1292. - Cheesecakes

Strain the whey from the curd of two quarts of milk; when rather dry crumble it through a coarse sieve, and mix with 6ix ounces of fresh butter, one ounce .of pounded blanched almonds, a little orange-flower water, half a glass of raisin wine, a grated biscuit, four ounces of currants, some nutmeg and cinnamon in fine powder, and beat all the above with three eggs and half a pint of cream till quite light: then line the pattypans with a thin puff paste, and fill them three parts full.

1293. - Bread Cheesecakes

Slice a loaf as thin as possible, pour on it a pint of boiling cream, let it stand two hours; then take eight eggs, half a pound of butter and a nutmeg grated, beat them well together, put in half a pound of currants well washed and dried before the fire, and bake them in raised crusts or pattypans.

1294. - Miss Brattys Cheesecakes

The yolks of eight eggs, eight ounces of sugar finely powdered and sifted, eight ounces of sweet almonds powdered, beat all together till very white. Line the pans with a thin paste; immediately before you put them into the oven, mix the size of a walnut of butter melted into them over a fire. If the oven be too hot, they will fall when taken out.

Or:-Ten eggs, leave -out half the whites, one pound of sugar finely powdered and sifted, half a pound of flour, three ounces of butter, three ounces of sweet almonds, with a glass of brandy put into them while they are pounding. Beat them all together, and butter the pans very well.

1295. - Lemon Cheesecakes

Mix four ounces of sifted lump sugar and four ounces of butter, and gently melt it; then add the yolks of two and the white of one egg, the rind of three lemons shred fine, and the juice of one and a half, one Savoy biscuit, some blanched almonds pounded, three spoonfuls of brandy.

1296. - Orange Cheesecakes

When you have blanched half a pound of almonds, beat them very fine, with orange-flower water, half a pound of fine sugar beaten and sifted, and one pound of butter that has been melted carefully without oiling, and which must be nearly cold before you use it: then beat the yolks of ten and whites of four eggs; pound two candied oranges, and a fresh one with the bitterness boiled out, till as tender as marmalade, without any lumps , beat the whole together, and put into pattypans.

1297. - Almond Cheesecakes

Press the whey from as much curd as will fill two dozen small pattypans; then put it on the back of a sieve, and with half an ounce of butter, rub it through with the back of a spoon; put to it six yolks and three whites of eggs, and a few almonds of both sorts pounded, with as much sugar as will make the curd properly sweet; mix with these a wineglassful of sherry or Madeira, in which boil the rind of a Seville orange, if you can get one; or, if not, a large ripe one of the common kind, with all its juice. Beat all gradually together, and when thoroughly blended fill the pattypans; the baking will take from a quarter of an hour to twenty minutes.