Cribbage Cards in Flummery

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Yield
5.0 tins
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (5)
  1. Fill five square tins the size of a card with very stiff flummery.
  2. When you turn them out, have ready a little cochineal dissolved in brandy, and strain it through a muslin rag.
  3. Then take a camel's hair pencil, and make hearts and diamonds with your cochineal.
  4. Then rub a little cochineal with a little eating oil upon a marble slab till it is very fine and bright, then make clubs and spades.
  5. Pour a little Lisbon wine into the dish, and send it up.
Original Text
To make CRIBBAGE CARDS in FLUMMERY. FILL five square tins the size of a card with very stiff flummery, when you turn them out have ready a little cochineal dissolved in brandy, and strain it through a muslin rag, then take a camel's hair pencil, and make hearts and diamonds with your cochineal, then rub a little cochineal with a little eating oil upon a marble slab till it is very fine and bright, then make clubs and spades; pour a little Lisbon wine into the dish, and send it up.
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