CHINESE TEMPLE or OBELISK

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (7)
Instructions (12)
  1. Boil the sugar and butter in a little water.
  2. When the sugar and butter mixture is cold, beat an egg and add it to the mixture.
  3. Mix the egg, sugar, and butter mixture with the flour to make a very stiff paste.
  4. Roll the paste as thin as possible.
  5. Use tins in the shape of a temple or obelisk.
  6. Place the paste upon the tins and cut it into the desired shapes, ensuring the paste is exactly the size of the tins.
  7. Keep the cut parts separate until baked.
  8. Bake the parts in a slow oven.
  9. When cold, remove the parts from the tins.
  10. Join the parts using a strong isinglass and water mixture applied with a camel's-hair brush.
  11. Set the joined parts one upon the other, following the shapes of the tin moulds.
  12. Ensure the pillars are made stronger than the top to bear the weight.
Original Text
To make a CHINESE TEMPLE or OBELISK. TAKE four ounces of fine flour, half an ounce of butter, one ounce of fine ſugar, boil the ſugar and butter in a little water, when it is cold beat an egg, and put to the water ſugar and butter, mix it with the flour, and make it into a very ſtiff paſte, then roll it as thin as poſſible, have a ſet of tins the form of a temple, and put the paſte upon them, and cut it in what form you pleaſe, upon the ſeparate parts of your tins, keeping them ſeparate till baked; but take care to have the paſte exactly the ſize of the tins; when you have cut all the parts, bake them in a ſlow oven, when cold take them out of the tins, and join the parts with ſtrong iſinglaſs and water with a camel's-hair bruſh, and ſet them one upon the other; and the forms of the tin moulds will direct you; if you cut it neat, and the paſte be rolled very thin, it is a beautiful corner for a large table; if you have obeliſk moulds, you may make them the ſame way, for an oppoſite corner. Take care to make the pillars ſtronger than the top, ſo as to bear the weight; you may cut the form
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