[Sca-cooks] manus Christi -post 2

[Johnna Holloway]

The same search continued.
Here we have the term being used in to define
a sugar height, and being made into a cordial.

1677

Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.

Title: The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor. Directing
them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these
employments. Viz. Waiting woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid,
under cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid,
scullery-maid. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young
maidens.

Publication date: 1677.

To C ndy Eringo Roots. [text leaves out a in candy]

It bing clarified you must boyl it to the height of Manus Christi, and
then dip in your Roots two or three at once, till th ...

<>1673

Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.

Title: The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex
containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations,
and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children
to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to
suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house Mistresses to
servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world Prudent to all. With
letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide
for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to
service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. By
Hannah Woolley. 1673.

<>Choice and Experimental Observations … An excellent Cordial for Women
troubled with Swooning fits in Travel.

... idum, one Scruple; make a warm infusion for the space of an hour,
then strain it, and add thereunto Manus Christi, made with Pearl, four
Ounces; Oriental Bezor, Unicorns-horn, and Ambergriece, of each ...

Candyed Eringo roots.

... ell, that it may be as clear as Crystal; it being clarified, you
must boil it to the height of Manus Christi, and then dip in your Roots
two or three at once till they are all Can|dyed; put ...



1675

The Accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and
cookery containing I. the art of preserving and candying fruits &
flowers… 1675

106. To make Manus Christi.

Take half a pound of refined Sugar, and some Rose-water, boil them
together till it come to Sugar again, then stir it about till it be
somewhat cold, then take leaf gold and mingle with it, then cast it
according to Art into r (gap: 1 letter) und gobbets, and so keep them.

Same text also includes 3 recipes that instruct that sugar must “boyl it
to the height of Manus Christi”

Gold but not pearls in this recipe.



Last but not least:

Holme, Randle. The academy of armory, or, A storehouse of armory and
blazon containing the several variety of created beings, and how born in
coats of arms, both foreign and domestick from 1688

Holme defines it as:

Manus Christi, a sort of fine refined Sugar put into Cordials for very
weak people.

Hope this helps

Johnnae llyn Lewis