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The Sweetness of the Parsnip Powder answers the want of 

 Sugar. R. Bradley, The Country Housewife and Lady's 

 Director, 1732. 



SWEETE CAKES WITHOUT EITHER SPICE OR SUGAR. 

 Scrape or wash your Parsneps cleane, slice them thinne, 

 dry them upon Canvas or network frames, beat them to 

 powder, mixing one third thereof with two thirds of fine 

 wheat e flower : make up your paste into coates, and you 

 shall find them very delicate. Sir Hugh Platt, Delights for 

 Ladies, 1594. 



POTATO PYE SWEET. You must first boil them half 

 enough, then make a good Puff-paste and lay in your Pota- 

 toes, and betwixt every one a Lump of Marrow rolled in 

 Egg; cut in some slices of Orange and Lemon- peel, and a 

 little Sugar ; then make a Caudle with Cream and Eggs, and 

 a little Sack, and when your Pye is bak'd, take off the Lid and 

 pour all your Caudle over it. From The Receipt Book of 

 Charles Carter, Cook to the Duke of Argyll, 1732. 



POTATO TART. Take a pound and a half of potatoes, boil 

 them and skin them and cut them in slices, not thin ; sheet 

 a Dish with puff-paste, lay some citron in the bottom, lay 

 over your potatoes, and season them with ginger, cinnamon, 

 nutmeg and sugar; then take the marrow of two Bones 

 cut it into Pieces as big as Walnuts roll it in yolks of eggs and 

 season it as the Potatoes ; lay it on them and between the 

 Lumps of Marrow lay Citron and Dates springle over some 

 Orange flower or Rose-water. Draw up a quart of Cream 

 with yolks of eggs pour all over it, bake it and stick over some 

 Citron and serve it. Ibid. 



POTATO AND LEMON CHEESECAKES. Take six ounces of 

 potatoes, four ounces of lemon-peel, four ounces of sugar, 

 four ounces of butter, boil the lemon-peel till tender, pare 

 and scrape the potatoes, and boil them tender and bruise 

 them ; beat the lemon-peel with the sugar, then beat all 

 together very well, and melt the butter in a little thick cream, 



