Von Speisen, natürlichen und kreuter wein, aller verstand

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Marinated Carrots
Gold Plate
A Blue Puree of Almonds and Rice
A Black Puree
A Good Puree of Almonds and Fish
Five Egg Purees
Checked baked good with five colors
An Unspread Cake
With the same dough, a noble food in a black pfefferlin
A Krapfen Dough

Of Pears

Pear tree roots, leaves and fruit have many uses. Boiled pear tree leaves heal wounds. The kernels ges??ssen and used level-headedly gets rid of liver pain. One preserves pears as trublin, apples, pears, peaches and quinces. Meal-pears, ash-bakers, water-pears, coal-pears or fat-pears well dried in a bake oven, and they keep over a year. So one who wants to cook them, seubert and puts them clean in warm water, and lets them drown. One who boils them in wine, and to feigen (destroy?) lays in a food. They protect as feigen.
VI B

Marinated Carrots

If you have salt fish broth, it is good, or make one also. Take a little vinegar and wine together. Boil four small perch therein or hausen blasen and bay or the leaves. Drive it through a towel. Let it fall. Watch it. Salt and spice it. Thereafter pout it over teh same carrots. If you want the broth gold, so do saffron therein. Let stand until standing. So make shelled almond kernels. Place attractively. That stands well. One may make also such fillings in crab shells or fill.
VII A

Gold Plate

Make a small honey-water. Spread the metal with this. Scheuß the gold or silver also wet thereon. Dry it with cotton, where it doesn't lay the same. You may gild gingerbread or other (cakes) also this way. So use no other assit to eating foods. Make a wooden shears, with which to lift the gold. Do not touch it with bare hands. It spoils it so.
VII B

A Blue Puree of Almonds and Rice

Pound cornflowers very well in water. Dry them through a towel. Keep that. Pound almonds with the same water. Force it through. So you have a blue milk. Therefrom make a puree with rice, or a wheat puree. You may strew small roses thereon. Do not fatten. Do not let it burn. The puree stands very well in white crockery.

A Black Puree

Take grapes, apples, pears, roasted or boiled, and sugar. A little meal, spices and salt. Disperse well with good wine. Boil in a pan. Stir well.

A Good Puree of Almonds and Fish

Do the offals out. Clean and chop well, eight to the gallen . Boil the board of the fish down with water. Watch it down. Do the broth there. Pound the fish very well with almond milk and white bread softened in almond milk. Drive it through with soft boiled rice. Let it heat over a fire in a pan. Stir it well. If it is too think, do more almond milk therein. Settle it with sugar.

Egg Purees

A puree of egg yolks. Soft semel bread in good wine. Drive it through. Do honey therein. Set in a small pot on coals. Stir it. When it becomes thick, so lift it off. Do salt and butter therein.
A common egg puree. Knock cream, meal and eggs well together. If it is too thick, so yellow a milk, pour thereon and mix it. If it is too thin, so do more fine meal therein. That mix with the milk, as a child's puree. Have the pan on the fire with heated butter. Pour the milk and eggs therein. Stir untilit becomes hard. See ginger thereon, and a pure butter. Give forth in the pan.
Another good (puree). Boil eggs hard. Shell and chop them small. Mix a fine meal milk thereunder. Do the eggs therein. Heat it well. Stir it thereafter in a heated milk. So it will be a good puree. Let it boil as a child's puree. Stir it, so that it doesn't burn.
Boil eggs hard. Chop the yolks especially. Do a raw egg thereunder. Mix but a fine meal with milk, so that it becomes thick as a dough. Cut little pieces from that. Bake them in butter. So it becomes good little cakes. Dry it or in Kaßbruen to eat.
Another. Grate ggs and meal well together. Pour hot milk thereon. Make it not too thin, still not too thick. Salt and try it well. You may make this two ways. Take eggs and meal. So chop einberger , fatty bacon therein or butter. Do not let it burn. See ginger in it garnished thereon. If you want it yellow, heat it wtih saffron in milk.
XII A

Checked baked good with five colors

Bake a leaf from baked egg yolks, yellowed with a little saffron. Take the eggs of a food or two. Squeeze parsley juice therein through a towel. Heat it well, so it becomes green. Make a zimlichen dough. Cut leafs thereout. Bake them not too brown. If you want to have blue, so squeeze cornflowers' juice therein. So one has pounded them well with pure water in a mortar. So is the first squeezed rich blue. The other white, the third still whiter. Also is all flower colors, on roses, which has not more taste therein. Squeeze out and thereunder heat. Also, you may take violets or other good-tasting herbs and flowers, pounded and spread through a towel. Hold the juice in a covered little glass, until you do need it.
Bake apples brown in butter. Spice them zimlich. Speard them on the first gold leaf, not too thick. Lay the green leaf thereunder. Thereafter make a gold filling iwth spiced eggs. Make it in two other colored leafs. Thereafter spread them also vmb and vmb with a fresh egg white. Bind it well. Make it oblong as a baking work. Cut it in pieces. Pound on a wooden breytlechen skewer. Also two or three together on a little skewer. Make a thin little dough of milk and eggs, gild it. Zeuch the little skewer through there. Bake them again brown in butter. Carry it forth. When that is cut open, so has also its' colors.

An Unspread Cake

Make a strong dough of grated cheese, meal and milk. Put it thin on a board. Cut also blades, finger's length. Bake it in butter. Put it on a smooth dish on fastday.
Another form. Cut the dough as glass diamonds, clover-leafs or roses. Bake also. If you want to gild, so it should be well cold. That stays.

With the same dough, a noble food in a black pfefferlin

Take yolks of hard eggs. Roasted apples or pears. Chop them together. Take a little saffron in wine or milk. Heat it togehter, so that it stays thick. Make fladen out of the dough. Do the chopped thereon. Strike it and roll in the hands round. (Do) how many you want to have. Bake it in butter. Lay it in pepper, hot or cold. See a little ginger thereon. So take the hard boiled egg whites. Cut diced. Strew it thereon. Settle it with a little butter. With the same dough, one may make one as filled eggs or as filled crabs in broth, weinsuppen or pepper.
XIII A

A Krapfen Dough

Boil honey in wine, as much as you want, and take a wide bowl and twist the wine with white meal as a little puree. Beat egg yolks in another bowl, and a little saffron. Beat it very well with the made honey wine. Put it in the twisted dough. Heat it and throw alway a dusty (staubliu) meal thereto in the bowl, until it becomes a reasonable dough. Thereafter zeuch(roll) it with a rolling pin on a towel. Cut it large or small, after the way you want to have the krapffen. What dough one makes with yeast, beer or hops, one must let rise. Thereafter knead with hot (loem water or a boiled honey wine.


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