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Raspberry Cakes Mrs. Lawson
Boil without water any quantity of Raspberrys you please & whenmasht & the juice wasted, put to them the weight of sugar the same as you put in the pan to boil, mix it well off the fire untill the sugar be perfectly disolved, then put it on plates & dried in the sun or cool oven, as soon as the top is dried take a cutter of tin & do it into small cakes as paste turn them on fresh plates & when dried keep them in Boxes with paper between each layer -
Scotch Eggs - Mrs. Lawson
Boil hard 5 or 6 Eggs make forcemeat of any cold meat ham, anchovys, bread and suit & cover the Eggs with the fine meat, which must be made to stick together with a little milk or gravey with a raw Egg fry them a pale brown when done over with bread crumbs, send them to the table with stewed sorrel, Spinage or Gravey in a dish
To pickle Turnips like Indian Mangoes
Take Turnips, that are free from specks, pare & cut them as nearly in the shape of mangoes as possible split and scoop out a place which is to be filled with the usual mixture for Cucumber Mangoes they must lay in salt & water 4 or 5 days - put them into your Indian pickle in a jar to themselves, with a good deal of Jamaica, & Garlic, or shalot in it, it is very excellent, when the Turnips are come to their full size - Mrs. Lawson - 
Curry Powder - Mrs. Lawson
1 pd of Turmerick 1/2 a pd Corriander seeds 1/2 an oz of lisser cardamnons two drams of Cinnamon, 2 dram of Mace, two of cayanne pepper, two oz of Black pepper - a little flour of mustard dried before the fire make all these into a dry and fine powder & mix all together keep it in a Bottle & a dry place -

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Raspberry Cakes Mrs. Lawson Boil without water any quantity of Raspberrys you please & whenmasht & the juice wasted, put to them the weight of sugar the same as you put in the pan to boil, mix it well off the fire untill the sugar be perfectly disolved, then put it on plates & dried in the sun or cool oven, as soon as the top is dried take a cutter of tin & do it into small cakes as paste turn them on fresh plates & when dried keep them in Boxes with paper between each layer - Scotch Eggs - Mrs. Lawson Boil hard 5 or 6 Eggs make forcemeat of any cold meat ham, anchovys, bread and suit & cover the Eggs with the fine meat, which must be made to stick together with a little milk or gravey with a raw Egg fry them a pale brown when done over with bread crumbs, send them to the table with stewed sorrel, Spinage or Gravey in a dish To pickle Turnips like Indian Mangoes Take Turnips, that are free from specks, pare & cut them as nearly in the shape of mangoes as possible split and scoop out a place which is to be filled with the usual mixture for Cucumber Mangoes they must lay in salt & water 4 or 5 days - put them into your Indian pickle in a jar to themselves, with a good deal of Jamaica, & Garlic, or shalot in it, it is very excellent, when the Turnips are come to their full size - Mrs. Lawson - Curry Powder - Mrs. Lawson 1 pd of Turmerick 1/2 a pd Corriander seeds 1/2 an oz of lisser cardamnons two drams of Cinnamon, 2 dram of Mace, two of cayanne pepper, two oz of Black pepper - a little flour of mustard dried before the fire make all these into a dry and fine powder & mix all together keep it in a Bottle & a dry place -