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Sweet-meats served in, in like manner as at Dinner, with Dishes of
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Meat-Jellies, your Cheeses of several sorts, and your Sweet-meats.
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Sweet-meats, the wet Sweet-meats round about and the dry in the middle, your wet Sweet-meats must be in little glasses that you may set the more on, and between every two glasses another above the first of all, and one on the top of them all; you must put of all sorts of dryed
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Put Eggs into the Cream as you do for Fool, and slice your Sweet-meats very thin and boil with them, then sweeten it, and put it into a Dish.
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Sweet-meats, such as are most in season, with Vine Leaves and Flowers between the Dishes and the Plates, two wet Sweet-meats, and two dry, two of one colour, and two of another, or all of several colours.
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When all these are taken away, then serve in your Cheeses of all sorts, and also your Creams and Jellies, and Sweet-meats after them, if they be required.
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Currants are clear and jelly very well; put them in Pots or Glasses, and, when they are cold, paper them as other Sweet-meats.
Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733) Mary Eales
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Take your Fruit, (scalded) or Sweet-meats, and rub it thro 'an Hair
Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733) Mary Eales
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Cheeses, Jellies, Leaches or Sweet-meats, or to set forth Banquets as well as I do; but (pardon me) I speak not to any knowing Person, but to the Ignorant, because they may not remain so; besides really there are new Modes come up now adays for eating and drinking, as well as for
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Creams, contrary from those at Dinner, or instead of them some Possets, or other fine Spoon Meats, which may be pleasant to the taste, with some wet and dry Sweet-meats, and some of your fine Drinks, what may be most pleasing.
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