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little ; then take it off the Fire, and stir it still, sweeten it 

 with Sugar, pour it out, and set it by to cool. The Complete 

 Family Piece, 1737. 



A TART OF GREEN SPROUTS AND HERBS. Take your green 

 sprouts, and give them a scald and lay them a draining, then 

 mince them small and also the herbs (such as you please), 

 season with Beef marrow an onion stuck with Cloves and 

 some thin slices of Bacon, cover it up with the same paste 

 and when it is baked put in some gravy, the juice of Lemon 

 and serve it away. From The Receipt Book of Patrick Lord 

 Ruthven, 1655. 



To MAKE A SPRING TART. Gather such Buds, in the Spring 

 of the year, that are not bitter; also the Leaves of Prim- 

 roses, Violets and Strawberries; take also a little young 

 Spinage, boil them, drain them in a Colander; then chop 

 them very small, and boil them over again in Cream; add 

 to them Naples bisket grated, and so many Yolks and Whites 

 of Eggs as will make the Cream very thick, colour all green 

 with the Juice of Spinage ; season with Salt, Nutmeg, Cinna- 

 mon and Sugar, and bake it in Puff-paste, or otherways. 

 From The Receipt Book of John Nott, Cook to the Duke of 

 Bolt on, 1723. 



To MAKE A SWEET-SOUR TART. Boil a quarter of a Pound 

 of Sugar in a Glass of Verjuice or Lemon-juice, and when it 

 is wasted half, put to it some Cream, with the Yolks of half 

 a dozen Eggs, Orange-flowers, Lemon-peel candy'd, grated; 

 a little beaten Cinnamon, and a little Butter. Put these into 

 a Tart made of fine Paste, and bake it without a Lid. Ibid. 



TATTES OR BALDE MEATES FOR FISH DAIES. Take your 

 dish and anoint the bottom well with butter, then make a 

 fine past to the bredth of the dish and lay it on the same 

 dish upon the butter, then take Dates, Spinnage and Cab- 

 badges, or white Lettuce, cutting them fine in long pieces, 

 then take the yolks of eight raw eggs and six yolks of hard 

 eggs with small raisins and a little cheese fine scraped, and 



