OLD ENGLISH SWEETS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 September 1908, Page 1

OLD ENGLISH SWEETS.

I ______ Bisketello. — Take two ounces of vei fine sugar, beaten and eearcod (sifted and put into it half a teaspoonful < nmidum (that Is, white starch), a grail of muske; then beat it into a perfei oasts with srum dragagant (tragacanth j steoood in rosewater; thepi make it in' , little pretty -loaves the fashion of ma' ' chets (a maiichet* was. 'shaped like j bun. with c ai'dentin I tiie;'-iniddl«), ar | k> DUt a wafer in th*' bottom of evei ■ on» of them, and bak» them in a ba ■ ing-pan, but take heed your pan' bo n

hot: and so speck them-. with gold, -and box them. It is a- very fine banqnetine conceit. Muscadine Comfits. — Take four ounces of double refined sugar finely ■ hasten and searced, ; put thereto two erains of muske, a- pennyweight of or--1 Tis root in powder, beat it to perfect Daste. then roll it as. thin as paper, i and cut it like to -diamonds with your knife, as with a fine jagg€>d rowcll 3 ( roll) cutter ; so dry them in your stove and keep them. . Black and Clove. Comfits. — Take two ounces of clovea dried in a dish in the • Oven, beat thejn to a. very fins po.vder; l then take four ounces of sugar, very 3 finely beaten and -searced ; add to that t two or three date stones- burned and made into fine powder (which bringeth your pasta to the. blackness) ; mix with all these Rum drigoh steeped in rose- / * water, beat it~ up^intb a- comfit paste; ' s toll it in long small rolls, and. with a ; 'knife cross cut them at" one end like a I clove blossom ;.'so-*tove. them and serve !them. ' This 'is- an excellent comfit; it . 'will taste like a clove and eat pleasant- , lv. : -•