After the eggs have been well beaten and added to the strained plums for the receipt (recipe) Plum Tarts: my Lady Sheldons Receipt then put to it a little ginger, rosewater; and suger to your tast.

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After the hot preserved plum and cream mixture is strained through a sieve, the receipt (recipe) Plum Tart: my Lady Sheldons Receipt states to put to it three eggs well beaten.  But always read the entire receipt as the last sentence explains that in winter put to it six eggs.  It was not winter but not yet plum season and I was using my preserved whole plums from last season so I used six eggs.

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After the preserved whole plums have been boiled with cream for the receipt (recipe) Plum Tart-my Lady Sheldons Receipt, while hot it is strained through a sieve.  Pictured is what the strayne looked like-a wonderful pink color and fragrant in smell.

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After the slit plums have been boiled with the cream until all of them are broke for the receipt (recipe) Plum Tarts-my Lady Sheldons Receipt whilst it is prety hott strayne it.

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After a halfe a pinte of creame has been put into the skillet with the slit plums for the receipt (recipe) Plum Tarts-My Lady Sheldons Receipt, let it boyle till the plums are all broke; and it be prety thike stiring it all the while.

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For the receipt (recipe) Plum Tarts-my Lady Sheldons Receipt, take a quart of plums..slit them; then take halfe a pinte of creame put it into a skillit with ye plums.

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The 1681 receipt (recipe) Plum Tarts – My Lady Sheldons Receipt starts with Take a quart of plums and wipe them cleane.  Pictured are the whole plums I preserved in sugar in my gally pot after I drained them of the syrup for the receipt when fresh plums are not in season.

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My thoughts were to title this post “a month to dry” or “17th century gummy fish” but did neither even though I prepared the receipt as part of my pandemic experimental archaeology of food April 25th and removed them from the fish molds May 25th.  The aroma that filled the kitchen as I removed them was wonderful and the texture is like a modern gummy.  The receipt states to set them in a stove to drie” and I used my oven at a slack temperature and on sunny days the dashboard of my van.

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The receipt (recipe) Past of Oringes: My Lady Howe’s Receipt read then put it in cleere-cake glasses.  I have many pieces of reproduction hand-blown glass but not cleere-cake glasses so I used my thin stoneware fish molds.

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After the juice of 2 to 3 Seville oranges has been added for the receipt (recipe) Past of Oringes: My Lady Howe’s Receipt then stir it in the mortar till it looks white.  The color of my mixture in the mortar never looked “white” to me in color.

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