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Make Wafers Take a tablespoonful of orange flower water a table spoonful of flour, the same of good cream, sifted sugar to the palate, and a desert spoonful of syrup of cinnamon; beat all together for twenty minutes, then make the wafer - tongs hot, and pour a little batter just sufficient to cover the Irons; bake them over a slow fire, and when taken from the tongs roll them round & preserve them in a dry place, rub, the tongs first with a little butter a sweet omelet of Eggs - Mix well together ten eggs, half a gill of cream, a quarter of a pound of oiled fresh butter & a little syrup of nutmeg; sweeten with loaf sugar, put the mixture into a prepared frying pan as for a savory omlet, fry it in the same manner, and serve it up with a little sifted sugar over it. To Make Wax Baskets - Take one pound of white wax, half a pound spermacite an ounce of flake white, and 1/2 an ounce of hog's lard. Mix all together over a fire oil the basket mould with a clean cloth let the wax be of a moderate heat & run it round the inside compleat; when cool take it out of the mould & garnish it with flowers of fat or coloured gum paste, or paint landscapes &c Gum paste for ornamenting cakes Disolve gum dragon with water, strain it, and put it into a mortar with a little sifted sugar, pound it for half an hour, add some hair powder & pound it for a quarter of an hour; it may be made of any colour by adding cochineal, gamboge, & afterwards pour it in what mould you please
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Make Wafers Take a tablespoonful of orange flower water a table spoonful of flour, the same of good cream, sifted sugar to the palate, and a desert spoonful of syrup of cinnamon; beat all together for twenty minutes, then make the wafer - tongs hot, and pour a little batter just sufficient to cover the Irons; bake them over a slow fire, and when taken from the tongs roll them round & preserve them in a dry place, rub, the tongs first with a little butter a sweet omelet of Eggs - Mix well together ten eggs, half a gill of cream, a quarter of a pound of oiled fresh butter & a little syrup of nutmeg; sweeten with loaf sugar, put the mixture into a prepared frying pan as for a savory omlet, fry it in the same manner, and serve it up with a little sifted sugar over it. To Make Wax Baskets - Take one pound of white wax, half a pound spermacite an ounce of flake white, and 1/2 an ounce of hog's lard. Mix all together over a fire oil the basket mould with a clean cloth let the wax be of a moderate heat & run it round the inside compleat; when cool take it out of the mould & garnish it with flowers of fat or coloured gum paste, or paint landscapes &c Gum paste for ornamenting cakes Disolve gum dragon with water, strain it, and put it into a mortar with a little sifted sugar, pound it for half an hour, add some hair powder & pound it for a quarter of an hour; it may be made of any colour by adding cochineal, gamboge, & afterwards pour it in what mould you please
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