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the rinds, and boil them firft in feveral waters, till the bitternefs 
is boiled out. 
How to make the clear lemon cream. 
TAKE a gill of clear water, infufe in it the rind of a lemon, 
till it taftes of it; then take the whites of fix eggs, the juice of 
four lemons; beat all well together, and run them through a 
hair-fieve, fweeten them with double-refined fugar, and fet them 
on the fire, not too hot, keeping flirting; and when it is thick 
enough, take it off. 
How to make chocolate . 
TAKE fix pounds of cocoa-nuts, one pound of annifeeds, four 
ounces of long pepper, one of cinnamon, a quarter of a pound 
of almonds, one pound of piftachios, as much achiote as will 
make it the colour of brick ; three grains of muik, and as much 
ambergreafe, fix pounds of loaf fugar, one ounce of nutmegs* 
dry and beat them, and fierce them through a fine fieve: your 
almonds muft be beat to a pafte, and mixed with the other in¬ 
gredients ; then dip your fugar in orange-flower, or rofe-water, 
and put it in a fkillet, on a very gentle charcoal-fire ; then put 
in the fpice, and ftew it well together ; then the mufk and am¬ 
bergreafe ; then put in the cocoa-nuts laft of all; then achiote, 
wetting it with the water the fugar was dipt in; {few all thefe very- 
well together over a hotter fire than before; then take it up, and 
put it into boxes, or what form you like, and fet it to dry in a 
warm place. The piftachios and almonds muft be a little beat 
in a mortar, then ground upon a {tone* 
Another way to make chocolate • 
TAKE fix pounds of the heft Spanifh nuts, when parch’d 
and clean'd from the hulls ; take three pounds of fugar, two 
ounces of the beftcinnamon, beaten and lifted very fine; to every 
two pounds of nuts put in three good vaneias, or more or lefs as 
you pleafe; to every pound of nuts half a dram of cardamum 
feeds, very finely beaten and fierced. 
Cheefecakes without currants , 
TAKE two quarts of new milk, fet it as it comes from the 
cow, with as little runnet as you can; when it is come, break 
it as gently as you can, and whey it well ; then pafs it through 
-4 hair fieve, and put it into a marble mortar, and beat into it a 
pound of new butter, veiled in rofe-water; when that is well 
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