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Transparent Paste - Mrs. Hutton Clifton
Take 1 lb of Flour will dried beat 1 Egg, till it is very thin then melt near 3/4 & a pd of Butter without salt, let it stand till cold engough to mix with the Egg - then put it into the flour work your paste and roll it out thin, when you are just going to put your tarts in the oven wet them with a little water & grate over them a little sugar - 
Lemon Flummery Mrs. Darcey Hutton
Pare the rinds of 2 Lemons squeeze the juice into a Bason and add as 1/4 of a pint of water, cover it close all night - The next day add 1/2 oz of Isinglass with 3 Eggs well beaten and 5 oz of Sugar stir over a slow fire till nicely thickened & strain it through a thin muslin when half cold put it into the Peach moulds when you take it out of the Peach mould paint them with Carrnine to resemble the fruit - To make Eight Peaches you must make twice the quantity of the a bove receipt It is more easily strained before it becomes the thickness required -

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Transparent Paste - Mrs. Hutton Clifton Take 1 lb of Flour will dried beat 1 Egg, till it is very thin then melt near 3/4 & a pd of Butter without salt, let it stand till cold engough to mix with the Egg - then put it into the flour work your paste and roll it out thin, when you are just going to put your tarts in the oven wet them with a little water & grate over them a little sugar - Lemon Flummery Mrs. Darcey Hutton Pare the rinds of 2 Lemons squeeze the juice into a Bason and add as 1/4 of a pint of water, cover it close all night - The next day add 1/2 oz of Isinglass with 3 Eggs well beaten and 5 oz of Sugar stir over a slow fire till nicely thickened & strain it through a thin muslin when half cold put it into the Peach moulds when you take it out of the Peach mould paint them with Carrnine to resemble the fruit - To make Eight Peaches you must make twice the quantity of the a bove receipt It is more easily strained before it becomes the thickness required -