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Mary Carnegie and Susan Gillespie cookbook, 1804-1905

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Receipt for Rumballs. Mrs. RS - 

2 Ounces sweet Almonds beat - 2 ditto Bitter Almonds beat. 10 Oz of Flour 5 of Butter 8 Oz of Sugar - Beat and sift your Sugar keep out about one half of it after Sifting. Mix the other half with the other Ingredients in a Bason with one Egg. and work all together well untill quite Smooth and soft - Cut into small bits the size of a walnut and roll them out with the palm of the hand. upon the Baking Board with the rest of the Sugar - and when about the size of the little finger twist it into what Shapes you please - 
put them upon buttered Tins to Bake 5 Minutes in the Oven will fire them - 

To make [Finhon?] Haddocks - 
Mrs Cathcart
Clean your fish well the moment they arrive split them open and sprinkle a little Salt upon the Split side and lay two fishes together with the Split side next to each other. Let the remain an hour put them on a [kriddle?] with the Split side next the Smoke of a Wood fire.

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64 Receipt for Rumballs. Mrs. RS - 2 Ounces sweet Almonds beat - 2 ditto Bitter Almonds beat. 10 Oz of Flour 5 of Butter 8 Oz of Sugar - Beat and sift your Sugar keep out about one half of it after Sifting. Mix the other half with the other Ingredients in a Bason with one Egg. and work all together well untill quite Smooth and soft - Cut into small bits the size of a walnut and roll them out with the palm of the hand. upon the Baking Board with the rest of the Sugar - and when about the size of the little finger twist it into what Shapes you please - put them upon buttered Tins to Bake 5 Minutes in the Oven will fire them - To make [Finhon?] Haddocks - Mrs Cathcart Clean your fish well the moment they arrive split them open and sprinkle a little Salt upon the Split side and lay two fishes together with the Split side next to each other. Let the remain an hour put them on a [kriddle?] with the Split side next the Smoke of a Wood fire.