Forcing for any roots; as mellons, Cucumbers, Colliflowers, Cabbidge, Pompions, Gourds, great Onions, Parsnips, Turnips or Carrots

Name: Forcing for any roots; as mellons, Cucumbers, Colliflowers, Cabbidge, Pompions, Gourds, great Onions, Parsnips, Turnips or Carrots
Ingredients: seed; bread; almonds; rose-water; sugar; musk-mellon; bisket bread; coriander-seed; cinamon; marrow; mace; lemon; musk; saffron; sweet herbs; yolks of raw eggs; strong broth; white-wine; butter; mellons; lemons; cucumbers; broth; sippets; turnips; fowl

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Accomplisht Cook

By Robert May

Published 1660

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Method

Take a Musk Mellon, take out the seed, cut it round the mellon two fingers deep, then make a forcing of grated bread, beaten almonds,