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Castles Puddings - Miss Pye
The height of two eggs in the shell, of sugar butter, & flour, set the Butter before the fire till half melted, then beat it to a cream, pound the sugar fine and beat the eggs well mix all together with a little lemon peel, butter the cups, fill them half full 1/2 an hour Bakes them in a cool oven
To Make Raisin Wine - Mrs Cuitt
To seven pound of Malaga Raisins clean picked, one gallon of cold water, put the fruit the fruit whole into the cask let it remain three weeks to a month stirring it well every day; when it is stopped up, add Brandy and Isinglass according to the quantity, big to a Cwt a quart of Brandy and two ounces of Isinglass, it may be Bottled of the end of six, nine, twelve months. 
To Make Lip Salve Mrs Cutt
4 oz of sweet white pomatum quite fresh
1 oz of alhnet root, 2 oz of thermacite.
2 oz of white wax
1 shillingsworth of Balsam of Peru - all these ingredients to be very gently melted over the fire in a Silver pan & then strained through a thin muslin and left it to stand while quite cold. NB Jeannet think a silver pan indispensable

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Castles Puddings - Miss Pye The height of two eggs in the shell, of sugar butter, & flour, set the Butter before the fire till half melted, then beat it to a cream, pound the sugar fine and beat the eggs well mix all together with a little lemon peel, butter the cups, fill them half full 1/2 an hour Bakes them in a cool oven To Make Raisin Wine - Mrs Cuitt To seven pound of Malaga Raisins clean picked, one gallon of cold water, put the fruit the fruit whole into the cask let it remain three weeks to a month stirring it well every day; when it is stopped up, add Brandy and Isinglass according to the quantity, big to a Cwt a quart of Brandy and two ounces of Isinglass, it may be Bottled of the end of six, nine, twelve months. To Make Lip Salve Mrs Cutt 4 oz of sweet white pomatum quite fresh 1 oz of alhnet root, 2 oz of thermacite. 2 oz of white wax 1 shillingsworth of Balsam of Peru - all these ingredients to be very gently melted over the fire in a Silver pan & then strained through a thin muslin and left it to stand while quite cold. NB Jeannet think a silver pan indispensable