439. _To make Clear Cakes._

Take plummes of any sort Rasberries are best put them in a stone jugg &

when they are dissolved strain them through a fair cloth and take to a

pint of that a pound of Sugar and put to it as much water as will melt

it & boyle it to a candie hight boyle the liquor likewise in another

possnet by them put them seething hot together boyle them a little

while together with seething then put them into glasses made like

marmalade boxes and so set them in a warm oven or stove in a drying

heat let them stand so a fortnight or 3 weeks and never be cold remove

them from one warm place to another that they may not be cold they will

turn in a week beware you set them not to hot they will be tough & so

every day turn them till they be dry & they will look very clear canded

without and moist within.

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