  1. Take a quart of thick cream, and half a pint of sack, the juice of two Seville oranges or lemons, grate in the peel of two lemons, half a pound of double-refined sugar, pour it into a broad earthen pan, and wisk it well.
  2. First sweeten some red wine or sack, and fill your glasses as full as you can.
  3. As the froth rises take it off with a spoon; lay it carefully into your glasses till they are as full as they will hold.
  4. Don't make these long before you use them.
  5. Many use cyder sweetened or any wine you please, or lemon, or orange whey made thus: squeeze the juice of a lemon or orange into a quarter of a pint of milk, when the curd is hard, pour the whey clear off, and sweeten it to your palate.
  6. You may colour some with juice of spinach, some with saffron, and some with cochineal, just as you fancy.
Original Text
TAKE a quart of thick cream, and half a pint of sack, the juice of two Seville oranges or lemons, grate in the peel of two lemons, half a pound of double-refined sugar, pour it into a broad earthen pan, and wisk it well; but first sweeten some red wine or sack, and fill your glasses as full as you can; then as the froth rises take it off with a spoon; lay it carefully into your glasses till they are as full as they will hold. Don't make these long before you use them. Many use cyder sweetened or any wine you please, or lemon, or orange whey made thus; squeeze the juice of a lemon or orange into a quarter of a pint of milk, when the curd is hard, pour the whey clear off, and sweeten it to your palate. You may colour some with juice of spinach, some with saffron, and some with cochineal, just as you fancy.
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