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Cream Puffs Honable Mrs. Orde Powlett
Take the weight of an Egg in Flour, the same of Sugar, the same of Butter, beat all together have ready a Baking sheet hot take a wooden spoon & spread it as thin as a wafer and Bake them, take them off with a thin knife as quick as possible fillthem with whiped cream - 
Strawberry Fritters Mrs. Lawson
Beat 3 Eggs with 1/2 a pint of cream, sugar nutmeg & a little salt with flour as for other fritter, put in your fruit fresh, & drop them into boiling Lard, a spoonful at a time dish them in a perymade with grated sugar on the top - 
To Make Apple Cheese - Mrs. Lawson
Take off the skins & take out the cores of the apples, put them into a can with a cover to it - and to every two pds of apples put a Quarter of a pd of Loaf sugar beat small, then put it on in a pan with water up to the top of the pan, let them boil till they are soft, then rub them through a hair seive, to every pd of pulp add a quarter of a pound of sugar, then boil it an hour and a half over a slow fire and keep stirring it all the time - you may make these puddings of all other fruits - 
Mock Oyster Sauce - Mrs. Lawson
Four anchoveys boiled in half a pint of water till they are quite melted, with two or 3 blades of mace & 2 or 3 pepper corns and stirring it then add to it half a pint of cream & 4 ounces of Butter thicken'd with a little flour - 
Ham Toasts - Mrs. Lawson
Cut some thin slices of bread & Butter with a round cutter a bout two inches diameter, then cut as many slices of raw Ham as you want toasts, lay each slice of Ham between two of bread the same as a Sandwich, but put no seasoning, & roll them in parmesan chees instead of Bread Crumbs -(as you would bread Crumbs croquetts) flatten & Trim them round with your knife; a bout a quarter of an before you want them, put them on a butterd baking sheet in a hot oven when nicely Browned on both sides dish them up on a napkins

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Cream Puffs Honable Mrs. Orde Powlett Take the weight of an Egg in Flour, the same of Sugar, the same of Butter, beat all together have ready a Baking sheet hot take a wooden spoon & spread it as thin as a wafer and Bake them, take them off with a thin knife as quick as possible fillthem with whiped cream - Strawberry Fritters Mrs. Lawson Beat 3 Eggs with 1/2 a pint of cream, sugar nutmeg & a little salt with flour as for other fritter, put in your fruit fresh, & drop them into boiling Lard, a spoonful at a time dish them in a perymade with grated sugar on the top - To Make Apple Cheese - Mrs. Lawson Take off the skins & take out the cores of the apples, put them into a can with a cover to it - and to every two pds of apples put a Quarter of a pd of Loaf sugar beat small, then put it on in a pan with water up to the top of the pan, let them boil till they are soft, then rub them through a hair seive, to every pd of pulp add a quarter of a pound of sugar, then boil it an hour and a half over a slow fire and keep stirring it all the time - you may make these puddings of all other fruits - Mock Oyster Sauce - Mrs. Lawson Four anchoveys boiled in half a pint of water till they are quite melted, with two or 3 blades of mace & 2 or 3 pepper corns and stirring it then add to it half a pint of cream & 4 ounces of Butter thicken'd with a little flour - Ham Toasts - Mrs. Lawson Cut some thin slices of bread & Butter with a round cutter a bout two inches diameter, then cut as many slices of raw Ham as you want toasts, lay each slice of Ham between two of bread the same as a Sandwich, but put no seasoning, & roll them in parmesan chees instead of Bread Crumbs -(as you would bread Crumbs croquetts) flatten & Trim them round with your knife; a bout a quarter of an before you want them, put them on a butterd baking sheet in a hot oven when nicely Browned on both sides dish them up on a napkins