Dissolve your isinglass

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (6)
  1. Dissolve your isinglass, and put to it two ounces of sweet and two ounces of bitter almonds, with as much juice of spinage as will make it green, and a spoonful of French brandy.
  2. Set it over a stove fire till it is almost ready to boil.
  3. Strain it through a gauze sieve.
  4. When it grows thick, put it into a melon mould.
  5. The next day turn it out.
  6. Garnish it with red and white flowers.
Original Text
DISSOLVE your isinglass, and put to it two ounces of sweet and two ounces of bitter almonds, with as much juice of spinage as will make it green, and a spoonful of French brandy, set it over a stove fire till it is almost ready to boil, then strain it through a gauze sieve, when it grows thick, put it into a melon mould, and the next day turn it out garnish it with red and white flowers.
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