When you have wrought your paste well, you must
put it in a cloth, and set it in a dish before the fire, till it be through
warm. Then make them up in little Cakes, and prick them full of holes; you
must bake them in a quick oven unclosed. Afterwards Ice them over with
Sugar. The Cakes should be about the bigness of a hand-breadth and thin: of
the cise of the Sugar Cakes sold at Barnet.
MY LORD OF DENBIGH'S ALMOND MARCH-PANE
Blanch Nut-Kernels from the Husks in the best manner you can. Then pun them
with a due proportion of Sugar, and a little Orange-flower, or Rose-water.
When it is in a fitting uniform paste, make it into round Cakes, about the
bigness of your hand, or a little larger, and about a finger thick; and lay
every one upon a fine paper cut fit to it; which lay upon a table. You must
have a pan like a tourtiere, made to contain coals on the top, that is
flat, with edges round about to hold in the coals, which set over the
Cakes, with fire upon it. Let this remain upon the Cakes, till you
conceive, it hath dryed them sufficiently for once; which may be within a
quarter of an hour; but you take it off two or three times in that time, to
see you scorch not the outside, but only dry it a little.
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