SOLOMON's Temple in FLUMMERY

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (12)
  1. Make a quart of stiff flummery.
  2. Divide it into three parts.
  3. Make one part a pretty thick colour, with a little cochineal bruised fine, and steeped in French brandy.
  4. Scrape one ounce of chocolate very fine, dissolve it in a little strong coffee, and mix it with another part of your flummery, to make it a light stone colour.
  5. The last part must be white.
  6. Then what your temple mould, and fix it in a pot to stand even.
  7. Then fill the top of the temple with red flummery for the steps, and the four points with white.
  8. Then fill it up with chocolate flummery.
  9. Let it stand till the next day.
  10. Then loosen it round with a pin, and shake it loose very gently, but do not dip your mould in warm water, it will take off the gloss, and spoil the colour, when you turn it out.
  11. Stick a small sprig, or a flower stalk, down from the top of every point, it will strengthen them, and make it look pretty.
  12. Lay round it rock candy sweet-meats.
Original Text
SOLOMON's Temple in FLUMMERY. MAKE a quart of stiff flummery, divide it into three parts, make one part a pretty thick colour, with a little cochineal bruised fine, and steeped in French brandy, scrape one ounce of chocolate very fine, dissolve it in a little strong coffee, and mix it with another part of your flummery, to make it a light stone colour, the last part must be white, then what your temple mould, and fix it in a pot to stand even, then fill the top of the temple with red flummery for the steps, and the four points with white, then fill it up with chocolate flummery; let it stand till the next day, then loosen it round with a pin, and shake it loose very gently, but do not dip your mould in warm water, it will take off the gloss, and spoil the colour, when you turn it out stick a small sprig, or a flower stalk, down from the top of every point, it will strengthen them, and make it look pretty, lay round it rock candy sweet-meats.—It is proper for a corner dish for a large table.
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