Receipt of the Month

June 2026

Orange Cheese-cakes with a Past for Them, Price, 1681

Take a halfe a pound of blanched almonds beat them very fine with orange flower water to keep them from oyleing, take half a pound of fine suger, beat and sifted, then melt a pound of Butter and let it be almost cold before you use it, beat the yolks of twelve eggs and the whites of four very well; take two candied orange pills…beat ye peeles in a mortar as fine as possible, then mix al together; The paste for your cheesecakes make as followeth – take a pound of the finest flower and three ounces of the finest sugar; then worke with your hands half a pound of butter, then put into it by degrees the flower and suger, and worke it together with the yolks of three eggs and the whites of two. Roll it out