Milk your Cows in the evening about the ordinary hour, and fill
with it a little Kettle about three quarters full, so that
there may be happily two or three Gallons of Milk. Let this
stand thus five or six hours. About twelve a Clock at night
kindle a good fire of Charcoal, and set a large Trivet over it.
When the fire is very clear and quick, and free from all smoak,
set your Kettle of Milk over it upon the Trivet, and have in a
pot by a quart of good Cream ready to put in at the due time;
which must be, when you see the Milk begin to boil simpringly.
Then pour in the Cream in a little stream and low, upon a
place, where you see the milk simper....
To simper--a word of sheer genius! There are many such in his recipes.
We find the raisin again at work in his directions: