For the first baking of the receipt (recipe) To make a Rasberry Tart a tin baker was used.  The tin baker is placed in front of the bed of embers and fire and the reflective heat bakes the tart.  The tart must be rotated during this process for even baking.

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After the raspberries have been strewed with double-refined sugar (almost white) for the receipt (recipe) To Make a Rasberry Tart close up the tart.  The same puff paste is used to lid the tart but note that paste is deliberately keep separate from paste that was laid in the Patty-pan.

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After the raspberries are laid in the Puff-paste for the receipt (recipe) To make a Rasberry Tart strew over them double-refin’d Sugar.

Double refined sugar, the result of reboiling, recrystallization, and a second refining, was off-white.

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For the receipt (recipe)To make a Rasberry Tart make Puff-paste, lay it in a Patty-pan, then lay in your rasberries.  This is the second receipt that I prepared using some of the four quarts of raspberries I harvested from my canes this summer.

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After the raspberries have been squeezed strongly for the receipt (recipe) To make Rasberry Water add such a Quantity of Water and Sugar as will make a pleasant Liguor.  The raspberry water is in a reproduction hand blown glass decanter of Thomas Jefferson.

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After the raspberries have been bruised for the receipt (recipe) To make Rasberry Water, then strain it, squeezing out the gross Substance strongly, to make the Water of a Red Colour.

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After washing the picked raspberries for the receipt (recipe) To make Rasberry Water, the raspberries were easy to bruise inside a linen cloth.

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For the receipt (recipe) To make Rasberry Water, the first step is to pick your Rasberries.  These raspberries plus four quarts more I picked from my own raspberry canes.

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Pictured is the receipt (recipe) To make a tarte of strawberyes presented to table.  The receipt reads: Take and strayne theym wyth the yolkes of foure egges, and a little whyte breade grated, then season it up wyth suger and swete butter and so bake it.  A Proper New Booke of Cokerye (author unknown).

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The tart, prepared from the receipt (recipe) To make a tart of strawberyes, is cooling after being baked in a tin baker in front of the fire.

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