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nutmeg, sweet marjoram, tyme, savory, minced very small 

 and some salt, boil it with beef-suet, marrow (or none). 

 Robert May, The Art and Mystery of Cookery, 1671. 



A TART OF ARTICHOKE CREAM WITH SUGAR. When your 

 artichoke bottoms are well boiled beat them in a mortar 

 and strain them through a cullendar with butter, the yolks 

 of two eggs raw, salt, cinnamon, sugar and green citron, put 

 them into a Patty pan sheeted with fine Paste, but do not 

 cover it all and when it is baked ice it over with Sugar and 

 Orange-flower water and so serve it away. A Perfect 

 School of Instructions for the Officers of the Month, by Giles 

 Rose, one of the Master Cooks to Charles II, 1682. 



A TART OF BEET ROOTS. First roste your Beet roots in 

 the Embers and peel them very well, cut them in pieces and 

 give them a boil with a glass of white wine and then beat 

 them in a Morter, with a piece of Sugar, a little Salt, and 

 Cinnamon, and put them into fine paste with some green 

 citron rasped and a piece of Butter and do not cover it, 

 but when it is baked, serve it with perfumed Sugar and 

 Orange flowers. Ibid. 



TANSY PUDDING. Take the gratings or slices of three 

 Naples biscuits put them into pint of cream with twelve 

 fresh eggs four of the whites cast out, strain the rest and 

 break them with two spoonfuls of rose-water a little salt and 

 sugar, and half a grated nutmeg. And when ready for the 

 pan put almost a pint of the juice of Spinnach, Beets, Corn 

 sallet, green corn, violet or primrose tender leaves (for any 

 of these you may take your choice) with a very small sprig 

 of tansy and let it be fried so as to look green in the dish. 

 Dish with a strew of sugar of the juice of Orange. Some 

 affect to have it fried a little brown and thick. Ibid. 



SPINAGE PUDDING. Take a sufficient quantity of Spinage, 

 stamp and strain out the juice; put to it grated Manchet; 

 the yolks of three eggs some Marrow shred small, nutmeg, 

 sugar, some Corinths (if you please), a few Carraways, Rose 



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