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Take of your Eringo-roots ready to be preserved, and weigh them, and to every pound of Roots you must take of the purest Sugar you can get two pound, and clarifie it with the whites of Eggs exceeding well, that it may be as clear as Crystal; it being clarified, you must boil it to the height of Manus Christi, and then dip in your
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675
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Take Borage-water, Rose-water, Strawberry-water, and Rhenish wine, of each two Ounces; Species of Diamargaricum srigidum, one Scruple; make a warm insusion for the space of an hour, then strain it, and add thereunto Manus Christi, made with Pearl, four Ounces; Oriental
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675
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"... a popular sweet known as Manus Christi (the hand of Christ), a white confection made with sugar and ginger with a soft consistency, the length of a finger..."
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 48
November 27, 2017