287. _A Suitable Dish for Lent._
Take a large Dish with broad Brims, and in the middle put blanched
Almonds round about them, Raisins of the Sun, and round them Figs, and
beyond them all coloured Jellies, and on the Brims Fig-Cheese.
288. _To make a Rock in Sweet-Meats._
First take a flat broad voiding Basket, then have in readiness a good
thick Plum Cake, then cut your Cake fit to the bottom of the Basket, and
cut a hole in the middle of it, that the foot of your Glass may go in,
which must be a Fountain-Glass, let it be as high a one as you can get;
put the foot of it in the hole of the Cake edgling that it may stand the
faster, then tie the Cake fast with a Tape to the Basket, first cross
one way and then another, then tie the foot of the Glass in that manner
too, that it may stand steady, then cut some odd holes in your Cake
carelesly, then take some Gum Dragon steeped in Rosewater, and mix it
with some fine Sugar, not too thick, and with that you must fasten all
your Rock together, in these holes which you cut in your Cake you must
fasten some sort of Biskets, as Naples Biskets, and other common Bisket
made long, and some ragged, and some coloured, that they may look like
great ill-favoured, Stones, and some handsome, some long, some short,
some bigger, and some lesser, as you know Nature doth afford, and some
of one colour and some of another, let some stand upright and some
aslannt, and some quite along, and fasten them all with your Gum, then
put in some better Sweet-meats, as Mackeroons and Marchpanes, carelesly
made as to the shape, and not put on the Rock in a set form, also some
rough Almond Cakes made with the long slices of Almonds (as I have
directed before;) so build it up in this manner, and fasten it with the
Gum and Sugar, till it be very high, then in some places you must put
whole Quinces Candied, both red and white, whole Orange Pills and Limon
Pills Candied; dried Apricocks, Pears and Pippins Candied, whole
Peaches Candied, then set up here and there great lumps of brown and
white Sugar-candy upon the stick, which much resembles some clusters of
fine Stones growing on a Rock; for Sand which lies sometimes among the
little Stones, strew some brown Sugar; for Moss, take herbs of a Rock
Candy; then you must make the likeness of Snakes and Snails and Worms,
and of any venomous Creature you can think of; make them in Sugar Plate
and colour them to their likeness, and put them in the holes that they
may seem to lurk, and some Snails creeping one way and some other; then
take all manner of Comfits, both rough and smooth, both great and small,
and colour many of them, some of one colour and some of another, let
some be white and some speckled, then when you have coloured them, and
that they are dry, mix them together and throw them into the Clefts, but
not too many in one place, for that will hide the shape of your work,
then throw in some Chips of all sorts of Fruit Candied, as Orange,
Limon, Citron, Quince, Pear, and Apples, for of all these you may make
Chips; then all manner of dryed Plumbs, and Cherries, Cornelions dryed,
Rasps and Currans; and in some places throw a few Prunelles, Pistacho
Nuts, blanched Almonds, Pine Kernels, or any such like, and a pound of
the great round perfumed Comfits; then take the lid off the top of the
Glass and fill it with preserved Grapes, and fill another with some
Harts-horn Jelly, place these two far from one another, and if you set
some kind of Fowl, made in Marchpanes, as a Peacock, or such like, and
some right Feathers gummed on with Gum Arabick, let this Fowl stand as
though it did go to drink at the Glass of Harts-horn Jelly, and then
they will know who see it, that those two liquid Glasses serve for
resemblance of several Waters in the Rock.
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