Lemon Cheesecakes

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (5)
  1. Take the peel of two large lemons, boil it very tender, then pound it well in a mortar, with a quarter of a pound or more of loaf sugar, the yolks of six eggs, and half a pound of fresh butter.
  2. Pound and mix all well together.
  3. Lay a puff-paste in your petty-pans.
  4. Fill them half full and bake them.
Orange Cheesecakes Variation
  1. Orange cheesecakes are done the same way, only you boil the peel in two or three waters, to take out the bitterness.
Original Text
To make Lemon Cheesecakes. TAKE the peel of two large lemons, boil it very tender, then pound it well in a mortar, with a quarter of a pound or more of loaf sugar, the yolks of six eggs, and half a pound of fresh butter; pound and mix all well together, lay a puff-paste in your petty-pans, fill them half full and bake them. Orange cheese- cakes are done the same way, only you boil the peel in two or three waters, to take out the bitterness.
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