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To Make Curd Puffs
Take two quarts of milk put a little runnit in it when it is broke put in a corse cloth to drain then rub the curd through a hair sive with 4 ounces of butter beat ten ounces of bread half a nutmeg and a lemon peel grated a spoonful of wine and sugar to your taste Rub your cups with butter and bake them a little more than half an hour.
To Make Begnets
Water and butter cinnamon limon peel a little salt and sugar let this all boil well togeather the same quantity of flour as you think will just make up the water into a stif paste but not so stif as it may be rubbed smooth shaking in the flour as the water boils till the flour is all put in put one egg at a time in and keep stiring it well all the time till it is a fine smooth paste then have ready a pan with lard or fine clean driping drop in the paste a bout the sise of a walnut fry them a fine brown then open them at one side and put in sweetmeats this paste may be rolled round and baked in the oven in lenths and filled with any sweetmeats you like but raspberry jam is the Best.

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To Make Curd Puffs Take two quarts of milk put a little runnit in it when it is broke put in a corse cloth to drain then rub the curd through a hair sive with 4 ounces of butter beat ten ounces of bread half a nutmeg and a lemon peel grated a spoonful of wine and sugar to your taste Rub your cups with butter and bake them a little more than half an hour. To Make Begnets Water and butter cinnamon limon peel a little salt and sugar let this all boil well togeather the same quantity of flour as you think will just make up the water into a stif paste but not so stif as it may be rubbed smooth shaking in the flour as the water boils till the flour is all put in put one egg at a time in and keep stiring it well all the time till it is a fine smooth paste then have ready a pan with lard or fine clean driping drop in the paste a bout the sise of a walnut fry them a fine brown then open them at one side and put in sweetmeats this paste may be rolled round and baked in the oven in lenths and filled with any sweetmeats you like but raspberry jam is the Best.