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Title: English Housewifry
Author: Elizabeth Moxon
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_ENGLISH_ HOUSEWIFRY
EXEMPLIFIED
In above FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY RECEIPTS,
Giving DIRECTIONS in most PARTS of COOKERY;
And how to prepare various SORTS of
SOOPS, CAKES,
MADE-DISHES, CREAMS,
PASTES, JELLIES,
PICKLES, MADE-WINES, &c.
With CUTS for the orderly placing the DISHES and COURSES; also Bills
of Fare for every Month in the Year; and an alphabetical INDEX to the
Whole.
A BOOK necessary for Mistresses of Families, higher and lower Women
Servants, and confined to Things USEFUL, SUBSTANTIAL and SPLENDID,
and calculated for the Preservation of HEALTH, and upon the Measures
of _Frugality_, being the Result of thirty Years _Practice_ and
_Experience_.
By ELIZABETH MOXON.
WITH An APPENDIX CONTAINING,
Upwards of Sixty RECEIPTS, of the most valuable Kind, communicated to
the Publisher by several Gentlewomen in the Neighbourhood, distinguished
by their extraordinary Skill in HOUSEWIFRY.
THE RETURNS OF SPIRITUAL COMFORT and GRIEF, In a Devout SOUL.
Represented by an Intercourse of Letters to the Right Honourable Lady
LETICE, Countess of Falkland, in her Life Time.
Publish'd for the Benefit and Ease of all who labour under Spiritual
Afflictions.
1764.
THE PREFACE
It is not doubted but the candid Reader will find the following BOOK in
correspondence with the title, which will supersede the necessity of
any other recommendation that might be given it.
As the complier of it engaged in the undertaking at the instance and
importunity of many persons of eminent account and distinction, so she
can truly assure them, and the world, that she has acquitted herself
with the utmost care and fidelity.
And she entertains the greater hopes that her performance will meet
with the kinder acceptance, because of the good opinion she has been
held in by those, her ever honour'd friends, who first excited her to
the publication of her BOOK, and who have been long eye-witnesses of
her skill and behaviour in the business of her calling.
She has nothing to add, but her humblest thanks to them, and to all
others with whom she has received favour and encouragement.
_ENGLISH_ HOUSEWIFRY.
1. _To make_ VERMICELLY SOOP.
Take a neck of beef, or any other piece; cut off some slices, and fry
them with butter 'till they are very brown; wash your pan out every
time with a little of the gravy; you may broil a few slices of the beef
upon a grid-iron: put all together into a pot, with a large onion, a
little salt, and a little whole pepper; let it stew 'till the meat is
tender, and skim off the fat in the boiling; them strain it into your
dish, and boil four ounces of vermicelly in a little of the gravy 'till
it is soft: Add a little stew'd spinage; then put all together into a
dish, with toasts of bread; laying a little vermicelly upon the toast.
Garnish your dish with creed rice and boil'd spinage, or carrots slic'd
thin.
2. CUCUMBER SOOP.
Take a houghil of beef, break it small and put it into a stew-pan, with
part of a neck of mutton, a little whole pepper, an onion, and a little
salt; cover it with water, and let it stand in the oven all night, then
strain it and take off the fat; pare six or eight middle-siz'd
cucumbers, and slice them not very thin, stew them in a little butter
and a little whole pepper; take them out of the butter and put 'em in
the gravy. Garnish your dish with raspings of bread, and serve it up
with toasts of bread or _French_ roll.
3. _To make_ HARE SOOP.
Cut the hare into small pieces, wash it and put it into a stew-pan,
with a knuckle of veal; put in it a gallon of water, a little salt, and
a handful of sweet herbs; let it stew 'till the gravy be good; fry a
little of the hare to brown the soop; you may put in it some crusts of
write bread among the meat to thicken the soop; put it into a dish,
with a little stew'd spinage, crisp'd bread, and a few forc'd-meat
balls. Garnish your dish with boil'd spinage and turnips, cut it in
thin square slices.
4. _To make Green_ PEASE SOOP.
Take a neck of mutton, and a knuckle of veal, make of them a little
good gravy; then take half a peck of the greenest young peas, boil and
beat them to a pulp in a marble mortar; then put to them a little of
the gravy; strain them through a hair sieve to take out all the pulp;
put all together, with a little salt and whole pepper; then boil it a
little, and if you think the soop not green enough, boil a handful of
spinage very tender, rub it through a hair-sieve, and put into the soop
with one spoonful of wheat-flour, to keep it from running: You must not
let it boil after the spinage is put in, it will discolour it; then cut
white bread in little diamonds, fry them in butter while crisp, and put
it into a dish, with a few whole peas. Garnish your dish with creed
rice, and red beet-root.
You may make asparagus-soop the same way, only add tops of asparagus,
instead of whole pease.
5. _To make_ ONION SOOP.
Take four or five large onions, pill and boil them in milk and water
whilst tender, (shifting them two or three times in the boiling) beat
'em in a marble mortar to a pulp, and rub them thro' a hair-sieve, and
put them into a little sweet gravy; then fry a few slices of veal, and
two or three slices of lean bacon; beat them in a marble mortar as
small as forc'd-meat; put it into your stew-pan with the gravy and
onions, and boil them; mix a spoonful of wheat-flour with a little
water, and put it into the soop to keep it from running; strain all
through a cullender, season it to your taste; then put into the dish a
little spinage stew'd in butter, and a little crisp bread; so serve it
up.
6. _Common_ PEASE SOOP _in Winter_.
Take a quart of good boiling pease which put into a pot with a gallon
of soft water whilst cold; add thereto a little beef or mutton, a
little hung beef or bacon, and two or three large onions; boil all
together while your soop is thick; salt it to your taste, and thicken
it with a little wheat-flour; strain it thro' a cullender, boil a
little sellery, cut it in small pieces, with a little crisp bread, and
crisp a little spinage, as you would do parsley, then put it in a dish,
and serve it up. Garnish your dish with raspings of bread.
7. _To make_ PEASE SOOP _in Lent_.
Take a quart of pease, put them into a pot with a gallon of water, two
or three large onions, half a dozen anchovies, a little whole pepper
and salt; boil all together whilst your soop is thick; strain it into a
stew-pan through a cullender, and put six ounces of butter (work'd in
flour) into the soop to thicken it; also put in a little boil'd
sellery, stew'd spinage, crisp bread, and a little dry'd mint powdered;
so serve it up.
8. CRAW-FISH SOOP.
Take a knuckle of veal, and part of a neck of mutton to make white
gravy, putting in an onion, a little whole pepper and salt to your
taste; then take twenty crawfish, boil and beat them in a marble
mortar, adding thereto alittlee of the gravy; strain them and put them
into the gravy; also two or three pieces of white bread to thicken the
soop; boil twelve or fourteen of the smallest craw-fish, and put them
whole into the dish, with a few toasts, or _French_ roll, which you
please; so serve it up.
You may make lobster soop the same way, only add into the soop the
seeds of the lobster.
9. _To make_ SCOTCH SOOP.
Take a houghil of beef, cut it in pieces, with part of a neck of
mutton, and a pound of _French_ barley; put them all into your pot,
with six quarts of water; let it boil 'till the barley be soft, then
put in a fowl; as soon as 'tis enough put in a handful of red beet
leaves or brocoli, a handful of the blades of onions, a handful of
spinage, washed and shred very small; only let them have a little boil,
else it will spoil the greenness. Serve it up with the fowl in a dish,
garnish'd with raspings of bread.
10. _To make_ SOOP _without Water_.
Take a small leg of mutton, cut it in slices, season it with a little
pepper and salt; cut three middling turnips in round pieces, and three
small carrots scrap'd and cut in pieces, a handful of spinage, a little
parsley, a bunch of sweet herbs, and two or three cabbage lettice; cut
the herbs pretty small, lay a row of meat and a row of herbs; put the
turnips and carrots at the bottom of the pot, with an onion, lay at the
top half a pound of sweet butter, and close up the pot with coarse
paste; them put the pot into boiling water, and let it boil for four
hours; or in a slow oven, and let it stand all night; when it is enough
drain the gravy from the meat, skim off the fat, then put it into your
dish with some toasts of bread, and a little stew'd spinage; to serve
it up.
11. _To stew a_ BRISKET _of_ BEEF.
Take the thin part of a brisket of beef, score the skin at the top;
cross and take off the under skin, then take out the bones, season it
highly with mace, a little salt, and a little whole pepper, rub it on
both sides, let it lay all night, make broth of the bones, skim the fat
clean off, put in as much water as will cover it well, let it stew over
a slow fire four or five hours, with a bunch of sweet herbs and an
onion cut in quarters; turn the beef over every hour, and when you find
it tender take it out of the broth and drain it very well, having made
a little good strong gravy.
A ragoo with sweet-breads cut into pieces, pullets tenderly boil'd and
cut in long pieces; take truffles and morels, if you have any
mushrooms, with a little claret, and throw in your beef, let it stew a
quarter of an hour in the ragoo, turning it over sometimes, then take
out your beef, and thicken your ragoo with a lump of butter and a
little flour. Garnish your dish with horse-radish and pickles, lay the
ragoo round your beef, and a little upon the top; so serve it up.
12. _To stew a_ RUMP _of_ BEEF.
Take a fat rump of young beef and cut off the fag end, lard the low
part with fat bacon, and stuff the other part with shred parsley; put
it into your pan with two or three quarts of water, a quart of Claret,
two or three anchovies, an onion, two or three blades of mace, a little
whole pepper, and a bunch of sweet herbs; stew it over a slow fire five
or six hours, turning it several times in the stewing, and keep it
close cover'd; when your beef is enough take from it the gravy, thicken
part of it with a lump of butter and flour, and put it upon the dish
with the beef. Garnish the dish with horse-radish and red-beet root.
There must be no salt upon the beef, only salt the gravy to your taste.
You may stew part of a brisket, or an ox cheek the same way.
13. _To make_ OLIVES _of_ BEEF.
Take some slices of a rump (or any other tender piece) of beef, and
beat them with a paste pin, season them with nutmeg, pepper and salt,
and rub them over with the yolk of an egg; make a little forc'd-meat of
veal, beef-suet, a few bread crumbs, sweet-herbs, a little shred mace,
pepper, salt, and two eggs, mixed all together; take two or three
slices of the beef, according as they are in bigness, and a lump of
forc'd-meat the size of an egg; lay your beef round it, and roll it in
part of a kell of veal, put it into an earthen dish, with a little
water, a glass of claret, and a little onion shred small; lay upon them
a little butter, and bake them in an oven about an hour; when they come
out take off the fat, and thicken the gravy with a little butter and
flour; six of them is enough for a side dish. Garnish the dish with
horseradish and pickles.
You may make olives of veal the same way.
14. _To fry_ BEEF-STEAKS.
Take your beef steaks and beat them with the back of a knife, fry them
in butter over a quick fire, that they may be brown before they be too
much done; when they are enough put them into an earthen pot whilst you
have fry'd them all; pour out the fat, and put them into your pan with
a little gravy, an onion shred very small, a spoonful of catchup and a
little salt; thicken it with a little butter and flour, the thickness
of cream. Garnish your dish with pickles.
Beef-steaks are proper for a side-dish.
15. BEEF-STEAKS _another Way_.
Take your beef-steaks and beat them with the back of a knife, strow
them over with a little pepper and salt, lay them on a grid-iron over a
clear fire, turning 'em whilst enough; set your dish over a
chafing-dish of coals, with a little brown gravy; chop an onion or
Shalot as small as pulp, and put it amongst the gravy; (if your steaks
be not over much done, gravy will come therefrom;) put it on a dish and
shake it all together. Garnish your dish with shalots and pickles.
16. _A_ SHOULDER _of_ MUTTON _forc'd_.
Take a pint of oysters and chop them, put in a few bread-crumbs, a
little pepper, shred mace, and an onion, mix them all together, and
stuff your mutton on both sides, then roast it at a slow fire, and
baste it with nothing but butter; put into the dripping-pan a little
water, two or three spoonfuls of the pickle of oysters, a glass of
claret, an onion shred small, and an anchovy; if your liquor waste
before your mutton is enough, put in a little more water; when the meat
is enough, take up the gravy, skim off the fat, and thicken it with
flour and butter; then serve it up. Garnish your dish with horse-radish
and pickles.
17. _To stew a_ FILLET _of_ MUTTON.
Take a fillet of mutton, stuff it the same as for a shoulder, half
roast it, and put it into a stew pan with a little gravy, a jill of
claret, an anchovy, and a shred onion; you may put in a little
horse-radish and some mushrooms; stew it over a slow fire while the
mutton is enough; take the gravy, skim off the fat, and thicken it with
flour and butter; lay forc'd-meat-balls round the mutton. Garnish your
dish with horse-radish and mushrooms.
It is proper either for a side-dish or bottom dish; if you have it for
a bottom-dish, cut your mutton into two fillets.
18. _To Collar a Breast of_ MUTTON.
Take a breast of mutton, bone it, and season it with nutmeg, pepper and
salt, rub it over with the yolk of an egg; make a little forc'd-meat of
veal or mutton, chop it with a little beef-suet, a few bread-crumbs,
sweet herbs, an onion, pepper and salt, a little nutmeg, two eggs, and
a spoonful or two of cream; mix all together and lay it over the
mutton, roll it up and bind it about with course inkle; put it into an
earthen dish with a little water, dridge it over with flour, and lay
upon it a little butter; it will require two hours to bake it. When it
is enough take up the gravy, skim off the fat, put in an anchovy and a
spoonful of catchup, thicken it with flour and butter; take the inkle
from the mutton and cut it into three or four rolls; pour the sauce
upon the dish, and lay about it forc'd-meat-balls. Garnish your dish
with pickles.
19. _To Collar a Breast of_ MUTTON _another Way_.
Take a breast of mutton, bone it, and season it with nutmeg, pepper and
salt; roll it up tight with coarse incle and roast it upon a spit; when
it is enough lay it whole upon the dish. Then take four or six
cucumbers, pare them and cut them in slices, not very thin; likewise
cut three or four in quarters length way, stew them in a little brown
gravy and a little whole pepper; when they are enough thicken them with
flour and butter the thickness of cream; so serve it up. Garnish your
dish with horse-radish.
20. _To Carbonade a Breast of_ MUTTON.
Take a breast of mutton, half bone it, nick it cross, season it with
pepper and salt; then broil it before the fire whilst it be enough,
strinkling it over with bread-crumbs; let the sauce be a little gravy
and butter, and a few shred capers; put it upon the dish with the
mutton. Garnish it with horse-radish and pickles.
This is proper for a side-dish at noon, or a bottom-dish at night.
21. _A Chine of_ MUTTON _roasted, with stew'd_ SELLERY.
Take a loyn of mutton, cut off the thin part and both ends, take off
the skin, and score it in the roasting as you would do pork; then take
a little sellery, boil it, and cut it in pieces about an inch long, put
to it a little good gravy, while pepper and salt, two or three
spoonfuls of cream and a lump of butter, so thicken it up, and pour it
upon your dish with your mutton.--This is proper for a side-dish.
22. MUTTON-CHOPS.
Take a leg of mutton half-roasted, when it is cold cut it in thin
pieces as you would do any other meat for hashing, put it into a
stew-pan with a little water or small gravy, two or three spoonfuls of
claret, two or three shalots shred, or onions, and two or three
spoonfuls of oyster pickle; thicken it up with a little flour, and so
serve it up. Garnish your dish with horse-radish and pickles.
You may do a shoulder of mutton the same way, only boil the blade-bone,
and lie in the middle.
23. _A forc'd_ LEG _of_ MUTTON.
Take a leg of mutton, loose the skin from the meat, be careful you do
not cut the skin as you loosen it; then cut the meat from the bone, and
let the bone and skin hang together, chop the meat small, with a little
beef-suet, as you would do sausages; season it with nutmeg, pepper and
salt, a few bread-crumbs, two or three eggs, a little dry'd sage, shred
parsley and lemon-peel; then fill up the skin with forc'd-meat, and lay
it upon an earthen dish; lay upon the meat a little flour and butter,
and a little water in the dish; it will take an hour and a half baking;
when you dish it up lay about it either mutton or veal chollops, with
brown gravy sauce. Garnish your dish with horse-radish and lemon. You
may make a forc'd leg of lamb the same way.
24. _To make_ FRENCH CUTLETS _of_ MUTTON.
Take a neck of mutton, cut it in joints, cut off the ends of the long
bones, then scrape the meat clean off the bones about an inch, take a
little of the inpart of the meat of the cutlets, and make it into
forc'd-meat; season it with nutmeg, pepper, and salt; then lay it upon
your cutlets, rub over them the yolk of an egg to make it stick; chop a
few sweet herbs, and put to them a few bread-crumbs, a little pepper
and salt, and strew it over the cutlets, and wrap them in double
writing-paper; either broil them before the fire or in an oven, half an
hour will do them; when you dish them up, take off the out-paper, and
set in the midst of the dish a little brown gravy in a china-bason; you
may broil them without paper if you please.
25. _To fry_ MUTTON STEAKS.
Take a loyn of mutton, cut off the thin part, then cut the rest into
steaks, and flat them with a bill, season them with a little pepper and
salt, fry them in butter over a quick fire; as you fry them put them
into a stew-pan or earthen-pot, whilst you have fried them all; then
pour the fat out of the pan, put in a little gravy, and the gravy that
comes from the steaks, with a spoonful of claret, an anchovy, and an
onion or a shalot shred; shake up the steaks in the gravy, and thicken
it with a little flour; so serve them up. Garnish your dish with horse
radish and shalots.
26. _To make artificial_ VENISON _of_ MUTTON.
Take a large shoulder of mutton, or a middling fore quarter, bone it,
lay it in an earthen dish, put upon it a pint of claret, and let it lie
all night; when you put it into your pasty-pan or dish, pour on the
claret that it lay in, with a little water and butter; before you put
it into your pasty-pan, season it with pepper and salt; when you make
the pasty lie no paste in the bottom of the dish.
27. _How to brown Ragoo a_ BREAST _of_ VEAL.
Take a breast of veal, cut off both the ends, and half roast it; then
put it into a stew-pan, with a quart of brown gravy, a spoonful of
mushroom-powder, a blade or two of mace, and lemon-peel; so let it stew
over a slow fire whilst your veal is enough; then put in two or three
shred mushrooms or oysters, two or three spoonfuls of white wine;
thicken up your sauce with flour and butter; you may lay round your
veal some stew'd morels and truffles; if you have none, some pallets
stew'd in gravy, with artichoke-bottoms cut in quarters, dipt in eggs
and fry'd, and some forc'd-meat-balls; you may fry the sweet-bread cut
in pieces, and lay over the veal, or fry'd oysters; when you fry your
oysters you must dip them in egg and flour mixed. Garnish your dish
with lemon and pickles.
28. _A Herico of a_ BREAST _of_ VEAL, French _Way_.
Take a breast of veal, half roast it, then put it into a stew-pan, with
three pints of brown gravy; season your veal with nutmeg, pepper and
salt; when your veal is stew'd enough, you may put in a pint of green
peas boil'd. Take six middling cucumbers, pare and cut them in quarters
long way, also two cabbage-lettices, and stew them in brown gravy; so
lay them round your veal when you dish it up, with a few
forc'd-meat-balls and some slices of bacon. Garnish your dish with
pickles, mushrooms, oysters and lemons.
29. _To roll a_ BREAST _of_ VEAL.
Take a breast of veal, and bone it, season it with nutmeg, pepper and
salt, rub it over with the yolk of an egg, and strew it over with sweet
herbs shred small, and some slices of bacon, cut thin to lie upon it,
roll it up very tight, bind it with coarse inkle, put it into an
earthen dish with a little water, and lay it upon some lumps of butter;
strew a little seasoning on the outside of your veal, it will take two
hours baking; when it is baked take off the inkle and cut it in four
rolls, lay it upon the dish with a good brown gravy-sauce: lay about
your veal the sweet-bread fry'd, some forc'd-meat-balls, a little crisp
bacon, and a few fry'd oysters if you have any; so serve it up. Garnish
your dish with pickles and lemon.
30. _A stew'd_ BREAST _of_ VEAL.
Take the fattest and whitest breast of veal you can get, cut off both
ends and boil them for a little gravy; take the veal and raise up the
thin part, make a forc'd-meat of the sweet-bread boil'd, a few
bread-crumbs, a little beef-suet, two eggs, pepper and salt, a spoonful
or two of cream, and a little nutmeg, mix'd all together; so stuff the
veal, skewer the skin close down, dridge it over with flour, tie it up
in a cloth, and boil it in milk and water about an hour. For the sauce
take a little gravy, about a jill of oysters, a few mushrooms shred, a
little lemon shred fine, and a little juice of lemon; so thicken it up
with flour and butter; when you dish it up pour the same over it; lay
over it a sweet-bread or two cut in slices and fry'd, and fry'd
oysters. Garnish your dish with lemon, pickles and mushrooms.
This is proper for a top dish either at noon or night.
31. _To stew a_ FILLET _of_ VEAL.
Take a leg of the best whye veal, cut off the dug and the knuckle, cut
the rest into two fillets, and take the fat part and cut it in pieces
the thickness of your finger; you must stuff the veal with the fat;
make the hole with a penknife, draw it thro' and skewer it round;
season it with pepper, salt, nutmeg, and shred parsley; then put it
into your stew-pan, with half a pound of butter, (without water) and
set it on your stove; let it boil very slow and cover it close up,
turning it very often; it will take about two hours in stewing; when it
is enough pour the gravy from it, take off the fat, put into the gravy
a pint of oysters and a few capers, a little lemon-peel, a spoonful or
two of white wine, and a little juice of lemon; thicken it with butter
and flour the thickness of cream; lay round it forc'd-meat-balls and
oysters fry'd, and so serve it up. Garnish your dish with a few capers
and slic'd lemon.
32. _To make_ SCOTCH COLLOPS.
Take a leg of veal, take off the thick part and cut in thin slices for
collops, beat them with a paste-pin 'till they be very thin; season
them with mace, pepper and salt; fry them over a quick fire, not over
brown; when they are fried put them into a stew-pan with a little
gravy, two or three spoonfuls of white wine, two spoonfuls of
oyster-pickle if you have it, and a little lemon-peel; then shake them
over a stove in a stew-pan, but don't let them boil over much, it only
hardens your collops; take the fat part of your veal, stuff it with
forc'd-meat, and boil it; when it is boiled lay it in the middle of
your dish with the collops; lay about your collops slices of crisp
bacon, and forc'd-meat-balls. Garnish your dish with slices of lemon
and oysters, or mushrooms.
33. _To make_ VEAL CUTLETS.
Take a neck of veal, cut it in joints, and flatten them with a bill;
cut off the ends of the bones, and lard the thick part of the cutlets
with four or five bits of bacon; season it with nutmeg, pepper and
salt; strew over them a few bread crumbs, and sweet herbs shred fine;
first dip the cutlets in egg to make the crumbs stick, then broil them
before the fire, put to them a little brown gravy sauce, so serve it
up. Garnish your dish with lemon.
34. VEAL CUTLETS _another Way_.
Take a neck of veal, cut it in joints, and flat them as before, and cut
off the ends of the long bones; season them with a little pepper, salt
and nutmeg, broil them on a gridiron, over a slow fire; when they are
enough, serve them up with brown gravy sauce and forc'd-meat-balls.
Garnish your dish with lemon.
35. VEAL CUTLETS _another Way_.
Take a neck of veal and cut it in slices, flatten them as before, and
cut off the ends of the long bones; season the cutlets with pepper and
salt, and dridge over them some flour; fry them in butter over a quick
fire; when they are enough put from them the fat they were fried in,
and put to them a little small gravy, a spoonful of catchup, a spoonful
of white wine or juice of lemon, and grate in some nutmeg; thicken them
with flour and butter, so serve them up. Garnish your dish as before.
36. _To Collar a_ CALF'S HEAD _to eat hot_.
Take a large fat head, and lay it in water to take out the blood; boil
it whilst the bones will come out; season it with nutmeg, pepper and
salt; then wrap it up round with a large lump of forc'd-meat made of
veal; after which wrap it up tight in a veal kell before it is cold,
and take great care that you don't let the head break in two pieces;
then bind it up with a coarse inkle, lay it upon an earthen dish,
dridge it over with flour, and lay over it a little butter, with a
little water in the dish; an hour and a half will bake it; when it is
enough take off the inkle, cut it in two length ways, laying the
skin-side uppermost; when you lay it upon your dish you must lay round
it stew'd pallets and artichoke-bottoms fry'd with forc'd-meat-balls;
put to it brown gravy-sauce; you may brown your sauce with a few
truffles or morels, and lay them about your veal.
Garnish your dish with lemon and pickle.
37. _To Collar a_ CALF'S HEAD _to eat cold_.
You must be a calf's head with the skin on, split it and lay it in
water, take out the tongue and eyes, cut off the groin ends, then tie
it up in a cloth and boil it whilst the bones come out; when it is
enough lay it on a table with the skin-side uppermost, and pour upon it
a little cold water; then take off the hair and cut off the ears; mind
you do not break the head in two, turn it over and take out the bones;
salt it very well and wrap it round in a cloth very tight, pin it with
pins, and tie it at both ends, so bind it up with broad inkle, then
hang it up by one end, and when it is cold take it out; you must make
for it brown pickle, and it will keep half a year; when you cut it, cut
it at the neck.
It is proper for a side or middle dish, either for noon or night.
38. _To make a_ CALF'S HEAD _Hash_.
Take a calf's head and boil it, when it is cold take one half of the
head and cut off the meat in thin slices, put it into a stew pan with a
little brown gravy, put to it a spoonful or two of walnut pickle, a
spoonful of catchup, a little claret, a little shred mace, a few capers
shred, or a little mango; boil it over a stove, and thicken it with
butter and flour; take the other part of the head, cut off the bone
ends and score it with a knife, season it with a little pepper and
salt, rub it over with the yolk of an egg, and strew over a few bread
crumbs, and a little parsley; then set it before the fire to broil
whilst it is brown; and when you dish up the other part lay this in the
midst; lay about your hash-brain-cakes, forc'd-meat-balls and crisp
bacon.
_To make Brain-cakes_; take a handful of bread-crumbs, a little shred
lemon-peel, pepper, salt, nutmeg, sweet-marjorum, parsley shred fine,
and the yolks of three eggs; take the brains and skin them, boil and
chop them small, so mix them all together; take a little butter in your
pan when you fry them, and drop them in as you do fritters, and if they
run in your pan put in a handful more of bread-crumbs.
39. _To hash a_ CALF'S HEAD _white_.
Take a calf's head and boil it as much as you would do for eating, when
it is cold cut in thin slices, and put it into a stew-pan with a white
gravy; then put to it a little shred mace, salt, a pint of oysters, a
few shred mushrooms, lemon-peel, three spoonful of white wine, and some
juice of lemon, shake all together, and boil it over the stove, thicken
it up with a little flour and butter; when you put it on your dish, you
must put a boil'd fowl in the midst, and few slices of crisp bacon.
Garnish your dish with pickles and lemon.
40. _A Ragoo of a_ CALF'S HEAD.
Take two calves' head and boil them as you do for eating, when they are
cold cut off all the lantern part from the flesh in pieces about an
inch long, and about the breadth of your little finger; put it into
your stew-pan with a little white gravy; twenty oysters cut in two or
three pieces, a few shred mushrooms, and a little juice of lemon;
season it with shred mace and salt, let them all boil together over a
stove; take two or three spoonfuls of cream, the yolks of two or three
eggs, and a little shred parsley, then put it into a stew-pan; after
you have put the cream in you may shake it all the while; if you let it
boil it will crudle, so serve it up.
Garnish your dish with sippets, lemon, and a few pickled mushrooms.
41. _To roast a_ CALF'S HEAD _to eat like Pig_.
Take a calf's head, wash it well, lay it in an earthen dish, and cut
out the tongue lay it loose under the head in the dish with the brains,
and a little sage and parsley; rub the head over with the yolk of an
egg, then strew over them a few bread-crumbs and shred parsley, lay all
over it lumps of butter and a little salt, then set it in the oven; it
will take about an hour and a half baking; when it is enough take the
brains, sage and parsley; and chop them together, put to them the gravy
that is in the dish, a little butter and a spoonful of vinegar, so boil
it up and put it in cups, and set them round the head upon the dish,
take the tongue and blanch it, cut it in two, and lay it on each side
the head, and some slices of crisp bacon over the head, so serve it up.
42. SAUCE _for a_ NECK _of_ VEAL.
Fry your veal, and when fried put in a little water, an anchovy, a few
sweet herbs, a little onion, nutmeg, a little lemon-peel shred small,
and a little white wine or ale, then shake it up with a little butter
and flour, with some cockles and capers.
43. _To boil a_ LEG _of_ LAMB, _with the_ LOYN _fry'd about it_.
When your lamb is boil'd lay it in the dish, and pour upon it a little
parsley, butter and green gooseberries coddled, then lay your fried
lamb round it; take some small asparagus and cut it small like peas,
and boil it green; when it is boil'd drain it in a cullender, and lay
it round your lamb in spoonfuls.
Garnish your dish with gooseberries, and heads of asparagus in lumps.
This is proper for a bottom dish.
44. _A_ LEG _of_ LAMB _boil'd with_ CHICKENS _round it_.
When your lamb is boil'd pour over it parsley and butter, with coddled
gooseberries, so lay the chickens round your lamb, and pour over the
chickens a little white fricassy sauce. Garnish your dish with sippets
and lemon.
This is proper for a top dish.
45. _A Fricassy of_ LAMB _white_.
Take a leg of lamb, half roast it, when it is cold cut it in slices,
put it into a stew-pan with a little white gravy, a shalot shred fine,
a little nutmeg, salt, and a few shred capers; let it boil over the
stove whilst the lamb is enough; to thicken your sauce, take three
spoonfuls of cream, the yolks of two eggs, a little shred parsley, and
beat them well together, then put it into your stew-pan and shake it
whilst it is thick, but don't let it boil; if this do not make it
thick, put in a little flour and butter, so serve it up. Garnish your
dish with mushrooms, oysters and lemon.
46. _A brown Fricassy of_ LAMB.
Take a leg of lamb, cut it in thin slices and season it with pepper and
salt, then fry it brown with butter, when it is fried put it into your
stew-pan, with a little brown gravy, an anchovy, a spoonful or two of
white wine or claret, grate in a little nutmeg, and set it over the
stove; thicken your sauce with flour and butter. Garnish your dish with
mushrooms, oysters and lemon.
47. _To make_ PIG _eat like_ LAMB _in Winter_.
Take a pig about a month old and dress it, lay it down to the fire,
when the skin begins to harden you must take it off by pieces, and when
you have taken all the skin off, draw it and when it is cold cut it in
quarters and lard it with parsley; then roast it for use.
48. _How to stew a_ HARE.
Take a young hare, wash and wipe it well, cut the legs into two or
three pieces, and all the other parts the same bigness, beat them all
flat with a paste-pin, season it with nutmeg and salt, then flour it
over, and fry it in butter over a quick fire; when you have fried it
put into a stew-pan, with about a pint of gravy, two or three spoonfuls
of claret and a small anchovy, so shake it up with butter and flour,
(you must not let it boil in the stew-pan, for it will make it cut
hard) then serve it up. Garnish your dish with crisp parsley.
49. _How to Jug a_ HARE.
Take a young hare, cut her in pieces as you did for stewing, and beat
it well, season it with the same seasoning you did before, put it into
a pitcher or any other close pot, with half a pound of butter, set it
in a pot of boiling water, stop up the pitcher close with a cloth, and
lay upon it some weight for fear it should fall on one side; it will
take about two hours in stewing; mind your pot be full of water, and
keep it boiling all the time; when it is enough take the gravy from it,
clear off the fat, and put her into your gravy in a stew-pan, with a
spoonful or two of white wine, a little juice of lemon, shred
lemon-peel and mace; you must thicken it up as you would a white
fricassy.
Garnish your dish with sippets and lemon.
50. _To roast a_ HARE _with a pudding in the belly_.
When you have wash'd the hare, nick the legs thro' the joints, and
skewer them on both sides, which will keep her from drying in the
roasting; when you have skewer'd her, put the pudding into her belly,
baste her with nothing but butter: put a little in the dripping pan;
you must not baste it with the water at all: when your hare is enough,
take the gravy out of the dripping pan, and thicken it up with a little
flour and butter for the sauce.
_How to make a_ Pudding _for the_ Hare.
Take the liver, a little beef-suet, sweet-marjoram and parsley shred
small, with bread-crumbs and two eggs; season it with nutmeg, pepper
and salt to your taste, mix all together and if it be too stiff put in
a spoonful or two of cream: You must not boil the liver.
51. _To make a brown fricassy of_ RABBETS.
Take a rabbet, cut the legs in three pieces, and the remainder of the
rabbet the same bigness, beat them thin and fry them in butter over a
quick fire; when they are fried put them into a stew-pan with a little
gravy, a spoonful of catchup, and a little nutmeg; then shake it up
with a little flour and butter.
Garnish your dish with crisp parsley.
52. _A white fricassy of_ RABBETS.
Take a couple of young rabbets and half roast them; when they are cold
take off the skin, and cut the rabbets in small pieces, (only take the
white part) when you have cut it in pieces, put it into a stew-pan with
white gravy, a small anchovy, a little onion, shred mace and
lemon-peel, set it over a stove, and let it have one boil, then take a
little cream, the yolks of two eggs, a lump of butter, a little juice
of lemon and shred parsley; put them all together into a stew-pan, and
shake them over the fire whilst they be as white as cream; you must not
let it boil, if you do it will curdle. Garnish your dish with shred
lemon and pickles.
53. _How to make pulled_ RABBETS.
Take two young rabbets, boil them very tender, and take off all the
white meat, and pull off the skin, then pull it all in shives, and put
it into your stew-pan with a little white gravy, a spoonful of white
wine, a little nutmeg and salt to your taste; thicken it up as you
would a white fricassy, but put in no parsley; when you serve it up lay
the heads in the middle. Garnish your dish with shred lemon and
pickles.
54. _To dress Rabbets to look like_ MOOR-GAME.
Take a young rabbet, when it is cased cut off the wings and the head;
leave the neck of your rabbet as long as you can; when you case it you
must leave on the feet, pull off the skin, leave on the claws, so
double your rabbet and skewer it like a fowl; put a skewer at the
bottom through the legs and neck, and tie it with a string, it will
prevent its flying open; when you dish it up make the same sauce as you
would do for partridges. Three are enough for one dish.
55. _To make white Scotch_ COLLOPS.
Take about four pounds of a fillet of veal, cut it in small pieces as
thin as you can, then take a stew-pan, butter it well over, and shake a
little flour over it, then lay your meat in piece by piece, whilst all
your pan be covered; take two or three blades of mace, and a little
nutmeg, set your stew-pan over the fire, toss it up together 'till all
your meat be white, then take half a pint of strong veal broth, which
must be ready made, a quarter of a pint of cream, and the yolks of two
eggs, mix all these together, put it to your meat, keeping it tossing
all the time 'till they just boil up, then they are enough; the last
thing you do squeeze in a little lemon: You may put in oysters,
mushrooms, or what you will to make it rich.
56. _To boil_ DUCKS _with_ ONION SAUCE.
Take two fat ducks, and season them with a little pepper and salt, and
skewer them up at both ends, and boil them whilst they are tender; take
four or five large onions and boil them in milk and water, change the
water two or three times in the boiling, when they are enough chop them
very small, and rub them through a hair-sieve with the back of a spoon,
'till you have rubb'd them quite through, then melt a little butter,
put in your onions and a little salt, and pour it upon your ducks.
Garnish your dish with onions and sippets.
57. _To stew_ DUCKS _either wild or tame_.
Take two ducks and half-roast them, cut them up as you would do for
eating, then put them into a stew-pan with a little brown gravy, a
glass of claret, two anchovies, a small onion shred very fine, and a
little salt; thicken it up with flour and butter, so serve it up.
Garnish you dish with a little raw onion and sippets.
58. _To make a white fricassy of_ CHICKENS.
Take two or more chickens, half-roast them, cut them up as you would do
for eating, and skin them; put them into a stew-pan with a little white
gravy, juice of lemon, two anchovies, shred mace and nutmeg, then boil
it; take the yolks of three eggs, a little sweet cream and shred
parsley, put them into your stew-pan with a lump of butter and a little
salt; shake them all the while they are over the stove, and be sure you
do not let them boil lest they should curdle.
Garnish your dish with sippets and lemon.
59. _How to make a brown fricassy of_ CHICKENS.
Take two or more chickens, as you would have your dish in bigness, cut
them up as you do for eating, and flat them a little with a paste-pin;
fry them a light-brown, and put them into your stew-pan with a little
gravy, a spoonful or two of white wine, a little nutmeg and salt;
thicken it up with flour and butter. Garnish your dish with sippets and
crisp parsley.
60. CHICKENS SURPRISE.
Take half a pound of rice, set it over a fire in soft water, when it is
half-boiled put in two or three small chickens truss'd, with two or
three blades of mace, and a little salt; take a piece of bacon about
three inches square, and boil it in water whilst almost enough, then
take it out, pare off the outsides, and put it into the chickens and
rice to boil a little together; (you must not let the broth be over
thick with rice) then take up your chickens, lay them on a dish, pour
over them the rice, cut your bacon in thin slices to lay round your
chickens, and upon the breast of each a slice.
This is proper for a side-dish.
61. _To boil_ CHICKENS.
Take four or five small chickens, as you would have your dish in
bigness; if they be small ones you may scald them, it will make them
whiter; draw them, and take out the breast-bone before you scald them;
when you have dress'd them, put them into milk and water, and wash
them, truss them, and cut off the heads and necks; if you dress them
the night before you use them, dip a cloth in milk and wrap them in it,
which will make them white; you must boil them in milk and water, with
a little salt; half an hour or less will boil them.
_To make Sauce for the_ CHICKENS.
Take the necks, gizzards and livers, boil them in water, when they are
enough strain off the gravy, and put to it a spoonful of oyster-pickle;
take the livers, break them small, mix a little gravy, and rub them
through a hair-sieve with the back of a spoon, then put to it a
spoonful of cream, a little lemon and lemon-peel grated; thicken it up
with butter and flour. Let your sauce be no thicker than cream, which
pour upon your chickens. Garnish your dish with sippets, mushrooms, and
slices of lemon.
They are proper for a side-dish or a top-dish either at noon or night.
62. _How to boil a_ TURKEY.
When your turkey is dress'd and drawn, truss her, cut off her feet,
take down the breast-bone with a knife, and sew up the skin again;
stuff the breast with a white stuffing.
_How to make the_ Stuffing. Take the sweet-bread of veal, boil it,
shred it fine, with a little beef-suet, a handful of bread-crumbs, a
little lemon-peel, part of the liver, a spoonful or two of cream, with
nutmeg, pepper, salt, and two eggs, mix all together, and stuff your
turkey with part of the stuffing, (the rest you may either boil or fry
to lay round it) dridge it with a little flour, tie it up in a cloth,
and boil it with milk and water: If it be a young turkey an hour will
boil it.
_How to make Sauce for the_ Turkey. Take a little small white gravy, a
pint of oysters, two or three spoonfuls of cream, a little juice of
lemon, and salt to your taste, thicken it up with flour and butter,
then pour it over your turkey, and serve it up; lay round your turkey
fry'd oysters, and the forc'd-meat. Garnish your dish with oysters,
mushrooms, and slices of lemon.
63. _How to make another Sauce for a_ Turkey.
Take a little strong white gravy, with some of the whitest sellery you
can get, cut it about an inch long, boil it whilst it be tender, and
put it into the gravy, with two anchovies, a little lemon-peel shred,
two or three spoonfuls of cream, a little shred mace, and a spoonful of
white wine; thicken it up with flour and butter; if you dislike the
sellery you may put in the liver as you did for chickens.
64. _How to roast a_ TURKEY.
Take a turkey, dress and truss it, then take down the breast-bone. _To
make Stuffing for the Breast_. Take beef-suet, the liver shred fine,
and bread-crumbs, a little lemon-peel, nutmeg, pepper and salt to your
taste, a little shred parsley, a spoonful or two of cream, and two
eggs. Put her on a spit and roast her before a slow fire; you may lard
your turkey with fat bacon; if the turkey be young, an hour and a
quarter will roast it. For the sauce, take a little white gravy, an
onion, a few bread-crumbs, and a little whole pepper, let them boil
well together, put to them a little flour and a lump of butter, which
pour upon the turkey; you may lay round your turkey forc'd-meat-balls.
Garnish your dish with slices of lemon.
65. _To make a rich_ TURKEY PIE.
Take a young turkey and bone her, only leave in the thigh bones and
short pinions; take a large fowl and bone it, a little shred mace,
nutmeg, pepper and salt, and season the turkey and fowl in the inside;
lay the fowl in the inside of the low part of the turkey, and stuff the
breast with a little white stuffing, (the same white stuffing as you
made for the boiled turkey,) take a deep dish, lay a paste over it, and
leave no paste in the bottom; lay in the turkey, and lay round it a few
forc'd-meat-balls, put in half a pound of butter, and a jill of water,
then close up the pie, an hour and a half will bake it; when it comes
from the oven take off the lid, put in a pint of stew'd oysters, and
the yolks of six or eight eggs, lay them at an equal distance round the
turkey; you must not stew your oysters in gravy but in water, and pour
them upon your turkey's breast; lay round six or eight artichoke-bottoms
fry'd, so serve it up without the lid; you must take the fat out of the
pie before you put in the oysters.
66. _To make a_ TURKEY _A-la-Daube_.
Take a large turkey and truss it; take down the breast-bone, and stuff
it in the breast with some stuffing, as you did the roast turkey, lard
it with bacon, then rub the skin of the turkey with the yolk of an egg,
and strow over it a little nutmeg, pepper, salt, and a few
bread-crumbs, then put it into a copper-dish and fend it to the oven;
when you dish it up make for the turkey brown gravy-sauce; shred into
your sauce a few oysters and mushrooms; lay round artichoke-bottoms
fry'd, stew'd pallets, forc'd-meat-balls, and a little crisp bacon.
Garnish your dish with pickled mushrooms, and slices of lemon.
This is a proper dish for a remove.
67. POTTED TURKEY.
Take a turkey, bone her as you did for the pie, and season it very well
in the inside and outside with mace, nutmeg, pepper and salt, then put
it into a pot that you design to keep it in, put over it a pound of
butter, when it is baked draw from it the gravy, and take off the fat,
then squeeze it down very tight in the pot; and to keep it down lay
upon it a weight; when it's cold take part of the butter that came from
it, and clarify a little more with it to cover your turkey, and keep it
in a cool place for use; you may put a fowl in the belly if you please.
Ducks or geese are potted the same way.
68. _How to jugg_ PIGEONS.
Take six or eight pigeons and truss them, season them with nutmeg,
pepper and salt. _To make the Stuffing_. Take the livers and shred them
with beef-suet, bread-crumbs, parsley, sweet-marjoram, and two eggs,
mix all together, then stuff your pigeons sowing them up at both ends,
and put them into your jugg with the breast downwards, with half a
pound of butter; stop up the jugg close with a cloth that no steam can
get out, then set them in a pot of water to boil; they will take above
two hours stewing; mind you keep your pot full of water, and boiling
all the time; when they are enough clear from them the gravy, and take
the fat clean off; put to your gravy a spoonful of cream, a little
lemon-peel, an anchovy shred, a few mushrooms, and a little white wine,
thicken it with a little flour and butter, then dish up your pigeons,
and pour over them the sauce. Garnish the dish with mushrooms and
slices of lemon.
This is proper for a side dish.
69. MIRRANADED PIGEONS.
Take six pigeons, and truss them as you would do for baking, break the
breast-bones, season and stuff them as you did for jugging, put them
into a little deep dish and lay over them half a pound of butter; put
into your dish a little water. Take half a pound of rice, cree it soft
as you would do for eating, and pour it upon the back of a sieve, let
it stand while it is cold, then take a spoon and flat it like paste on
your hand, and lay on the breast of every pigeon a cake; lay round your
dish some puff-paste not over thin, and send them to the oven; about
half an hour will bake them.
This is proper at noon for a side-dish.
70. _To stew_ PIGEONS.
Take your pigeons, season and stuff them, flat the breast-bone, and
truss them up as you would do for baking, dredge them over with a
little flour, and fry them in butter, turning them round till all sides
be brown, then put them into a stew-pan with as much brown gravy as
will cover them, and let them stew whilst your pigeons be enough; then
take part of the gravy, an anchovy shred, a little catchup, a small
onion, or a shalot, and a little juice of lemon for sauce, pour it over
your pigeons, and lay round them forc'd-meat-balls and crisp bacon.
Garnish your dish with crisp parsley and lemon.
71. _To broil_ PIGEONS _whole_.
Take your pigeons, season and stuff them with the same stuffing you did
jugg'd pigeons, broil them either before a fire or in an oven; when
they are enough take the gravy from them, and take off the fat, then
put to the gravy two or three spoonfuls of water, a little boil'd
parsley shred, and thicken your sauce. Garnish your dish with crisp
parsley.
72. _Boiled_ PIGEONS _with fricassy Sauce_.
Take your pigeons, and when you have drawn and truss'd them up, break
the breast bone, and lay them in milk and water to make them white, tie
them in a cloth and boil them in milk and water; when you dish them up
put to them white fricassy sauce, only adding a few shred mushrooms.
Garnish with crisp parsley and sippets.
73. _To Pot_ PIGEONS.
Take your pigeons and skewer them with their feet cross over the
breast, to stand up; season them with pepper and salt, and roast them;
so put them into your pot, setting the feet up; when they are cold
cover them up with clarified butter.
74. _To stew_ PALLETS.
Take three or four large beast pallets and boil them very tender,
blanch and cut them in long pieces the length of your finger, then in
small bits the cross way; shake them up with a little good gravy and a
lump of butter; season them with a little nutmeg and salt, put in a
spoonful of white wine, and thicken it with the yolks of eggs as you
do, a white fricassy.
75. _To make a Fricassy of_ PIG'S EARS.
Take three or four pig's ears as large as you would have your dish in
bigness, clean and boil them very tender, cut them in small pieces the
length of your finger, and fry them with butter till they be brown; so
put them into a stew-pan with a little brown gravy, a lump of butter, a
spoonful of vinegar, and a little mustard and salt, thicken'd with
flour; take two or three pig's feet and boil them very tender, fit for
eating, then cut them in two and take out the large bones, dip them in
egg, and strew over them a few bread-crumbs, season them with pepper
and salt; you may either fry or broil them, and lay them in the middle
of your dish with the pig's ears.
They are proper for a side-dish.
76. _To make a Fricassy of_ TRIPES.
Take the whitest seam tripes you can get and cut them in long pieces,
put them into a stew-pan with a little good gravy, a few bread-crumbs,
a lump of butter, a little vinegar to your taste, and a little mustard
if you like it; shake it up altogether with a little shred parsley.
Garnish your dish with sippets.
This is proper for a side-dish.
77. _To make a Fricassy of_ VEAL-SWEET-BREADS.
Take five or six veal-sweet-breads, according as you would have your
dish in bigness, and boil them in water, cut them in thin slices the
length-way, dip them in egg, season them with pepper and salt, fry them
a light brown; then put them into a stew-pan with a little brown gravy,
a spoonful of white wine or juice of lemon, whether you please; thicken
it up with flour and butter; and serve it up. Garnish your dish with
crisp parsley.
78. _To make a white Fricassy of_ TRIPES, _to eat like_ CHICKENS.
Take the whitest and the thickest seam tripe you can get, cut the white
part in thin slices, put it into a stew-pan with a little white gravy,
juice of lemon and lemon-peel shred, also a spoonful of white wine;
take the yolks of two or three eggs and beat them very well, put to
them a little thick cream, shred parsley, and two or three chives if
you have any; shake altogether over the stove while it be as thick as
cream, but don't let it boil for fear it curdle. Garnish your dish with
sippets, slic'd lemon or mushrooms, and serve it up.
79. _To make a brown Fricassy of_ EGGS.
Take eight or ten eggs, according to the bigness you design your dish,
boil them hard, put them in water, take off the shell, fry them in
butter whilst they be a deep brown, put them into a stew-pan with a
little brown gravy, and a lump of butter, so thicken it up with flour;
take two or three eggs, lay them in the middle of the dish, then take
the other, cut them in two, and set them with the small ends upwards
round the dish; fry some sippets and lay round them. Garnish your dish
with crisp parsley.
This is proper for a side-dish in lent or any other time.
80. _To make a white Fricassy of_ EGGS.
Take ten or twelve eggs, boil them hard and pill them, put them in a
stew-pan with a little white gravy; take the yolks of two or three
eggs, beat them very well, and put to them two or three spoonfuls of
cream, a spoonful of white wine, a little juice of lemon, shred
parsley, and salt to your taste; shake altogether over the stove till
it be as thick as cream, but don't let it boil; take your eggs and lay
one part whole on the dish, the rest cut in halves and quarters, and
lay them round your dish; you must not cut them till you lay them on
the dish. Garnish your dish with sippets, and serve it up.
81. _To stew_ EGGS _in_ GRAVY.
Take a little gravy, pour it into a little pewter dish, and set it over
a stove, when it is hot break in as many eggs as will cover the dish
bottom, keep pouring the gravy over them with a spoon 'till they are
white at the top, when they are enough strow over them a little salt;
fry some square sippets of bread in butter, prick them with the small
ends upward, and serve them up.
82. _How to Collar a_ PIECE _of_ BEEF _to eat Cold_.
Take a flank of beef or pale-board, which you can get, bone them and
take off the inner skin; nick your beef about an inch distance, but
mind you don't cut thro' the skin of the outside; then take two ounces
of saltpetre, and beat it small, and take a large handful of common
salt and mix them together, first sprinkling your beef over with a
little water, and lay it in an earthen dish, then strinkle over your
salt, so let it stand, four or five days, then take a pretty large
quantity of all sorts of mild sweet herbs, pick and shred them very
small, take some bacon and cut it in long pieces the thickness of your
finger, then take your beef and lay one layer of bacon in every nick;
and another of the greens; when you have done season your beef with a
little beat mace, pepper, salt and nutmeg; you may add a little neat's
tongue, and an anchovy in some of the nicks; so roll it up tight, bind
it in a cloth with coarse inkle round it, put it into a large stew-pot
and cover it with water; let the beef lie with the end downwards, put
to the pickle that was in the beef when it lay in salt, set it in a
slow oven all the night, then take it out and bind it tight, and tie up
both ends, the next day take it out of the cloth, and put it into
pickle; you must take off the fat and boil the pickle, put in a handful
of salt, a few bay leaves, a little whole Jamaica and black pepper, a
quart of stale strong beer, a little vinegar and alegar; if you make
the pickle very good, it will keep five or six months very well; if
your beef be not too much baked it will cut all in diamonds.
83. _To roll a_ BREAST OF VEAL _to eat cold_.
Take a large breast of veal, fat and white, bone it and cut it in two,
season it with mace, nutmeg, pepper and salt, in one part you may
strinkle a few sweet herbs shred fine, roll them tight up, bind them
will with coarse ickle, so boil it an hour and a half; you may make the
same pickle as you did for the beef, excepting the strong beer; when it
is enough to take it up, and bind it as you did the beef, so hang it up
whilst it be cold.
84. _To pot_ TONGUES.
Take your tongues and salt them with saltpetre, common salt and bay
salt, let them lie ten days, then take them out and boil them whilst
they will blanch, cut off the lower part of the tongues, then season
them with mace, pepper, nutmeg and salt, put them into a pot and send
them to the oven, and the low part of your tongues that you cut off lay
upon your tongues, and one pound of butter, then let them bake whilst
they are tender, then take them out of the pot, throw over them a
little more seasoning, put them into the pot you design to keep them
in, press them down very tight, lay over them a weight, and let them
stand all night, then cover them with clarified butter: You must not
salt your tongues as you do for hanging.
85. _How to pot_ VENISON.
Take your venison and cut it in thin pieces, season it with pepper and
salt, put it into your pot, lay over it some butter and a little
beef-suet, let it stand all night in the oven; when it is baked beat
them in a marble mortar or wooden-bowl, put in part of the gravy, and
all the fat you take from it; when you have beat it put into your pot,
then take the fat lap of a shoulder of mutton, take off the out-skin,
and roast it, when it is roasted and cold, cut it in long pieces the
thickness of your finger; when you put the venison into the pot, put it
in at three times, betwixt every one lay the mutton cross your pot, at
an equal distance; if you cut it the right way it will cut all in
diamonds; leave some of the venison to lay on the top, and cover it
with clarified butter; to keep it for use.
86. _To pot all Sorts of_ WILD-FOWL.
When the wild-fowl are dressed take a paste-pin, and beat them on the
breast 'till they are flat; before you roast them season them with
mace, nutmeg, pepper and salt; you must not roast them over much; when
you dreaw them season them on the out-side, and set them on one end to
drain out the gravy, and put them into your pot; you may put in two
layers; if you press them very flat, cover them with clarified butter
when they are cold.
87. _How to pot_ BEEF.
Take two pounds of the slice or buttock, season it with about two
ounces of saltpetre and a little common salt, let it lie two or three
days, send it to the oven, and season it with a little pepper, salt and
mace; lay over your beef half a pound of butter or beef suet, and let
it stand all night in the oven to stew; take from it the gravy and the
butter, and beat them (with the beef) in a bowl, then take a quarter of
a pound of anchovies, bone them, and beat them too with a little of the
gravy; if it be not seasoned enough to your taste, put to it a little
more seasoning; put is close down in a pot, and when it is cold cover
it up with butter, and keep it for use.
88. _To Ragoo a_ RUMP _of_ BEEF.
Take a rump of beef, lard it with bacon and spices, betwixt the
larding, stuff it with forced meat, made of a pound of veal, three
quarters of a pound of beef-suet, a quarter of a pound of fat bacon
boiled and shred well by itself, a good quantity of parsley, winter
savoury, thyme, sweet-marjoram, and an onion, mix all this together,
season it with mace cloves, cinnamon, salt, Jamaica and black pepper,
and some grated bread, work the forc'd-meat up with three whites and
two yolks of eggs, then stuff it, and lay some rough suet in a stew pan
with your beef upon it, let it fry till it be brown then put in some
water, a bunch of sweet herbs, a large onion stuffed with cloves,
sliced turnips, carrots cut as large as the yolk of an egg, some whole
pepper and salt, half a pint of claret, cover it close, and let it stew
six or seven hours over a gentle fire, turning it very often.
89. _How to make a_ SAUCE _for it_.
Take truffles, morels, sweet-breads, diced pallets boiled tender, three
anchovies, and some lemon-peel, put these into some brown gravy and
stew them; if you do not think it thick enough, dredge in a little
flour, and just before you pour it on your beef put in a little white
wine and vinegar, and serve it up hot.
90. _Sauce for boiled_ RABBETS.
Take a few onions, boil them thoroughly, shifting them in water often,
mix them well together with a little melted butter and water. Some add
a little pulp of apple and mustard.
91. _To salt a_ Leg _of_ Mutton _to eat like_ Ham.
Take a leg of mutton, an ounce of saltpetre, two ounces of bay-salt,
rub it in very well, take a quarter of a pound of coarse sugar, mix it
with two or three handfuls of common salt, then take and salt it very
well, and let it lie a week, so hang it up, and keep it for use, after
it is dry use it, the sooner the better; it won't keep so long as ham.
92. _How to salt_ HAM _or_ TONGUES.
Take a middling ham, two ounces of saltpetre, a quarter of a pound of
bay-salt, beat them together, and rub them on your ham very well,
before you salt it on the inside, set your salt before the fire to
warm; to every ham take half a pound of coarse sugar, mix to it a
little of the salt, and rub it in very well, let it lie for a week or
ten days, then salt it again very well, and let it lie another week or
ten days, then hang it to dry, not very near the fire, nor over much in
the air.
Take your tongues and clean them, and cut off the root, then take two
ounces of saltpetre, a quarter of a pound of bay-salt well beaten,
three or four tongues, according as they are in bigness, lay them on a
thing by themselves, for if you lay them under your bacon it flats your
tongues, and spoils them; salt them very well, and let them lie as long
as the hams with the skin side downwards: You may do a rump of beef the
same way, only leave out the sugar.
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95. ... bacon, you may put in two or three slices when you send them to
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96. _How to make a_ HARE-PIE.
Parboil the hare, take out the bones, and beat the meat in a mortar
with some fat pork or new bacon, then soak it in claret all night, the
next day take it out, season it with pepper, salt and nutmeg, then lay
the back bone into the middle of the pie, put the meat about it with
about three quarters of a pound of butter, and bake it in a puff-paste,
but lay no paste in the bottom of the dish.
97. _To make a_ HARE-PIE _another Way_.
Take the flesh of a hare after it is skined, and string it: take a
pound of beef-suet or marrow shred small, with sweet-marjoram, parsley
and shalots, take the hare, cut it in pieces, season it with mace,
pepper, salt and nutmeg, then bake it either in cold or hot paste, and
when it is baked, open it and put to it some melted butter.
98. _To make_ PIG _Royal_.
Take a pig and roast it the same way as you did for lamb, when you draw
it you must not cut it up, when it is cold you must lard it with bacon,
cut not your layers too small, if you do they will melt away, cut them
about an inch and a quarter long; you must put one row down the back,
and one on either side, then strinkle it over with a few breadcrumbs
and a little salt, and set it in the oven, an hour will bake it, but
mind your oven be not too hot; you must take another pig of a less
size, roast it, cut it up, and lie it on each side: The sauce you make
for a roast pig will serve for both.
This is proper for a bottom dish at a grand entertainment.
99. _To roast_ VEAL _a savoury Way_.
When you have stuffed your veal, strow some of the ingredients over it;
when it is roasted make your sauce of what drops from the meat, put an
anchovy in water, and when dissolved pour it into the dripping-pan with
a large lump of butter and oysters: toss it up with flour to thicken
it.
100. _To make a_ HAM PIE.
Cut the ham round, and lay it in water all night, boil it tender as you
would do for eating, take off the skin, strew over it a little pepper,
and bake it in a deep dish, put to it a pint of water, and half a pound
of butter; you must bake it in puff-paste; but lay no paste in the
bottom of the dish; when you send it to the table send it without a
lid.
It is proper for a top or bottom dish either summer or winter.
101. _To make a_ NEAT's TONGUE PIE.
Take two or three tongues, (according as you would have your pie in
bigness) cut off the roots and low parts, take two ounces of saltpetre,
a little bay salt, rub them very well, lay them on an earthen dish with
the skin side downwards, let them lie for a week or ten days, whilst
they be very red, then boil them as tender as you would have them for
eating blanch and season with a little pepper and salt, flat them as
much as you can, bake them in puff paste in a deep dish, but lay no
paste in the bottom, put to them a little gravy, and half a pound of
butter; lay your tongues with the wrong side upwards, when they are
baked turn them, and serve it up without a lid.
102. _To broil_ SHEEP or HOG's TONGUES.
Boil, blanch, and split your tongues, season them with a little pepper
and salt, then dip them in egg, strow over them a few bread-crumbs, and
broil them whilst they be brown; serve them up with a little gravy and
butter.
103. _To Pickle_ PORK.
Cut off the leg, shoulder pieces, the bloody neck and the spare-rib as
bare as you can, then cut the middle pieces as large as they can lie in
the tub, salt them with saltpetre, bay-salt, and white salt; your
saltpetre must be beat small, and mix'd with the other salts; half a
peck of white salt, a quart of bay-salt, and half a pound of saltpetre,
is enough for a large hog; you must rub the pork very well with your
salt, then lay a thick layer of salt all over the tub, then a piece of
pork, and do so till all your pork is in; lay the skin side downwards,
fill up all the hollows and sides of the tub with little pieces that
are not bloody press all down as close as possible, and lay on a good
layer of salt on the top, then lay on the legs and shoulder pieces,
which must be used first, the rest will keep two years if not pulled
up, nor the pickle poured from it. You must observe to see it covered
with pickle.
104. _To fricassy_ CALF'S FEET _white_.
Dress the calf's feet, boil them as you would do for eating, take out
the long bones, cut them in two, and put them into a stew-pan with a
little white gravy, and a spoonful or two of white wine; take the yolks
of two or three eggs, two or three spoonfuls of cream, grate in a
little nutmeg and salt, and shake all together with a lump of butter.
Garnish your dish with slices of lemon and currans, and so serve them
up.
105. _To roll a_ PIG'S _Head to eat like Brawn_.
Take a large pig's head, cut off the groin ends, crack the bones and
put it in water, shift it once or twice, cut off the ears, then boil it
so tender that the bones will slip out, nick it with a knife in the
thick part of the head, throw over it a pretty large handful of salt;
take half a dozen of large neat's feet, boil them while they be soft,
split them, and take out all the bones and black bits; take a strong
coarse cloth, and lay the feet with the skin side downwards, with all
the loose pieces in the inside; press them with your hand to make them
of an equal thickness, lay them at that length that they will reach
round the head, and throw over them a handful of salt, then lay the
head across, one thick part one way and the other another, that the fat
may appear alike at both ends; leave one foot out to lay at the top to
make a lantern to reach round, bind it with filleting as you would do
brawn, and tie it very close at both ends; you may take it out of the
cloth the next day, take off the filleting and wash it, wrap it about
again very tight, and keep it in brawn-pickle.
This has been often taken for real Brawn.
106. _How to fry_ CALF'S FEET _in Butter_.
Take four Calf's feet and blanch them, boil them as you would do for
eating, take out the large bones and cut them in two, beat a spoonful
of wheat flour and four eggs together, put to it a little nutmeg,
pepper and salt, dip in your calf's feet, and fry them in butter a
light brown, and lay them upon your dish with a little melted butter
over them. Garnish with slices of lemon and serve them up.
107. _How to make_ SAVOURY PATTEES.
Take the kidney of a loyn of veal before it be roasted, cut it in thin
slices, season it with mace, pepper and salt, and make your pattees;
lay in every patty a slice, and either bake or fry them.
You may make marrow pattees the same way.
108. _To make_ EGG PIES.
Take and boil half a dozen eggs, half a dozen apples, a pound and a
half of beef-suet, a pound of currans, and shred them, so season it
with mace, nutmeg and sugar to your taste, a spoonful or two of brandy,
and sweet meats, if you please.
109. _To make a sweet_ CHICKEN PIE.
Break the chicken bones, cut them in little bits, season them lightly
with mace and salt, take the yolks of four eggs boiled hard and
quartered, five artichoke-bottoms, half a pound of sun raisins stoned,
half a pound of citron, half a pound of lemon, half a pound of marrow,
a few forc'd-meat-balls, and half a pound of currans well cleaned, so
make a light puff-paste, but put no paste in the bottom; when it is
baked take a little white wine, a little juice of either orange or
lemon, the yolk of an egg well beat, and mix them together, make it hot
and put it into your pie; when you serve it up take the same
ingredients you use for a lamb or veal pie, only leave out the
artichokes.
110. _To roast_ TONGUES.
Cut off the roots of two tongues, take three ounces of saltpetre, a
little bay-salt and common salt, rub them very well, let them lie a
week or ten days to make them red, but not salt, so boil them tender as
they will blanch, strow over them a few bread crumbs, set them before
the fire to brown on every side.
_To make_ SAUCE _for the_ TONGUES.
Take a few bread crumbs, and as much water as will wet them, then put
in claret till they be red, and a little beat cinnamon, sweeten it to
your taste, put a little gravy on the dish with your tongues, and the
sweet sauce in two basons, set them on each side, so serve them up.
111. _To fry_ CALF'S FEET _in Eggs_.
Boil your calf's feet as you would do for eating, take out the long
bones and split them in two, when they are cold season 'em with a
little pepper, salt and nutmeg; take three eggs, put to them a spoonful
of flour, so dip the feet in it and fry them in butter; you must have a
little gravy and butter for sauce. Garnish with currans, so serve them
up.
112. _To make a_ MINC'D PIE _of Calf's Feet_.
Take two or three calf's feet, and boil them as you would do for
eating, take out the long bones, shred them very fine, put to them
double their weight of beef-suet shred fine, and about a pound of
currans well cleaned, a quarter of a pound of candid orange and citron
cut in small pieces, half a pound of sugar, a little salt, a quarter of
an ounce of mace and a large nutmeg, beat them together, put in a
little juice of lemon or verjuice to your taste, a glass of mountain
wine or sack, which you please, so mix all together; bake them in
puff-paste.
113. _To roast a_ WOODCOCK.
When you have dress'd your woodcock, and drawn it under the leg, take
out the bitter bit, put in the trales again; whilst the woodcock is
roasting set under it an earthen dish with either water in or small
gravy, let the woodcock drop into it, take the gravy and put to it a
little butter, and thicken it with flour; your woodcock will take about
ten minutes roasting if you have a brisk fire; when you dish it up lay
round it wheat bread toasts, and pour the sauce over the toasts, and
serve it up.
You may roast a partridge the same way, only add crumb sauce in a
bason.
114. _To make a_ CALF'S HEAD PIE.
Take a calf's head and clean it, boil it as you would do for hashing,
when it is cold cut it in thin slices, and season it with a little
black pepper, nutmeg, salt, a few shred capers, a few oysters and
cockles, two or three mushrooms, and green lemon-peel, mix them all
well together, put them into your pie; it must be a standing pie baked
in a flat pewter dish, with a rim of puff-paste round the edge; when
you have filled the pie with the meat, lay on forc'd-meat-balls, and
the yolks of some hard eggs, put in a little small gravy and butter;
when it comes from the oven take off the lid, put into it a little
white wine to your taste, and shake up the pie, so serve it up without
lid.
115. _To make a_ CALF'S FOOT PIE.
Take two or three calf's feet, according as you would have your pie in
bigness, boil and bone them as you would do for eating, and when cold
cut them in thin slices; take about three quarters of a pound of
beef-suet shred fine, half a pound of raisins stoned, half a pound of
cleaned currans, a little mace and nutmeg, green lemon-peel, salt,
sugar, and candid lemon or orange, mix altogether, and put them in a
dish, make a good puff-paste, but let there be no paste in the bottom
of the dish; when it is baked, take off the lid, and squeeze in a
little lemon or verjuice, cut the lid in sippets and lay round.
116. _To make a_ WOODCOCK PIE.
Take three or four brace of woodcocks, according as you would have the
pie in bigness, dress and skewer them as you would do for roasting,
draw them, and season the inside with a little pepper, salt and mace,
but don't wash them, put the trales into the belly again, but nothing
else, for there is something in them that gives them a more bitterish
taste in the baking than in the roasting, when you put them into the
dish lay them with the breast downwards, beat them upon the breast as
flat as you can; you must season them on the outside as you do the
inside; bake them in puff-paste, but lay none in the bottom of the
dish, put to them a jill of gravy and a little butter; you must be very
careful your pie be not too much baked; when you serve it up take off
the lid and turn the woodcocks with the breast upwards.
You may bake partridge the same way.
117. _To pickle_ PIGEONS.
Take your pigeons and bone them; you must begin to bone them at the
neck and turn the skin downwards, when they are boned season them with
pepper, salt and nutmeg, sew up both ends, and boil them in water and
white wine vinegar, a few bay leaves, a little whole pepper and salt;
when they are enough take them out of the pickle, and boil it down with
a little more salt, when it is cold put in the pigeons and keep them
for use.
118. _To make a sweet_ VEAL PIE.
Take a loin of veal, cut off the thin part length ways, cut the rest in
thin slices, as much as you have occasion for, flat it with your bill,
and cut off the bone ends next the chine, season it with nutmeg and
salt; take half a pound of raisins stoned, and half a pound of currans
well clean'd, mix all together, and lay a few of them at the bottom of
the dish, lay a layer of meat; and betwixt every layer lay on your
fruit, but leave some for the top; you must make a puff-paste; but lay
none in the bottom of the dish; when you have filled your pie, put in a
jill of water and a little butter, when it is baked have a caudle to
put into it.
To make the caudle, see in receipt 177.
119. MINC'D PIES _another way_.
Take a pound of the finest seam tripes you can get, a pound and a half
of currans well cleaned, two, three or four apples pared and shred very
fine, a little green lemon-peel and mace shred, a large nutmeg, a glass
of sack or brandy, (which you please) half a pound of sugar, and a
little salt, so mix them well together, and fill your patty-pans, then
stick five or six bits of candid lemon or orange in every petty-pan,
cover them, and when baked they are fit for use.
120. _To make a savoury_ CHICKEN PIE.
Take half a dozen small chickens, season them with mace, pepper and
salt, both inside and out; then take three or four veal sweet-breads,
season them with the same, and lay round them a few forc'd-meat-balls,
put in a little water and butter; take a little white sweet gravy not
over strong, shred a few oysters if you have any, and a little
lemon-peel, squeeze in a little lemon juice, not to make it sour; if
you have no oysters take the whitest of your sweet breads and boil
them, cut them small, and put them in your gravy, thicken it with a
little butter and flour; when you open the pie, if there is any fat,
skim it off, and pour the sauce over the chicken breasts; so serve it
up without lid.
121. _To roast a_ HANCH _of_ VENISON.
Take a hanch of venison and spit it, then take a little bread meal,
knead and roll it very thin, lay it over the fat part of your venison
with a paper over it, tye it round your venison, with a pack-thread; if
it be a large hanch it will take four hours roasting, and a midling
hanch three hours; keep it basting all the time you roast it; when you
dish it up put a little gravy in the dish and sweet sauce in a bason;
half an hour before you draw your venison take off the paste, baste it,
and let it be a light brown.
122. _To make sweet_ PATTEES.
Take the kidney of a loin of veal with the fat, when roasted shred it
very fine, put to it a little shred mace, nutmeg and salt, about half a
pound of currans, the juice of a lemon, and sugar to your taste, then
bake them in puff-paste; you may either fry or bake them.
They are proper for a side-dish.
123. _To make_ BEEF-ROLLS.
Cut your beef thin as for scotch collops, beat it very well, and season
it with salt, Jamaica and white pepper, mace, nutmeg, sweet marjoram,
parsley, thyme, and a little onion shred small, rub them on the collops
on one side, then take long bits of beef-suet and roll in them, tying
them up with a thread; flour them well, and fry them in butter very
brown; then have ready some good gravy and stew them an hour and half,
stirring them often, and keep them covered, when they are enough take
off the threads, and put in a little flour, with a good lump of butter,
and squeeze in some lemon, then they are ready for use.
124. _To make a_ HERRING-PIE _of_ WHITE SALT HERRINGS.
Take five or six salt herrings, wash them very well, lay them in a
pretty quantity of water all night to take out the saltness, season
them with a little black pepper, three or four middling onions pill'd
and shred very fine lay one part of them at the bottom of the pie, and
the other at the top; to five or six herrings put in half a pound of
butter, then lay in your herrings whole, only take off the heads; make
them into a standing pie with a thin crust.
125. _How to_ COLLAR PIG.
Take a large pig that is fat, about a month old, kill and dress it, cut
off the head, cut it in two down the back and bone it, then cut it in
three or four pieces, wash it in a little water to take out the blood:
take a little milk and water just warm, put in your pig, let it lie
about a day and a night, shift it two or three times in that time to
make it white, then take it out and wipe it very well with a dry cloth,
and season it with mace, nutmeg, pepper and salt; take a little shred
of parsley and strinkle over two of the quarters, so roll them up in a
fine soft cloth, tie it up at both ends, bind it tight with a little
filletting or coarse inkle, and boil it in milk and water with a little
salt; it will take about an hour and a half boiling; when it is enough
bind it up tight in your cloth again, hang it up whilst it be cold. For
the pickle boil a little milk and water, a few bay leaves and a little
salt; when it is cold take your pig out of the cloths and put it into
the pickle; you must shift it out of your pickle two or three times to
make it white, the last pickle make strong, and put in a little whole
pepper, a pretty large handful of salt, a few bay leaves, and so keep
it for use.
126. _To_ COLLAR SALMON.
Take the side of a middling salmon, and cut off the head, take out all
the bones and the outside, season it with mace, nutmeg, pepper and
salt, roll it tight up in a cloth, boil it, and bind it up with pickle;
it will take about an hour boiling; when it is boiled bind it tight
again, when cold take it very carefully out of the cloth and bind it
about with filleting; you must not take off the filleting but as it is
eaten.
_To make_ PICKLE _to keep it in_.
Take two or three quarts of water, a jill of vinegar, a little Jamaica
pepper and whole pepper, a large handful of salt, boil them altogether,
and when it is cold put in your salmon, so keep it for use: If your
pickle don't keep you must renew it.
You may collar pike the same way.
127. _To make an_ OYSTER PIE.
Take a pint of the largest oysters you can get, clean them very well in
their own liquor, if you have not liquor enough, add to them three or
four spoonfuls of water; take the kidney of a loin of veal, cut it in
thin slices, and season it with a little pepper and salt, lay the
slices in the bottom of the dish, (but there must be no paste in the
bottom of the dish) cover them with the oysters, strow over a little of
the seasoning as you did for the veal; take the marrow of one or two
bones, lay it over your oysters and cover them with puff-paste; when it
is baked take off the lid, put into it a spoonful or two of white wine,
shake it up altogether, and serve it up.
It is proper for a side dish, either for noon or night.
128. _To butter_ CRAB _and_ LOBSTER.
Dress all the meat out of the belly and claws of your lobster, put it
into a stew-pan, with two or three spoonfuls of water, a spoonful or
two of white wine vinegar, a little pepper, shred mace, and a lump of
butter, shake it over the stove till it be very hot, but do not let it
boil, if you do it will oil; put it into your dish, and lay round it
your small claws:--it is as proper to put it in scallop shells as on a
dish.
129. _To roast a_ LOBSTER.
If your lobster be alive tie it to the spit, roast and baste it for
half an hour; if it be boiled you must put it in boiling water, and let
it have one boil, then lie it in a dripping-pan and baste it; when you
lay it upon the dish split the tail, and lay it on each side, so serve
it up with melted butter in a china cup.
130. _To make a_ QUAKING PUDDING.
Take eight eggs and beat them very well, put to them three spoonfuls of
London flour, a little salt, three jills of cream, and boil it with a
stick of cinnamon and a blade of mace; when it is cold mix it to your
eggs and flour, butter your cloth, and do not give it over much room in
your cloth; about half an hour will boil it; you must turn it in the
boiling or the flour will settle, so serve it up with a little melted
butter.
131. _A_ HUNTING PUDDING.
Take a pound of fine flour, a pound of beef-suet shred fine, three
quarters of a pound of currans well cleaned, a quartern of raisins
stoned and shred, five eggs, a little lemon-peel shred fine, half a
nutmeg grated, a jill of cream, a little salt, about two spoonfuls of
sugar, and a little brandy, so mix all well together, and tie it up
right in your cloth; it will take two hours boiling; you must have a
little white wine and butter for your sauce.
132. _A_ CALF'S-FOOT PUDDING.
Take two calf's feet, when they are clean'd boil them as you would for
eating; take out all the bones; when they are cold shred them in a
wooden bowl as small as bread crumbs; then take the crumbs of a penny
loaf, three quarters of a pound of beef suet shred fine, grate in half
a nutmeg, take half a pound of currans well washed, half a pound of
raisins stoned and shred, half a pound of sugar, six eggs, and a little
salt, mix them all together very well, with as much cream as will wet
them, so butter your cloth and tie it up tight; it will take two hours
boiling; you may if you please stick it with a little orange, and serve
it up.
133. _A_ SAGOO PUDDING.
Take three or four ounces of sagoo, and wash it in two or three waters,
set it on to boil in a pint of water, when you think it is enough take
it up, set it to cool, and take half of a candid lemon shred fine,
grate in half of a nutmeg, mix two ounces of jordan almonds blanched,
grate in three ounces of bisket if you have it, if not a few
bread-crumbs grated, a little rose-water and half a pint of cream; then
take six eggs, leave out two of the whites, beat them with a spoonful
or two of sack, put them to your sagoo, with about half a pound of
clarified butter, mix them all together, and sweeten it with fine
sugar, put in a little salt, and bake it in a dish with a little
puff-paste about the dish edge, when you serve it up you may stick a
little citron or candid orange, or any sweetmeats you please.
134. _A_ MARROW PUDDING.
Take a penny loaf, take off the outside, then cut one half in thin
slices; take the marrow of two bones, half a pound of currans well
cleaned, shred your marrow, and strinkle a little marrow and currans
over the dish; if you have not marrow enough you may add to it a little
beef-suet shred fine; take five eggs and beat them very well, put to
them three jills of milk, grate in half a nutmeg, sweeten it to your
taste, mix all together, pour it over your pudding, and save a little
marrow to strinkle over the top of your pudding; when you send it to
the oven lye a puff-paste around the dish edge.
135. _A_ CARROT PUDDING.
Take three or four clear red carrots, boil and peel them, take the red
part of the carrot, beat it very fine in a marble mortar, put to it the
crumbs of a penny loaf, six eggs, half a pound of clarified butter, two
or three spoonfuls of rose water, a little lemon-peel shred, grate in a
little nutmeg, mix them well together, bake it with a puff-paste round
your dish, and have a little white wine, butter and sugar, for the
sauce.
136. _A_ GROUND RICE PUDDING.
Take half a pound of ground rice, half cree it in a quart of milk, when
it is cold put to it five eggs well beat, a jill of cream, a little
lemon-peel shred fine, half a nutmeg grated, half a pound of butter,
and half a pound of sugar, mix them well together, put them into your
dish with a little salt, and bake it with a puff-paste round your dish;
have a little rose-water, butter and sugar to pour over it, you may
prick in it candid lemon or citron if you please.
Half of the above quantity will make a pudding for a side-dish.
137. _A_ POTATOE PUDDING.
Take three or four large potatoes, boil them as you would do for
eating, beat them with a little rose-water and a glass of sack in a
marble mortar, put to them half a pound of sugar, six eggs, half a
pound of melted butter, half a pound of currans well cleaned, a little
shred lemon-peel, and candid orange, mix altogether and serve it up.
138. _An_ APPLE PUDDING.
Take half a dozen large codlins, or pippens, roast them and take out
the pulp; take eight eggs, (leave out six of the whites) half a pound
of fine powder sugar, beat your eggs and sugar well together, and put
to them the pulp of your apples, half a pound of clarified butter, a
little lemon-peel shred fine, a handful of bread crumbs or bisket, four
ounces of candid orange or citron, and bake it with a thin paste under
it.
139. _An_ ORANGE PUDDING.
Take three large seville oranges, the clearest kind you can get, grate
off the out-rhine; take eight eggs, (leave out six of the whites) half
a pound of double refin'd sugar, beat and put it to your eggs, then
beat them both together for half an hour; take three ounces of sweet
almonds blanch'd, beat them with a spoonful or two of fair water to
keep them from oiling, half a pound of butter, melt it without water,
and the juice of two oranges, then put in the rasping of your oranges,
and mix all together; lay a thin paste over your dish and bake it, but
not in too hot an oven.
140. _An_ ORANGE PUDDING _another Way_.
Take half a pound of candid orange, cut them in thin slices, and beat
them in a marble mortar to a pulp; take six eggs, (leave out half of
the whites) half a pound of butter, and the juice of one orange; mix
them together, and sweeten it with fine powder sugar, then bake it with
thin paste under it.
141. _An_ ORANGE PUDDING _another Way_.
Take three or four seville oranges, the clearest skins you can get,
pare them very thin, boil the peel in a pretty quantity of water, shift
them two or three times in the boiling to take out the bitter taste;
when it is boiled you must beat it very fine in a marble mortar; take
ten eggs, (leave out six of the whites) three quarters of a pound of
loaf sugar, beat it and put it to your eggs, beat them together for
half an hour, put to them half a pound of melter butter, and the juice
of two or three oranges, as they are of goodness, mix all together, and
bake it with a thin paste over your dish.
This will make cheese-cakes as well as a pudding.
142. _An_ ORANGE PUDDING _another Way_.
Take five or six seville oranges, grate them and make a hole in the
top, take out all the meat, and boil the skin very tender, shifting
them in the boiling to take off the bitter taste; take half a round of
long bisket, slice and scald them with a little cream, beat six eggs
and put to your bisket; take half a pound of currans, wash them clean,
grate in half a nutmeg, put in a little salt and a glass of sack, beat
all together, then put it into your orange skin, tie them tight in a
piece of fine cloth, every one separate; about three quarters of an
hour will boil them: You must have a little white wine, butter and
sugar for sauce.
143. _To make an_ ORANGE PIE.
Take half a dozen seville oranges, chip them very fine as you would do
for preserving, make a little hole in the top, and scope out all the
meat, as you would do an apple, you must boil them whilst they are
tender, and shift them two or three times to take off the bitter taste;
take six or eight apples, according as they are in bigness, pare and
slice them, and put to them part of the pulp of your oranges, and pick
out the strings and pippens, put to them half a pound of fine powder
sugar, so boil it up over a slow fire, as you would do for puffs, and
fill your oranges with it; they must be baked in a deep delf dish with
no paste under them; when you put them into your dish put under them
three quarters of a pound of fine powder sugar, put in as much water as
will wet your sugar, and put your oranges with the open side uppermost;
it will take about an hour and half baking in a slow oven; lie over
them a light puff-paste; when you dish it up take off the lid, and turn
the oranges in the pie, cut the lid in sippets, and set them at an
equal distance, to serve it up.
144. _To make a quaking_ PUDDING _another Way_.
Take a pint of cream, boil it with one stick of cinnamon, take out the
spice when it is boiled, then take the yolks of eight eggs, and four
whites, beat them very well with some sack, and mix your eggs with the
cream, a little sugar and salt, half a penny wheat loaf, a spoonful of
flour, a quarter of a pound of almonds blanch'd and beat fine, beat
them altogether, wet a thick cloth, flour it, and put it in when the
pot boils; it must boil an hour at least; melted butter, sack and sugar
is sauce for it; stick blanch'd almonds and candid orange-peel on the
top, so serve it up.
145. _To make_ PLUMB PORRIDGE.
Take two shanks of beef, and ten quarts of water, let it boil over a
slow fire till it be tender, and when the broth is strong, strain it
out, wipe the pot and put in the broth again, slice in two penny loaves
thin, cutting off the top and bottom, put some of the liquor to it,
cover it up and let it stand for a quarter of an hour, so put it into
the pot again, and let it boil a quarter of an hour, then put in four
pounds of currans, and let them boil a little; then put in two pounds
of raisins, and two pounds of prunes, let them boil till they swell;
then put in a quarter of an ounce of mace, a few cloves beat fine, mix
it with a little water, and put it into your pot; also a pound of
sugar, a little salt, a quart or better of claret, and the juice of two
or three lemons or verjuice; thicken it with sagoo instead of bread; so
put it in earthen pots, and keep it for use.
146. _To make a_ PALPATOON _of_ PIGEONS.
Take mushrooms, pallets, oysters and sweet-breads, fry them in butter,
put all these in a strong gravy, heat them over the fire, and thicken
them up with an egg and a little butter; then take six or eight
pigeons, truss them as you would for baking, season them with pepper
and salt, and lay on them a crust of forc'd-meat as follows, _viz._ a
pound of veal cut in little bits, and a pound and a half of marrow,
beat it together in a stone mortar, after it is beat very fine, season
it with mace, pepper and salt, put in the yolks of four eggs, and two
raw eggs, mix altogether with a few bread crumbs to a paste: make the
sides and lid of your pie with it, then put your ragoo into your dish,
and lay in your pigeons with butter; an hour and a half will bake it.
147. _To fry_ CUCUMBERS _for Mutton Sauce_.
You must brown some butter in a pan, and cut six middling cucumbers,
pare and slice them, but not over thin, drain them from the water, then
put them into the pan, when they are fried brown put to them a little
pepper and salt, a lump of butter, a spoonful of vinegar, a little
shred onion, and a little gravy, not to make it too thin, so shake them
well together with a little flour.
You may lay them round your mutton, or they are proper for a side-dish.
148. _To force a_ FOWL.
Take a good fowl, pull and draw it, then slit the skin down the back,
take the flesh from the bones, and mince it very well, mix it with a
little beef-suet, shred a jill of large oysters, chop a shalot, a
little grated bread, and some sweet herbs, mix all together, season it
with nutmeg, pepper and salt, make it up with yolks of eggs, put it on
the bones and draw the skin over it, sew up the back, cut off the legs,
and put the bones as you do a fowl for boiling, tie the fowl up in a
cloth; an hour will boil it. For sauce take a few oysters, shred them,
and put them into a little gravy, with a lump of butter, a little
lemon-peel shred and a little juice, thicken it up with a little flour,
lie the fowl on the dish, and pour the sauce upon it; you may fry a
little of the forc'd-meat to lay round. Garnish your dish with lemon;
you may set it in the oven if you have convenience, only rub over it
the yolk of an egg and a few bread crumbs.
149. _To make_ STRAWBERRY _and_ RASBERRY FOOL.
Take a pint of rasberries, squeeze and strain the juice, with a
spoonful of orange water, put to the juice six ounces of fine sugar,
and boil it over the fire; then take a pint of cream and boil it, mix
them all well together, and heat them over the fire, but not to boil,
if it do it will curdle; stir it till it be cold, put it into your
bason and keep it for use.
150. _To make a_ POSSET _with_ Almonds.
Blanch and beat three quarters of a pound of almonds, so fine that they
will spread betwixt your fingers like butter, put in water as you beat
them to keep them for oiling; take a pint of sack, cherry or gooseberry
wine, and sweeten it to your taste with double refin'd sugar, make it
boiling hot; take the almonds, put to them a little water, and boil the
wine and almonds together; take the yolks of four eggs, and beat them
very well, put to them three or four spoonfuls of wine, then put it
into your pan by degrees, stirring it all the while; when it begins to
thicken take it off, and stir it a little, put it into a china dish,
and serve it up.
151. _To make_ DUTCH-BEEF.
Take the lean part of a buttock of beef raw, rub it well with brown
sugar all over, and let it lie in a pan or tray two or three hours,
turning it three or four times, then salt it with common salt, and two
ounces of saltpetre; let it lie a fortnight, turning it every day, then
roll it very straight, and put it into a cheese press day and night,
then take off the cloth and hang it up to dry in the chimney; when you
boil it let it be boiled very well, it will cut in shivers like dutch
beef.
You may do a leg of mutton the same way.
152. _To make_ PULLONY SAUSAGES.
Take part of a leg of pork or veal, pick it clean from the skin or fat,
put to every pound of lean meat a pound of beef-suet, pick'd from the
skins, shred the meat and suet separate and very fine, mix them well
together, add a large handful of green sage shred very small; season it
with pepper and salt, mix it well, press it down hard in an earthen
pot, and keep it for use.--When you use them roll them up with as much
egg as will make them roll smooth; in rolling them up make them about
the length of your fingers, and as thick as two fingers; fry them in
butter, which must be boiled before you can put them in, and keep them
rolling about in the pan; when they are fried through they are enough.
153. _To make an_ AMBLET _of_ COCKLES.
Take four whites and two yolks of eggs, a pint of cream, a little
flour, a nutmeg grated, a little salt, and a jill of cockles, mix all
together, and fry it brown.
This is proper for a side-dish either for noon or night.
154. _To make a common quaking_ PUDDING.
Take five eggs, beat them well with a little salt, put in three
spoonfuls of fine flour, take a pint of new milk and beat them well
together, then take a cloth, butter and flour it, but do not give it
over much room in the cloth; an hour will boil it, give it a turn every
now and then at the first putting in, or else the meal will settle to
the bottom; have a little plain butter for sauce, and serve it up.
155. _To make a boil'd_ TANSEY.
Take an old penny loaf, cut off the out crust, slice it thin, put to it
as much hot cream as will wet it, six eggs well beaten, a little shred
lemon-peel, grate in a little nutmeg, and a little salt; green it as
you did your baked tansey, so tie it up in a cloth and boil it; it will
take an hour and a quarter boiling; when you dish it up stick it with
candid orange and lay a Seville orange cut in quarters round the dish;
serve it up with melted butter.
156. _A_ TANSEY _another Way_.
Take an old penny loaf, cut off the out crust, slice it very thin, and
put to it as much hot milk as will wet it; take six eggs, beat them
very well, grate in half a nutmeg, a little shred lemon-peel, half a
pound of clarified butter, half a pound of sugar, and a little salt;
mix them well together. _To green your tansey_, Take a handful or two
of spinage, a handful of tansey, and a handful or sorrel, clean them
and beat them in a marble mortar, or grind it as you would do
greensauce, strain it through a linen cloth into a bason, and put into
your tansey as much of the juice as will green it, pour over the sauce
a little white wine, butter and sugar; lay a rim of paste round your
dish and bake it; when you serve it up cut a Seville orange in
quarters, and lay it round the edge of the dish.
157. _To make_ RICE PANCAKES.
Take half a pound of rice, wash and pick it clean, cree it in fair
water till it be a jelly, when it is cold take a pint of cream and the
yolks of four eggs, beat them very well together, and put them into the
rice, with grated nutmeg and some salt, then put in half a pound of
butter, and as much flour as will make it thick enough to fry, with as
little butter as you can.
158. _To make_ FRUIT FRITTERS.
Take a penny loaf, cut off the out crust, slice it, put to it as much
hot milk as will wet it, beat five or six eggs, put to them a quarter
of a pound of currans well cleaned, and a little candid orange shred
fine, so mix them well together, drop them with a spoon into a stew-pan
in clarified butter; have a little white wine, butter and sugar for
your sauce, put it into a china bason, lay your fritters round, grate a
little sugar over them, and serve them up.
159. _To make_ WHITE PUDDINGS _in Skins_.
Take half a pound of rice, cree it in milk while it be soft, when it is
creed put it into a cullinder to drain; take a penny loaf, cut off the
out crust, then cut it in thin slices, scald it in a little milk, but
do not make it over wet; take six eggs and beat them very well, a pound
of currans well cleaned, a pound of beef-suet shred fine, two or three
spoonfuls of rose-water, half a pound of powder sugar, a little salt, a
quarter of an ounce of mace, a large nutmeg grated, and a small stick
of cinnamon; beat them together, mix them very well, and put them into
the skins; if you find it be too thick put to it a little cream; you
may boil them near half an hour, it will make them keep the better.
160. _To make_ BLACK PUDDINGS.
Take two quarts of whole oatmeal, pick it and half boil it, give it
room in your cloth, (you must do it the day before you use it) put it
into the blood while it is warm, with a handful of salt, stir it very
well, beat eight or nine eggs in about a pint of cream, and a quart of
bread-crumbs, a handful or two of maslin meal dress'd through a
hair-sieve, if you have it, if not put in wheat flour; to this quantity
you may put an ounce of Jamaica pepper, and ounce of black pepper, a
large nutmeg, and a little more salt, sweet-marjoram and thyme, if they
be green shred them fine, if dry rub them to powder, mix them well
together, and if it be too thick put to it a little milk; take four
pounds of beef-suet, and four pounds of lard, skin and cut it it think
pieces, put it into your blood by handfuls, as you fill your puddings;
when they are filled and tied prick them with a pin, it will keep them
from bursting in the boiling; (you must boil them twice) cover them
close and it will make them black.
161. _An_ ORANGE PUDDING _another Way_.
Take two Seville oranges, the largest and cleanest you can get, grate
off the outer skin with a clean grater; take eight eggs, (leave out two
of the whites) half a pound of loaf sugar, beat it very fine, put it to
your eggs, and beat them for an hour, put to them half a pound of
clarified butter, and four ounces of almonds blanch'd, and heat them
with a little rose-water; put in the juice of the oranges, but mind you
don't put in the pippens, and mix together; bake it with a thin paste
over the bottom of the dish. It must be baked in a slow oven.
162. _To make_ APPLE FRITTERS.
Take four eggs and beat them very well, put to them four spoonfuls of
fine flour, a little milk, about a quarter of a pound of sugar, a
little nutmeg and salt, so beat them very well together; you must not
make it very thin, if you do it will not stick to the apple; take a
middling apple and pare it, cut out the core, and cut the rest in round
slices about the thickness of a shilling; (you may take out the core
after you have cut it with your thimble) have ready a little lard in a
stew-pan, or any other deep pan; then take your apple every slice
single, and dip it into your bladder, let your lard be very hot, so
drop them in; you must keep them turning whilst enough, and mind that
they be not over brown; as you take them out lay them on a pewter dish
before the fire whilst you have done; have a little white wine, butter
and sugar for the sauce; grate over them a little loaf sugar, and serve
them up.
163. _To make an_ HERB PUDDING.
Take a good quantity of spinage and parsley, a little sorrel and mild
thyme, put to them a handful of great oatmeal creed, shred them
together till they be very small, put to them a pound of currans, well
washed and cleaned, four eggs well beaten in a jill of good cream; if
you wou'd have it sweet, put in a quarter of a pound of sugar, a little
nutmeg, a little salt, and a handful of grated bread; then meal your
cloth and tie it close before you put it in to boil; it will take as
much boiling as a piece of beef.
164. _To make a_ PUDDING _for a_ HARE.
Take the liver and chop it small with some thyme, parsley, suet, crumbs
of bread mixt, with grated nutmeg, pepper, salt, an egg, a little fat
bacon and lemon-peel; you must make the composition very stiff, lest it
should dissolve, and you lose your pudding.
165. _To make a_ BREAD PUDDING.
Take three jills of milk, when boiled, take a penny loaf sliced thin,
cut off the out crust, put on the boiling milk, let it stand close
covered till it be cold, and beat it very well till all the lumps be
broke; take five eggs beat very well, grate in a little nutmeg, shred
some lemon-peel, and a quarter of a pound of butter or beef-suet, with
as much sugar as will sweeten it; and currans as many as you please;
let them be well cleaned; so put them into your dish, and bake or boil
it.
166. _To make_ CLARE PANCAKES.
Take five or six eggs, and beat them very well with a little salt, put
to them two or three spoonfuls of cream, a spoonful of fine flour, mix
it with a little cream; take your clare and wash it very clean, wipe it
with a cloth, put your eggs into a pan, just to cover your pan bottom,
lay the clare in leaf by leaf, whilst you have covered your pan all
over; take a spoon, and pour over every leaf till they are all covered;
when it is done lay the brown side upwards, and serve it up.
167. _To make a_ LIVER PUDDING.
Take a pound of grated bread, a pound of currans, a pound and a half of
marrow and suet together cut small, three quarters of a pound of sugar,
half an ounce of cinnamon, a quarter of an ounce of mace, a pint of
grated liver, and some salt, mix all together; take twelve eggs, (leave
out half of the whites) beat them well, put to them a pint of cream,
make the eggs and cream warm, then put it to the pudding, stuff and
stir it well together, so fill them in skins; put to them a few
blanch'd almonds shred fine, and a spoonful or two of rose-water, so
keep them for use.
168. _To make_ OATMEAL FRITTERS.
Boil a quart of new milk, steep a pint of fine flour or oatmeal in it
ten or twelve hours, then beat four eggs in a little milk, so much as
will make like thick blatter, drop them in by spoonfuls into fresh
butter, a spoonful of butter in a cake, and grate sugar over them; have
sack, butter and sugar for sauce.
169. _To make_ APPLE DUMPLINGS.
Take half a dozen codlins, or any other good apples, pare and core
them, make a little cold butter paste, and roll it up about the
thickness of your finger, so lap around every apple, and tie them
single in a fine cloth, boil them in a little salt and water, and let
the water boil before you put them in; half an hour will boil them; you
must have for sauce a little white wine and butter; grate some sugar
round the dish, and serve them up.
170. _To make_ HERB DUMPLINGS.
Take a penny loaf, cut off the out crust, and the rest in slices, put
to it as much hot milk as will just wet it, take the yolks and whites
of six eggs, beat them with two spoonfuls of powder sugar, half a
nutmeg, and a little salt, so put it to your bread; take half a pound
of currans well cleaned, put them to your eggs, then take a handful of
the mildest herbs you can get, gather them so equal that the taste of
one be not above the other, wash and chop them very small, put as many
of them in as will make a deep green, (don't put any parsley among
them, nor any other strong herb) so mix them all together, and boil
them in a cloth, make them about the bigness of middling apples; about
half an hour will boil them; put them into your dish, and have a little
candid orange, white wine, butter and sugar for sauce, so serve them
up.
171. _To make_ MARROW TARTS.
To a quart of cream put the yolks of twelve eggs, half a pound of
sugar, some beaten mace and cinnamon, a little salt and some sack, set
it on the fire with half a pound of biskets, as much marrow, a little
orange-peel and lemon-peel; stir it on the fire till it becomes thick,
and when it is cold put it into a dish with puff-paste, then bake it
gently in a slow oven.
172. _To make_ PLAIN FRUIT DUMPLINGS.
Take as much flour as you would have dumplings in quantity, put it to a
spoonful of sugar, a little salt, a little nutmeg, a spoonful of light
yeast, and half a pound of currans well washed and cleaned, so knead
them the stiffness you do a common dumpling, you must have white wine,
sugar and butter for sauce; you may boil them either in a cloth or
without; so serve them up.
173. _To make_ OYSTER LOAVES.
Take half a dozen French loaves, rasp them and make a hole at the top,
take out all the crumbs and fry them in butter till they be crisp; when
your oysters are stewed, put them into your loaves, cover them up
before the fire to keep hot whilst you want them; so serve them up.
They are proper either for a side-dish or mid-dish.
You may make cockle loaves or mushroom-loaves the same way.
174. _To make a_ GOOSEBERRY PUDDING.
Take a quart of green gooseberries, pick, coddle, bruise and rub them
through a hair-sieve to take out the pulp; take six spoonfuls of the
pulp, six eggs, three quarters of a pound of sugar, half a pound of
clarified butter, a little lemon-peel shred fine, a handful of
bread-crumbs or bisket, a spoonful of rose-water or orange-flower
water; mix these well together, and bake it with paste round the dish;
you may add sweetmeats if you please.
175. _To make an_ EEL PIE.
Case and clean the eels, season them with a little nutmeg, pepper and
salt, cut them in long pieces; you must make your pie with hot butter
paste, let it be oval with a thin crust; lay in your eels length way,
putting over them a little fresh butter; so bake them.
Eel pies are good, and eat very well with currans, but if you put in
currans you must not use any black pepper, but a little Jamaica pepper.
176. _To make a_ TURBOT-HEAD PIE.
Take a middling turbot-head, pretty well cut off, wash it clean, take
out the gills, season it pretty well with mace, pepper and salt, so put
it into a deep dish with half a pound of butter, cover it with a light
puff-paste, but lay none in the bottom; when it is baked take out the
liquor and the butter that it was baked in, put it into a sauce-pan
with a lump of fresh butter and flour to thicken it, with an anchovy
and a glass of white wine, so pour it into your pie again over the
fish; you may lie round half a dozen yolks of eggs at an equal
distance; when you have cut off the lid, lie it in sippets round your
disk, and serve it up.
177. _To make a Caudle for a sweet_ VEAL PIE.
Take about a jill of white wine and verjuice mixed, make it very hot,
beat the yolk of an egg very well, and then mix them together as you
would do mull'd ale; you must sweeten it very well, because there is no
sugar in the pie.
This caudle will do for any other sort of pie that is sweet.
178. _To make_ SWEET-MEAT TARTS.
Make a little shell-paste, roll it, and line your tins, prick them in
the inside, and so bake them; when you serve 'em up put in any sort of
sweet-meats, what you please.
You may have a different sort every day, do but keep your shells bak'd
by you.
179. _To make_ ORANGE TARTS.
Take two or three Seville oranges and boil them, shift them in the
boiling to take out the bitter, cut them in two, take out the pippens,
and cut them in slices; they must be baked in crisp paste; when you
fill the petty-pans, lay in a layer of oranges and a layer of sugar, (a
pound will sweeten a dozen of small tins, if you do not put in too much
orange) bake them in a slow oven, and ice them over.
180. _To make a_ TANSEY _another Way_.
Take a pint of cream, some biskets without seeds, two or three
spoonfuls of fine flour, nine eggs, leaving out two of the whites, some
nutmeg, and orange-flower water, a little juice of tansey and spinage,
put it into a pan till it be pretty thick, then fry or bake it, if
fried take care that you do not let it be over-brown. Garnish with
orange and sugar, so serve it up.
181. _A good_ PASTE _for_ TARTS.
Take a pint of flour, and rub a quarter of a pound of butter into it,
beat two eggs with a spoonful of double-refin'd sugar, and two or three
spoonfuls of cream to make it into paste; work it as little as you can,
roll it out thin; butter your tins, dust on some flour, then lay in
your paste, and do not fill them too full.
182. _To make_ TRANSPARENT TARTS.
Take a pound of flour well dried, beat one egg till it be very thin,
then melt almost three quarters of a pound of butter without salt, and
let it be cold enough to mix with an egg, then put it into the flour
and make your paste, roll it very thin, when you are setting them into
the oven wet them over with a little fair water, and grate a little
sugar; if you bake them rightly they will be very nice.
183. _To make a_ SHELL PASTE.
Take half a pound of fine flour, and a quarter of a pound of butter,
the yolks of two eggs and one white, two ounces of sugar finely sifted,
mix all these together with a little water, and roll it very thin
whilst you can see through it; when you lid your tarts prick them to
keep them from blistering; make sure to roll them even, and when you
bake them ice them.
184. _To make_ PASTE _for_ TARTS.
Take the yolks of five or six eggs, just as you would have paste in
quantity; to the yolks of eggs put a pound of butter, work the butter
with your hands whilst it take up all the eggs, then take some London
flour and work it with your butter whilst it comes to a paste, put in
about two spoonfuls of loaf sugar beat and sifted, and about half a
jill of water; when you have wrought it well together it is fit for
use.
This is a paste that seldom runs if it be even roll'd; roll it thin but
let your lids be thiner than your bottoms; when you have made your
tarts, prick them over with a pin to keep it from blistering; when you
are going to put them into the oven, wet them over with a feather dipt
in fair water, and grate over them a little double-refined loaf sugar,
it will ice them; but don't let them be bak'd in a hot oven.
185. _A short_ PASTE _for_ TARTS.
Take a pound of wheat-flour, and rub it very small, three quarters of a
pound of butter, rub it as small as the flour, put to it three
spoonfuls of loaf sugar beat and sifted; take the yolks of four eggs,
and beat them very well; put to them a spoonful or two of rose-water,
and work them into a paste, then roll them thin, and ice them as you
did the other if you please, and bake 'em in a slow oven.
186. _To make a_ LIGHT PASTE _for a_ VENISON PASTY, _or other_ PIE.
Take a quarter of a peck of fine flour, or as much as you think you
have occasion for, and to every quartern of flour put a pound and a
quarter of butter, break the third part of your butter into the flour;
then take the whites of three or four eggs, beat them very well to a
froth, and put to them as much water as will knead the meal; do not
knead it over stiff, so then roll it in the rest of your butter; you
must roll it five or six times over at least, and strinkle a little
flour over your butter every time you roll it up, lap it up the cross
way, and it will be fit for use.
187. _To make a Paste for a_ STANDING PIE.
Take a quartern of flour or more if you have occasion, and to every
quartern of flour put a pound of butter, and a little salt, knead it
with boiling water, then work it very well, and let it lie whilst it is
cold.
This paste is good enough for a goose pie, or any other standing-pie.
188. _A light Paste for a_ DISH PIE.
Take a quartern of flour, and break into it a pound of butter in large
pieces, knead it very stiff, handle it as lightly as you can, and roll
it once or twice, then it is fit for use.
189. _To make_ CHEESE CAKES.
Take a gallon of new milk, make of it a tender curd, wring the whey
from it, put it into a bason, and break three quarters of a pound of
butter into the curd, then with a clean hand work the butter and curd
together till all the butter be melted, and rub it in a hair-sieve with
the back of spoon till all be through; then take six eggs, beat them
with a few spoonfuls of rose-water or sack, put it into your curd with
half a pound of fine sugar and a nutmeg grated; mix them all together
with a little salt, some currans and almonds; then make up your paste
of fine flour, with cold butter and a little sugar; roll your paste
very thin, fill your tins with the curd, and set them in an oven, when
they are almost enough take them out, then take a quarter of a pound of
butter, with a little rose-water, and part of a half pound of sugar,
let it stand on the coals till the butter be melted, then pour into
each cake some of it, set them in the oven again till they be brown, so
keep them for use.
190. _To make_ GOOFER WAFERS.
Take a pound of fine flour and six eggs, beat them very well, put to
them about a jill of milk, mix it well with the flour, put in half a
pound of clarified butter, half a pound of powder sugar, half of a
nutmeg, and a little salt; you may add to it two or three spoonfuls of
cream; then take your goofer-irons and put them into the fire to heat,
when they are hot rub them over the first time with a little butter in
a cloth, put your batter into one side of your goofer-irons, put them
into the fire, and keep turning the irons every now and then; (if your
irons be too hot they burn soon) make them a day or two before you use
them, only set them down before the fire on a pewter dish before you
serve them up; have a little white wine and butter for your sauce,
grating some sugar over them.
191. _To make common_ CURD CHEESE CAKES.
Take a pennyworth of curds, mix them with a little cream, beat four
eggs, put to them six ounces of clarified butter, a quarter of a pound
of sugar, half a pound of currans well wash'd, and a little lemon-peel
shred, a little nutmeg, a spoonful of rose-water or brandy, whether you
please, and a little salt, mix altogether, and bake them in small petty
pans.
192. CHEESE CAKES _without_ CURRANS.
Take five quarts of new milk, run it to a tender curd, then hang it in
a cloth to drain, rub into them a pound of butter that is well washed
in rose-water, put to it the yolks of seven or eight eggs, and two of
the whites; season it with cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar.
193. _To make a_ CURD PUDDING.
Take three quarts of new milk, put to it a little erning, as much as
will break it when it is scumm'd break it down with your hand, and when
it is drained grind it with a mustard ball in a bowl, or beat it in a
marble-mortar; then take half a pound of butter and six eggs, leaving
out three of the whites; beat the eggs well, and put them into the
curds and butter, grate in half a nutmeg, a little lemon-peel shred
fine, and salt, sweeten it to your taste, beat them all together, and
bake them in little petty-pans with fast bottoms; a quarter of an hour
will bake them; you must butter the tins very well before you put them
in; when you dish them up you must lay them the wrong side upwards on
the dish, and stick them with either blanch'd almonds, candid orange,
or citron cut in long bits, and grate a little loaf sugar over them.
194. _To make a_ SLIPCOAT CHEESE.
Take five quarts of new-milk, a quart of cream, and a quart of water,
boil your water, then put your cream to it; when your milk is new-milk
warm put in your erning, take your curd into the strainer, break it as
little as you can, and let it drain, then put it into your vat, press
it by degrees, and lay it in grass.
195. _To make_ CREAM CHEESE.
Take three quarts of new-milk, one quart of cream, and a spoonful of
erning, put them together, let it stand till it come to the hardness of
a strong jelly, then put it into the mould, shifting it often into dry
cloths, lay the weight of three pounds upon it, and about two hours
after you may lay six or seven pounds upon it; turn it often into dry
cloths till night, then take the weight off, and let it lie in the
mould without weight and cloth till morning, and when it is so dry that
it doth not wet a cloth, keep it in greens till fit for use; if you
please you may put a little salt into it.
196. _To make_ PIKE _eat like_ STURGEON.
Take the thick part of a large pike and scale it, set on two quarts of
water to boil it in, put in a jill of vinegar, a large handful of salt,
and when it boils put in your pike, but first bind it about with coarse
inkle; when it is boiled you must not take off the inkle or baising,
but let it be on all the time it is in eating; it must be kept in the
same pickle it was boiled in, and if you think it be not strong enough
you must add a little more salt and vinegar, so when it is cold put it
upon your pike, and keep it for use; before you boil the pike take out
the bone.
You may do scate the same way, and in my opinion it eats more like
sturgeon.
197. _To Collar_ EELS.
Take the largest eels you can get, skin and split them down the belly,
take out the bones, season them with a little mace, nutmeg and salt;
begin at the tail and roll them up very tight, so bind them up in a
little coarse inkle, boil it in salt and water, a few bay leaves, a
little whole pepper, and a little alegar or vinegar; it will take an
hour boiling, according as your roll is in bigness; when it is boiled
you must tie it and hang it up whilst it be cold, then put it into the
liquor that it was boiled in, and keep it for use.
If your eels be small you may robe two or three of them together.
198. _To Pot_ SMELTS.
Take the freshest and largest smelts you can get, wipe them very well
with a clean cloth, take out the guts with a skewer, (but you must not
take out the milt and roan) season them with a little mace, nutmeg and
salt, so lie them in a flat pot; if you have two score you must lay
over them five ounces of butter; lie over them a paper, and set them in
a slow oven; if it be over hot it will burn them, and make them look
black; an hour will bake them; when they are baked you must take them
out and lay them on a dish to drain, and when they are drained you must
put them in long pots about the length of your smelts; when you lay
them in you must put betwixt every layer the same seasoning as you did
before, to make them keep; when they are cold cover them over with
clarified butter, so keep them for use.
199. _To Pickle_ SMELTS.
Take the best and largest smelts you can get; gut, wash and wipe them,
lie them in a flat pot, cover them with a little white wine vinegar,
two or three blades of mace and a little pepper and salt; bake them in
a slow oven, and keep them for use.
200. _To stew a_ PIKE.
Take a large pike, scale and clean it, season it in the belly with a
little mace and salt; skewer it round, put it into a deep stew-pan,
with a pint of small gravy and a pint of claret, two or thee blades of
mace, set it over a stove with a slow fire, and cover it up close; when
it is enough take part of the liquor, put to it two anchovies, a little
lemon-peel shred fine, and thicken the sauce with flour and butter;
before you lie the pike on the dish turn it with the back upwards, take
off the skin, and serve it up. Garnish your dish with lemon and pickle.
201. SAUCE _for a_ PIKE.
Take a little of the liquor that comes from the pike when you take it
out of the oven, put to it two or three anchovies, a little lemon-peel
shred, a spoonful or two of white wine, or a little juice of lemon,
which you please, put to it some butter and flour, make your sauce
about the thickness of cream, put it into a bason or silver-boat, and
set in your dish with your pike, you may lay round your pike any sort
of fried fish, or broiled, if you have it; you may have the same sauce
for a broiled pike, only add a little good gravy, a few shred capers, a
little parsley, and a spoonful or two of oyster and cockle pickle if
you have it.
202. _How to roast a_ PIKE _with a Pudding in the Belly_.
Take a large pike, scale and clean it, draw it at the gills.--_To make
a pudding for the Pike_. Take a large handful of bread-crumbs, as much
beef-suet shred fine, two eggs, a little pepper and salt, a little
grated nutmeg, a little parsley, sweet-marjoram and lemon-peel shred
fine; so mix altogether, put it into the belly of your pike, skewer it
round and lie it in an earthen dish with a lump of butter over it, a
little salt and flour, so set it in the oven; an hour will roast it.
203. _To dress a_ COD'S HEAD.
Take a cod's head, wash and clean it, take out the gills, cut it open,
and make it to lie flat; (if you have no conveniency of boiling it you
may do it in an oven, and it will be as well or better) put it into a
copper-dish or earthen one, lie upon it a littler butter, salt, and
flour, and when it is enough take off the skin.
SAUCE _for the_ COD'S HEAD.
Take a little white gravy, about a pint of oysters or cockles, a little
shred lemon-peel, two or three spoonfuls of white wine, and about half
a pound of butter thicken'd with flour, and put it into your boat or
bason.
_Another_ SAUCE _for a_ COD'S HEAD.
Take a pint of good gravy, a lobster or crab, which you can get, dress
and put it into your gravy with a little butter, juice of lemon, shred
lemon-peel, and a few shrimps if you have them; thicken it with a
little flour, and put it into your bason, set the oysters on one side
of the dish and this on the other; lay round the head boiled whitings,
or any fried fish; pour over the head a little melted butter. Garnish
your dish with horse-radish, slices of lemon and pickles.
204. _To stew_ CARP _or_ TENCH.
Take your carp or tench and wash them, scale the carp but not the
tench, when you have cleaned them wipe them with a cloth, and fry them
in a frying pan with a little butter to harden the skin; before you put
them into the stew-pan, put to them a little good gravy, the quantity
will be according to the largeness of your fish, with a jill of claret,
three or four anchovies at least, a little shred lemon-peel, a blade or
two of mace, let all stew together, till your carp be enough, over a
slow fire; when it is enough take part of the liquor, put to it half a
pound of butter, and thicken it with a little flour; so serve them up.
Garnish your dish with crisp parsley, slices of lemon and pickles.
If you have not the convenience of stewing them, you may broil them
before a fire, only adding the same sauce.
205. _How to make_ SAUCE _for a boiled_ SALMON _or_ TURBOT.
Take a little mild white gravy, two or three anchovies, a spoonful of
oyster or cockle pickle, a little shred lemon-peel, half a pound of
butter, a little parsley and fennel shred small, and a little juice of
lemon, but not too much, for fear it should take off the sweetness.
206. _To make_ SAUCE _for_ HADDOCK _or_ COD, _either broiled or
boiled_.
Take a little gravy, a few cockles, oysters or mushrooms, put to them a
little of the gravy that comes from the fish, either broiled or boiled,
it will do very well if you have no other gravy, a little catchup and a
lump of butter; if you have neither oysters nor cockles you may put in
an anchovy or two, and thicken with flour; you may put in a few shred
capers, or a little mango, if you have it.
207. _To stew_ EELS.
Take your eels, case, clean and skewer them round, put them into a
stew-pan with a little good gravy, a little claret to redden the gravy,
a blade or two of mace, an anchovy, and a little lemon-peel; when they
are enough thicken them with a little flour and butter. Garnish your
dish with parsley.
208. _To pitch-cock_ EELS.
Take your eels, case and clean them, season them with nutmeg, pepper
and salt, skewer them round, broil them before the fire, and baste them
with a little butter; when they are almost enough strinkle them over
with a little shred parsley, and make your sauce of a little gravy,
butter, anchovy, and a little oyster pickle if you have it; don't pour
the sauce over your eels, put it into a china bason, and set it in the
middle of your dish.
Garnish with crisp parsley, and serve them up.
209. _To boil_ HERRINGS.
Take your herring, scale and wash them, take out the milt and roan,
skewer them round, and tie them with a string or else they will come
loose in the boiling and be spoil'd; set on a pretty broad stew-pan,
with as much water as will cover them, put to it a little salt, lie in
you herrings with the backs downwards boil with them the milt and roans
to lie round them; they will boil in half a quarter of an hour over a
slow fire; when they are boiled take them up with an egg slice, so turn
them over and set them to drain. Make your sauce of a little gravy and
butter, an anchovy and a little boiled parsley shred; put it into the
bason, set it in the middle of the dish, lie the herrings round with
their tails towards the bason, and lie the milts and roans between
every herring. Garnish with crisp parsley and lemon; so serve them up.
210. _To fry_ HERRINGS.
Scale and wash your herrings clean, strew over them a little flour and
salt; let your butter be very hot before you put your herrings into the
pan, then shake them to keep them stirring, and fry them over a brisk
fire; when they are fried cut off the heads and bruise them, put to
them a jill of ale, (but the ale must not be bitter) add a little
pepper and salt, a small onion or shalot, if you have them, and boil
them altogether; when they are boiled, strain them, and put them into
your sauce-pan again, thicken them with a little flour and butter, put
it into a bason, and set it in the middle of your dish; fry the milts
and roans together, and lay round your herrings. Garnish your dish with
crisp parsley, and serve it up.
211. _To pickle_ HERRINGS.
Scale and clean your herrings, take out the milts and roans, and skewer
them round, season them with a little pepper and salt, put them in a
deep pot, cover them with alegar, put to them a little whole Jamaica
pepper, and two or three bay leaves; bake them and keep them for use.
212. _To stew_ OYSTERS.
Take a score or two of oysters, according as you have occasion, put
them into a small stew-pan, with a few bread-crumbs, a little water,
shred mace and pepper, a lump of butter, and a spoonful of vinegar,
(not to make it four) boil them altogether but not over much, if you
do it makes them hard. Garnish with bread fippets, and serve them up.
213. _To fry_ OYSTERS.
Take a score or two of the largest oysters you can get, and the yolks
of four or five eggs, beat them very well, put to them a little nutmeg,
pepper and salt, a spoonful of fine flour, and a little raw parsley
shred, so dip in your oysters, and fry them in butter a light brown.
They are very proper to lie about either stew'd oysters, or any other
fish, or made dishes.
214. OYSTERS _in_ SCALLOP SHELLS.
Take half a dozen small scallop shells, lay in the bottom of every
shell a lump of butter, a few bread crumbs, and then your oysters;
laying over them again a few more bread crumbs, a little butter, and a
little beat pepper, so set them to crisp, either in the oven or before
the fire, and serve them up.
They are proper for either a side-dish or middle-dish.
215 _To keep_ HERRINGS _all the Year_.
Take fresh herrings, cut off their heads, open and wash them very
clean, season them with salt, black pepper, and Jamaica pepper, put
them into a pot, cover them with white wine vinegar and water, of each
an equal quantity, and set them in a slow oven to bake; tie the pot up
close and they will keep a year in the pickle.
216. _To make artificial_ Sturgeon _another Way_.
Take out the bones of a turbot or britt, lay it in salt twenty four
hours, boil it with good store of salt; make your pickle of white wine
vinegar and three quarts of water, boil them, and put in a little
vinegar in the boiling; don't boil it over much, if you do it will make
it soft; when 'tis enough take it out till it be cold, put the same
pickle to it, and keep it for use.
217. _To stew_ MUSHROOMS.
Take mushrooms, and clean them, the buttons you may wash, but the flaps
you must pill both inside and out; when you have cleaned them, pick out
the little ones for pickling, and cut the rest in pieces for stewing;
wash them and put them into a little water, give them a boil and it
will take off the faintness, so drain from them all the water, then put
them into a pan with a lump of butter, a little shred mace, pepper and
salt to your taste (putting them to a little water) hang them over a
slow fire for half an hour, when they are enough thicken them with a
little flour; serve them up with sippets.
218. _To make_ ALMOND PUFFS.
Take a pound of almonds blanch'd, and beat them with orange-flower
water, then take a pound of sugar, and boil them almost to a candy
height, put in your almonds and stir them on the fire, keep them
stirring till they be stiff, then take them off the fire and stir them
till they be cold; beat them a quarter of an hour in a mortar, putting
to them a pound of sugar sifted, and a little lemon-peel grated, make
it into a paste with the whites of three eggs, and beat it into a froth
more or less as you think proper; bake them in an oven almost cold, and
keep them for use.
219. _To pot_ MUSHROOMS.
Take the largest mushrooms, scrape and clean them, put them into your
pan with a lump of butter, and a little salt, let then stew over a slow
fire whilst they are enough, put to them a little mace and whole
pepper, then dry them with a cloth, and put them down into a pot as
close as you can, and as you lie them down strinkle in a little salt
and mace, when they are cold cover them over with butter; when you use
them toss them up with gravy, a few bread-crumbs and butter; do not
make your pot over large, but rather put them into two pots; they will
keep the better if you take the gravy from them when they are stewed.
They are good for fish-sauce, or any other whilst they are fresh.
220. _To fry_ TROUT, _or any other Sort of Fish_.
Take two or three eggs, more or less according as you have fish to fry,
take the fish and cut it in thin slices, lie it upon a board, rub the
eggs over it with a feather, and strow on a little flour and salt, fry
it in fine drippings or butter, let the drippings be very hot before
you put in the fish, but do not let it burn, if you do it will make the
fish black; when the fish is in the pan, you may do the other side with
the egg, and as you fry it lay it to drain before the fire till all be
fried, then it is ready for use.
221. _To make_ SAUCE _for_ SALMON _or_ TURBOT.
Boil your turbot or salmon, and set it to drain; take the gravy that
drains from the salmon or turbot, an anchovy or two, a little
lemon-peel shred, a spoonful of catchup, and a little butter, thicken
it with flour the thickness of cream, put to it a little shred parsley
and fennel; but do not put in your parsley and fennel till you be just
going to send it up, for it will take off the green.
The gravy of all sorts of fish is a great addition to your sauce, if
the fish be sweet.
222. _To dress_ COD'S ZOONS.
Lie them in water all night, and then boil them, if they be salt shift
them once in the boiling, when they are tender cut them in long pieces,
dress them up with eggs as you do salt fish, take one or two of them
and cut into square pieces, dip them in egg and fry them to lay round
your dish.
It is proper to lie about any other dish.
223. _To make_ SOLOMON GUNDY _to eat in Lent_
Take five or six white herrings, lay them in water all night, boil them
as soft as you would do for eating, and shift them in the boiling to
take out the saltness; when they are boiled take the fish from the
bone, and mind you don't break the bone in pieces, leaving on the head
and tail; take the white part of the herrings, a quarter of a pound of
anchovies, a large apple, a little onion shred fine, or shalot, and a
little lemon-peel, shred them all together, and lie them over the bones
on both sides, in the shape of a herring; then take off the peel of a
lemon very very thin, and cut it in long bits, just as it will reach
over the herrings; you must lie this peel over every herring pretty
thick. Garnish your dish with a few pickled oysters, capers, and
mushrooms, if you have any; so serve them up.
224. SOLOMAN GUNDY _another Way_.
Take the white part of a turkey, or other fowl, if you have neither,
take a little white veal and mince it pretty small; take a little hang
beef or tongues, scrape them very fine, a few shred capers, and the
yolks of four or five eggs shred small; take a delf dish and lie a delf
plate in the dish with the wrong side up, so lie on your meat and other
ingredients, all single in quarters, one to answer another; set in the
middle a large lemon or mango, so lie round your dish anchovies in
lumps, picked oysters or cockles, and a few pickled mushrooms, slices
of lemon and capers; so serve it up.
This is proper for a side-dish either at noon or night.
225. _To make_ LEMON CHEESE CAKES.
Blanch half a pound of almonds, and beat them in a stone mortar very
fine, with a little rose-water; put in eight eggs, leaving out five of
the whites; take three quarters of a pound of sugar, and three quarters
of a pound of melted butter, beat all together, then take three
lemon-skins, boiled tender, the rind and all, beat them very well, and
mix them with the rest, then put them into your paste.
You may make a lemon-pudding the same way, only add the juice of half a
lemon: Before you set them in the oven, grate over them a little fine
loaf sugar.
226. _To make white_ GINGER BREAD.
Take a little gum-dragon, lay it in rose-water all night, then take a
pound of jordan almonds blanch'd with a little of the gum-water, a
pound of double-refined sugar beat and sifted, an ounce of cinnamon
beat with a little rose-water, work it into a paste and print it, then
set it in a stove to dry.
227. _To make red_ GINGER BREAD.
Take a quart and a jill of red wine, a jill and a half of brandy, seven
or eight manshets, according to the size the bread is, grate them, (the
crust must be dried, beat and sifted) three pounds and a half of sugar
beat and sifted, two ounces of cinnamon, and two ounces of ginger beat
and sifted, a pound of almonds blanched and beat with rose-water, put
the bread into the liquor by degrees, stirring it all the time, when
the bread is all well mix'd take it off the fire; you must put the
sugar, spices, and almonds into it, when it is cold print it; keep some
of the spice to dust the prints with.
228. _To make a_ GREAT CAKE.
Take five pounds of fine flour, (let it be dried very well before the
fire) and six pounds of currans well dress'd and rub'd in cloths after
they are wash'd, set them in a sieve before the fire; you must weigh
your currans after they are cleaned, then take three quarters of an
ounce of mace, two large nutmegs beaten and mix'd amongst the flour,
and pound of powder sugar, and pound of citron, and a pound of candid
orange, (cut your citron and orange in pretty large pieces) and a pound
of almonds cut in three or four pieces long way; then take sixteen
eggs, leaving out half of the whites, beat your sugar and eggs for half
an hour with a little salt; take three jills of cream, and three pounds
and a half of butter, melt your butter with part of the cream for fear
it should be too hot, put in between a jack and a jill of good brandy,
a quart of light yeast, and the rest of the cream, mix all your liquors
together about blood-warm, make a hole in the middle of your flour, and
put in the liquids, cover it half an hour and let it stand to rise,
then put in your currans and mix all together; butter your hoop, tie a
paper three fold, and put it at the bottom in your hoop; just when they
are ready to set in the oven, put the cake into your hoop at three
times; when you have laid a little paste at the bottom, lay in part of
your sweet-meats and almonds, then put in a little paste over them
again, and the rest of your sweet-meats and almonds, and set it in a
quick oven; two hours will bake it.
229. _To make_ ICEING _for this_ CAKE.
Take two pounds of double-refined sugar, beat it, and sift it through a
fine sieve; put to it a spoonful of fine starch, a pennyworth of
gum-arabic, beat them all well together; take the whites of four or
five eggs, beat them well, and put to them a spoonful of rose-water, or
orange-flower water, a spoonful of the juice of lemon, beat them with
the whites of your eggs, and put in a little to your sugar till you wet
it, then beat them for two hours whilst your cake is baking; if you
make it over thin it will run; when you lie it on your cake you must
lie it on with a knife; if you would have the iceing very thick, you
must add a little more sugar; wipe off the loose currans before you put
on the iceing, and put it into the oven to harden the iceing.
230. _To make a_ PLUMB CAKE.
Take five pounds of flour dried and cold, mix to it an ounce of mace,
half an ounce of cinnamon, a quarter of an ounce of nutmegs, half a
quarter of an ounce of lemon-peel grated, and a pound of fine sugar;
take fifteen eggs, leaving out seven of the whites, beat your eggs with
half a jill of brandy or sack, a little orange-flower water, or rose
water; then put to your eggs near a quart of light yeast, set it on the
fire with a quart of cream, and three pounds of butter, let your butter
melt in the cream, so let it stand till new milk warm, then skim off
all the butter and most of the milk, and mix it to your eggs and yeast;
make a hole in the middle of your flour, and put in your yeast,
strinkle at the tip a little flour, then mix to it a little salt, six
pounds of currans well wash'd clean'd, dry'd, pick'd, and plump'd by
the fire, a pound of the best raisins stoned, and beat them altogether
whilst they leave the bowl; put in a pound of candid orange, and half a
pound of citron cut in long pieces; then butter the garth and fill it
full; bake it in a quick oven, against it be enough have an iceing
ready.
231. _To make a_ CARRAWAY CAKE.
Take eighteen eggs, leave out half of the whites, and beat them; take
two pounds of butter, wash the butter clear from milk and salt, put to
it a little rose-water, and wash your butter very well with your hands
till it take up all the eggs, then mix them in half a jack of brandy
and sack; grate into your eggs a lemon rind; put in by degrees (a
spoonful at a time) two pounds of fine flour, a pound and a half of
loaf sugar, that is sifted and dry; when you have mixed them very well
with your hands, take a thible and beat it very well for half an hour,
till it look very white, then mix to it a few seeds, six ounces of
carraway comfits, and half a pound of citron and candid orange; then
beat it well, butter your garth, and put it in a quick oven.
232. _To make_ CAKES _to keep all the Year_.
Have in readiness a pound and four ounces of flour well dried, take a
pound of butter unsalted, work it with a pound of white sugar till it
cream, three spoonfuls of sack, and the rind of an orange, boil it till
it is not bitter, and beat it with sugar, work these together, then
clean your hands, and grate a nutmeg into your flour, put in three eggs
and two whites, mix them well, then with a paste-pin or thible stir in
your flour to the butter, make them up into little cakes, wet the top
with sack and strow on fine sugar; bake them on buttered papers, well
floured, but not too much; you may add a pound of currans washed and
warmed.
233. _To make_ SHREWSBERRY CAKES.
Take two pounds of fine flour, put to it a pound and a quarter of
butter (rub them very well) a pound and a quarter of fine sugar sifted,
grate in a nutmeg, beat in three whites of eggs and two yolks, with a
little rose-water, and so knead your paste with it, let it lay an hour,
then make it up into cakes, prick them and lay them on papers, wet them
with a feather dipt in rose-water, and grate over them a little fine
sugar; bake them in a slow oven, either on tins or paper.
234. _To make a fine_ CAKE.
Take five pounds of fine flour dried, and keep it warm; four pounds of
loaf sugar pounded, sifted and warmed; five pounds of currans well
cleaned and warmed before the fire; a pound and a half of almonds
blanch'd beat, dried, slit and kept warm; five pounds of good butter
well wash'd and beat from the water; then work it an hour and a half
till it comes to a fine cream; put to the butter all the sugar, work it
up, and then the flour, put in a pint of brandy, then all the whites
and yolks of the eggs, mix all the currans and almonds with the rest.
There must be four pounds of eggs in weight in the shells, the yolks
and the whites beat and separated, the whites beat to a froth; you must
not cease beating till they are beat to a curd, to prevent oiling; to
the quantity of a cake put a pound and a half of orange-peel and citron
shred, without plumbs, and half a pound of carraway seeds, it will
require four hours baking, and the oven must be as hot as for bread,
but let it be well slaked when it has remained an hour in the oven, and
stop it close; you may ice it if you please.
235. _To make a_ SEED CAKE.
Take one quartern of fine flour well dried before the fire, when it is
cold rub in a pound of butter; take three quarters of a pound of
carraway comfits, six spoonfuls of new yeast, six spoonfuls of cream,
the yolks of six eggs and two whites, and a little sack; mix all of
these together in a very light paste, set it before the fire till it
rise, and so bake it in a tin.
236. _To make an ordinary_ PLUMB CAKE.
Take a pound of flour well dried before the fire, a pound of currans,
two penny-worth of mace and cloves, two eggs, four spoonfuls of good
new yeast, half a pound of butter, half a pint of cream, melt the
butter, warm the cream, and mix altogether in a very light paste,
butter your tin before you put it in; an hour will bake it.
237. _To make an_ ANGELICA CAKE.
Take the stalks of angelica boil and green them very well, put to every
pound of pulp a pound of loaf sugar beaten very well, and when you
think it is beaten enough, lay them in what fashion you please on
glasses, and as they candy turn them.
238. _To make_ KING CAKES.
Take a pound of flour, three quarters of a pound of butter, half a
pound of sugar and half a pound of currans, well cleaned; rub your
butter well into your flour, and put in as many yolks of eggs as will
lithe them, then put in your sugar, currans, and some mace, shred in as
much as will give them a taste, so make them up in little round cakes,
and butter the papers you lie them on.
239. _To make_ BREAKFAST CAKES.
Take a pound of currans well washed, (rub them in a cloth till dry) a
pound of flour dried before a fire, take three eggs, leave out one of
the whites, four spoonfuls of new yeast, and four spoonfuls of sack or
two of brandy, beat the yeast and eggs well together; then take a jill
of cream, and something above a quarter of a pound of butter, set them
on a fire, and stir them till the butter be melted, (but do not let
them boil) grate a large nutmeg into the flour, with currans and five
spoonfuls of sugar; mix all together, beat it with your hand till it
leave the bowl, then flour the tins you put the paste in, and let them
stand a little to rise, then bake them an hour and a quarter.
240. _To make_ MACCAROONS.
Take a pound of blanched almonds and beat them, put some rose-water in
while beating; (they must not be beaten too small) mix them with the
whites of five eggs, a pound of sugar finely beaten and sifted, and a
handful of flour, mix all these very well together, lay them on wafers,
and bake them in a very temperate oven, (it must not be so hot as for
manchet) then they are fit for use.
241. _To make_ WHIGGS.
Take two pounds of flour, a pound of butter, a pint of cream, four
eggs, (leaving out two of the whites) and two spoonfuls of yeast, set
them to rise a little; when they are mixed add half a pound of sugar,
and half a pound of carraway comfits, make them up with sugar and bake
them in a dripping pan.
242. _To make_ RASBERRY CREAM.
Take rasberries, bruise them, put 'em in a pan on a quick fire whilst
the juice be dried up, then take the same weight of sugar as you have
rasberries, and set them on a slow fire, let them boil whilst they are
pretty stiff; make them into cakes, and dry them near the fire or in
the sun.
243. _To make_ QUEEN CAKES.
Take a pound of London flour dry'd well before the fire, nine eggs, a
pound of loaf sugar beaten and sifted, put one half to your eggs and
the other to your butter; take a pound of butter and melt it without
water put it into a stone bowl, when it is almost cold put in your
sugar and a spoonful or two of rose water, beat it very quick, for half
an hour, till it be as white as cream; beat the eggs and sugar as long
and very quick, whilst they be white; when they are well beat mix them
all together; then take half a pound of currans cleaned well, and a
little shred of mace, so you may fill one part of your tins before you
put in your currans; you may put a quarter of a pound of almonds shred
(if you please) into them that is without currans; you may ice them if
you please, but do not let the iceing be thicker than you may lie on
with a little brush.
244. _To make a_ BISKET CAKE.
Take a pound of London flour dry'd before the fire, a pound of loaf
sugar beaten and sifted, beat nine eggs and a spoonful or two of rose
water with the sugar for two hours, then put them to your flour and mix
them well together; put in an ounce of carraway seeds, then put it into
your tin and bake it an hour and a half in a pretty quick oven.
245. _To make_ CRACKNELS.
Take half a pound of fine flour, half a pound of sugar, two ounces of
butter, two eggs, and a few carraway seeds; (you must beat and sift the
sugar) then put it to your flour and work it to paste; roll them as
thin as you can, and cut them out with queen cake tins, lie them on
papers and bake them in a slow oven.
They are proper to eat with chocolate.
246. _To make_ PORTUGAL CAKES.
Take a pound of flour, a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a pound of
currans well cleaned, and a nutmeg grated; take half of the flour and
mix it with sugar and nutmeg, melt the butter and put it into the yolks
of eight eggs very well beat, and only four of the whites, and as the
froth rises put it into the flour, and do so till all is in; then beat
it together, still strowing some of the other half of the flour, and
then beat it till all the flour be in, then butter the pans and fill
them, but do not bake them too much; you may ice them if you please, or
you may strow carraway comfits of all sorts on them when they go into
the oven. The currans must be plump'd in warm water, and dried before
the fire, then put them into your cakes.
247. _To make_ PLUMB-CAKES _another way_.
Take two pounds of butter, beat it with a little rose water and
orange-flower water till it be like cream, two pounds of flour dried
before the fire, a quarter of an ounce of mace, a nutmeg, half a pound
of loaf sugar, beat and sifted, fifteen eggs (beat the whites by
themselves and yolks with your sugar) a jack of brandy and as much
sack, two pounds of currans very well cleaned, and half a pound of
almonds blanch'd and cut in two or three pieces length-way, so mix all
together, and put it into your hoop of tin; you may put in half a pound
of candid orange and citron if you please; about an hour will bake it
in a quick oven; if you have a mind to have it iced a pound of sugar
will ice it.
248. _To make a_ GINGER BREAD-CAKE.
Take two pounds of treacle, two pounds and a quartern of flour, and
ounce of beat ginger, three quarters of a pound of sugar, two ounces of
coriander seeds, two eggs, a pennyworth of new ale with the yeast on
it, a glass of brandy, and two ounces of lemon-peel, mix all these
together in a bowl, and set it to rise for half an hour, then put it
into a tin to bake, and wet it with a little treacle and water; if you
have a quick oven an hour and a half will bake it.
249. _To make_ CHOCOLATE CREAM.
Take four ounces of chocolate, more or less, according as you would
have your dish in bigness, grate it and boil it in a pint of cream,
then mill it very well with a chocolate stick; take the yolks of two
eggs and beat them very well, leaving out the strain, put to them three
or four spoonfuls of cream, mix them all together, set it on the fire,
and keep stirring it till it thicken, but do not let it boil; you must
sweeten it to your taste, and keep stirring it till it be cold, so put
it into your glasses or china dishes, which you please.
250. _To make white_ LEMON CREAM.
Take a jill of spring water and a pound of fine sugar, set it over a
fire till the sugar and water be dissolv'd, then put the juice of four
good lemons to your sugar and water, the whites of four eggs well beat,
set it on the fire again, and keep it stirring one way till it just
simmers and does not boil, strain it thro' a fine cloth, then put it on
the fire again, adding to it a spoonful of orange-flower water, stir it
till it thickens on a slow fire, then strain into basons or glasses for
your use; do not let it boil, if you do it will curdle.
251. _To make_ CREAM CURDS.
Take a gallon of water, put to it a quart of new milk, a little salt, a
pint of sweet cream and eight eggs, leaving out half the whites and
strains, beat them very well, put to them a pint of sour cream, mix
them very well together, and when your pan is just at boiling (but is
must not boil) put in the sour cream and your eggs, stir it about and
keep it from settling to the bottom; let it stand whilst it begins to
rise up, then have a little fair water, and as they rise keep putting
it in whilst they be well risen, then take them off the fire, and let
them stand a little to sadden; have ready a sieve with a clean cloth
over it, and take up the curds with a laddle or egg-slicer, whether you
have; you must always make them the night before you use them; this
quantity will make a large dish if your cream be good; if you think
your curds be too thick, mix tho them two or three spoonfuls of good
cream, lie them upon a china dish in lumps, so serve them up.
252. _To make_ APPLE CREAM.
Take half a dozen large apples, (coslings or any other apples that will
be soft) and coddle them; when they are cold take out the pulp; then
take the whites of four or five eggs, (leaving out the strains) three
quarters of a pound of double-refined sugar beat and sifted, a spoonful
or two of rose-water and grate in a little lemon-peel, so beat all
together for an hour, whilst it be white, then lay it on a china dish,
to serve it up.
253. _To fry_ CREAM _to eat hot_.
Take a pint of cream and boil it, three spoonfuls of London flour,
mix'd with a little milk, put in three eggs, and beat them very well
with the flour, a little salt, a spoonful or two of fine powder sugar,
mix them very well; then put your cream to them on the fire and boil
it; then beat two eggs more very well, and when you take your pan off
the fire stir them in, and pour them into a large pewter dish, about
half an inch thick; when it is quite cold cut it out in square bits,
and fry it in butter, a light brown; as you fry them set them before
the fire to keep hot and crisp, so dish them up with a little white
wine, butter and sugar for your sauce, in a china cup, set it in the
midst, and grate over some loaf sugar.
254. _To make_ RICE _or_ ALMOND CREAM.
Take two quarts of cream, boil it with what seasoning you please, then
take it from the fire and sweeten it, pick out the seasoning and divide
it into two parts, take a quarter of a pound of blanch'd almonds well
beat with orange-flower water, set that on the fire, and put to it the
yolks of four eggs well beat and strained, keep it stirring all the
time it is on the fire, when it rises to boil take it off, stir it a
little, then put it into your bason, the other half set on the fire,
and thicken it with flour of rice; when you take it off put to it the
juice of a lemon, orange-flower water or sack, and stir it till it be
cold, then serve it up.
255. _To make_ CALF'S FOOT JELLY.
Take four calf's feet and dress them, boil them in six quarts of water
over a slow fire, whilst all the bones will come out, and half the
water be boiled away, strain it into a stone-bowl, then put to them two
or three quarts more water, and let it boil away to one: If you want a
large quantity of flummery or jelly at one time; take two calf's feet
more, it will make your stock the stronger; you must make your stock
the day before you use it, and before you put your stock into the pan
take off the fat, and put it into your pan to melt, take the whites of
eight or ten eggs, just as you have jelly in quantity, (for the more
whites you have makes your jelly the finer) beat your whites to a
froth, and put to them five or six lemons, according as they are of
goodness, a little white wine or rhenish, mix them well together (but
let not your stock be too hot when you put them in) and sweeten it to
your taste; keep it stirring all the time whilst it boil; take your bag
and dip it in hot water, and wring it well out, then put in your jelly,
and keep it shifting whilst it comes clear; throw a lemon-peel or two
into your bag as the jelly is coming off, and put in some bits of peel
into your glasses.
You may make hartshorn jelly the same way.
256. _To make_ ORANGE CREAM.
Take two seville oranges and peel them very thin, put the peel into a
pint of fair water, and let it lie for an hour or two; take four eggs,
and beat them very well, put to them the juice of three or four
oranges, according as they are in goodness, and sweeten them with
double refin'd sugar to your taste, mix the water and sugar together,
and strain them thro' a fine cloth into your tankard, and set it over
the fire as you did the lemon cream, and put it into your glasses for
use.
257. _To make yellow_ LEMON CREAM.
Take two or three lemons, according as they are in bigness, take off
the peel as thin as you can from the white, put it into a pint of clear
water, and let it lie three or four hours; take the yolks of three or
four eggs, beat them very well, about eight ounces of double refin'd
sugar, put it into your water to dissolve, and a spoonful or two of
rose-water or orange-flower water, which you can get, mix all together
with the juice of two of your lemons, and if your lemons prove not
good, put in the juice of three, so strain them through a fine cloth
into a silver tankard, and set it over a stove or chafing dish,
stirring it all the time, and when it begins to be as thick as cream
take it off, but don't let it boil, if you do it will curdle, stir it
whilst it be cold and put it into glasses for use.
258. _To make white_ LEMON CREAM _another Way_.
Take a pint of spring water, and the whites of six eggs, beat them very
well to a froth, put them to your water, adding to it half a pound of
double refin'd sugar, a spoonful of orange-flower water, and the juice
of three lemons, so mix all together, and strain them through a fine
close into your silver tankard, set it over a slow fire in a chafing
dish, and keep stirring it all the time; as you see it thickens take it
off, it will soon curdle then be yellow, stir it whilst it be cold, and
put it in small jelly glasses for use.
259. _To make_ SAGOO CUSTARDS.
Take two ounces of sagoo, wash it in a little water, set it on to cree
in a pint of milk, and let it cree till it be tender, when it is cold
put to it three jills of cream, boil it altogether with a blade or two
of mace, or a stick of cinnamon; take six eggs, leave out the strains,
beat them very well, mix a little of your cream amongst your eggs, then
mix altogether, keep stirring it as you put it in, so set it over a
slow fire, and stir it about whilst it be the thickness of a good cream;
you must not let it boil; when you take it off the fire put in a tea
cupfull of brandy, and sweeten it to your taste, then put it into pots
or glasses for use. You may have half the quantity if you please.
260. _To make_ ALMOND CUSTARDS.
Boil two quarts of sweet cream with a stick of cinnamon; take eight
eggs, leaving out all the whites but two, beat them very well; take six
ounces of Jordan almonds, blanch and beat them with a little
rose-water, so give them a boil in your cream; put in half a pound of
powder sugar, and a little of your cream amongst your eggs, mix
altogether, and set them over a slow fire, stir it all the time whilst
it be as thick as cream, but don't let it boil; when you take it off
put in a little brandy to your taste, so put it into your cups for use.
You may make rice-custard the same way.
261. _To make a_ SACK POSSET.
Take a quart of cream, boil it with two or three blades of mace, and
grate in a long bisket; take eight eggs, leave out half the whites,
beat them very well, and a pint of gooseberry wine, make it hot, so mix
it well with your eggs, set it over a slow fire, and stir it about
whilst it be as thick as custard; set a dish that is deep over a stove,
put in your sack and eggs, when your cream is boiling hot, put it to
your sack by degrees, and stir it all the time it stands over your
stove, whilst it be thoroughly hot, but don't let it boil; you must
make it about half an hour before you want it; set it upon a hot harth,
and then it will be as thick as custard; make a little froth of cream,
to lay over the posset; when you dish it up sweeten it to your taste;
you may make it without bisket if you please, and don't lay on your
froth till you serve it up.
262. _To make a_ LEMON POSSET.
Take a pint of good thick cream, grate into it the outermost skin of
two lemons, and squeeze the juice into a jack of white wine, and
sweeten it to your taste; take the whites of two eggs without the
strains, beat them to a froth, so whisk them altogether in a stone bowl
for half an hour, then put them into glasses for use.
263. _To make whipt_ SILLABUBS.
Take two porringers of cream and one of white wine, grate in the skin
of a lemon, take the whites of three eggs, sweeten it to your taste,
then whip it with a whisk, take off the froth as it rises, and put it
into your sillabub-glasses or pots, whether you have, then they are fit
for use.
264. _To make_ ALMOND BUTTER.
Take a quart of cream, and half a pound of almonds, beat them with the
cream, then strain it, and boil it with twelve yolks of eggs and two
whites, till it curdle, hang it up in a cloth till morning and then
sweeten it; you may rub it through a sieve with the back of a spoon, or
strain it through a coarse cloth.
265. _To make_ BLACK CAPS.
Take a dozen of middling pippens and cut them in two, take out the
cores and black ends, lay them with the flat side downwards, set them
in the oven, and when they are about half roasted take them out, wet
them over with a little rose water, and grate over them loaf sugar,
pretty thick, set them into the oven again, and let them stand till
they are black; when you serve them up, put them either into cream or
custard, with the black side upwards, and set them at an equal
distance.
266. _To make_ SAUCE _for tame_ DUCKS.
Take the necks and gizzards of your ducks, a scrag of mutton if you
have it, and make a little sweet gravy, put to it a few bread-crumbs, a
small onion, and a little whole pepper, boil them for half a quarter of
an hour, put to them a lump of butter, and if it is not thick enough a
little flour, so salt it to your taste.
267. _To make_ SAUCE _for a_ GREEN-GOOSE.
Take a little good gravy, a little butter, and a few scalded
gooseberries, mix all together, and put it on the disk with your goose.
268. _To make another_ SAUCE _for a_ GREEN-GOOSE.
Take the juice of sorrel, a little butter, and a few scalded
gooseberries, mix them together, and sweeten it to your taste; you must
not let it boil after you put in the sorrel, if you do it will take off
the green.
You must put this sauce into a bason.
269. _To make_ ALMOND FLUMMERY.
Take a pint of stiff jelly made of calf's feet, put to it a jill or
better of good cream, and four ounces of almonds, blanch and beat them
fine with a little rose-water, then put them to your cream and jelly,
let them boil together for half a quarter of an hour, and sweeten it to
your taste; strain it through a fine cloth, and keep it stirring till
it be quite cold, put it in cups and let it stand all night, loosen it
in warm water and turn it out into your dish; so serve it up, and prick
it with blanch'd almonds.
270. _To make_ CALF'S FOOT FLUMMERY.
Take two calf's feet, when they are dress'd, put two quarts of water to
them, boil them over a slow fire till half or better be consumed; when
your stock is cold, if it be too stiff, you may put to it as much cream
as jelly, boil them together with a blade or two of mace, sweeten it to
your taste with loaf sugar, strain it through a fine cloth, stir it
whilst it be cold, and turn it out, but first loosen it in warm water,
and put it into your dish as you did the other flummery.
271. _To stew_ SPINAGE _with_ POACHED EGGS.
Take two or three handfuls of young spinage, pick it from the stalks,
wash and drain it very clean, put it into a pan with a lump of butter,
and a little salt, keep stirring it all the time whilst it be enough,
then take it out and squeeze out the water, chop it and stir in a
little more butter, lie it in your dish in quarters, and betwixt every
quarter a poached egg, and lie one in the middle; fry some sippets of
white bread and prick them in your spinage, to serve them up.
This is proper for a side-dish either for noon or night.
272. _To make_ RATIFIE DROPS.
Take half a pound of the best jordan almonds, and four ounces of bitter
almonds, blanch and set them before the fire to dry, beat them in a
marble mortar with a little white of an egg, then put to the half a
pound of powder sugar, and beat them altogether to a pretty stiff
paste; you may beat your white of egg very well before you put it in,
so take it out, roll it with your hand upon a board with a little
sugar, then cut them in pieces, and lie them on sheets of tin or on
paper, at an equal distance, that they don't touch one another, and set
them in a slow oven to bake.
273. _To fry_ ARTICHOKE BOTTOMS.
Take artichoke bottoms when they are at the full growth, and boil them
as you would do for eating, pull off the leaves, and take out the
choke, cut off the stalks as close as you can from the bottom; take two
or three eggs, beat them very well, so dip your artichokes in them, and
strow over them a little pepper and salt; fry them in butter, some
whole and some in halves; serve them up with a little butter in a china
cup, set it in the middle of your dish, lie your artichokes round, and
serve them up.
They are proper for a side dish either noon or night.
274. _To fricassy_ ARTICHOKES.
Take artichokes, and order them the same way as you did for frying,
have ready in a stew-pan a few morels and truffles, stewed in brown
gravy, so put in your artichokes, and give them a shake altogether in
your stew-pan, and serve them up hot, with sippets round them.
275. _To dry_ ARTICHOKE BOTTOMS.
Take the largest artichokes you can get, when they are at their full
growth, boil them as you would do for eating, pull off the leaves and
take out the choke; cut off the stalk as close as you can, lie them on
a tin dripping-pan, or an earthen dish, set them in a slow oven, for if
your oven be too hot it will brown them; you may dry them before the
fire if you have conveniency; when they are dry put them in paper bags,
and keep them for use.
276. _To stew_ APPLES.
Take a pound of double refin'd sugar, with a pint of water, boil and
skim it, and put into it a pound of the largest and clearest pippens,
pared and cut in halves; if little, let them be whole; core them and
boil them with a continual froth, till they be as tender and clear as
you would have them, put in the juice of two lemons, but first take out
the apples, a little peel cut like threads, boil down your syrrup as
thick as you would have it, then pour it over your apples; when you
dish them, stick them with long bits of candid orange, and some with
almonds cut in long bits, to serve them up.
You must stew them the day before you use them.
277. _To stew_ APPLES _another Way_.
Take kentish pippens or john apples, pare and slice them into fair
water, set them on a clear fire, and when they are boiled to mash, let
the liquor run through a hair-sieve; boil as many apples thus as will
make the quantity of liquor you would have; to a pint of this liquor
you must have a pound of double refin'd loaf sugar in great lumps, wet
the lumps of sugar with the pippen liquor, and set it over a gentle
fire, let it boil, and skim it well: whilst you are making the jelly,
you must have your whole pippens boiling at the same time; (they must
be the fairest and best pippens you can get) scope out the cores, and
pare them neatly, put them into fair water as you do them; you must
likewise make a syrrup ready to put them into, the quantity as you
think will boil them in a clear; make the syrrup with double refin'd
sugar and water. Tie up your whole pippens in a piece of fine cloth or
muslin severally, when your sugar and water boils put them in, let them
boil very fast, so fast that the syrrup always boils over them;
sometimes take them off, and then set them on again, let them boil till
they be clear and tender; then take off the muslin they were tied up
in, and put them into glasses that will hold but one in a glass; then
see if your jelly of apple-johns be boiled to jelly enough, if it be,
squeeze in the juice of two lemons, and let it have a boil; then strain
it through a jelly bag into the glasses your pippens were in; you must
be sure that your pippens be well drained from the syrrup they were
boiled in; before you put them into the glasses, you may, if you
please, boil little pieces of lemon-peel in water till they be tender,
and then boil them in the syrrup your pippens were boiled in; then take
them out and lay them upon the pippens before the jelly is put in, and
when they are cold paper them up.
278. _To make_ PLUMB GRUEL.
Take half a pound of pearl barley, set it on to cree; put to it three
quarts of water; when it has boiled a while, shift it into another
fresh water, and put to it three or four blades of mace, a little
lemon-peel cut in long pieces, so let it boil whilst the barley be very
soft; if it be too thick you may add a little more water; take half a
pound of currans, wash them well and plump them, and put to them your
barley, half a pound of raisins and stone them; let them boil in the
gruel whilst they are plump, when they are enough put to them a little
white wine, a little juice of lemon, grate in half a nutmeg, and
sweeten it to your taste, so serve them up.
279. _To make_ RICE GRUEL.
Boil half a pound of rice in two quarts of soft water, as soft as you
would have it for rice milk, with some slices of lemon-peel, and a
stick of cinnamon; add to it a little white wine and juice of lemon to
your taste, put in a little candid orange sliced thin, and sweeten it
with fine powder sugar; don't let it boil after you put in your wine
and lemon, put it in a china dish, with five or six slices of lemon, so
serve it up.
280. _To make_ SCOTCH CUSTARD, _to eat hot for Supper_.
Boil a quart of cream with a stick of cinnamon, and a blade of mace;
take six eggs, both yolks and whites (leave out the strains) and beat
them very well, grate a long bisket into your cream, give it a boil
before you put in your eggs, mix a little of your cream amongst your
eggs before you put 'em in, so set it over a slow fire, stirring it
about whilst it be thick, but don't let it boil; take half a pound of
currans, wash them very well, and plump them, then put them to your
custard; you must let your custard be as thick as will bear the currans
that they don't sink to the bottom; when you are going to dish it up,
put in a large glass of sack, stir it very well, and serve it up in a
china bason.
281. _To make a Dish of_ MULL'D MILK.
Boil a quart of new milk with a stick of cinnamon, then put to it a
pint of cream, and let them have one boil together, take eight eggs,
(leave out half of the whites and all the strains) beat them very well,
put to them a jill of milk, mix all together, and set it over a slow
fire, stir it whilst it begins to thicken like custard, sweeten it to
your taste, and grate in half a nutmeg; then put it into your dish with
a toast of white bread.
This is proper for a supper.
282. _To make_ LEATCH.
Take two ounces of isinglass and break it into bits, put it into hot
water, then put half a pint of new milk into the pan with the
isinglass, set it on the fire to boil, and put into it three or four
sticks of good cinnamon, two blades of mace, a nutmeg quartered, and
two or three cloves, boil it till the isinglass be dissolved, run it
through a hair-sieve into a large pan, then put to it a quart of cream
sweetened to your taste with loaf sugar, and boil them a while
together; take a quarter of a pound of blanch'd almonds beaten in a
rose-water, and strain out all the juice of them into the cream on the
fire, and warm it, then take it off and stir it well together; when it
has cooled a little take a broad shallow dish and put it into it
through a hair-sieve, when it is cold cut it in long pieces, and lay it
across whilst you have a pretty large dish; so serve it up.
Sometimes a less quantity of isinglass will do, according to the
goodness; Let it be the whitest and clearest you can get.
You must make it the day before you want it for use.
283. _To make_ SCOTCH OYSTERS.
Take two pounds of the thick part of a leg of veal, cut it in little
bits clear from the skins, and put it in a marble mortar, then shred a
pound of beef suet and put to it, and beat them well together till they
be as fine as paste; put to it a handful of bread-crumbs and two or
three eggs, season it with mace, nutmeg, pepper, and salt, and work it
well together; take one part of your forc'd-meat and wrap it in the
kell, about the bigness of a pigeon, the rest make into little flat
cakes and fry them; the rolls you may either broil in a dripping-pan,
or set them in an oven; three is enough in a dish, set them in the
middle of the dish and lay the cakes round; then take some strong
gravy, shred in a few capers, and two or three mushrooms or oysters if
you have any, so thicken it up with a lump of butter, and serve it up
hot. Garnish your dish with pickles.
284. _To boil_ BROCOLI.
Take brocoli when it is seeded, or at any other time; take off all the
low leaves of your stalks and tie them up in bunches as you do
asparagus, cut them the same length you peel your stalks; cut them in
little pieces, and boil them in salt and water by themselves; you must
let your water boil before you put them in; boil the heads in salt and
water, and let the water boil before you put in the brocoli; put in a
little butter; it takes very little boiling, and if it boil too quick
it will take off all the heads; you must drain your brocoli through a
sieve as you do asparagus; lie stalks in the middle, and the bunches
round it, as you would do asparagus.
This is proper for either a side-dish or a middle-dish.
285. _To boil_ SAVOY SPROUTS.
If your savoys be cabbag'd, dress off the out leaves and cut them in
quarters; take off a little of the hard ends, and boil them in a large
quantity of water with a little salt; when boiled drain them, lie them
round your meat, and pour over them a little butter.
Any thing will boil greener in a large quantity of water than
otherwise.
286. _To boil_ CABBAGE SPROUTS.
Take your sprouts, cut off the leaf and the hard ends, shred and boil
them as you do other greens, not forgetting a little butter.
287. _To fry_ PARSNIPS _to look like_ TROUT.
Take a middling sort of parsnips, not over thick, boil them as soft as
you would do for eating, peel and cut them in two the long way; you
must only fry the small ends, not the thick ones; beat three or four
eggs, put to them a spoonful of flour, dip in your parsnips, and fry
them in butter a light brown have for your sauce a little vinegar and
butter; fry some slices to lie round about the dish, and to serve them
up.
288. _To make_ TANSEY _another Way_.
Take an old penny loaf and cut off the crust, slice it thin, put to it
as much hot cream as will wet it, then put to it six eggs well beaten,
a little shred lemon-peel, a little nutmeg and salt, and sweeten it to
your taste; green it as you did your baked tansey; so tie it up in a
cloth and boil it; (it will take an hour and a quarter boiling) when
you dish it up stick it with a candid orange, and lie a sevile orange
cut in quarters round your dish; serve it up with a little plain
butter.
289. _To make_ GOOSEBERRY CREAM.
Take a quart of gooseberries, pick, coddle, and bruise them very well
in a marble mortar or wooden bowl, and rub them with the back of a
spoon through a hair sieve, till you take out all the pulp from the
seeds; take a pint of thick cream, mix it well among your pulp grate in
some lemon-peel, and sweeten it to your taste; serve it up either in a
china dish or an earthen one.
290. _To fry_ PARSNIPS _another Way_.
Boil your parsnips, cut them in square long pieces about the length of
your finger, dip them in egg and a little flour, and fry them a light
brown; when they are fried dish them up, and grate over them a little
sugar: You must have for the sauce a little white wine, butter, and
sugar in a bason, and set in the middle of your dish.
291. _To make_ APRICOCK PUDDING.
Take ten apricocks, pare, stone, and cut them in two, put them into a
pan with a quarter of a pound of loaf sugar, boil them pretty quick
whilst they look clear, so let them stand whilst they are cold; then
take six eggs, (leave out half of the whites) beat them very well, add
to them a pint of cream, mix the cream and eggs well together with a
spoonful of rose-water, then put in your apricocks, and beat them very
well together, with four ounces of clarified butter, then put it into
your dish with a thin paste under it; half an hour will bake it.
292. _To make_ APRICOCK CUSTARD.
Take a pint of cream, boil it with a stick of cinnamon and six eggs,
(leave out four of the whites) when your cream is a little cold, mix
your eggs and cream together, with a quarter of a pound of fine sugar,
set it over a slow fire, stir it all one way whilst it begin to be
thick, then take it off and stir it whilst it be a little cold, and
pour it into your dish; take six apricocks, as you did for your
pudding, rather a little higher; when they are cold lie them upon your
custard at an equal distance; if it be at the time when you have no
ripe apricocks, you may lie preserv'd apricocks.
293. _To make_ JUMBALLS _another Way_.
Take a pound of meal and dry it, a pound of sugar finely beat, and mix
these together; then take the yolks of five or six eggs, half a jill of
thick cream, as much as will make it up to a paste, and some coriander
seeds, lay them on tins and prick them; bake them in a quick oven;
before you set them in the oven wet them with a little rose-water and
double refin'd sugar to ice them.
294. _To make_ APRICOCK CHIPS _or_ PEACHES.
Take a pound of chips to a pound of sugar, let not your apricocks be
too ripe, pare them and cut them into large chips; take three quarters
of a pound of fine sugar, strow most of it upon the chips, and let them
stand till they be dissolv'd, set them on the fire, and boil them till
they are tender and clear, strowing the remainder of the sugar on as
they boil, skim them clear, and lay them in glasses or pots single,
with some syrrup, cover them with double refin'd sugar, set them in a
stove, and when they are crisp on one side turn the other on glasses
and parch them, then set them into the stove again; when they are
pretty dry, pour them on hair-sieves till they are dry enough to put
up.
295. _To make_ SAGOO GRUEL.
Take four ounces of sagoo and wash it, set it over a slow fire to cree,
in two quarts of spring water, let it boil whilst it be thickish and
soft, put in a blade or two of mace, and a stick of cinnamon, let it
boil in a while, and then put in a little more water; take it off, put
to it a pint of claret wine, and a little candid orange; shift them,
then put in the juice of a lemon, and sweeten it to your taste; so
serve them up.
296. _To make_ SPINAGE TOASTS.
Take a handful or two of young spinage and wash it, drain it from the
water, put it into a pan with a lump of butter, and a little salt, let
it stew whilst it be tender, only turn it in the boiling, then take it
up and squeeze out the water, put in another lump of butter and chop it
small, put to it a handful of currans plump'd, and a little nutmeg;
have three toasts cut from a penny loaf well buttered, then lie on your
spinage.
This is proper for a side-dish either for noon or night.
297. _To roast a_ BEAST KIDNEY.
Take a beast kidney with a little fat on, and stuff it all around,
season it with a little pepper and salt, wrap it in a kell, and put it
upon the spit with a little water in the dripping-pan; what drops from
your kidney thicken with a lump of butter and flour for your sauce.
_To fry your_ STUFFING.
Take a handful of sweet herbs, a few breadcrumbs, a little beef-suet
shred fine, and two eggs, (leave out the whites) mix altogether with a
little nutmeg, pepper and salt; stuff your kidney with one part of the
stuffing, and fry the other part in little cakes; so serve it up.
298. _To stew_ CUCUMBERS.
Take middling cucumbers and cut them in slices, but not too thin, strow
over them a little salt to bring out the water, put them into a
stew-pan or sauce-pan, with a little gravy, some whole pepper, a lump
of butter, and a spoonful or two of vinegar to your taste; let them
boil all together; thicken them with flour, and serve them up with
sippets.
299. _To make an_ OATMEAL PUDDING.
Take three or four large spoonfuls of oatmeal done through a
hair-sieve, and a pint of milk, put it into a pan and let it boil a
little whilst it be thick, add to it half a pound of butter, a spoonful
of rose-water, a little lemon-peel shred, a little nutmeg, or beaten
cinnamon, and a little salt; take six eggs, (leave out two of the
whites) and put to them a quarter of a pound of sugar or better, beat
them very well, so mix them all together; put it into your dish with a
paste round your dish edge; have a little rose-water, butter and sugar
for sauce.
300. _To make a_ CALF'S HEAD PIE _another Way_.
Half boil your calf's head, when it is cold cut it in slices, rather
thicker than you would do for hashing, season it with a little mace,
nutmeg, pepper and salt, lie part of your meat in the bottom of your
pie, a layer of one and a layer of another; then put in half a pound of
butter and a little gravy; when your pie comes from the oven, have
ready the yolks of six or eight eggs boiled hard, and lie them round
your pie; put in a little melted butter, and a spoonful or two of white
wine, and give them a shake together before you lie in your eggs; your
pie must be a standing pie baked upon a dish, with a puff-paste round
the edge of the dish, but leave no paste in the bottom of your pie;
when it is baked serve it up without a lid.
This is proper for either top or bottom dish.
301. _To make_ ELDER WINE.
Take twenty pounds of malaga raisins, pick and chop them, then put them
into a tub with twenty quarts of water, let the water be boiled and
stand till it be cold again before you put in your raisins, let them
remain together ten days, stirring it twice a day, then strain the
liquor very well from the raisins, through a canvas strainer or
hair-sieve; add to it six quarts of elder juice, five pounds of loaf
sugar, and a little juice of sloes to make it acid, just as you please;
put it into a vessel, and let it stand in a pretty warm place three
months, then bottle it; the vessel must not be stopp'd up till it has
done working; if your raisins be very good you may leave out the sugar.
302. _To make_ GOOSEBERRY WINE _of ripe_ GOOSEBERRIES.
Pick, clean and beat your gooseberries in a marble mortar or wooden
bowl, measure them in quarts up-heap'd, add two quarts of spring water,
and let them stand all night or twelve hours, then rub or press out the
husks very well, strain them through a wide strainer, and to every
gallon put three pounds of sugar, and a jill of brandy, then put all
into a sweet vessel, not very full, and keep it very close for four
months, then decant it off till it comes clear, pour out the grounds,
and wash the vessel clean with a little of the wine; add to every
gallon a pound more sugar, let it stand a month in a vessel again, drop
the grounds thro' a flannel bag, and put it to the other in the vessel;
the tap hole must not be over near the bottom of the cask, for fear of
letting out the grounds.
The same receipt will serve for curran wine the same way; let them be
red currans.
303. _To make_ BALM WINE.
Take a peck of balm leaves, put them in a tub or large pot, heat four
gallons of water scalding hot, ready to boil, then pour it upon the
leaves, so let it stand all night, then strain them thro' a hair-sieve;
put to every gallon of water two pounds of fine sugar, and stir it very
well; take the whites of four or five eggs, beat them very well, put
them into a pan, and whisk it very well before it be over hot, when the
skim begins to rise take it off, and keep it skimming all the while it
is boiling, let it boil three quarters of an hour, then put it into the
tub, when it is cold put a little new yeast upon it, and beat it in
every two hours, that it may head the better, so work it for two days,
then put it into a sweet rundlet, bung it up close, and when it is fine
bottle it.
304. _To make_ RAISIN WINE.
Take ten gallons of water, and fifty pounds of malaga raisins, pick out
the large stalks and boil them in your water, when your water is
boiled, put it into a tub; take the raisins and chop them very small,
when your water is blood warm, put in your raisins, and rub them very
well with your hand; when you put them into the water, let them work
for ten days, stirring them twice a day, then strain out the raisins in
a hair-sieve, and put them into a clean harden bag, and squeeze it in
the press to take out the liquor, so put it into your barrel; don't let
it be over full, bung it up close, and let it stand whilst it is fine;
when you tap your wine you must not tap it too near the bottom, for
fear of the grounds; when it is drawn off, take the grounds out of the
barrel, and wash it out with a little of your wine, then put your wine
into the barrel again, draw your grounds thro' a flannel bag, and put
them into the barrel to the rest; add to it two pounds of loaf sugar,
then bung it up, and let it stand a week or ten days; if it be very
sweet to your taste, let it stand some time longer, and bottle it.
305. _To make_ BIRCH WINE.
Take your birch water and boil it, clear it with whites of eggs; to
every gallon of water take two pounds and a half of fine sugar, boil it
three quarters of an hour, and when it is almost cold, put in a little
yeast, work it two or three days, then put it into the barrel, and to
every five gallons put in a quart of brandy, and half a pound of ston'd
raisins; before you put up your wine burn a brimstone match in the
barrel.
306. _To make_ WHITE CURRAN WINE.
Take the largest white currans you can get, strip and break them in
your hand, whilst you break all the berries; to every quart of pulp
take a quart of water, let the water be boiled and cold again, mix them
well together, let them stand all night in your tub, then strain them
thro' a hair-sieve, and to every gallon put two pounds and a half of
six-penny sugar; when your sugar is dissolved, put it into your barrel,
dissolve a little isinglass, whisk it with whites of eggs, and put it
in; to every four gallons put in a quart of mountain wine, so bung up
your barrel; when it is fine draw it off, and take off the grounds,
(but don't tap the barrel over low at the bottom) wash out the barrel
with a little of your wine, and drop the grounds thro' a bag, then put
it to the rest of your wine, and put it all into your barrel again, to
every gallon add half a pound more sugar, and let it stand another week
or two; if it be too sweet let it stand a little longer, then bottle
it, and it will keep two or three years.
307. _To make_ ORANGE ALE.
Take forty seville oranges, pare and cut them in slices, the best
coloured seville you can get, put them all with the juice and seeds
into half a hogshead of ale; when it is tunned up and working, put in
the oranges, and at the same time a pound and a half of raisins of the
sun stoned; when it has done working close up the bung, and it will be
ready to drink in a month.
308. _To make_ ORANGE BRANDY.
Take a quart of brandy, the peels of eight oranges thin pared, keep
them in the brandy forty-eight hours in a close pitcher, then take
three pints of water, put into it three quarters of a pound of loaf
sugar, boil it till half be consumed, and let it stand till cold, then
mix it with the brandy.
309. _To make_ ORANGE WINE.
Take six gallons of water and fifteen pounds of powder sugar, the
whites of six eggs well beaten, boil them three quarters of an hour,
and skim them while any skim will rise; when it is cold enough for
working, put to it six ounces of the syrrup of citron or lemons, and
six spoonfuls of yeast, beat the syrrup and yeast well together, and
put in the peel and juice of fifty oranges, work it two days and a
night, then tun it up into a barrel, so bottle it at three or four
months old.
310. _To make_ COWSLIP WINE.
Take ten gallons of water, when it is almost at boiling, add to it
twenty one pounds of fine powder sugar, let it boil half an hour, and
skim it very clean; when it is boiled put it in a tub, let it stand
till you think it cold to set on the yeast; take a poringer of new
yeast off the fat, and put to it a few cowslips; when you put on the
yeast, put in a few every time it is stirred, till all the cowslips be
in, which must be six pecks, and let it work three or four days; add to
it six lemons, cut off the peel, and the insides put into your barrel,
then add to it a pint of brandy; when you think it has done working,
close up your vessel, let it stand a month, and then bottle it; you may
let your cowslips lie a week or ten days to dry before you make your
wine, for it makes it much finer; you may put in a pint of white wine
that is good, instead of the brandy.
311. _To make_ ORANGE WINE _another Way_.
Take six gallons of water, and fifteen pounds of sugar, put your sugar
into the water on the fire, the whites of six eggs, well beaten, and
whisk them into the water, when it is cold skim it very well whilst any
skim rises, and let it boil for half an hour; take fifty oranges, pare
them very thin, put them into your tub, pour the water boiling hot upon
your oranges, and when it is bloodwarm put on the yeast, then put in
your juice, let it work two days, and so tun it into your barrel; at
six weeks or two months old bottle it; you may put to it in the barrel
a quart of brandy.
312. _To make_ BIRCH WINE _another Way_.
To a gallon of birch water put two pounds of loaf or very fine lump
sugar, when you put it into the pan whisk the whites of four eggs;
(four whites will serve for four gallons) whisk them very well together
before it be boiled, when it is cold put on a little yeast, let it work
a night and a day in the tub, before you put it into your barrel put in
a brimstone match burning; take two pounds of isinglass cut in little
bits, put to it a little of your wine, let it stand within the air of
the fire all night; takes the whites of two eggs, beat it with your
isinglass, put them into your barrel and stir them about with a stick;
this quantity will do for four gallons; to four gallons you must have
two pounds of raisins shred, put them into your barrel, close it up,
but not too close at the first, when it is fine, bottle it.
313. _To make_ APRICOCK WINE.
Take twelve pounds of apricocks when full ripe, stone and pare them,
put the paring into three gallons of water, with six pounds of powder
sugar, boil them together half an hour, skim them well, and when it is
blood-warm put it on the fruit; it must be well bruised, cover it
close, and let it stand three days; skim it every day as the skim
rises, and put it thro' a hair sieve, adding a pound of loaf sugar;
when you put it into the vessel close it up, and when it is fine bottle
it.
314. _To make_ ORANGE SHRUB.
Take seville oranges when they are full ripe, to three dozen of oranges
put half a dozen of large lemons, pare them very thin, the thinner the
better, squeeze the lemons and oranges together, strain the juice thro'
a hair sieve, to a quart of the juice put a pound and a quarter of loaf
sugar; about three dozen of oranges (if they be good) will make a quart
of juice, to every quart of juice, put a gallon of brandy, put it into
a little barrel with an open bung with all the chippings of your
oranges, and bung it up close; when it is fine bottle it.
This is a pleasant dram, and ready for punch all the year.
315. _To make_ STRONG MEAD.
Take twelve gallons of water, eight pounds of sugar, two quarts of
honey, and a few cloves, when your pan boils take the whites of eight
or ten eggs, beat them very well, put them into your water before it be
hot, and whisk them very well together; do not let it boil but skim it
as it rises till it has done rising, then put it into your tub; when it
is about blood warm put to it three spoonfuls of new yeast; take eight
or nine lemons, pare them and squeeze out the juice, put them both
together into your tub, and let them work two or three days, then put
it into your barrel, but it must not be too full; take two or three
pennyworth of isinglass, cut as small as you can, beat it in a mortar
about a quarter of an hour, it will not make it small; but that it may
dissolve sooner, draw out a little of the mead into a quart mug, and
let it stand within the air of the fire all night; take the whites of
three eggs, beat them very well, mix them with your isinglas, whisk
them together, and put them into your barrel, bung it up, and when it
is fine bottle it.
You may order isinglass this way to put into any sort of made wine.
316. _To make_ MEAD _another Way_.
Take a quart of honey, three quarts of water, put your honey into the
water, when it is dissolved, take the whites of four or five eggs,
whisk and beat them very well together and put them into your pan; boil
it while the skim rises, and skim it very clean; put it into your tub,
when it is warm put in two or three spoonfuls of light yeast, according
to the quantity of your mead, and let it work two nights and a day. To
every gallon put in a large lemon, pare and strain it, put the juice
and peel into your tub, and when it is wrought put it into your barrel;
let it work for three or four days, stir twice a day with a thible, so
bung it up, and let it stand two or three months, according to the
hotness of the weather.
You must try your mead two or three times in the above time, and if you
find the sweetness going off, you must take it sooner.
317. _To make_ CYDER.
Draw off the cyder when it hath been a fortnight in the barrel, put it
into the same barrel again when you have cleaned it from the grounds,
and if your apples were sharp, and that you find your cyder hard, put
into every gallon of cyder a pound and half of sixpenny or five-penny
sugar; to twelve gallons of this take half an ounce of isinglass, and
put to it a quart of cyder; when your isinglass is dissolved, put to it
three whites of eggs, whisk them altogether, and put them into your
barrel; keep it close for two months and then bottle it.
318. _To make_ COWSLIP WINE.
Take two pecks of peeps, and four gallons of water, put to every gallon
of water two pounds and a quarter of sugar, boil the water and sugar
together a quarter of an hour, then put it into a tub to cool, put in
the skins of four lemons, when it is cold bruise your peeps, and put
into your liquor, add to it a jill of yeast, and the juice of four
lemons, let them be in the tub a night and a day, then put it into your
barrel, and keep it four days stirring, then clay it up close for three
weeks and bottle it. Put a lump of sugar in every bottle.
319. _To make_ RED CURRAN WINE.
Let your currans be the best and ripest you can get, pick and bruise
them; to every gallon of juice add five pints of water, put it to your
berries in a stand for two nights and a day, then strain your liquor
through a hair sieve; to every gallon of liquor put two pounds of
sugar, stir it till it be well dissolved, put it into a rundlet, and
let it stand four days, then draw it off clean, put in a pound and a
half of sugar, stirring it well, wash out the rundlet with some of the
liquor, so tun it up close; if you put two or three quarts of rasps
bruised among your berries, it makes it taste the better.
You may make white curran wine the same way, only leave out the rasps.
320. _To make_ CHERRY WINE.
Take eight pounds of cherries and stone them, four quarts of water, and
two pounds of sugar, skim and boil the water and sugar, then put in the
cherries, let them have one boil, put them into an earthen pot till the
next day, and set them to drain thro' a sieve, then put your wine into
a spigot pot, clay it up close, and look at it every two or three days
after; if it does not work, throw into it a handful of fresh cherries,
so let it stand six or eight days, then if it be clear, bottle it up.
321. _To make_ CHERRY WINE _another Way_.
Take the ripest and largest kentish cherries you can get, bruise them
very well, stones and stalks altogether, put them into a tub, having a
tap to it, let them stand fourteen days, then pull out the tap, let the
juice run from them and put it into a barrel, let it work three or four
days, then stop it up close three or four weeks and bottle it off.
The wine will keep many years and be exceeding rich.
322. _To make_ LEMON DROPS.
Take a pound of loaf sugar, beat and sift it very fine, grate the rind
of a lemon and put into your sugar; take the whites of three eggs and
wisk them to a froth, squeeze in some lemon to your taste, beat them
for half an hour, and drop them on white paper; be sure you let the
paper be very dry, and sift a little fine sugar on the paper before you
drop them. If you would have them yellow, take a pennyworth of
gumbouge, steep it in some rose-water, mix to it some whites of eggs
and a little sugar, so drop them, and bake them in a slow oven.
323. _To make_ Gooseberry Wine _another Way_.
Take twelve quarts of good ripe gooseberries, stamp them, and put to
them twelve quarts of water, let the
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