some minced Capers and Samphire with a Nutmeg sliced adding your Gravy and some Oyster liquor This is a sauce for any joynt of Mutton Neats tongue roasted After you have boiled and blanched your Tongue set it by and when it is cold cut a hole in the butt-end thereof and mince the meat you take from thence with some sweet Herbs finely minced therewith the yolks of Eggs sliced some Pippins and Beef-suet chopt very small some Salt and beaten Ginger having fill'd the hole of your Tongue with these materials stop it with a Caul of Veal lard it with small Lard and roast it for your sauce you must have Butter Gravy juyce of Orange or Lemon and some grated Nutmeg garnish it with sliced Lemon-pill and Barberries Neats Tongue and Vdder roasted otherways Take your Tongue and Udder and parboil them well then blanch the Tongue and lard them both with great Lard but first you must remember to season them with Pepper Nutmeg Ginger and Cinamon then roast them and baste them with Butter and when they are almost roasted bread them with grated Bread or dress them with Flowre mingling therewith some of the forenam'd spices beaten small dish them up with a little Butter Gravy Juyce of Orange Sugar and slices of Lemon Neats Tongues and Vdders frigassi'd Take your Tongue and Udder and boil them till they be enough then with your knife cut them into slices beginning at the butt-end and ending within three inches of the tip or small end which you must cut length-ways for Sippets then take a handful of several sorts of sweet Herbs as Tyme Winter-Savory c. mince them very small and put them to the Tongue and Udder to these add the yolks of eight Eggs and so commix all these together having so done fry them in clarified Butter then turn them out into a stew-Pan and set it over the fire with White wine Sugar Ginger beaten Cinamon a little Vinegar a sprig or two of Rosemary a handful of Bread grated as it boils up put into it a ladleful of drawn Butter then serve it up with the slices of your tips and small end of Tongue and Udder after this run your lair all over it Neats feet frigassied First boil and then blanch them split them and fry them in clarified Butter or you may bone them and fry them in Butter strong Broth and Salt having fryed a while put into the Pan some green Chibbolds and minced Parsley some beaten Pepper Tyme and Spearmint chopt very small when almost enough make a sauce of the yolks of half a dozen Eggs dissolved in Vinegar some Mutton Gravy a little Nutmeg with the juyce of Oranges or Lemons after this manner dish them up Neats feet roasted Your Neats feet must be first boiled and blanched and when they are cold lard them and make them fast to a small spit baste them with Butter Vinegar Sugar and a little Nutmeg being enough have in readiness a sauce made of Claret White wine Vinegar and toasts of brown wheaten Bread strained with the Wine through the Strainer then add thereto Ginger and beaten Cinamon a few whole Cloves put all into a Pipkin and stir it with a branch of Rosemary till it be reasonably thick Oxe-Pallets c. roasted after an incomparable manner Take Oxe-Pallets Lambstones Coxcombs and the stones parboil these and blanch them then take half a dozen Rails Snites Quails Ox-eyes or Larks and make them ready for the Spit having got in readiness interlarded Bacon Sage c. draw on a Bird upon your small spit then a slice of interlarded Bacon and a Bay-leaf then Lambstones Cox-combs and Stones with some large Oysters larded then Bacon and a Sage leaf then a Bird and so on till you have spitted all the Birds then take the yolks of three Eggs fine grated Manchet Salt Nutmeg Tyme and Rosemary minced very small and with this baste your spitted composition as soon as you find them begin to roast in the mean time get the bottoms of Hartichokes boil'd and quater'd and dip them with Marrow into Batter and so fry them the roast being enough rub the bottom of your Dish with Garlick then place your Birds in the middle place the Pallets by themselves Lambstones by themselves the Combs Stones and Sweet-breads apart by themselves and lastly the Hartichokes and Marrow distinct from the rest let your sauce be Butter Anchovies sliced Onion Salt Oyster liquor Nutmeg Gravy and White wine set a little over the fire pour this on and serve it up garnish'd with sliced Lemon Pig roasted with the skin off Take a Pig that 's newly kill'd and being drawn fley him then wipe him very dry with a cloth lay him aside and make a hard meat with grated Bread half a dozen yolks of Eggs Cream minced Tyme Beef-suet Salt Cloves and Mace beaten with this Pudding made pretty stiff stuff the belly of your Pig and skuer it up close and sticking it full with sprigs of Tyme lay it down to the fire with a Dish under it in which is Claret wine Tyme a sliced Nutmeg a little Vinegar and Salt as it roasts baste the Pig herewith being enough froth it up with Butter then take the sauce into which it dropt and putting thereto a large piece of Butter with somâ— minced Lemon beat it up thick and diâ— your Pig therein Pig roasted with the hair on Having drawn your Pig very clean at vent taking out his guts Liver and Lights wipe him well cutting off his feet and truss him and prick up the belly being laid to the fire be careful of scorching him when you perceive the skin to rise up in blisters pull off the skin and hair having clear'd him of both scotch him down the back and baste him with Butter and Cream then take Currans Salt Sugar and grated Bread mingled together and dredge him therewith continuing so to do till he is breaded above half an inchâ— thick being roasted enough serve it up with sauce made of Vinegar whole Cloves whole Cinamon and Sugar boil'd up to a consistency Pig roasted after the usual English fashion Having scalded your Pig clear him very well from hairs and wash him clean then put Sage and some houshold Bread into his belly prick it up and roast him baste him at first with some Butter and Salt but quickly wipe it off keeping him continually rub before a quick fire being almost ready baste him very well and then throw on him a great deal of Salt turning him backwards and forwards before the fire which will make his crackling very crisp For the sauce let there be Sage minced small with Currans well boil'd in Vinegar and Water and thereunto the Gravy of the Pig a little grated Bread the Brains some Barberries and Sugar give these a walm or two and serve the Pig on this sauce with some beaten Butter Rabbets frigassied Let your Rabbets be very well parboil'd then cut them in halves or quarters flowre them
and put them into your Pan with sweet Butter let them fry moderately then get your lair ready made of the yolks of five Eggs well beaten with half a pint of White wine and strong Broth a grated Nutmeg and a handful of Parsley boil'd up green and chopt small with a little Sugar you may put thereto some roasted Potatoes or Hartichokes bottoms sliced let these be put into the Pan with your Rabbets and keep them shaking over the fire until it be ready to boil then disâ— your Rabbets on Sippets and pour oâ— your lair as thick as drawn Butter garnisâ— it with Lemon Barberries and boileâ— Parsley Scotch Collops fryed or broiled made 〈◊〉 Mutton Take the bone out of a Leg of Mutton and slice it into very thin slices crosâ— the grain of the meat then beat them oâ— hack them with the back of a knife the fry them in very good Butter salting theâ— before you put them into the Pan being fryed put to them grated Nutmeg juycâ— of Orange Gravy and a little Claret givâ— it a walm dish it up and run beaten Butteâ— over it Or having boned your Mutton 〈◊〉 your Collops round the Leg as thick as trencher hack them season them with Saâ—â— and broil them on a clear Charcoal-firâ— broil them up quick and turn them being enough sauce them with Gravy juyceâ— Orange Nutmeg and Capers Scotch-Collops of Veal Take a Leg of Veal and take out thâ— bone then cut it into thin slices knocâ—â— them with the back of a cleaver season them lightly with Salt and take Lard of an inch long and draw through every piece having so done fry them in clarified stuff or rather in good sweet Butter being near upon ready make a sauce of Claret and Anchovy some Mutton Gravy and let it stand a very little on the fire then rub your dish with Garlick lay in your meat and pour your sauce thereon garnish it with slices of Lemon Sheeps Tongues Deers Tongues or Calves Tongues fryed Boil your Tongues and peel them then cut them into thin slices and put them into the yolks of half a dozen Eggs beaten with Nutmeg Sugar Salt and Cinamon with a handful of Currans neither will it be irrequisite to add the core of a Lemon cut into square pieces let your Pan be just ready as you have done this last and put these ingredients into the Pan by spoonfuls being fryed but have a care of the least burning for that will spoil all serve them on Sippets with sauce made of Sack sweet Butter and Sugar and serve it hot scraping on Sugar Steaks of Pork broiled Take a Loin of Pork and take off the skin then cut the leaner flesh into thin slices then take a Rowling-pin and beat them as thin and as broad as you can then laying them on the dresser spread abroad strow on them some Salt and Sage minced very small and put them on your Gridiron then season the other side as the former when they are enough dish them up on drawn Butter Vinegar and Mustard with a little Sugar Veal the breast roasted with a Pudding in it Take a knife and open the lower end of your Breast of Veal close between the skin and the ribs then take some Veal and mince it small with Tyme and fat Bacon chopped small some beaten Cloves and Mace Salt and four yolks of Eggs mingle these well together and fill your Breast therewith skuering it up lay it to the fire save the Gravy and beat it up with Butter and the juyce of Oranges for sauce You may make your Pudding thus Otherways take three or four yolks of Eggs some grated White-bread Currans clean picked and well washed Cream Rose-water Cloves and Mace finely beaten a little Saffron Salt Beef-suet chopped small sliced Dates and Sugar make it up pretty stiff and fill the breast therewith Veal a chine or neck roasted Draw your joynts with Tyme spit either one or other and lay it to the fire then take some great Oysters parboil'd and put to them Parsley Tyme and Winter-Savory minced small with the yolks of four Eggs boiled hard and minced small then take Bacon and cut it into slices four square and somewhat bigger than your Oysters then have in a readiness two square Rods about the bigness of your little finger and spit thereon a piece of Bacon and then an Oyster so long till you have spitted all your Oysters and Bacon then tye these rods on your Veal when it is about three quarters roasted set under your roast a Dish with some Claret minced Tyme and a Nutmeg grated your Veal being ready cut off your rods and slip your Bacon and Oysters into the Wine putting them into a Pipkin with the yolk of an Egg and let them boil up thick with drawn Butter pour this lair all over your Veal and serve it up Thus you may roast a Fillet or Leg. Veal Olives how roasted Take a Fillet of Veal and cut from thence large Collops and hack them or beat them with the back of your chopping knife or rowling-pin season them with Cloves Nutmeg Mace and Salt then take some sweet Herbs and Beef-suet and mince them very small add to them the yolks of six Eggs then spread your Collops and strow on your farcing rowling them up very close now spit them and roast them prepare your sauce against they be ready made of the Gravy that drops from them some Claret wine strong Broth and sweet Butter beaten up to a reasonable thickness Veal Fillet farced and roasted Take Tyme Winter-Savory sweet Marjoram and Beef-suet and then mince them very small beat some Cloves and Mace adding to what is abovenamed Salt grated Bread four or five Dates cut small and a handful of Pine kernels blanched mix all these together with Verjuyce and the yolk of an Egg having so done make little holes in your Veal and stuff it herewith very thick then roast it well the sauce must be Butter Vinegar Sugar Cinamon and Ginger beaten work your sauce up thick then dishing your Veal pour on your sauce and garnish it with slices of Orange Veal a Chine broiled Cut your Veal into four or five pieces you may either lard it or let it alone but if you do let the Lard be small then season each piece with Salt then broil them on a Gridiron over a soft fire with some branches of Sage and Rosemary between the Chine and the Gridiron being broiled sauce it with Gravy Butter and juyce of Orange beaten up thick Venison that is fat how to broil Cut the fattest part of a Hanch of Venison into slices about half an inch thick salt each piece and broil them on a soft fire very leisurely when they have soaked a pretty while bread them and serve them with Gravy only Thus you may broil a Chine or side of Venison being first boiled and seasoned with a little Salt Venison a Hanch roasted If your Venison hath been seasoned water it first then
stick it with short sprigs of Rosemary lay it to the fire roast it not too much and let your sauce be half a pint of Claret a handful and a half of grated Bread some Cinamon Ginger Sugar and a little Vinegar boil all these together so long till they are as thick as Pancake Batter then dish up your Venison thereon Venison in Collops Take a Hanch of Venison and cut part of it into Collops then hack it with the back of your knife and having stuck it with small lard take a handful of Parsley and Spinage good store of Tyme a little Rosemary with other sweet Herbs and mince them very small with Beef-suet put these into a dish together with the addition of beaten Cloves Nutmeg good store of Salt the yolks of seven Eggs mingle these all together with your hands then spit your Collops on a small spit intermixing your Herbs and so tye them all together set a dish under them to save the Gravy in which you must put some Claret being almost roasted put your dish over the coals with grated Bread beaten Cinamon Vinegar and Sugar stir these together with your wine and a ladleful of drawn Butter make not your lair too thick and dishing your Venison pour it thereon Fowl of all sorts both Land and Sea Fowl Roasted Fryed Broiled Frigassied Capon roasted with Oysters and Chesnuts TAke a good fat Capon and make him ready for the spit then boil a dozen Chesnuts being soft pill them and put them into Claret wine warm'd with as many large Oysters parboil'd put these into the belly of the Capon and stop them in with sweet Butter let your fire be very good and quick baste it with sweet Butter and as soon as it begins to drop preserve the Gravey then take half a pint of Claret wine a piece of sweet Butter a little gross Pepper half a score or a score of parboil'd Chesnuts as many large Oysters stew these all together till half the liquor be consumed your Capon being ready put in your Gravy to your sauce bread up your Fowl and dish it on your sauce Capons frigassied Your Capon to be frigassied must be either boiled or roasted which you must carve up taking the Pinions from the Wings and the Brawn from the Joynt as they lye in the dish Thus carved up to lye orderly on the Pan put to them the yolks of five Eggs with sliced Nutmeg and minced Tyme Being thus all in the dish mingle them well together and put them into your Pan with clarified Butter half hot and fry them till they are yellow then turn them after this take some White wine with the yolks of three Eggs a little strong Broth Gravy an Onion cut in quarters Anchovies and a little Nutmeg grated then pour out what liquor is in your Pan and add to it a ladleful of drawn Butter then put this lair into your Pan and keep continually shaking it therein over a slow fire till it grows thick if it should prove too thick you may thin it with White wine then dish up your Fowl and pour in your sauce and serve it up garnisht with hard yolks of Eggs chopt small and slices of Lemon Chickens frigassied Take half a dozen Chickens draw fley and cut them into quarters not removing the Gibblets and Liver then take your Cleaver and with the back thereof beat them very well then fry them brown with Butter in the mean time get Tyme sweet Marjoram and other sweet Herbs and mince them small Oxe-Palates Dates the bottoms of three or four Hartichokes sliced all together Salt with beaten Ginger and Mace The meat being enough cleanse your Pan and put in your meat again with strong Broth Verjuyce and the rest of the aforementioned materials and let them fry till the liquor be half consumed then put in half a pound of Butter Sugar scalded Goosberries minced Lemon and shake them well together dish them up on Sippets garnished with grated Bread sliced Lemon and scalded Goosberries The latest way of frigassying Chickens is thus take them scald them and quarter them then break their bones by beating them with a back of the Cleaver dry them well and then flowre them your Pan being hot put them in with their skinny side downward and fry them brown on both sides then pour out your liquor and have a lair in readiness made of Gravy and Claret which you must put into your Pan adding thereto pieces of Sausages cut about half the length of your finger a pint of Oysters and an Onion or two a faggot of sweet Herbs a grated Nutmeg a couple of Anchovies let these boil up in the Pan then take the yolks of five Eggs and beat them in strong broth take your Pan off the fire and pour them in shaking them whilst they are over the fire then dish up your Chickens on Sippets pouring on your lair with Oysters and placing your bits of Sausages round the dish garnishing it with Lemon Duckling frigassied Take Ducklings and cut them in small pieces flowre and fry them in sweet Butter having first dryed them in a clean cloth then take some Sack an Onion and Parsley chopt small a piece of whole Mace and a little gross Pepper adding hereunto some Butter Sugar and Verjuyce Then take a good handful of Clary and pick off the stalks having done this make a batter of four new-laid Eggs fine Flowre some sweet Cream and a little Nutmeg fry these in a Pan and having dish'd your Ducklings pour on your fryed Clary c. upon them Ducks or Wigeons frigassied Quarter them first race them beat them with the back of your Cleaver having dryed them well put them into a Pan with sweet Butter and fry them when they are almost fryed put into them a handful of minced Onions some little Tyme after put in some Claret wine with some thin flices of Bacon and some Spinage and Parsley boiled green and minced small when it hath fryed a little while break in a dish three yolks of Eggs with a grated Nutmeg and a little Pepper put these into the Pan then toss it up with a ladleful of drawn Butter pour on your lair and let your Bacon be on the top of your Ducks Ducks roasted Having roasted your Ducks very well provide in the mean time this following sauce boil some Onions sliced very thin in a little strong Broth put thereto a little Gravy and some drawn Butter This is the custom of some but the best and general rule is for all Wild Fowl to boil up the Gravy with an Onion a little Nutmeg and Butter For Water Fowl it is customary to boil up sliced Onions in strong Broth with Gravy and a little drawn Butter Goose frigassied Take a Goose and roast him almost then carve him and scotch with your knife long ways and cross it over again to make it look like chequer-work then wash it over with Butter and strow Salt upon it then put it
with a good quantity of Butter This way is good either hot or cold Pig-pye after the newest fashion Having fley'd your Pig cut it into quarters season it with Salt Ginger and Pepper then lay it into your Pye after this take Parsley and Winter-Savory stript and mince them small strow these over the several quarters or smaller pieces and over them the yolks of four or five hard Eggs chopped small over these four or five blades of Mace a dozen bunches or more of Barberries with a handful of Currans well cleansed some Sugar and over all sweet Butter bake it and liquor it with Verjuyce and Sugar warmed lay on the lid and scrape Sugar thereon Pork baked to be eaten cold Bone first a Loyn of Pork and cut part thereof into Collops as big as a Hens Egg with as many Collops of Veal of the same bigness and beat them both with the back of a Cleaver you must season your Veal with minced Tyme Nutmeg Cloves and Mace with the yolks of Eggs your Pork must be seasoned otherways with minced Sage Pepper Salt and the yolks of Eggs also then lay a laying of Pork into your Pye and a laying of Veal upon it then Pork on that and Veal upon that till all your Meat is in then close it and baste your Pye with Saffron water or the yolks of Eggs when it is baked and cold fill it with clarified Butter let your first and last laying be Pork Rabbets baked to be eaten cold Parboil your Rabbets and bone them then lard them and season them with Pepper Salt Cloves Nutmeg and Mace then put them into the Pye with a good quantity of Winter-savory and forced Meats put on a pound of Butter on the top and close it when baked and cold fill it with clarified Butter Red Deer baked Having taken out the back sinew and boned your side of Venison season it and lard the Fillets with great Lard your proper seasoning is Nutmeg and Pepper of each three ounces and five ounces of Salt slash your Venison for the better entring in of your seasoning your Pye or Pasty being made lay in the bottom some Butter a quarter of an ounce of Cloves two or three Bay-leaves then lay in your flesh and thereon a few Cloves and good store of Butter close it up and let it soak in the Oven nine hours at least before you put it into the Oven baste it with Saffron water when baked fill it up with clarified Butter Another very excellent way to bake Red Deer Bone your Venison and if it be the side skin it and beat it with an Iron-pestle but not too small then lay it a steeping in Claret wine and Vinegar twenty four hours having lain that time take it out and dry it with a cloth if it be lean lard it with great Lard as long and as thick as your finger season it exceeding well with Nutmeg Mace Ginger Pepper and Salt make your Pye with Rye Paste deep round and very thick laying Bay-leaves in the bottom and top then close it leaving a funnel in the middle if you intend to keep it long when it is baked pour away all the Gravy and take Butter and knead it and wash it in two or three waters then melt it and fill up your Pye therewith you may keep it thus a quarter of a year you may bake it after this manner in a Pot and it will not only keep longer but require less Butter to fill it up Steak-pye of Mutton Having made your Pye deep round and pretty thick take a Neck and Breast of Mutton and cut them out into pieces as to fry hack it with your Cleaver and season it with Nutmeg Pepper Salt sweet Herbs minced very small a handful of Capers two Onions minced small the yolks of three or four hard Eggs chopped thus seasoned lay in your meat scattering these materials over it and laying pretty store of Butter on the top then close it and let it soak in the Oven three hours at least in a moderate heat Steak-pye with a French Pudding in it Season your Steaks as aforâ—said and let them stand in the Tray or Dish two hours then take a lean piece of Mutton and mince it small with Beef-suet and a few sweet Herbs with two or three leaves of red Sage grated Bread yolks of Eggs sweet Cream Raisins of the Sun incorporate these together and make an indifferent stiff Pudding rowl them into balls and when you have laid your Steaks in a deep Pye put your Pudding balls in also with some Butter Lastly sprinkle a little Verjuyce thereon and close it up being baked take Bay-leaves and fry them in Butter and stick them in the walls serve up your Pye with a cover squeezing thereon the juyce of Oranges or Lemon Otherways Cut a Neck and Breast of Mutton between every rib and beat each distinctly with the back of a Cleaver then season the pieces with Pepper and Salt having laid them into your Pye put thereon four or five blades of large Mace and half a pound of sweet Butter close it up and let it stand in the Oven two hours in the mean time boil some Parsley very tender and beat it as soft as the pulp of a boiled Turnip put to it a quarter of a pint of White wine Vinegar a little sweet Butter and two spoonfuls of Sugar heat these over the fire then draw your Pye and cut open the lid and pour this sauce all over the Pye then shake it well on your Peel that the Sauce and Gravy may mingle together put on the lid and scrape on some Sugar Sweet-breads baked Take Sweet-breads and boil them adding thereto some parboil'd Currans two or three minced Dates the yolks of a couple of new laid Eggs some grated white Bread season it lightly with Pepper Salt Nutmeg and Sugar wring in the juyce of an Orange or a Lemon lay these materials between two sheets of Puff-paste and bake it it will do every whit as well fryed in good sweet Butter Sheeps Tongues baked Having boiled them tender blanch them and cut them into thin slices then season them with Cinamon Ginger and a little Pepper and put them into a Coffin of fine Paste with sweet Butter and a few sweet Herbs minced very small whilst it is baking take a little Vinegar Butter Nutmeg Sugar the yolk of a new laid Egg one spoonful of Sack and the juyce of a Lemon boil all these together on a Chafing-dish of coals and put it into your Pye shog it well together and serve it up Tongue Pye Take a Tongue and Udder after you have either boiled or roasted it and slice them into thin slices and season them with Cinamon Ginger and Salt then take half a pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned your Pye being in readiness lay in a laying of Tongue and Udder and another of Raisins continuing so doing till your Pye be filled put Butter on the top and close
little Cream then set on about a pint and a half of Cream over the fire and put your pounded Almonds therein with some Cinamon large Mace and a grain of Musk fastned to a thread stir it continually that it burn not to the bottom till it be thick then take it off the fire and beat in the yolks of four or five Eggs with the whites of two so season it with Sugar or Orangado and bake it either in a Dish or Paste Or you may only strain beaten Almonds with Cream yolks of Eggs Sugar Cinamon and Ginger boil it thick fill your Tart and when it is baked ice it Damsin Tart. Boil them very well in wine strain them with Cream Sugar Cinamon and Ginger then boil them again and so fill your Tart. Strawberry Tart. Wash your Strawberries which you must procure of the midling size and put them into your Paste season them with Cinamon Ginger and a little red Wine on the top lay Sugar let it stand in the Oven about half an hour then draw it ice it and scrape on Sugar Cherry Tart. Stone your Cherries and lay them in the bottom of your Pye with beaten Cinamon Ginger and Sugar then close it up bake it and ice it when it is baked pour into it Muskadine and Damask water well mingled together and scrape on Sugar Medler Tart. Your Medlers that are rotten are only fit for the purpose which you must strain into a Dish and then set them over a Chafing-dish of coals season it with Sugar Ginger and Cinamon adding thereto some yolks of Eggs beaten having boiled half a quarter of an hour lay it into your paste being baked scrape on Sugar Pine-apple Tart. Take three handfuls of Pine-apples the pulp of as many Pippins with a pricked Quince when they are well beaten put to them three quarters of a pint of Cream a little Rosewater the yolks of five Eggs with half a quarter of a pound of Sugar you may thin it with more Cream if you find it too thick let your Paste in which you put these ingredients be thin low and dryed so close it up and bake it A Spring Tart. Gather what buds are not bitter also the leaves of Primroses Violets and Strawberries with young Spinage and boil them and put them into a Cullender then chop your Herbs very small and boil them over again in Cream add thereunto so many yolks with the whites as will sufficiently thicken your Cream to which you must add some grated Naples bisket colour all green with the juyce of Spinage and season it with Sugar Cinamon Nutmeg and a little Salt you may bake it in Puff-paste or otherways Taffety Tart. Having wetted the Paste with Butter and cold water rowl it very thin then lay Apples in lays and between every lay of Apples strow some fine Sugar and some Lemon-pill cut very small let them bake an hour then ice them with Rosewater Sugar and Butter and wash them over with the same then strow more fine Sugar on them and put them into the same Oven again you may serve them either hot or cold Cowslip Tart. Take three quarts of the blossoms of Cowslips mince them and pound them in a Morter put to them a quarter of a pound of Naple-bisket grated a pint of Cream and put them into a Skillet and let them boil a little on the fire then take them off and beat in the yolks of half a dozen Eggs with some Cream make it thick over the fire but let it not curdle season it with Sugar a little Rosewater and Salt your best way is to let your Cream be cold before you stir in your Eggs then bake it in Paste or Dish Cream Tart. Take Quinces Pears Wardens and Pippins slice them into quarters boil them and strain them into Cream as also Malagatoons Necturus Apricocks Peaches Plums or Cherries fill your Tart and lay on the top preserved Citron when it is baked beat Rosewater and Sugar and pour thereon A Tart of green Pease Boil your Pease tender and drain them well in a Cullender season them with Salt and Saffron and put some Sugar and sweet Butter then bake it almost an hour then draw it forth of the Oven and ice it put in a little Verjuyce and shake them well together then scrape on Sugar and serve it Prune Tart. Stew two pound of Prunes in as much Claret wine as will cover them being tender strain them then wash and rub them all together and pour in some of the liquor they were stewed in to wash the Prunes from the stones and this will be instrumental to carry all off but the skin and stones then set what you have strained over a Chafing-dish of coals with a little whole Cinamon large Mace a little Orangado and Citron minced season it with Sugar Rosewater beaten Cinamon and Ginger let it boil up till it be thick after this take out your whole Spice let not the Walls of your Tart be above an inch and a half high and dry it first in an Oven you may make it corner'd fashion either in six or in eight then put in your stuff and let no corner be empty but with your spoon plant it every where put it into the Oven and let it stand a little when you draw it stick it with Lozenges and scrape on Sugar A Goosberry Tart baked green and clear as Crystal When you have form'd your Tarts into what form you think fit strow some Sugar in the bottom of them then take large round Goosberries pick'd and lay them therein one by one covering the bottom and sprinkle thereon some Sugar then lay on another lay and cover that with Sugar and so continue doing till your coffins be full let the lid of your Tarts be carved and bake them quick by which means they will be green and clear So will Codlins bake green if you order them as you do the Goosberries and cutting the lids but if you would have your fruits baked red bake them slowly and let their lids be close Puff-paste how to make it the best way Take a pottle of Flower and the whites of half a dozen Eggs make it up into Paste with cold Water but make it not too stiff work it well and rowl it forth four square into a sheet as thick as your finger then take three pound of Butter and beat it well with a Rowling-pin then lay it on in slices all over your Paste and as thick as your finger and strow a little Flowre over it then rowl up your sheet of Paste like a coller with the Butter within squeeze and close it at both ends with your Rowling-pin scruise it all along the rowl of Paste and rowl it broad and long-ways then clap up both ends and make them meet in the middle one over the other and fasten it down again with the Rowling-pin rowling it forth every way as thin as it was at first when you laid on the
fire till it boils then take it off and strain it having two Dishes the first straining pour in again and let it run into the other dish till it be clear Jelly of Raspisses First strain your Raspisses and to every quart of juyce add a pound and half of Sugar pick out some of the fairest and having strowed Sugar in the bottom of the Skillet lay them in one by one then put the juyce upon them with some Sugar reserving some to put in when they boil let them boil apace and add Sugar continually till they are enough Jelly for service of several colours Take four pair of Calves feet a Knuckle of Veal and a fleshy Capon prepare them as in the crystal Jelly boil them in three gallons of Spring water till the one half be consumed then strain it into an earthen Pan and let it cool after this pare the bottom and top and dissolve it again and divide it into four equal proportions and put them into as many Pipkins which will contain about five pints a piece put into one Saffron into the second Cocheneil beaten with Allum into the third Turnsole and let the last have its proper colour put to every Pipkin a quart of White wine and the juyce of two Lemons put to the last Jelly one race of Ginger pared and sliced and three blades of large Mace to the red Jelly two Nutmegs and the quantity of as much Cinamon with the same of Ginger To the Turnsole put the like quantity of each with some whole Cloves Lastly to the Amber and yellow Jelly the like quantity of Spices Then take the whites of a dozen and a half of Eggs and beat them with six pound of double refined Sugar and divide this into four parts putting each proportion into every several Skillet boil these again then take them off and strain them once more set it over the fire and when it boils up take it off and strain it into an earthen Pan so let it cool and keep it for your use Jelly of Pippins Amber colour Take a dozen fair Pippins and core them boil them in three pints of fair spring Water till one half is consumed then put in half a pint of Rosewater a pound and half of fine Sugar and boil it uncovered till it come to the colour of Amber if you would know when it is enough drop some thereof from your spoon upon a piece of glass if it stand it is enough then run it into an earthen Pan upon a Chafing-dish of coals and while it is warm fill up your Boxes or Printing Moulds with a spoon let it stand till it be cold then turn it ouâ— of your Printing Moulds and serve it at your pleasure The same Jellyed as red as a Ruby Take the same quantity of Pippins as aforesaid and core them then boil them in the like quantity of spring Water with a pound and half of fine Sugar boil it covered close till it be red the boiling either open or covered gives them the difference of complexion Where note let your Boxes lye four or five hours in Water before you put in your Jellies and it will not stick to them Jelly of Oranges Shave your Oranges thin quarter them and lay them in Water three days shift them twice a day then boil them very tender in several Waters till the bitterness be gone having dryed them with a cloth cut them into thin slices cross the quarters then take their weight of fine Sugar fill a pint of juyce of Apple-Johns and spring Water strong of the Apples as you can make it then mingle the sliced Oranges and liquor together your Sugar being finely beaten and wet with Water boil it a while scum it and put the Oranges and Apple liquor into it boil it till it be ready to jelly then put in the juyce of four Oranges and Lemons together boil it a little after this and add to it if you think fit a little Musk and Ambergriese tyed in a Tiffany-rag Otherways Take the juyce of a dozen and a half of Oranges with a quart of the aforesaid stock let them boil together a quarter of an hour seasoned as was directed in the crystal Jelly if too weak add some Izing-glass as much as may suffice if two strong put thereto some Rhenish wine clarifying it with the whites of Eggs then run it into your bags In the like manner you may make Jelly of red Currans the juyce thereof being mingled with a little Rhenish wine in the Winter season you may use the Syrrup of Mulberries Barberries or the Syrrup of Orangado so will you have your several colour'd Jellies with their several tastes Harts-horn Jelly Take the Brawn of four Cocks steep it in Water a day and a night and shift it twice or thrice in that time then take four ounces of Harts-horn and boil these together near upon two hours then strain the broth into a Pipkin and let it be cold after this take off the bottom and top then put in your clean Jelly into a Pipkin and season it as you did your crystal Jelly before only adding thereto a little China-root sliced you may also add Majesty of Pearl or Corral in stead thereof then put it over the fire again for the space of about a quarter of an hour then clarifie it with whites of Eggs and run it through your bags as aforesaid and so preserve it for your use This Jelly is a very great Cordial restringent and will strengthen very much the back Another most excellent way Take what quantity you please of Harts-horn the like of Izing-glass and Dates the same of sliced Figs and Prunes to half a pound of the aforesaid ingredients put a pound of Sugar of Cinamon and Ginger each half an ounce a quartern of Mace and the like of Cloves half an ounce of Nutmegs and a little red Saunders slice your Spices but let your Cinamon be put in whole you may do well to add a stick of Liquorish A most excellent white Jelly Take a couple of Capons boil them and take away the fat and lungs first of all having soaked them in water three or four hours immediately after trussing let the Water you boil them in be at least two gallons unto which you must put a gallon of White wine scum these and boil them to a Jelly strain the Broth from the grounds and blow off the fat clean then take a quart of the Jelly-broth and a quart of Cream a pound and a half of Sugar and a quarter of a pint of Rosewater mingle these all together and let them have a walm or two over the fire with half an ounce of fine sierced Ginger then set it a cooling and slice it or cast it into Printing-Moulds A most incomparable Jelly for a weak back Take a quart of spring Water and put therein two Ounces and a half of Harts-horn boil it over a soft fire till it waste to a pint then
take it off the fire and having stood a while strain it through a fine cloth crushing the Harts-horn with a spoon gently then put to it the juyce of a Lemon two spoonfuls of Red-rose-water half a spoonful of Cinamon-water four or five ounces of fine Sugar or sweeten it according to your discretion then put it out into little Glasses and let it stand twenty four hours When you use it let it be in the Morning or about four of the clock in the Afternoon it is excellent if you dissolve it in a dish of Broth. Thus much for Jellies The next thing that will imploy our consideration and fancy will be the composition of Leaches but before we treat hereof it will be very requisite to show you the use of your Jelly and Leach They are a great second and third Course dish your Jelly being sliced forth thin and laid in your Dish Your Jelly is cut forth into Ribbonds and placed between your Jelly with your colours opposite to one another beat some of your Jelly in pieces and place it in gobblets in the middle of your Dish also garnish it with Gobblets or Diamonds of Jelly in every vacant place you may run your Jelly into a Lemon-pill with the pulp taken out LEACHES How to make a Leach all manner of ways TAke a quarter of a pound of the best Jordan Almonds blanch them and steep them in Water ten hours or more then pound them in a Marble-morter very small then put them into a Pipkin or Skillet with a quart of Milk over the fire and let them boil half an hour but continually stir it for otherways it may burn to then strain out your Milk into another Skillet through a hair-strainer then put to it an ounce of Izing-glass that had before been steept an hour and half in Milk and withal a good quantity of Cinamon with some large Mace and Nutmeg quarter'd also a pound of fine white Sugar of Musk and Ambergriese both together one grain then set it again on the fire and stir it continually till you take it off when it is enough put to it some Rosewater and dish it up in a Bason If you would have your Leaches of several colours you must follow the same method prescribed you in the tincturing your Jellies for Example tye up Spinage well beaten in a Tiffany-rag squeeze that and the juyce gives a green tincture or complexion to your Jelly or Leach if you will have your colours to be yellow or red then use in the same manner Cocheneil and Saffron but have a care you press them not too hard with your spoon and by that means break the bag and so defile your Leach c. If you would have any other colours you must make use of Syrrups which are clear and forget not to steep your Cocheneil and Saffron in Rose-water before you use it A most excellent French Leach Take three pints of Cream half a pint of Rosewater five grains of Musk dissolved in the same and half a dozen large blades of Mace boiled with half a pound of Izing-glass being steeped and washed clean put to it half a pound of Sugar being boiled to a Jelly run it through your bag into a Dish when it is cold slice it into Chequer-work and so serve it on a Plate or glasses The best way of making an Almond Leach Take two ounces of Izing-glass and lay it a steeping an hour and a half in Water shift it and boil it in fair Water then let it cool then take three pound of Almonds and blanch them when you have so done pound them in a stoen Morter and put to them some Milk to keep them from oyling after you have strain'd them add to them large Mace and shee l Ginger and boil them till they savour well of the Spice then put in your dissolved Izing-glass Sugar and a little Rosewater run these through a strainer and put it into dishes You may discolour some part of this Leach by Saffron another by Turnsole or green Wheat and another by Blew-bottles Another Leach of Almonds as white as snow Take a pound of Almonds steep them in Water six hours and blanch them into cold Water then make a decoction of half a pound of Izing-glass with two quarts of White wine and the juyce of two Lemons boil them till half be wasted when it is cold strain it then mingle them with the Almonds and strain them with a pound of double refined Sugar and the juyce of two Lemons turn it into colours by the helps aforesaid red white yellow and blew and put it into Egg-shells or Orange-pills with the pulp taken forth this Leach will appear of a lovely white to the eye Or thus Take two ounces of Izing-glass lay it two hours steeping in Water then boil it in spring Water being well dissolved set it to cool then have a pound of Almonds beaten very fine with Rosewater strain them with a pint of new Milk and put in some Mace and sliced Ginger then set them over the fire about a quarter of an hour after put in your Izing-glass some Sugar and a little Rosewater then run it through your strainer into dishes White Leach of Cream Take a pint of Cream half a dozen spoonfuls of Rosewater one grain of Musk one drop of the Oyl of Mace or a large blade boil them with a quarter of a pound of Sugar and the like weight of Izing-glass being washed clean and steeped then run it through your Jelly-bag into a Dish when it is cold slice it on a Plate in Chequer-work Creams of all sorts Barley Cream TAke half a pound of French Barley and boil it in several waters till it be soft and the water look not red then take two quarts of sweet Cream and boil it with large Mace and quarter'd Nutmeg till it be indifferent thick then have in readiness half a pound of Almonds finely beaten strain them into a dish with Rosewater having poured it into the Cream set it over the fire stir it continually till it boil then season it with Sugar Musk or Ambergriese and serve it up cold Stone Cream Take a quantity of Cream as much as you judge sufficient and proportion large Mace Cinamon and Rosewater accordingly season it well with Sugar and boil it till it taste very well of the Spice then dish it and stir it till it be no warmer than Milk coming from the Cow then put in a little Runnet and stir it together when it hath stood a while a cooling serve it up Or thus Take a quart of thick sweet Cream and mingle therewith seven or eight spoonfuls of Rosewater season it well with Sugar and boil it till one quarter be wasted then take it off and when it is off he fire stir it in the dish you intend to serve it till it be luke-warm then stir it again and put some Runnet therein when it is cold strow on Sugar and beaten Cinamon
Cream made with Snow Take a pint and half of Cream and boil it with a stick or two of Cinamon thicken it with Rice-flower and the yolks of Eggs having seasoned it with a little Salt Rose-water and Sugar let it have a walm or two then put it into a Dish and lay clowted Cream upon it and fill up the Dish with froth of Cream that comes up to the mouth of the Churn when you make Butter sprinkle it with Rosewater and scrape Sugar thereon with some Pine-kernels Cream with Snow made otherways Take a pint of Cream three whites of Eggs half a quartern of Rosewater four ounces of double refined Sugar beat these together very well in a deep Bason with Musk and Ambergriese dissolved having in readiness a Silver Dish or China Bason take a Manchet and cut away the top and bottom crust then lay it in the bottom of your Dish and stick thereon a sprig of Rosemary then beat your aforementioned materials up together and as it doth froth so lay the froth with a spoon therein till you have filled the Dish Otherways Take the whites of eight Eggs and having mingled therewith some Rosewater beat them very well together with a bunch of Feathers by which means in the working you will make your whites to look just like Snow having then as aforesaid laid the crum of a Manchet in the bottom of your Dish with a branch of Bays stuck thereon lay in the bottom some thick clowted Cream and on the top thereof lay your Snow in heaps Cheese Cream Your Curds being well cleans'd from the Whey season them with beaten Cinamon Sugar and Rosewater then fill herewith two or three dishes with about a pint a piece in each then lay trenchers on the top of themwith a board and so press them till they are like green Cheeses then turn them out whole into your Dish have in readiness a pottle of Cream with whole Cinamon large Mace and a Nutmeg quarter'd with the yolks of half a dozen Eggs beaten with some Rosewater put it in a little before you take it off the fire season it with some fine Sugar when it is almost cold put it above and beneath the Cheeses Some only season your pure fresh Cream with beaten Cinamon Nutmeg Rosewater and Sugar with as much grated Naples-bisket as will make it thick so pour it over your Cheeses as is afore specified and scrape on Cinamon and Sugar Apple Cream Take nine sound Pippins pare slice or quarter them put them into a Skillet with some Claret wine a race of Ginger sliced thin a little Lemon-pill cut small and some Sugar let these stew together till they be soft then put them into a Dish and when they are cold take a quart of Cream boiled with some Nutmeg and mingle it with your Apple-stuff till you have reduced it to what thickness you think is most convenient for your purpose Another way to make Apple Cream Take eight or ten Pippins pare core and quarter them then boil them in a pint of White wine and a pint of Sack with a Pill of minced Orangado some whole Cinamon and Ginger sliced half a pound of Sugar and keep them covered until they are boiled to a Jelly then lay them by spoonfuls up high in a Dish when they are cold pour in your Cream boiled as aforesaid stick your Rocks of Jelly with sliced Citron You may avoid using any wine only adding a pound of Sugar if the quantity of your Pippins extend to a dozen boil them in no more Water than will cover them when they are boiled enough they will be as red as a Ruby and as clear Quince Cream Take a convenient quantity of Quinces and when your Water boils put them therein when they are tender boiled take them up and peel them strain them and mingle them with fine Sugar then make it of a convenient thickness with sweet Cream or you may boil the Cream with a stick of Cinamon but put it not to the Quinces till it be cold in the same manner you may order Wardens or Pears Or thus you mayorder your Quinces let them be unpared and put them into Water which must boil first when they are boiled tender strip their skin and core them then season them with beaten Ciâ—amon Ginger Orangado dryed Citron minced small Carraway comfits Rosewater and Sugar your Cream being boiled thus seasoned and in a manner cold put it in among your Quinces by spoonfuls Cream called Sack Cream Whilst three pints of Cream is boiling on the fire beat the yolks of eight or nine Eggs with some Sack and put it into your Skillet keeping it stirring till it come to a curd then run it through a strainer and save your curd being sever'd from your whey season it with beaten Cinamon Ginger Nutmeg Sugar and Rosewater so lay it in your Dish and strow on Cinamon and Sugar Or only take a quart of Cream and set it on the fire and when it is boiled drop in two spoonfuls of Sack and stir it well so that you keep it from curdling then season it with Sugar and Rosewater Rasberry Cream You must boil up your Cream as the former then take a pretty quantity of Rasberries and mingle with your Cream bruising them well when your Cream is almost cold season it with Sugar and Rose-water stir them well together strow on Sugar and dish it up Red-currans Cream Bruise as aforesaid your Currans with a ladleful or two of your Cream being first boiled then strain them then put your strained stuff to the said Cream but not before it be almost cold and it will be purely red Cabbidge Cream Set three quarts of new Milk over the fire and scum it as long as any froth ariseth then empty it into seven or eight bouls as fast as you can without frothing then set them where the wind may come when they are somewhat cold gather the Cream on the top with your hand crumpling it together and lay it on a Plate when you have laid four or five layings one upon the other then take a feather and wet it in Rosewater and Musk and stroke over it then sierce a little grated Nutmeg and fine Sugar and lay on three or four lays more then put all the Milk to boil again and when it just riseth up distribute it as before into your bouls and use it in like manner thus you may do four or five times still laying on your Cream as before and so order it that it may lye round and high as a Cabbidge let one of the first bouls stand because the Cream of it will be thickest and most crumpled and lay on that last on the top of all when you serve it up scrape on Loaf-sugar here note that this must be made over night for next days dinner and in the morning for supper Another excellent way Take two gallons of new Milk and when it boileth put therein a quart of Cream
with the whites of three Eggs beaten up very well let it boil but a very little time and take it off and put it into several broad earthen Milk-pans and let it stand till it is cold then having boil'd a Cabbidge in Milk cut it in two and put half thereof into your Dish with the cut side downward then scum the Cream off your Pans and lay them on the Cabbidge after this sprinkle on Cinamon Rosewater and Sugar between each sheet or lay so lay on the top of the other until you have laid on all your Cream by so doing your Cream will appear like a Cabbidge for ornament stick on sprigs of Rosemary which you must snow artificially Almond Cream Take a pound of Almond paste that hath been pounded in a Morter with Rosewater and strain it with a pottle of Cream then put it into a Skillet with two sticks of Cinamon and boil it stir it continually and when it is boiled thick put it into a Dish let it cool scrape on Sugar and serve it up Or thus take three pints of Cream and boil it over night in the morning take three quarters of a pound of Almonds blanched and finely beaten strain them with the Cream and add thereto somewhat more than a quarten of double refined Sugar some Rosewater Cinamon and Ginger finely beaten and fierced then dish it scrape on Sugar and serve it up Almond Cream the best away Take half a pound of Almonds right Jordan for they are the best and pound them in a Morter with Rosewater and Sugar sprinkling them in by degrees as you are pounding incorporate these well together with Rice-flowre and a little Milk making it no thicker than batter when your Cream boileth pour this stuff into your Skillet and let them boil together with Izing-glass Nutmeg and Cinamon with a blade or two of large Mace keep it stirring over the fire for the space of half an hour then take it off and put therein the yolks of half a dozen Eggs well beaten in some Cream and Rosewater with three quarters of a pound of fine Sugar stir all together and dish it up three quarts of Milk will be sufficient for the aforesaid ingredients Goosberry Cream Take what quantity of Cream you think fit and boil it with Cinamon Nutmeg Mace Sugar Rosewater and the yolks of Eggs beaten having boiled a little while take it off and dish it then have in readiness some preserved Goosberries and stick them on a pin in rows as thick as they can lye on the Cream garnish your dish with the same sprinkle on Sugar and serve it up Otherways Take a quantity of Goosberries codled green and boil them up with Sugar then put them into raw or boiled Cream strained or not it is better to let them be whole scrape on Sugar and serve them up In like manner you may order Raspiss Red-currans or Strawberries or you may serve them in Wine and Sugar without any Cream Rice Cream Take three quarts of Cream and three handfuls of Rice-Flowre with half a pound of Sugar mingle the two last named very well together and put it into the Cream then beat the yolk of an Egg or two with a little Rosewater and put it likewise into the Cream stir these all together continually over a quick fire till it be as thick as pap Rice Milk or Cream otherways Having boil'd your Rice near upon a quarter of an hour put it out into a Cullender and pick out the unhuskt Rice from the rest if it be half a pound of Rice that you use then must you have three quarts of Milk or Cream when it boils put in your Rice with large Mace whole Cinamon and a Nutmeg in halves when it begins to thicken take the yolks of half a dozen Eggs and beat them with Rose-water and a ladleful of your boiling Cream then stir it all into your Cream over the fire then take it off and season it with Sugar and a little Salt take out your whole Spice and dish it up scrape on it Sugar and on the brims of your Dish and serve it up Clowted Cream Take new Milk from the Cow and let it over the fire in two or three broad earthen Pans when it is ready to boil take it off and set it by to cool when it is cold scum iâ— off with your Scummer and season it with Rosewater Musk and Sugar Another rare Cream Take a pound of Almond-paste fine beaten with Rosewater mingle it with a quart of Cream half a dozen Eggs a little Sack half a pound of Sugar and some beaten Nutmeg strain them and put them into a clean scoured Skillet and set it on a soft fire stir it continually and being of an indifferent thickness dish it up with juyce of Oranges Sugar and a stick or two of candyed Pistaches Another When you churn Butter take out a pint of Cream just as it is about to turn to Butter then boil a quart of thick new Cream season it with Sugar and a little Rosewater when it is quite cold mingle it well with your former Cream and so dish it An extraordinary clowted Cream Take two gallons and a half of new Milk and when it boils make a hole in the middle of the Milk and pour in two quarts of good new thick Cream and put it into the hole as it boileth thus boil it half an hour then divide it into four Milk-pans and let it cool four and twenty hours or longer if the weather be not too hot then take it up with a slice and put it into a Dish clod upon clod and sprinkle thereon Rosewater and Sugar Codling Cream Take a dozen and a half of fair Codlings and coddle them then skin and core them after this beat them in a Morter then take three pints of Cream and mix them well together and strain it into a a Dish and mix it with Sugar Sack Musk and Rosewater you may order any fruit after the same manner if you please Otherways Take two dozen of Codlings which are codled very green and clean skin'd then put them in a Dish half filled with Rose-water and three quarters of a pound of Sugar boil these together till half the liquor be consumed keep it stirring till it be ready then fill up your Dish with thick sweet Cream and stir it till it be well incorporated when it hath boiled a little while take it off let it cool then scrape on Sugar and serve it Or you may take a quart of Cream and boil it with Mace Sugar two yolks of Eggs two spoonfuls of Rosewater and a grain of Ambergriese put it into the Cream and set it over the fire till it be ready to boil then set them to cool stirring them till they be cold then add to it a quart of green codling stuff strain'd strow on Sugar and serve it up Plum Cream It matters not what your Plums are so they be fair and put them into
half a doâ—en yolks of Eggs your Cream being almost cold put them therein and put to them the Marrow of three Marrow-bones minced with some minced Orangado Citron beaten Cinamon Ginger Cloves Mace Rosewater Sugar and a little Salt you may thin it with Cream if your Manchet swells too much for it must be no thicker than pancake batter then having your Hogs-guts ready cleansed and washed fill them up and tye them like Beads being about the bigness and length of an Egg you must give two inches scope to every one of these in the tying else they will break boil them very softly in a Kettle for the space of half an hour or more then take them up and keep them for service Marrow-puddings baked Let your Dish be indifferent deep on the bottom whereof lay Sippets of white Bread and on that lay raw Marrow all over with Dates Raisins of the Sun Orangado and other Suckets then having in readiness some Cream boiled up with the yolks of Eggs lay thereon a ladleful or two thereof Marrow upon that upon your Marrow make a lay of Dates Raisins c. and then a lay of Cream continue so doing till you have fill'd your Dish garnish the brim of your Dish with Paste then set it in the Oven half an hour and it will be enough In the boiling of your Cream you must put in whole Cinamon and large Mace and season it with Rosewater Sugar and grated Nutmeg Black-puddings Take six quarts of great Oat-meal and put to it three Gallons of strong Broth let it boil softly over the fire about half an hour stirring it continually pour it forth into a great earthen-Pan let it be cold and put to it five or six quarts of Hogs-blood strained mix these together and let them steep all night then take an indifferent handful of Winter-savory and as much Penniroyal some Hysop and Rosemary with a handful of Tyme and Sives or instead thereof Onions or Leeks and a handful of Sage mince all these together and mingle them with your aforesaid ingredients let your seasoning be Pepper beaten small Cloves Mace Ginger Cinamon Nutmegs and Salt then cut in a good quantity of Lard about the bigness of a great Dye adding thereto the yolks of a dozen and a half of Eggs beaten very well mingle these well with your hands Your small Hogs-guts being cleansed and watered a day before cut them about a yard long or somewhat more blow them up to see whether they be sound and fill them with the materials aforesaid and tye up your lengths in six links or four as you shall judge fit let your Water boil moderately and having boiled your Puddings about half an hour take them up and put others in then put them in for half an hour more do this as you are filling your Puddings supply your Pan with Hogs-suet and order your hand in the filling that the ingredients may all carry a due proportion Black-puddings otherways made Take the blood of a Hog whilst it is warm and put therein some Salt when it is cold put in gross Oat-meal well pick'd after it hath stood a soaking all night then put in Rosemary Tyme Penniroyal Savory and Fennel minced small alter the hardness and redness of the blood with some Cream beat in half a dozen Eggs and season it with Cloves Mace Pepper Fennel-seed and cut in good store of Beef-suet in pretty big lumps Or else take a quantity of Oatmeal the one half you must pick and put it into Hogs-blood whilst it is warm being first well strained so let it stand all night then take the other part of the Oatmeal and pick it also and boil it in Milk till it be tender and all the Milk consumed then put it to the blood stirring it well together put in good store of Hogs-suet and season it with sweet Herbs as aforesaid Salt Pepper and Fennel-seed fill not the guts too full and boil them gently Polony Sausages Take of a Gammon of Bacon boiled a good piece take as much Lard and mince them both small mingle these together and beat them in a Morter then season them with Tyme and Sage minced very small and good store of Pepper pulverized with some Cloves Nutmeg Mace and Salt add to them the yolks of Eggs and as much red Wine as will render them stiff mingle them with your hands and fill your skins which must be as big as the small end of a Rolling-pin then hang them in your Chimney for some time when you use them cut them out thin round-ways and put them into a Dish with Oyl and Vinegar they will serve either for a second course or collation for a drinking bout if you season them very well with the aforesaid ingredients they will keep a long time they must hang either in a place indifferently hot and cold Liver Puddings Having boiled your Hogs Liver grate it and add to it a greater quantity of grated Bread than there is of Liver with both their quantities of fine Flowre to every quart of this composition allow four Eggs half a pound of Beef-suet minced very small a quarter of a pound of Currans a little Rosewater some Cloves Nutmeg Mace Cinamon and Ginger beaten small having season'd it with Salt put thereunto Winter-savory Penniroyal sweet Marjoram and Tyme minced very small then mingle all these with a little Milk and having made this mixture as thick as Frumenty fill your guts therewith then boil them soberly for the space of an hour and if you perceive any of them to bladder prick them Or thus Take a Liver as aforesaid boil it dry and let it stand till it be cold then grate it and sift it through a Cullender put Cream to it and the flick of a Hog minced small with some grated Bread also add thereto sweet Herbs minced small with Nutmeg Mace Pepper Anniseed Rosewater Cream and Eggs with some Currans and Dates as you shall think fit so fill the guts and boil them Oatmeal Puddings Take a pottle of Milk and set it over the fire with four or five sticks of Cinamon and large Mace then take three handfuls of great Oatmeal and beat it small in a Morter then stirring your Milk put it therein making it of an indifferent thickness then put in two handfuls of Beef-suet cut small stir it and let it boil half an hour then pour it forth into an earthen-Pan and let it stand till it be almost cold if it grows thicker than is requisite you may make it thinner with some new Milk then break into it the yolks of five or six Eggs with a quartern of Sugar a grated Nutmeg and some Rosewater butter the bottom of your Dish and pour in your Pudding of the thickness of Batter then put it into an Oven about half heated and let it stand there half an hour then draw it scrape on Sugar and serve it up Or thus Pick and wash very clean a quart of whole
bottom of them some sliced Dates Raisins of the Sun stoned and some boiled Currans fill them and bake them being baked scrape Sugar upon them forget not to prick your forms or Custards before you set them in the Oven Or thus if you make your Custard in paste set it in works and dry it in the Oven then beat the spawn of a Pike in a Morter and strain it with Cream season it with Sugar Rosewater a grated Nutmeg and a little Mace beat them well together fill your forms and when it is baked strew comfits thereon CHEESE-CAKES DRain the whey from your curds made of new Milk to every pottle of curds allow a quarter of a pound of Butter a good quantity of Rosewater three grains of Ambergriese the crums of a Manchet rubbed through a Cullender the yolks of ten Eggs a grated Nutmeg a little Salt and good store of Sugar mix all these well together with a little Cream but do not make them too soft instead of Bread take Almonds which will be much better put up your ingredients into Puff-paste and bake them in a quick Oven and let them not stand too long lest they should be too dry Otherways Make your crust of cold Butter-paste to a gallon of Flowre take a pound of Butter then take curds made of Cream which are very fresh and new and put them into your Cheese-cloth and press out all the Whey then stamp in a fine grated Manchet among the Curds some Cloves and Mace a pound and a half of well-washed Currans the yolks of eight Eggs some Rosewater Salt half a pound of refined Sugar with a Nutmeg or two incorporate these well together with a quarter of a pound of good sweet Butter and some Cream make it not too soft put your materials into paste and bake them Or thus Take three quarts of Flowre and three quarters of a pound of Butter a little Yest or Barm with a small quantity of Saffron made into powder add these to the Flowre but melt your Butter in Milk and so make up the Paste then take the Curds of three quarts of new Milk-cheese with near upon a pint of Cream drain the Whey well from the Curds and pound it in a Morter with half a pound of Sugar three quarters of a pound of Currans washed and well pick'd a grated Nutmeg some Cinamon beaten fine Salt Rosewater a little Saffron pulverized and half a dozen yolks of Eggs work it up stiff with Butter and Cream Otherways Take the yolks of eighteen Eggs and the whites of half as many beat them very well then take three pints of Cream and boil it with Mace after this take it off the sire stir it and put in the Eggs then set it on the fire and let it boil till it curdleth then take it off and put therein half a pound of Sugar some grated Nutmeg and beaten Mace then dissolve two grains of Ambergriese in four spoonfuls of Rosewater and put therein with half a handful of grated Bread half a pound of blanch'd Almonds beaten small a little Cream and some Currans put them in Paste as aforesaid and let them bake a quarter of an hour which will be sufficient Some will take a pottle of Flowre half a pound of Butter and the white of an Egg working it well into the Flowre with the Butter then put a little cold Water to it and work it up stiff then take a pottle of Cream half a pound of Sugar and a pound of boil'd Currans a whole Nutmeg grated and boil these together gently with the yolks of eighten Eggs stir it continually when it hath boil'd enough take it off and let it cool then fill your Cheese-cakes Cheese-cakes in the French fashion Take a pound and a half of Pistaches stamped with two pound and a half of new morning Cheese-curds three ounces and a half of Elder-flowers twelve Eggs a pound and a quarter of Sugar the like quantity of Butter and a pottle of Flowre strain these in a course strainer and fill your forms made of Puff-paste or other Paste as good as cold Butter paste c. Otherways after the French fashion Take fix pound of the best Holland-cheese and eight pound of new-made morning Milk Cheese-curds and beat them in a Morter then put Sugar to them about a pound or more and half a pound of well pick'd and washed Currans fifteen Eggs well beaten Cream three quarters of an ounce of Cinamon half an ounce of Mace and a little Saffron mix them well together and fill your Cheese-cakes Pasty-ways made of Puff-paste or cold Butter-paste being baked ice them with yolks of Eggs Rosewater and Sugar The best way of making Cheese-cakes Take a pretty large morning Milk-cheese of about fix pound in weight pound it in â—one or wooden Morter and with a pound of Water amongst it and a pound of Sugar â—dd thereto beaten Mace two pounds of Currans a pound of Almonds blanched and beaten with Rosewater and a little Salt then boil some Cream and thicken it with the yolks of Eggs work these well together but let not the Curd be two soft make the Paste of cold Butter and Water form it Pasty-ways and fill it White-pots and Fools White-pots the French fashion TAke a quart of good thick Cream and boil it with four or five blades of large Mace and some whole Cinamon then take the whites of four Eggs and Seat them well when the Cream boils up put them in then take it off the fire and keep it stirring a little while and put in some Sugar then pare half a doven Pippins slice them and put them into a pint of Claret wine some Raisins of the Sun Sugar beaten Cinamon and beaten Ginger boil your Apples to a pap then cut some Sippets very thin and dry them before the fire when the Apples and Cream are boil'd and cold take half the Sippets and lay them in a dish lay half the Apples on them then lay on the rest of the Sippers then Apples as you did before then pour on the rest of the Cream and bake it in the Oven as a Custard and when you serve it scrape on Sugar Rice White-pot Take three pints of Cream and a quarter of a pound of Rice well pick'd some beaten Nutmeg Ginger and Sugar boil these together and set it by till it is cold then strain into it the yolks of half a score Eggs a quarter of a pound of Currans well-washed and some Salt incorporate these together and bake it You may put these ingredients either into Paste Earthen-Pan Dish or deep Bason and when it is baked garnish your Dish with Sugar Orange Comfits and Cinamon White-pot after the Devonshire fashion Take Mornings-milk and soak therein some slices of white Bread and put therein a little Flowre with the yolks of Eggs beaten very small bruise your Bread so that it is wholly incorporated with your Milk Eggs and Flowre make it about the thickness of
Pancake batter then fill a deep earthen-pan herewith and lay some pieces of Butter on the top tye a brown paper about the head thereof and put it into your Oven when it is baked on the top there will be a hard crust You may make them without Flowre and with Rice or without either only with Bread A Norfolk-fool Take three pints of Cream and boil it with large Mace and whole Cinamon having boiled a very little time put therein the yolks of eight Eggs well beaten then take it off the fire and take out your Mace and Cinamon the Cream being of an indifferent thickness cut a Manchet into fine slices and cover the bottom of your Dish then pour on some Cream then more bread do this three or four times till the Dish be full then trim the dish siâ—â—e with fine carved Sippets and stick it with sliced Dates scrape on Sugar and serve it A Westminster Fool. Slice a Manchet very thin and lay it in the bottom of a Dish and wet them with Sack then take what quantity of Cream you think fit and boil it with Eggs and large Mace season it with Rosewater and Sugar then stir it well together to prevent curdling then pour it on the Bread and let it cool when it is cold serve it up Possets Wassels Syllabubs and Blamangers A Sack Posset TAke three pints of very good new Cream and a quarter of a pound of Almonds stamped with some Rosewater strain it with the Cream then boil it with a little Ambergriese then put a pint of Sack into a Bason and set it over the fire till it be blood-warm then take the yolks of nine Eggs with three whites having beaten them well put them into the Sack then stir them together in the Bason with the Cream having suffer'd it to cool a little before you put it in stir so long till you find it as thick as you would have it then pound Amber small and mingle it with Sugar and a little Musk and strew it on the top of the Posset it will give it a most delightful taste Or thus take ten Eggs beat the whites and yolks together and strain them into a quart of Cream season it with Nutmeg and Sugar and put to them a pint of Canary stir them well together and put them into your Bason then set it over a Chafing-dish of coals and stir it till it be indifferently thick then scrape on Sugar and serve it Another excellent Sack-posset Take the yolks of two dozen of Eggs and five pints of good sweet Cream and boil it with a good quantity of whole Cinamon and stir it continually on a good fire then strain the Eggs with some raw Cream when the Cream is so well boil'd that it tasteth of the Spice take it off the fire and pour in your Eggs and stir them well among the Cream being indifferent thick have a quart of Sack in a deep Bason that will contain the rest of the materials and pour in your Cream c. with a pound of double refined Sugar and some fine grated Nutmeg pour it in as high as you can hold your Skillet let it spatter in the Bason to make it froth you may if you please take off the Curd and add thereto fine grated Manchet loaf-Loaf-Sugar finely beaten and a little White wine A Sack-posset without Milk or Cream Take the yolks and whites of twenty Eggs but remove the Cock-treads beat these very well then take a pint and a half of Sack and a quart of Ale boil'd and scum'd and put into it a pound of Sugar and three quarters of a Nutmeg let it boil a little together then take it off the fire stirring the Eggs still put into them two or three ladlefuls of the liquor then mingle all together set it over the fire till it be pretty thick and serve it up A French-Posset Take three pints of Cream and a Nutmeg and set it over the fire and let it boil as it is boiling have a Bason wherein there must be a pint of White wine well sweetned with Sugar then set it over the coals to warm a little then put in your Cream stir 〈◊〉 and let it stand simmering over the â—â—â—e an hour and a half A Covent-Garden-Posset Take a quart of new Cream a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon and a Nutmeg quarter'd and boil it till it taste of the Spice and keep it always stirring or it will burn to then take the yolks of eight Eggs well beaten with a little cold Cream and put them into the hot Cream over the fire and stir it till it begin to boil then take it off and stir it till it be indifferently cold sweetning it with some Sugar then take a little more than a quarter of a pint of Sack and sweeten that also then set it on the â—â—â—e till it be ready to boil then put it into a deep Bason and pour the Cream into it elevating your hand as high as you can conveniently to make it froth which is the grace of your Posset and if you put it through a Tunnel it is held the most exquisite way A Worcester Syllabub Take a Syllabub pot and fill it half full of Red-streak'd Sider with good store of Sugar and a little Nutmeg stir it well together and put in as much thick Cream a spoonful at a time as fast as you can as though you milk'd in then stir it together very softly once about and let it stand two hours before you eat it for the standing makes the curd If in the Field only Milk the Cow into your Sider Nutmeg Sugar and so drink it warm Another very good Syllabub Take a pint of Canary or White wine a sprig of Rosemary a Nutmeg quarter'd the juyce of a Lemon some of the Pill with Sugar put these together into a Pot all night and cover them in the Morning take a pint of Cream and a pint and half of new Milk then take out the Lemon-pill Rosewater and Nutmeg and squirt your Milk and Cream into the Pot. Or take a pint of thick Cream and a pint of White wine and put them together in a deep Bason with two whites of Eggs the juyce of a Lemon some pill and a little Sugar then take some rods and whip it and as the froth ariseth take it off with a spoon and put it into a Fruit-dish and lay fine sierced Sugar thereon A Wassel Boil three pints of Cream with four or five whole Cloves then have the yolks of half a dozen Eggs dissolved in Cream the Cream being well boiled so that it taste of the Spices put in your Eggs and stir them well together then have some Muskadine or Tent and being warm'd pour it into a Dish with Sugar wherein there are fine Sippets of French-bread then pour on your Cream upon that then cast on Ginger Cinamon and Sugar and stick it with blanched Almonds Blamangers Take a pottle of morning Milk and
a pound of fine sierced Rice-flowre strain them through a strainer into a broad Skillet and set it on a soft fire stir it with a broad stick and when it is a little thick take it off the fire then put in half a pint of Rosewater and set it over the fire again stir it well and beat it with your stick from one side of the Pan to the other when it is as thick as pap take it off when it is cold lay it in slices on a Dish and scrape on Sugar Blamanger in the French fashion Take a Pike and boil it in fair Water very tender then take the flesh from the bones and chop it very small then take a pound of Almond-paste and beat it with your Fish aforesaid put to them a quart of Cream the whites of a dozen Eggs well beaten and the crums of a French-manchet mingle all together and strain them with some Sugar and Salt then put them in a broad Stew-pan over the fire stir it and boil it thick being boil'd let it stand till it be cold then strain it again into a clean Dish scrape on Sugar and serve it Blamanger after the Italian fashion Take a Capon that is either boil'd or roasted and being cold strip off the skin mince it and pound it in a stone Morter with Almonds blanched then mix it with some Capon broth and crums of Whitebread strained together with some Salt Rosewater and Sugar boil it to a good thickness then either put it in Paste oâ— serve it in a Dish Blamanger after the English fashion Take two quarts of fine Flowre half a pound of Butter the like quantity of Sugar some Saffron Rosewater beaten Cinamon and the yolks of Eggs work up all cold together with some Almond-paste Potages Soops Cawdles c. How to make broth for the feeding of all Pots for Potages whether English or French fashion ACcording to the quantity of what Broth you will have you must proportion your knuckles of Beef the flesh of the hinder part of the Rump of Mutton and Hens you must seeth the flesh very well with Parsley young Onions and Tyme tyed in a bundle with Cloves Mace and same beaten Cinamon keeping always some warm Water to fill up your Pot as your Liquor consumes when you have boil'd them well strain the broth and preserve it for your use For first Courses and brown Potages set your roasted meat to boil with a bundle of Herbs as aforesaid after you have taken the juyce of it having boil'd it a good while strain it and keep it for your use Potages for Flesh-days Potages of Partridges with Coleworts TRuss your Partridges lard them and put them into your Pot with good Broth and put your Coleworts in also being boiled pass into your Pot a little melted Lard let your seasoning be Mace Cloves Pepper and Salt having soak'd your crusts and dish'd your Fowl garnish them with Sausages and Lemon strowing Salt on the brims of the Dish Potages of Ducks and Turnips Having larded your Ducks give them half a dozen turns on a spit before a quick fire then draw them and boil them then take your Turnips and cut them into what forms you think fit pass them in a Pan having first flowr'd them with melted lard being brown put them into the Pot where your Ducks are and boil them well having soaked your Bread to make your Potage thick dish your Ducks and Purnips strowing some Capers and a little Vinegar thereon let your garnish be carved Turnips Potage for a grand boiled Meat Take strong broth and boil therein what Fowl or other meat you have then take three pints thereof with a pint and half of Gravy drawn with Wine nine Andâ—ovies four whole Onions half a pint of Oyster liquor a handful and half of Raspin of French-bread the juyce of four Lemons the yolks of three Eggs beaten into it when you are ready to use it with a sliced Nutmeg so draw it up all together You may use Herbs in the same broth as Spinage Sorrel Endive Lettice Burslain with some faggots of sweet Herbs This is a very rich broth with a high hogo and is most sitting for great Dishes on great Festivals Potage called Skink According to the quantity of broth you would have proportion the flesh of the Legs of Beef which you must cut into small pieces about the highness of a Tennis-ball or less break the bones in pieces and let them soak in Water washing and cleansing it from the blood but just cover it in your Pot with Water when it boils scum it then put in some Pepper in a cloth and when it is half boiled put in four Onions a little Cloves and whole Mace with a race or two of Ginger sliced then take up a ladleful thereof and steep therein some Saffron tyed up in a rag bruise it till you have colour'd your broth then put it into your Pot and let it boil till your Meat be very tender having season'd it with Salt dish it up on Sippets of French-bread with some of the Meat in the middle of the Dish You may for variety put in chopt clove Caboildge or bruised Spinage and cut Emdive Potage of Pullets and Sparagus Truss your Pollets and whiten them then put them into your Pot with a sheet of Lard over them fill your pot with strong broth and season it with Salt Pepper Cinamon heaten Cloves and Mace a whole Onion pill'd and a bunch of sweet Herbs let them not boil too long then dry your bread and soak it lay your Pullets in the middle of your Dish with the Asparagus garnish them with fryed Sparagus broken Combs Mushromes or the Gibblets of your Pullets with a few Pistaches lay round the brim of your Dish slices of Lemon and Lemon-pill Potage of Liverings Cut a Fillet of Veal into thin slices and stuff them very well put the slices thereof into a Pipkin with some of your best broth having season'd it with Salt Cinamon Mace Nutmeg and a very little Pepper soak your Bread Oando garnish it with your Liverings Mushromes Sparagus Mutton juyce and Pistaches A most excellent Potage called Le Potage blanck de Lyon Take a pint or a quart of White wine put it on the fire in a Pipkin with four or five Pippins pared eight Dates cut in halves a faggot of sweet Herbs large Mace Cinamon a quarter'd Numeg let them boil together and if you want liquor add a pint of strong broth then take the Marrow of three Marrow-bones and wrap it in the yolks of Eggs and grated Bread to keep it from melting away and when your Pot boils put it therein then take the yolks of four Eggs and beat them in White wine or strong broth and when your aforesaid ingredients are enough stir your Eggs therein and season it to your Pallet with Sugar then take it off the fire and serve it up with boiled Capons or Chickens garnish the Marrow and Dates on
them in a Pot with good broth and a bundle of Herbs and boil them soak a loaf well and garnish it with your Larks adding thereto Beef-pallates Mutton-juyce and Lemon then serve it Potage of young Pigeons Scald your Pigeons and boil them in good broth with a bundle of sweet Herbs cover them with a sheet of Lard then lay them on a soaked loaf and garnish them with Hartichokes and Sparagus fryed green Pease or Lettice Potage of Pullets with Colliflowers Fit your Pullets for the Pot and boil them with a faggot of sweet Herbs season them with Salt Cloves Pepper and grated Nutmeg then let your Bread be soaked and garnished with Colliflowers pour on some Mutton-juyce or Gravy and serve it up An excellent Potage to cleanse the blood Put over the fire about a gallon of fair Water and put therein a handful of great Oatmeal beaten small and a piece of Rib-Bacon then take a handful of Brooklime as many Water-cresses Nettle-tops Elder-buds Violet-leaves Primrose-leaves with young Alexander-leaves mince all these very small and put them into your broth with a little large Mace season it with Salt when you dish it put in some Butter Potage of young Pigeons roasted Having seasoned your broth with Salt and Cloves put in your Pigeons and boil them make your Potage brown then soak your Bread and garnish it with your Fowl and pour on your broth Potage of green Geese with Pease-broth Take your green Geese and boil them by themselves then take some Pease and boil them in like manner being well boiled pass them through a very fine strainer and put your Pease-broth into a Pot with a faggot of sweet Herbs pass a little Lard in a Frying-pan and when it is melted put it into your broth soak your bread in your Geese-broth then pour your Pease-broth over it Potage of Goose-gibblets Whiten your Gibblets and put them into a Pot with good broth a faggot of sweet Herbs and a sheet of Lard let them boil very well then soak your Bread and lay them thereon pour on your broth and upon all put some minced Capers Potage of Pullets with green Pease Scald and truss your Pullets and put them into your Pot with good broth and scum it well then pass your Pease in a Pan with Butter or Lard and soak them with Lettuce steeped in fair Water and whitened foak also your Bread and then garnish it with your Pullets Pease and Lettuce Potage of young Rabbets Parboil your Rabbets then pass them in a Frying-pan with Lard then boil them in good broth with a faggot of sweet Herbs soak well your Bread and garnish it with young Rabbets and Mushromes Potage of Lambs Purtenances Whiten your Purtenances and seethe them in good broth with a bundle of sweet Herbs a sheet of Lard or fat Bacon soak your Bread lay on your Purtenances and pour all over it white broth which broth is thus made Take a pint of strong broth from the boiling of your Purtenances a pine of Sack a quart of White wine and put them into a Pipkin together with about a dozen Dates cut in halves whole Prunelloes Cinamon Ginger Cloves Mace half a pound of white Sugar with the Marrow of two or three bones let these boil till the Marrow be enough then take it from the fire and thicken it with the yolks of Eggs beaten very well and strained through a clean cloth then garnish it with Lettuce Suckets candied Lemon and Wafers and so serve it up Potage of Larks Having drawn and trust them pass them in a Pan with Lard having first flower'd them then put them into a Pot with good broth half a pint of White wine and half a pound of Sugar then soak your Bread garnish it with your Larks and pour on your broth Potage of Veal Boil a Knuckle of Veal in good broth then skin it and put therein some white Succory soak your Bread and garnish it with your Knuckle Succory and Mushromes You may make Potage of a breast of Veal by first blanching it in fresh Water then boil it in good broth with a faggot of sweet Herbs Capers and Samphire Potage of Thrushes Draw truss and flowre them then pass them in a Pan with some Butter then boil them in good broth with sweet Herbs garnish your soaked Bread with your Birds Beef-pallates and Mushromes Potage of Tortoise Having taken off the Head of your Tortoise boil the body in Water and when it is almost enough put into your broth some White wine a faggot of sweet Herbs and some Lard when it is boiled take the meat out of the shell throw away the Gall and cut the rest into pieces then pass them in a Pan with some Lard some Nutmeg and Cinamon beaten a little Ginger and Salt then stew them in a Dish and soak your Bread therein squeeze in the juyce of a Lemon and Garnish it with cut Sparagus Potage of a sucking Pig Scald your Pig very neatly then cut it into half a dozen pieces whiten them in broth and boil them with some Herbs a piece of Lard see that your Pot be supply'd with good broth as it consumes in boiling then soak your Bread and when your Pig is boil'd enough place the head in the midst of the Dish with the quarters round about it and the purtenances round them pour on your broth and serve it Potage of minced Mutton Take the flesh of any joynt of Mutton and mince it with Beef-suet season it with some beaten Nutmeg a little Pepper and some Salt and stew it in a Stew-pan soak your Bread in your best broth then garnish it with your minced meats and Cocks-combs then pour on your broth with the juyce of Mutton Potage of Beef Take a Leg of Beef and stew it till it be so tender that it is ready to fall in pieces season it with a bundle of Herbs Cloves Capers Samphire Mushromes c. then soak your Bread and garnish it with your meat Potage of Capons and Pullets with Rice Having fitted your Capons or Pullets for the Pot season your broth and boil them therein then pick your Rice very well wash and dry it very well before the fire then boil it in good broth then soak your Bread and garnish it with your Capons or Pullets together with the Rice you may as you shall think good put some Saffron into the broth Potage of a Calves head fryed First boil your Calves head then bone it after that cut it into several pieces then mingle your meat with large Oysters cut into pieces and season them with Pepper Nutmeg and Salt then flowre it and fry it with good sweet Butter soak your Bread and lay in your meat and Oysters pour on your broth and garnish your Dish with Mushromes Pomegranats sliced Lemon and Capers Potage of breasts of Mutton with Turnips Take the neck-ends of your breasts and boil them then take some Turnips pare them and slice them then fry
then take out the whole Spices and serve it up All manner of Potages for Fasting-days out of Lent Potage of Craw-fish HAving cleans'd your Craw-fish very well boil them with Wine Vinegar Salt and Pepper when they look red pick the feet and tail and fry them with sweet Butter then take the bodies of your Craw-fish and pound them very well with Onions Cloves Mace Ginger Pepper Salt hard Eggs and the crums of white Bread let them soak in good broth made of Herbs or clear Pease-broth having boil'd these together strain them and set them before the fire then take some Butter with minced Parsley fry it and put it into your Potage which you must be mindful to season well your crusts being soaked put on the hash of a Carp with the juyce of Mushromes fill up your Dish and garnish it with the feet and tails of your Craw-fish with Pomegranates and the juyce of Lemons Potage of Snails You must first wash your Snails in many waters then put them into an carthen-Pan or wide Dish and put to them as much Water as will cover them then set your Dish over a Chafing-dish of coals having boil'd a while take them out of the Shells and scowr them with Water and Salt four or five times then let them boil a little while in a Pipkin with Water and Salt then take them up and lay them in a Dish with some very good Sallet Oyl when the Oyl boils put in some sliced Onions fry them and put the Snails to them and stew them well together then take the Snails Oyl and Onions and put them into a Pipkin together sizeable for them and put as much Water to them as will be sufficient to make a Potage with some Salt and let them stew four hours then mince some sweet Herbs as Tyme Penniroyal Parsley c. having minced them very well pound them to a green Sauce and put in some crums of Bread soaked in the Potage with a little Saffron and beaten Cloves put all to the Snails and give them a walm or two when you serve them up squeeze in the juyce of a Lemon put in Vinegar also and a clove of Garlick among the Herbs serve them up on Sippets This is a most excellent Potage Potage of Carp Having bon'd the Carp set him aside and take the bones and boil them in Pease-potage with some Onions hard Eggs and the crums of white Bread having boiled strain them then fry them with Parsley and put them in the broth again then dry and soak your Bread after this take the flesh of your Carp hash it and when it is boiled lay it on your Bread then pour on your broth filling your Dish and sprinkle it with the juyce of Lemon and Mushromes Potage of Tenches You must bone your Tench in the same manner as you did your Carp then take the flesh and mince it very small and farce it seasoning your farcings well and close up the hole wherein they were put your Bread being soaked garnish it with your Tenches and pour on your broth it matters not whether the broth be made of Pease Turnips Herbs Tenches Amonds Carps or Craw-fish Potage of French Barley Having pick'd and cleans'd your Barley very well from dust put it into boiling Milk being boil'd down put into it large Mace Cream Sugar and a little Salt boil it indifferent thick then put it into a Dish scrape on Sugar and serve it Potage of Carps farced Separate the bones from the flesh then farce them with their own flesh and close up the hole neatly through which you convey'd your Farcings then put them into a Dish of broth and stew or boil them add thereunto Butter Chibbals Verjuyce large Mace a faggot of sweet Herbs and Pepoper then take your bones and boil them and having boil'd a pretty while strain the broth and put it to your Carps then soak your crusts and lay your Carp thereon pouring the Potage upon it garnish it with Capers Pine-seeds and Mushromes Potage of roasted Carps Press your Carps and slit them on the top then melt some Butter and end ore your Carp therewith then put it on the Gridiron and broil it Then take some Turnips and cut them in two whiten flowre and fry them then put them into some Pease-broth or Water season them and let them boil then soak your Bread and lay your Carps thereon with Butter Parsley Chibbals and a little Vinegar then garnish it with the Turnips Samphire and a few Capers Gruel Potage Having pick'd your Oatmeal very well boil it over a soft fire when it is tender strain it through a Strainer then put it into a Pipkin with some Spring water make your Potage pretty thick of the strained Oatmeal and add thereto some Raisins of the Sun well pick'd and ston'd some large Mace Salt with a small faggot of sweet Herbs Rosewater and Saffron set it a stewing on the fire with some Sugar when it is near upon enough put to it some Butter with the yolks of Eggs strained Or you may take Oatmeal and chop some Herbs amongst it then put them into boiling liquor with some Raisins or Currans or both and when it is boiled to an indifferent thickness put Butter to it Or you may only take Oatmeal a bundle of sweet Herbs minced small with some Onions and Salt boil these together and season them with Butter The Queens Potage You may take your choice whether you will have Carps or Tenches then boil them with Water Salt an Onion Parsley hard Eggs and the crums of a white Loaf when they have boil'd a while strain your broth and put it into another Pot with some Butter then take some Almonds blanch them and pound them and mingle with one moiety of your broth having boiled a while strain them and put in an Onion stuck with Cloves then set it over a gentle fire then soak your dish with a little of your first broth and fill up your dish with White-broth with the yolk of an Egg allai'd with Verjuyce and the juyce of Mushromes let it not be too thick serve it garnished with Lemon and Pomegranate The Dutchess of Anjou's Potage Take the bones of a Carp and boil them in Pease-broth that is very clear with the yolks of Eggs a bundle of Herbs and all well seasoned then dry a loaf and soak it and fry into it some hash of Carp and juyce of Mushromes Melts Livers of Eel-pouts and all manner of sweet Herbs dish it up and garnish it with Pomegranate and sliced Lemon Potage of Tortoise Cut off their heads boil them and take the flesh out of the shell and cut it into pieces then pass them in a Pan with Butter Parsley and Chibbals having thus past and season'd them put them into a Dish and let them soak over a Chasing-dish of coals with some broth be careful in the removing of the gall when you cut your Tortoise in pieces your Bread being
soaked garnish it with your Tortoise and place Sparagus broken about your Dish Mushromes slices of Lemon or Oranges Potage of Wheat Take a quantity of Wheat and wet it then put it into a bag and beat it with a wash beetle being hul'd and cleans'd from the dust boil it over night and let it soak on a soft fire till the morning then being ready to use it take as much as you think convenient and put it into a Pipkin or Skillet with a proper quantity of Milk and boil it with Mace Salt Cinamon Saffron and the yolks of two or three Eggs boil it thick scrape on Sugar and serve it Potage of Mushromes farced Take your youngest and freshest Mushromes wash them very well and boil them in Water with an Onion stuck with Cloves and a sprig or two of Tyme season your broth boil it strain it and put it into a Pot then pass your Mushromes in a Pan with Butter Parsley Pine-apple-seed with Capers and put them into the Pot again and let them simmer then soak your Bread and lay it on a bed of a hash of Carps then fill it up by degrees with your other materials after it is filled garnish your Potage with your Mushromes farced with the same farce wherewith you made your hash between two Dishes and with Melts garnish your Dish with Pomegranate or sliced Lemon and serve it Potage of Rice Having pick'd your Rice clean and taken the dust from it wash it and boil it in Milk having boil'd a while put to it some Cream large Mace whole Cinamon Salt and Sugar boil it on a moderate fire scrape on Sugar and serve it You may boil your Rice and stran it with Almond Milk seasoning it as you did the former Potage of Soals farced Take your Soals and fry them till they are three quarters enough then open them along the bone and separate the flesh from it then take Melts Oysters Capers and Mushromes and pass them in a Pan with Parsley and whole Chibbals then stuff or farce your Soals with these ingredients then soak them in broth fresh Butter the juyce of a Lemon or Verjuyce then soak your Bread in fish-broth and garnish it with your Soals Mushromes and their juyce Melts and slices of Lemon Potage of Milk Take whole Oatmeal and pick it clear then put it into a Pipkin of boiling Water when it is very tender put in Milk or Cream Salt and fresh Butter with a little beaten Nutmeg and Cinamon Potage of Ellicksander Take Oatmeal pick it and cleanse it then chop amongst it some Ellicksanders when your Water boils put in your ingredients with a little Salt let it boil moderately and not too thick and when it is enough put some Butter to it Potage of Smelts Having made a broth either of Almonds Fish Mushromes or Pease-broth well seasoned take your Bread and soak it and pour a little White-broth over it of yolks of Eggs allay'd with Verjuyce and the juyce of Mushromes then take a quartern of Smelts or what quantity you think fit fry them in Butter with Parsley and Chibbals and garnish your Dish with them adding Pomegranates and Lemon Potage of Pease Shell a quantity of green Pease and put them into a Pipkin of fair boiling Water then put in your Herbs some Oatmeal and Salt let them boil moderately and not too thick and when they are enough put some Butter to them You may boil them in Milk or Cream putting to them some sprigs of Mint with a little Salt if not thick enough put in some Milk and Flowre well temper'd together with the yolk of an Egg. Potage of Sparagus Take a good quantity of Herbs with crums of Bread season them well and boil them then take them up drain and fry them after they are fryed put them in the Pot again then soak your Bread and garnish it with Sparagus which you must have ready boil'd with Salt drain'd and season'd with Butter Salt Cinamon and Nutmeg over all strow your broken Sparagus which is fryed and serve it Potage of old dry Pease Take a quantity of Seed-pease which are the best pick those that are worm-eaten from the rest and wash them then put them into boiling liquor being tender boil'd take out some of them and strain them and set them by for your use then season the rest with Salt a bundle of Mints and Butter let these stew leisurely and strow some Pepper over them Put Salt to your strained Pease-potage with large Mace a bundle of sweet Herbs and some pickled Capers stew them well together lay in the bottom of your Dish slices of bread and grated manchet to garnish it Potage of Fish-harslets Bone a couple of Carps and hash them with Butter and good store of sweet Herbs then take the bones and boil them in any sort of broth with a faggot of Herbs Butter and Salt then take the skin of your Carps and make thereof some Harslets then lay these over your seasoned hash and roul them up like small Chitterlings after they are thus rouled up seethe them in a Dish with Butter a little Verjuyce and a Chibbal then soak your bread and garnish it with your Hash and Harslets and lay a top Mushromes and broken Sparagus A very good Potage Put Water in a Pipkin and boil it then strain some Oatmeal and put to it with large Mace whole Cinamon Salt a bundle of sweet Herbs some strained and whole Prunes with some Raisins of the Sun being well stewed on a soft fire and pretty thick put in some Claret and Sugar serve it in a deep Dish and scrape on Sugar Potage of Lettuce farced Blanch your Lettuce in fresh Water then make a Farce either of Herbs or Fish and having farced them with it let them soak in a Pot with some Pease-broth season them well with Salt and Butter and an Onion stuck with Cloves soak your bread and garnish it with your Lettuce which you must cut in halves Potage of Cabbidge Blanch or whiten your Cabbidge or Coleworts having first cut them into quarters then put them into a Pot of Water with store of Butter Salt and Pepper with an Onion stuck with Cloves when they are well boiled put to them some Milk then soak your bread and garnish it with your Cabbidge or Coleworts Potage of Onion First have a Pipkin of boiling liquor over the fire then fry good store of sliced Onions and put them into the Pipkin with what they were fryed in also some Pepper and Salt being well stewed together serve them on Sippets of French-bread Potage of Pumpkin Having cut your Pumpkin into pieces boil it with Water and Salt after it is well boil'd strain it and put it into a Pot with an Onion stuck with Cloves fresh Butter and Pepper soak your bread and allay the yolks of four Eggs and pour them over your broth so serve it Or thus cut and boil your Pumpkin as aforesaid then put it
Bread in what broth you have and garnish it with your Colliflowers fryed in Butter Salt and Nutmeg sprinkle your Potage with Almond-broth Another very good Potage Peel half a dozen Onions mince them and boil them with Water and Butter after they are throughly boiled strain them through a linnen cloth and seethe some Fidels in the broth then season them with Salt and Pepper after they are boil'd soak your Bread and garnish it with them Potage of Rice Blanch your Rice and when it is very clean from dust burst it in Milk then strain it after that season it and serve it garnished with Fleurons or Puff-paste round the brims of the Dish There is a very good Potage of Milk to be made the same way serving it sugred and garnished with some Suckets sliced or Macerons Potage of green Pease-broth Boil your Pease but a very little then pound them in a Morter and strain them with the broth of Herbs well seasoned with a bundle of Herbs then take Chibbals Parsley and Butter all being fryed together throw it into your Pease-broth garnish it with Lettuce well cleans'd Succory Cucumbers and small Pease fryed and sod with Butter Salt and Pepper and you may add the bottoms of Artichokes Potage of common Pease served green First boil your Pease in Water then take the clearest of your Pease-broth and when you intend to use it fry into it Parsley Charvel young Sorrel Butter Bran and Capers then boil them thus seasoned garnish your Dish with fryed Bread Potage of Barnicle with Turnips Dress your Barnicle and lard it with Eel or Carp then fry it then boil it with half Water and half Pease-broth well seasoned with Butter and a bundle of sweet Herbs when it is almost boiled out your Turnips flowre and fry them with Butter when they are very brown put them into the Pot with your Barnicle if your Potage be not thick enough fry a little Flowre into it some Capers Samphire cut small Pine-apple-seeds the pulp of a Lemon cut small and a drop of Vinegar when it is boiled enough soak your Bread and garnish it with your Barnicle and Turnips If you would not have your Turnips to be seen strain them and season them with a bundle of Herbs an Onion and some sweet Butter then garnish your Potage with Mushromes and Artichokes Potage of Leeks with Pease-broth Whiten your Leeks a little and boil them with Pease-broth well seasoned with Butter and Salt then soak your bread and garnish it with your Leeks in the whitening allay some yolks of Eggs with broth and pour it on them you may add some Milk to them well seasoned after that your Leeks are well boiled Potage of Burt. Take the tails and heads of your Burts and half fry them then put them into Castrolle with a very long Sauce well thickned then soak your Bread with some of the best of your broths and garnish it at the top with your Burts with Mushromes and Capers If you have no Fish-broth then use your Pease-broth Potage of Herbs garnished with Cucumbers Take all manner of Herbs that are used for Sallets and take also a bundle of sweet Herbs as Tyme Penniroyal sweet Marjoram Savory c. and soak them with Butter over a soft fire and by little and little pour into them warm Water after they are well seasoned and boiled put in the first cut of a Loaf with an Onion stuck with Cloves the pill of an Orange minced and some Capers and garnish it with boiled Lettuce you may boil some Pease among the Herbs and strow over all some Cucumbers Potage of Onion and Milk Take some Onions and cut them thin then fry them brown in Butter after this boil them in a little Water well seasoned with Salt and Pepper when it is enough put Milk to it and boil it then garnish your soaked Bread therewith Potage of Vives or Sea-dragons Cleanse them very well then boil them with Pease-broth and some White wine and a faggot of Herbs all well seasoned then take out your Sea-Dragons and put them with Ragoust that is a Sauce prepared with a high quick or sharp taste let them soak very well with Salt fresh Butter minced Capers and Anchovies then pass the broth through a strainer and boil it with fresh Butter Paste Parsley and minced Capers then soak your Bread and lay over it Mushromes then garnish it with your Sea-dragons Potage of Mushromes farced It is made after the same manner as that of the Dutchess of Anjou in the Table of the Potages for Lent garnish it with Mushromes farced and with Melts fill it up with the best of your broth and serve them up Cawdles Soops Drinks c. Almond Cawdle TAke a pound of Almond-paste and strain it with a quart of good strong Ale then boil it with slices of fine Manchet large Mace and Sugar when it is almost enough put in half a pint of Sack Oatmeal Cawdle Boil a quart of strong Ale and scum it then put in Oatmeal and sliced Bread so much as will not make it too thick with some Mace and Sugar then dissolve the yolks of half a dozen yolks of Eggs in a quarter of a pint of Sack or instead thereof use Claret or White wine then put in a little grated Nutmeg give it a walm or two and dish it Egg Cawdle Take a pint and a half of good strong Beer put it over the fire and scum it then put in four blades of large Mace a sliced Manchet and Sugar the yolks of Eggs dissolved in Claret let it boil a little and dish it Sugar-Sops Take what quantity of Beer or Ale you think fit boil it and scum it then put to it some Currans or none at all slices of fine Manchet large Mace Sugar or Honey Aleberry Having boil'd your Ale and scum'd it very well put in some Mace the bottom of a Manchet boil it well and sweeten it with some Sugar Butter'd-Ale Having scum'd your Ale very well put therein some Liquorice and Annifeeds boil these well together then have in readiness either in a flaggon or a quart Pot some yolks of Eggs well beaten with some of the aforesaid Ale and some good Butter then strain your butter'd Ale put it into your Flaggon and brew it to and fro with your Butter and the Eggs a pretty while Or thus you may do it Take some Ale put it in a Skillet and when the scum riseth take it off then take the yolks and whites of Eggs and beat them in a quart Pot with their shells with some Butter Nutmeg and Sugar being well brewed drink it it is best taken going to bed Others take Ale and strain it with the yolks of Eggs and so set it to the fire in a Pewter Pot adding thereto a good quantity of Sugar some beaten Nutmeg and as much Cloves with some beaten Ginger An excellent Gruel Boil fair Water in a Skillet and put thereto grated White-bread good store of
Currans Mace and whole Cinamon being almost boiled and indifferent thick put in a little Sack some Sugar and some strained yolks of Eggs you may put to it some Butter Another as good as the former Take a pottle of Water a handful of Oatmeal of the biggest size pick'd and beaten in a Morter then let it boil when it is half boiled put in two handfuls of Currans well washed a faggot or two of sweet Herbs half a dozen blades of large Mace a little sliced Nutmeg and you may infuse a grain of Musk a little while therein when it is boil'd season it with Rosewater Sugar and a little drawn Butter Punnado Take three pints of Spring-water and set it over the fire then cut a French roll into slices and put it therein having first dry'd them in a Dish on a few coals add also two handfuls of Currans well cleans'd a little large Mace when it is boiled season it with Sugar and Rosewater with a little Salt rub the bottom of your Dish with Musk. Lemon Cawdle Take a pint and a half of White wine and the like quantity of Water and boil these together then take a Manchet and cut it into thin slices and put it into your Pipkin with some large Mace then beat into it the yolks of three Eggs let it boil a little while to thicken it then squeeze the juyce of four Oranges or Lemons into it and season it well with Sugar and Rosewater Barley Cruel Take a quarter of a pound of Barley and let it boil in three or four Waters then pound it in a Morter after this boil it again with an ounce of Harts-horn ever allowing four ounces thereof to a pound of Barley having boiled about two hours strain it through a strainer then boil it again with a quarter of a pound of Currans with a faggot of cooling Herbs as Sorrel Strawberry-leaves and Violet-leaves with a little Tyme also three or four blades of Mace with some juyce of Sorrel when it hath taken three or four walms remove it from the fire and squeeze into it the juyce of two Lemons season it with the infusion of Musk in Rosewater with a little Salt if you make this Gruel to serve to the Table add unto your aforementioned materials sweet Herbs instead of the faggot of cold ones but if you intend it medicinally follow the former prescription and assure your self there is nothing better for one in a Feaver Pearmain Cawdle Take Milk and make a clear Posset thereof with white wine then take some sliced Pearmains and boil them in your Posset being boiled enough strain them as long as the Apple will run then set it on the fire again with blades of large Mace then thicken it with the yolks of Eggs and season it with Sugar and the infusion of Musk in Rosewater A Coventry Posset Have ready in a Pot Bowl or Bason some warm'd Sack Claret Beer Ale or juyce of Orange then take your Milk after it hath boiled in a clear scoured Skillet and pour it into your Pot Bason or Bowl but let not your Milk be too hot for that will cause the Curd to be very hard then Sugar it Or you may beat what quantity of Sorrel you think fit and strain it with either Sack White wine or Ale then boil some Milk as aforesaid and let it stand a little to cool and so pour it into your Vessel and scrape on Sugar Lemonade a-la-mode de France THe French make a Lemonade several ways sometimes by taking two handfuls of Jalsomine and infuse it in a pottle of Water letting it steep twelve hours to every quart of Water put six ounces of Sugar you may make it of Orange-flowers or Gilliflower after the same manner Or take some Lemons cut them and take out the juyce then put it in Water as aforesaid then pare another Lemon and cut it into slices put it among the juyce with a due proportion of Sugar White and Red Hypocrast Take three quarts of the best White wine you can get half a pound of Sugar an ounce of Cinamon some leaves of sweet Marjoram two or three whole corns of Pepper strain these through your straining-bag with a grain of Musk and four or five slices of Lemon you must add let these infuse together three or four hour if you will have your Hypocrast red use Claret wine Vinegar several ways to make it FIll a Ferkin or a lesser Vessel three quarters full of White wine then lay it unstopt in some hot place against the Sun If you will make Vinegar in hast take White wine and put it into an Earthen-pot and stop the mouth with Paste then boil it in a Brass-pan and in half an hour it will be sower or you need not boil it all but only put to it a Beet-root Medlers Services Mulberries unripe Flowers a slice of Barley-bread hot out of the Oven or the blossoms of Services in their season which you must dry in the Sun in a Glass-vessel in the same manner as you do Rose-Viengar then fill up your glass with Claret or White wine and set it in the Sun or a Chimney corner by the fire Thus you make Vinegar of sound Wine but if you will make it of what is corrupted first boil it till one third be consumed and scum it very clean then put it up into a Cask and put some Churnel then stop your Vessel very close and in a little time it will be very good Vinegar Ale-eager Take what quantity of strong Ale of the first running as you shall think fit set it a cooling then head it very throughly with Barm after this tun it up in a Firkin and lay it in the Sun then take four or five handfuls of Beans and parch them in a fire-shovel first splitting them in the middle put these into your Vessel as hot as you can with a handful of Rye-leaven and a good handful of Salt strained then stop your barrel with Clay and let it stand in the Sun from May to August Rose-Vinegar or Elder-Vinegar Keep Roses or Elder-flowers dryed and put them into several Glasses and fill them up with White wine or Claret and let them stand in the Sun or by the fire-side as your bottles are empty fill them again with wine and fresh flowers Pepper-Vinegar Till your bottle with Wine and infuse therein some whole Pepper tyed up in a cloth for the space of eight days Wine-Vinegar in balls Take Bramble Berries when they are half ripe dry them and make them into powder then with a little strong Vinegar make it into balls and dry them in the Sun when you would use them beat up the balls with some White wine or Claret first warm'd and it will speedily become good Vinegar Verjuyce Take Crabs as soon as the kernels turn black and lay them in a heap to sweat then clear them from their stalks or rottenness then stamp them in a long trough to mash with
The English And FRENCH COOK DESCRIBING The best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of Flesh Fish and Fowl whether boiled baked stewed roasted broiled frigassied fryed souc'd marrinated or pickled with their proper Sauces and Garnishes Together with all manner of the most approved Soops and Potages used either in England or France By T.P. J.P. R.C. N.B. And several other approved Cooks of London and Westminster LONDON Printed for Simon Miller at the Star at the West-end of St. Pauls 1674. THE EPISTLE TO The Lovers of the Art OF Cookery WE do here present you with the plainest and best digested Method in the Art of Cookery yet extant for Dressing of all sorts of Flesh Fish Fowl whether Boil'd Baked Stewed Roasted Broil'd Frigassi'd Fryed Marrinated or Souced with the best Sauces New A-la-mode Soops and Potages It 's full and plain so that from the Maid to the Master Cook all may reap benefit Farewel How to Boil all sorts of FISH FLESH and FOWL according to the latest and most approved experience in COOKERY FISH boil'd and stewed Bream stewed HAving very well scaled your Bream and throughly washt it do not forget to preserve its blood in which you must stew your Bream by adding thereto Claret two slices of Ginger raced the pulp of three quarters of a pound of Prunes boiled and strained into the Broth Vinegar Salt and an Anchovie or two some sweet Herbs with Horse-radish root stamped and strained Let not your Fish have more Liquor than will just cover it being enough take some Butter with a little Vinegar in which the Bream was stew'd and beat them up together then dish up your Fish pouring the Butter thereon and garnish your Dish with Barberries Oranges and Lemons Base boiled to be eaten hot Save the Livers Rows or Spawns of your Base then scale and wash them well having so done boil them up in Water Wine-Vinegar Salt some sweet Herbs Lemons sliced with three whole Onions then take a lear of drawn Butter large Mace whole Cinamon a whole Nut-meg quarter'd with three Anchovies dissolved therein having disht it up pour on your lear and let your garnish be fryed Oysters and Bay-leaves This seasoning will not be improper for Mullet or any other sort of Fish Carps stewed Save the blood of your Carp dress him and take out his Gall then scotch him on the back and put him into a Stew-pan with a quart of White-wine half a dozen blades of large Mace a dozen Cloves three races of Ginger sliced two slit Nutmegs with a Faggot of sweet Herbs three large Onions whole four or five Bay-leaves and some Salt stew all these together but put not your Carp in till the Pan boil and then too with five ounces of sweet Butter Let your fire be a quick Charcoal fire when it is enough dish it in a large dish pouring thereon your Sauce commixed with the Spices laying on Lemon sliced with Lemon-pill or Barberries let your garnish be dried Manchet grated and searsed with carved Sippets laid round the dish At great Festivals garnish the body with stewed Oysters and fried batter made of several colours by the juyce of Herbs as Violets Saffron Spinage c. dissolving therein an Anchovie or two Another most excellent way Take a living Carp and scale it then dry it with a cloath and open the belly taking out the entrails then wash the blood into a Pipkin with a pint of Claret with Vinegar and Water some sweet Herbs two whole Onions half a pound of Butter or more stew these together three quarters of an hour softly then laying your Toasts in the bottom of the Dish serve it up with Sippets pouring some of the broth on and garnishing it with Rosemary Cockles stewed Wash them well with Vinegar and boil them before you take them out of the Shells then put them into a Dish with Claret Vinegar a handful of Capers Mace Pepper Salt a little grated Bread and Tyme minced with the yolks of three Eggs chopped very small stew these together till they are enough then put in a good spill of Butter rubbing the Dish with a clove of Garlick Crawfish Shrimps or Prawns may be done the same manner making what variety of garnish you please with the shells only Crabs stewed Take Crabs and boil them till they are enough then take the meat out of the shells and having put it into a Pipkin some Claret Wine-Vinegar minced Tyme Salt grated Bread Pepper sweet Butter Capers large Mace and the yolks of four Eggs boiled hard and chopt very small stew these together till they are enough then rubbing the Dish with a clove of Garlick serve them up Cods head drest after the best manner Cut your Head so large beyond the Gills that you may have a pretty quantity of the Body with it then boil it in Water and Salt then have in readiness a quart of Cockles with the shell'd meat of two or three Crabs put these into a Pipkin with almost half a pint of White-wine a bunch of sweet Herbs two Onions a little large Mace a little grated Nutmeg and some Oyster liquor then boil it till the liquor is wasted then add to it two ladlefuls of drawn Butter then dish up your Cods head on Sippets draining it first very well over a Chafingdish of coals Then cut your Pease or Spawn in thin slices and the Liver in pieces take likewise the Gill and pick out the bones and cut it as you did the other dish up your Spawn round about the Cods head and some on the top and put all over it the Gill and Liver then pour your lair on it with some drawn Butter upon that again sticking all your Gill-bone with Oysters fryed in Butter and stick them on the Spawn also then grate on Nutmeg and dish it up very hot garnishing your Dish with Lemon and Bay-leaves Eels boil'd Take them and draw fley and wipe them clean having cut them in pieces boil them in White wine Water Oyster liquor large Mace three or four Cloves bruised Salt Spinage Sorrel Parsley grosly minced an Onion Pepper and an Anchovie dish them up on Sippets broth them with their own broth beating up a lear with good Butter yolks of Eggs with slices of Lemon and some Lemon-pill Eels stew'd Draw your Eels and fley them and cut them into pieces four inches long then put them into a Stew-pan with as much Claret as will just cover them mingled with some Water strip some Tyme and put to them with sweet Marjoram Savory pickled Parsley and large Mace be sure to stew them enough then serve them on Sippets stick Bay-leaves round the Dish garnish the Meat with slic'd Lemon and the Dish with fine grated Manchet Flounders or Gudgeons boil'd after an excellent manner Take a few sweet Herbs tops of Tyme sweet Marjoram Winter-savory tops of Rosemary some whole Mace some pick'd Parsley and boil them in a quart of White-wine and Water the quantities not
these stew about a quarter of an hour then take the yolk of a hard Egg and mince it small stewing your Trouts therewith then dish up pour the Herbs and Liquor all over them scraping Loaf-sugar thereon and serving them very hot to the Table Whitings stewed and how to make a Broth thereof Take a quantity of Wine and the like of Water and put it over the Fire in a deep dish add thereunto a race of Ginger sliced a little large Mace a Nutmeg quarter'd with a faggot or two of sweet Herbs as Marjoram Tyme c. with Parsley not forgetting with Salt to season your Broth When it hath boiled a little while put in your Whitings but be careful you place them so as you intend to serve them up and putting some Butter to them let them boil a pace in a little time they will be enough When they are boiled pour away all the Liquor from them into a Pipkin and set it on the Fire again with your Spice and sweet Herbs that were in it before the take a handful of Parsley and mince 〈◊〉 small with a little Fennel and Tyme and leâ—â— them boil with the Fish-broth then takâ— the meat of two Crabs with the Carkaâ— of a Lobster the yolks of three Eggs 〈◊〉 ladle of drawn Butter beat all these together with some of the said Liquor stirring it in the Pipkin till it thickens then shiâ—â— out your Whitings on Sippets as yoâ— would have them dish up pouring on youâ— lair as it comes from the Fire in the samâ— manner you may order Smelts or Gudgeâ—ons The Broth is not only very pallatableâ— but exceeding wholesome and comfortableâ— to a weak stomach Flesh of all sorts excepting Fowl boiled or stewed Breast of Veal boil'd TAke a good midling Breast of Veal that is white and fat bone it and beat it well then wash it dry after this put to it a handful of sweet Herbs Parsley and a little Sage minced small with a few Cloves Mace and Nutmeg beaten mixing therewith a little Salt Do not forget to wash over the inside of your Veal with the yolks of Eggs and strow your Herbs all over then over that lay some slices of Bacon cut thin dipt in the yolks of Eggs having so done rowl it up in a Coller and bind it hard with pretty broad Filleting When it is enough cut the Coller into nine or ten pieces laying on every piece some Bacon dish it on Sippets and let your lair be Gravy and strong Broth sliced Nutmeg all beaten up thick with drawn Butter and two yolks of Eggs run these over your meat let your Dish be garnished with slices of Bacon fryed in the yolks of Eggs. Breast of Mutton stewed Joynt your Breast of Mutton very well then farce it with sweet Herbs and minced Parsley after this put it into a deep stewing Dish with the right side downwards adding thereto as much White wine and strong Broth as will stew it then set it over a large chafing-Dish of Coals putting therein two or three great Onions a faggot of sweet Herbs and a little large Mace being almost enough take a handful of Spinage Endive and Parsley and put to it Then dish it up with so much Broth as is sufficient thickned with the yolks of Eggâ— and drawn Butter then pour on the lair with the Herbs on the top and onâ— that some Capers and Sampier stew'd therewith and garnish the dish with Lemon or Barberries Beef Collops stewed Cut from a buttock of Beef some thin slices crossing the grain thereof having hackt them with the Back of your knife fry them in sweet Butter being brown put them into a Pipkin with some strong Broth some White wine a little Nutmeg and so stew it very tender About a half hour before you serve it up add to it some Mutton Gravy Elder Vinegar with two or three Cloves after it is disht put to it some drawn Butter with the juyce of Oranges and some slices thereof on the top of it Buttock Rump Chine Brisket Sur-loyn Rib Flank or Fillet of Beef powdered how to boil Take your choice of which you please and in hot weather give it no longer powdering than five or six days but as long again in the Winter if you stuff it let it be with all manner of sweet Herbs with fat Beef minced and some Nutmeg so serve it after it hath boil'd a sufficient while on Brewis with Cabbidge boil'd in Milk and drawn Butter run all over garnish your dish with Parsley and Carrets slic'd into several shapes Calves feet stewed Take your Calves feet and split them in the middle after you have blanched them being boil'd very tender and having taken from them the great bones place them in a Stewing-dish with some strong Broth three pretty large Onions a Faggot of sweet Herbs with Salt and a little large Mace when you perceive it boils then put unto it a handful of Parsley Spinage and sweet Herbs minced with a large handful of Currans The Feet being stewed beat the yolks of two or three Eggs with some Sugar and Butter and with that thicken your lair and a little drawn Butter dish up your Calves Feet on Sippets and pour on your Broth. Calves head stewed First boil your Calves head in water half an hour then take it up and pluck it all to pieces and put it into a Pipkin with Oysters and some of the broth it was boiled in adding thereto a pint of Claret a quarter of a pound of midling Bacon sliced first parboil'd ten roasted Chesnuts split the yolks of four Eggs sweet Herbs minced and a little Horse-radish root scraped Let these stew together an hour let your Brains be parboil'd and chopt a little and strew thereon a little Ginger and grated Bread or make a little Batter with Eggs Ginger Salt and Flower putting in some juice of Spinage to make them when fried look green when the meat is dish'd lay these fried Brains Oysters the Chesnuts and yolk of Eggs thereon so serve it up hot with Sippets Haunch of Venison boil'd Take a Haunch of Venison and set it a boiling having a little powdered it before then boil up four or five Colly-Flowers in strong broth and some Milk When they are boiled put them forth into a Pipkin adding to them drawn Butter and keep them by the Fire in a warm condition then boil up three or four handfuls of Spinage in strong broth when they are enough pour out part of the broth from them and put in a little Vinegar a ladleful of drawn Butter and a grated Nutmeg your Dish being ready with Sippets in the bottom put in your Spinage thereon round towards the Dishes side your Venison being boil'd take it up and lay it in the middle of the Dish and lay your Colliflowers all over it then pour on your drawn Butter over that Lastly garnish it with Barberries and your Dish with some green Parsley minced For variety sake you may
make a liquor of Water and Dill to make it strong with some Salt you may boil this liquor if you please but pour it not to them till it be cold then let your Cucumbers lye herein fifteen or sixteen days then pour the liquor from them not all and fill it up with White wine Vinegar this will make your Cucumbers look green be green and not too sowr Caper-rowlers of Radish-cods Take them when they be hard and not over-much open boil them tender in fair Water then boil White wine Vinegar and Bay-Salt together and keep them therein Cucumbers otherways pickled Being put into an earthen Pot let the pickle you put to them be Vinegar Salt whole Pepper Dill-seed some of the stalks cut Charnel fair Water and some Sycamore leaves Clove-Gilliflowers pickled Pick a good quantity of Clove-Gilliflowers put them into an equal quantity of White wine and Vinegar with so much Sugar as will make them both sweet and sharp add to them a few Cloves Cowslips pickled Pick them and let them lye only in Vinegar and Sugar Currans red and white pickled Take red or white Currans being not throughly ripe and give them a walm in White wine and Vinegar with so much Sugar as will indifferently sweeten it cover them over in this liquor and keep them always under it Cabbidge stalks pickled Take a quantity of Cabbidge stalks from the Cabbidge so far as the pith is good about Michaelmas the time is best shave off the outside and cut them into quarters half boil them in Water and Salt then cut the pith from the outward pill and pickle it in White wine a little stale Beer bruised Pepper a little large Mace a few Fennel-seeds and Salt slice these out with your pickled Sallets Charnel pickled Give your Charnel two or three walms in boiling Water your pickle must be only Vinegar Dill or Fennel pickled Tye up young Fennel in bunches and give it half a dozen of walms in boiling Water then put it up and let your pickle be Vinegar only Elder tops pickled About the middle of April break the tops of young sprouts of Elder about six inches in length and having a convenient quantity give them half a dozen walms in boiling Water then drain them in a Cullender let your pickle be Wine or Beer adding thereto some Salt and a little bruised Pepper stop them up close in the said pickle This is not only a wholesome Sallet but also commendable Or thus Take young sprouts of Elder and break their tops five inches long then boil them in Water and lay them in a Cullender to drain having prepared a pickle of Wine or Beer with some Salt and bruised Pepper put them therein and stop them up close Elder-buds pickled Gather them before they are full blown and lay them in White wine Vinegar these will make an excellent Sallet if they are throughly blown make thereof Elder Vinegar Or thus Set Vinegar over the Fire and give your Buds a walm or two therein with Salt Pepper large Mace and Lemon-pill cut in pieces then drain your Buds from the liquor and let them cool then put them into a Pot and put your liquor when cold unto them Endive curled Let your Endive be first scalded in boiling Water then lay it in a pickle of half White wine and half Vinegar Flowers of any kind pickled Put them into a Gallipot with as much Sugar as they weigh and fill them up with wine Vinegar a pint to a pound of Sugar Grapes and Goosberries pickled Having pick'd them put them into the juyce of Crab Cherries Grape-Verjuyce or any other Verjuyce and so barrel them up or take green Grapes and lay them in a pickle of White wine and Vinegar Green Figs pickled Take green Figs flit them in two and boil them in Vinegar some Sugar large Mace and Cloves and put them into a Gallipot with the same liquor they are a good garnish for boil'd meats in Winter Hop-buds pickled Take your Hop-buds and give them a walm or two in Water and Salt then lay them in White wine and Vinegar Kit-keys Crucifex Pease or Purslane pickled Take any of the aforesaid and lay them in as much Wine as Water with a little Salt then boil them after this put them into a Pot and cover them with Vinegar made of White wine Lemons pickled First boil them in Water and Salt and then put them into a Vessel fill'd up with White wine Lemon or Orange-pill pickled Boil then in Vinegar and Sugar having first parboil'd them in Water divide the whole Pill into halves and cut them into thongs according to the extent you must put them up in the same pickle they were boiled in This is an excellent Winter Sallet Marsh-Mallow-stalks pickled The time to gather these is about the latter end of March for then the stalks will be of a convenient bigness gather what quantity you think fit and peel off the outward Pill when your Water boils being seasoned with Salt put them therein give them half a dozen walms then take them up drain them and let them cool then make a pickle of stale Beer some Vinegar gross Pepper and a handful of Salt according to the quainty of your stalks There is a pretty way of ordering them to make them pass for a Dish of Pease and that is thus Take some stalks pilled and cut them into the form of Pease so many as will make a handsome dishful then set them over the Fire in a Skillet of Water and let them boil with some Pepper tyed up in a clean rag when boiled enough over a quick Fire put them into a Cullender and drain them well from the Water then dish them up like Pease with good store of Butter with Pepper and Salt round the Dish brims Pease and these Stalks have a taste very semblable in so much that they are frequently called March Pease I have known them so well shaped and so curiously ordered that the Eaters have wondred how Pease should come so soon Mallagatoons pickled Take them before they are ripe so that you may split the stone with your knife then add to them half their weight of Sugar then boil them therewith and scum it lay your Mallagatoons with their skin side downward let them only simmer after the same manner you may order Peaches and Apricocks and put them up in the same pickle they were boiled in Mushroms pickled Take what quantity of Mushroms you please to pickle blanch them over the crown and barb them beneath throw away what looks black for they are old put those that are young and fresh which will look red into a Pan of boiling Water having boiled a little time take them up and drain them when they are cold put them into some convenient Vessel and add thereto some Cloves Mace Ginger Pepper and Nutmeg then take the White wine a little Vinegar and Salt and pour this liquor in to your Mushroms stop them close
with Butter and Vinegar A Sallet of Scurvy-grass Pick your Scurvy-grass very well then soak it in water and swing it as dry as you can then lay it round in a dish with Capers and Currans about it carved Lemon and Orange round that with Eggs on the center boiled pretty hard and quarter'd lastly pour on Oyl Vinegar and Sugar scraped thereon so trim your Dish brim A Sallet of green Pease Your Pease appearing near a foot above ground cut off what you think sufficient for a Sallet then put it into boiling liquor being enough drain out the water and put to it some drawn Butter season it with Salt and hack it with your Knife toss it with the Butter and so serve it up Turnip or Raddish tops so ordered are excellent good A Sallet of Alexander-buds Cleanse by washing some of your large Alexander-buds then put them into boiling water being tender drain them lay these in the midst of a Dish round about upright with boiled Currans and Capers lay on and about the Dish carved Lemon and pour on Oyl and Vinegar A Sallet of boiled Spinage Put in your Spinage into boiling water and boil it very thick or it will change its colour when it is tender take it up drain it and hack it with your knife then stew it with parboil'd Currans a little Vinegar drawn Butter Sugar a grated Nutmeg and Salt let these stew till it be ready to boil up then have in readiness some white-bread toasts and put them into the bottom of your Dish and put your Sallet on them by spoonfuls scrape on Sugar and serve it up A Sallet of Water-cresses Pick wash drain and lay them in the center of your Dish with sliced Lemon and Oranges finely carved one against the other in partitions with some Alexander-buds Currans Capers Oyl Vinegar with scraped Sugar or without A Sallet of pickled Capers Lay your pickled Capers and Currans hashed and boiled together in the middle of your Dish with red Beets boil'd and jagged Lemons done in the same manner and dished round the Capers and Currans thus serve it up with Oyl and Vinegar A Sallet of Rose-buds and Clove-Gilliflowers Pick your Rose-buds and put them into an earthen Pipkin with White wine Vinegar and Sugar Thus may you use Violets Cowslips or Rosemary Flowers Divers Sallets boiled Parboil Spinage and chop it fine with your knife then set it over a Chasing-dish of Coals with Butter and Vinegar season it with Nutmeg Cinamon Ginger Sugar and a few of parboil'd Currans garnish it with hard Eggs cut into quarters and serve it up on Sippets in this manner you may order Borrage Bugloss Endive Succory Colliflowers Sorrel Marrygold-leaves Water-cresses Leeks boiled Onions Sparagrass Rochet Alexanders parboil them first and season them all alike Butter Vinegar Cinamon Ginger Sugar and Eggs are very good for boil'd Sallets A Sallet of Mallows Strip off the leaves from the tender stalks saving the tops let them lye in water and then boil them tender set them over the Coals with Butter and Vinegar let them stand a while then put in grated Bread and Sugar between every lay A Sallet of Burdock-roots Cut off the outward rind and let them soak an hour and a quarter after this boil them till they be tender then set them over a Chafing-dish with Butter and Vinegar having stood a quarter of an hour put grated Bread between every lay and serve them up Flesh of all sorts marinated pickled or souced Bullocks Cheek souced TAke a fat Bullocks cheek and lay it in Pepper and Salt four days having first boned and cleans'd it well then rowl it into an even Coller then boil it in Water and Salt till it be very tender then tye it up in a hoop as you do Brawn and lay it into a Vessel with some White wine stale Beer Mace Cloves and Pepper Beef how to Coller red Take a Flank of Beef and cut it out four foot in length and about two in breadth then mingle a little Cocheneil and Allum together and put them into a pint of Red wine after this season your Beef with Salt-peter then lay your Beef into a Tray with your Red wine a whole day and a night then season your Beef with sweet Herbs minced Nutmegs Cloves Mace and Pepper beaten very small Coller up your Beef and bind it about very hard with Tape then boil it leisurely in Pump-water when it is cold lay it in a Vessel and put to it a pickle made of White wine strong Broth and Vinegar cut it when you serve it into slices upon a plate with Vinegar or at a great Feast divide it into three Collers and place them in a Dish stick Bay-leaves upon them and garnish the Dish with Flowers and green Brawn souced Let your Brawn be about three years growth take out the bones of his sides having cut off his head close to his ears then cut four Collers of a side cut the Collers deeper in the belly than the back because the belly will shrink in the boiling having made your Collers equal not bigger in one place than the other lay them in Water two days and a night scrape them in warm Water half a dozen several times during that space then having laid them a little while in cold Water rowl them up in Collers and tye them up with Tape You must boil them with a very quick fire scum off the fat as it riseth after an hour let it boil leisurely when it is tender draw your fire and let it stand till the next morning then take them out and bind them in broad hoops laying them in Oat-meal and Bran boiled in Water which must be strained through a strainer into the Vessel where you intend to keep them adding Salt thereto and close it up from the air Brawn coller'd and souced the best way Let not your Brawn be quite so old as the former then scald it and bone it making but three Collers thereof viz. the neek Coller the sheald Coller and the Flank Coller water your Collers two days each day shift it thrice and scrape it the last day squeeze out the blood wash it very clean and dry it in a cloath when it is dry sprinkle on Salt and rowl it up beginning from the belly adding some flesh to the flank to make it correspond in thickness with the back of which you may be supplyed from the Gammon then bind it up as hard as possibly you may and put it into your boiling liquor scum it continually and as it ought to boil five hours at least so supply constantly the wasting of the Water with more if a Wheat-straw will penetrate it you may conclude it is enough then draw your fire and pour in by little and little cold Water not suffering it to settle in its own liquor and it will be of a delicate white colour then take them up and set your Collers an end Let your sauce be small Beer mixed with Bran
a Dish with some Sugar White wine Sack Claret or Rosewater close them up with paste and bake them then set them by to cool and when they are cold put in raw Cream or that which is boil'd with Eggs scrape on Sugar Cast Cream Take two quarts of Cream and a quart of Milk the yolks of six Eggs and the whites of six more strain them together and boil them and stir them continually till they be thick then put therein some Verjuyce and put it into a strainer and drain the whey from it then put to it some Sugar and Rosewater strow all over it some preserved Pine-kernels Whipt Cream Take a quart of Milk and put it into an earthen Pan with a quarter of a pound of Sugar take also one pint of sweet Cream which you must mingle with your Milk gradually as you are whipping it with your rods take off the scum by degrees and put it in a Dish after the from of a Pyramid Or thus take Milk and put it into a large bowl or bason and whip it with rods till it be as thick as the Cream that comes off the top of a Churn then lay fine linnen clouts on saucers being wet and lay on the Cream and let it rest two or three hours then turn it into a Silver Dish with raw Cream Sugar it and serve it up Italian Cream Take three pints of Cream and fifteen yolks of Eggs and strain them with a little Salt Saffron Rosewater juyce of Orange a little White wine and three quarters of a pound of fine Sugar bake these ingredients in a Dish with Cinamon with candied Pistaches stuck thereon Pyramidis Cream made after a most excellent manner Take three pints of Water and eight ounces of Harts-horn put it into a bottle with Gum-dragon and Gum-arabick of each the quantity of an Egg let the bottle be so big that it may hold a pint more stop it very close with cork and tye a cloth over it put the bottle into a beef-pot or you may boil it by it self in Water let it boil three hours then take the same quanrity of Cream as there is of Jelly with three quarters of a pound of Almonds well beaten with Rosewater mingle them with the Cream strain it put the Jelly when it is cold into a Bason and the Cream to it sweetning it as you shall think most convenient add to it three or four grains of Musk and Ambergriese set it over the fire and stir it continually till it be seething hot but let it not boil then put it into a glass and let it stand till it be cold when you use it put the dish in some warm Water and serve it with Cream Puddings of all sorts Quaking Pudding TAke a pint and half of Cream a grated Manchet half a dozen spoonfuls of Cream and commix it with four spoonfuls of Rice-flowre then without cloding beat it into batter then take eight Eggs and mingle them all together beating them up with a little Rosewater Nutmeg Cloves Mace Cinamon beaten with a little Salt if it be too thick thin it with more Cream then take a thick cloth wash'd over with Butter and put your Pudding therein in the tying of it give it some liberty to rise then put it into your boiling liquor let it boil for the space of a full hour covering your Pot very close keep it constantly turning for the first quarter of the hour and let it boil very fiercely when it is enough take it up and turn it into a Dish stick it all over with blanched Dates and dryed Citron perfume a little Rosewater with Musk or Ambergriese adding some Vinegar drawn Butter and a good quantity of Sugar being very hot pour it on your Pudding scrape Loaf-sugar on the brims of your Dish and so serve it up you may do well in the sticking of your Pudding to add some Orangado to the aforesaid Quaking Pudding baked Take a Manchet slice it and scald it with a pint of Cream then put to it a pound of blanched Almonds pounded small with Rosewater add thereto a quarter of a pound of Dates sliced and cut small a handful of Currans boiled and some Marrow minced beat these together and season it with Nutmeg Sugar and Salt putting thereto the yolks of half a dozen Eggs. If you will make your Pudding either to boil or bake take a pint of good thick Cream boil it with some large Mace whole Cinamon and sliced Ginger with a little Nutmeg then take the yolks of six Eggs beat them well and grate the quantity of a half-penny-loaf of stale Manchet put it to the Eggs with a spoonful of Flowre season it with Sugar as is requisite with a little Salt then either bake or boil it an hour will serve for either Shaking Pudding Take a pint of sweet Cream boil it with large Mace sliced Nutmeg and Ginger then put in a few Almonds beaten with Rosewater being first blanched then beat four Eggs with half their whites having strained all together mingle therewith sliced Ginger Sugar grated Bread and Salt then butter a cloth and flowre it having tyed it hard put it into your boiling Water as you must do by all Puddings then dish it up with Butter and Verjuyce putting therein a little Sugar Wine Puddings Take the crums of two Manchets sliced and infuse them in half a pint of Wine with as much Sugar as you shall think requisite but first scald your Wine then take half a dozen Eggs and beat them with Rosewater then put sliced Dates Marrow and Nutmeg thereunto mingling them all together and filling your guts herewith boil them Puddings of several colours In the first place you must procure half a dozen dishes bespoke on purpose of the Turner with covers befitting them then butter the inside of your Dishes fill one of them with the ingredients of your Quaking Pudding then put on the cover and bind it down with a cloth prepared for that purpose with pack-thread then take as much more of the same stuff as will fill a Dish and colour it with Spinage and tye up this as the former then take of Cowslips Violets and Clove-gilly-flowers of each a handful and mince them a part and beat them severally in a Morter then take as much of the said Pudding-stuff as will fill three Dishes putting into every Dish each distinct juyce viz. Cowslips into one c. and bind them up having first covered them as aforesaid when they are boiled uncover your Dishes and turn out your Puddings into a large Dish stick them with Suckets and lair them with Butter Vinegar Rosewater and good store of Sugar scrape on some Sugar and serve them up this is a very becoming Dish for any great Feast Marrow-puddings boiled in skins Take a quart of Cream a rowl of French bread sliced very thin and put it over the fire a soaking with Cinamon that is whole till it is ready to boil then beat
Oatmeal steep it in warm Milk all night next morning drain it and boil it in three pints of Cream when it is cold put to it the yolks of half a dozen Eggs and but half the whites Cloves Mace Saffroâ—â— Salt Dates sliced and Sugar boil it in a Pipkin serve it with beaten Butter and stick it with sliced Dates and serape on Sugar you may for variety add Raisins of the Sun all manner of sweet Herbs being seasoned as before Or you may take great Oatmeal pick and scald it in Cream then season it with Nutmeg Cinamon Ginger Pepper Currans you may either bake it in a Dish or boil it in a Napkin serve it with beaten Butter and Sugar scraped thereon Oatmeal Pudding after the best manner Take great Oatmeal well pick'd and wash'd and bind it up in a bag then boil it in Beef-broth tender then take some Cream and boil it with large Mace and sliced Nutmeg then take it off the fire and slice a Manchet very thin into the Cream to a quart thereof take eight Eggs the whites but half so many and mix it with your Oatmeal then add thereto a good quantity of Beef-suet Rosewater Salt and Sugar stir them will together butter the bottom of your Dish and so bake it Rice-flowre Pudding Thicken a pottle of Milk with as much Rice-flowre as will make it as thick as Batter then boil it with Cinamon and large Mace then put into it a piece of Butter and stir it continually when it is indifferently thick put it into an earthen-Pan to cool when it is almost cold add to it two handfuls of Currans a little Sugar beaten Cinamon and a handful of minced Dates with the yolks of half a dozen Eggs the whites of three omitted butter the bottom of your Dish and pour in your Pudding you will do well to garnish the brims of your dish with paste when it is baked scrape on Sugar Rice-pudding in guts Take a pottle of Milk set it over the fire and put therein three quarters of a pound of Rice well pick'd and wash'd with a little beaten Maâ—e and boil it till the Mace be dry then pour your Rice into a strainer that you may drain it from its moisture then put to it the yolks of eight Eggs and the whites of four three quartâ—rns of Sugar a quarter of a pint of Rose-water a pound and half of Currans and the like quantity of Beef-suet minced season it with Nutmeg Cinamon and Salt then dâ—y the small guts of a Hog Sheep or Heifer being well cleansed and steeped fill your guts with the aforesaid ingredients cut your guts a foot long tye them both ends together a quarter of an hours boiling will serve the turn Or you may boil the Rice first in Water then in Milk after that with Salt in Cream then take half a dozen Eggs grated Bread good store of Marrow minced small some Nutmeg Sugar and Salt fill the guts put them in a Pipkin and boil them in Milk and Rosewater Rice-pudding baked Boil the Rice tender in Milk and season it with Nutmeg Mace Rosewater Sugar Eggs and but half the whites grated Bread with Marrow minced then putting in a little Ambergriefe bake it in a Dish the bottom whereof must be butter'd Hasty-pudding in a Dish Take three pints of good thick Cream and when it boils put therein two penny Manchets grated and mingled with a quarter of a pint of Flowre a quarter of Sugar Nutmeg Salt and half a pound of Butter stir it continually and put thereto the yolks of half a dozen Eggs when it is boiled enough pour it into a Dish stick it with preserved Orange-pill run it all over with Butter and scrape upon it some double refined Sugar Hasty-pudding in a bag Take a quart of thick Cream with two spoonfuls of Flowre season it with Sugar Nutmeg Salt wet your bag and flowre it then pour in your Cream whilst it is hot when it is boiled butter it This Pudding is not inferiour to any Custard Or you may take a pint of good Milk put thereto a handful of Raisins of the Sun with as many Currans and a piece of Butter then grate a Manchet and Nutmeg and put thereto a handful of Flowre when the Milk boils put in the bread let it boil a quarter of an hour then dish it up 〈◊〉 beaten Butter Hasty-pudding the bost way made Take a quart of good thick Cream and the quantity of a French Roll and half â—rated or rather sliced thin when your Cream boils put in your Bread with grated Nutmeg Cloves Cinamon Mace and Ginger beaten add thereto a spoonful 〈◊〉 two of Flowre incorporate these well â—ogether and keep it stirring as it boils put in a spit of Butter then take the yolks of four Eggs and the whites of two beat them and put them into your Skillet or Pipkin with a handful of Sugar and a little Rosewater then stir it well till you perceive it to thicken and boil then put it out into the Dish you intend to serve it up in set it over a Chafing-dish of coals and heat a Fire-shovel red hot then hold it close to the top of your Pudding till you perceive it look brown then scrape on some Sugar and serve it Andolians or Blood-puddings Having soaked your Hogs-guts turn them scour them and steep them in Water twenty four hours then take them out wipe them dry and turn the fat side outward Then take Pepper chopped Sage a little Cloves and Mace beaten Coriander-seed and Salt mingle all together and season the fat side of the guts then turn that side inwards again and draw one gut over another to what bigness you please then boil them in a Pot or Pan of fair Water with a piece of interlarded Bacon and some Spices with a little Salt tye them fast at both ends and make them of what length you please Or you may take blood and strain it three parts of Blood to two of Cream a couple of Manchets and Beef-suet cut square like Dice the yolks of half a dozen Eggs Salt sweet Herbs Nutmeg Cloves Mace and Pepper As for your blood you may either take that of a Goose Sheep Calf Lamb or Fawn A most incomparable rare Marrow-pudding Take the Marrow of four Marrow-bones two French Rolls half a pound of Raisins of the Sun ready boiled and cold Cinamon a quarter of an Ounce fine beaten two grated Nutmegs a quarter of a pound of Sugar a quarter of a pound of Dates Sack half a pint a quarter of a pint of Rosewater ten Eggs two grains of Ambergriefe and two of Musk dissolved Lastly have in readiness a deep Dish and lay in the bottom some slices of French Bread and strew thereon Nutmeg Cinamon and Sugar mingled together and sprinkle the slices with Sack and Rosewater then lay on some Raisins of the Sun some sliced Dates and good big pieces of Marrow And thus make two or three lays of
the aforesaid ingredients with some Musk and a great deal of Marrow on the top then take a pottle of Cream and strain it with half a quarter of fine Sugar and a little Salt with the yolks of twelve Eggs and six whites then set the Dish into the Oven temperately hot when baked scrape on some Sugar An excellent boiled Pudding Beat the yolks only of half a dozen Eggs with Rosewater and a pint of Cream warm it with a piece of Butter as big as a Pullets egg when it is melted mix them well together and season it with Nutmeg Sugar and Salt then put in as much Bread as will make it as thick as Batter with a spoonful of Flowre then take a double cloth wet it and flowre it tye it fast and put it in the Pot being boiled serve it with Butter Verjuyce and Sugar Or you may take Pinamolets or French Bread grate it and sift it through a Cullender and mix it with Flowre minced Dates Currans Nutmeg Cinamon minced Suet Milk from the Cow Sugar and Eggs take away one moiety of the whites and mingle them all together then make it round like a loaf when the liquor boils put it in tyed up in a double cloth Cream Puddings Take a pint of Cream season it with Nutmeg Cinamon Ginger and Mace let your Ginger be quartered then put to it the yolks of four Egg and half the quantity of Whites half a pound of Almonds blanched beaten and strained with the Cream a little Rosewater Sugar and a very little Flowre then put your Pudding into a bag or Napkin having first wetted and flower'd it being boiled let your Sauce be Sack Sugar and Butter beaten up thick together with the yolk of an Egg then blanch some Almonds slice them and stick the Pudding very thick all over then scrape on Sugar and serve it up Green Puddings of Herbs Take a quart and somewhat more of Cream and steep therein the pith of a penny-white-loaf into which you must beat the yolks of eight Eggs then add thereto Currans Sugar Cloves beaten Mace Dates Cinamon Nutmeg sweet Marjoram Tyme Savory Penniroyal minced very small the juyce of Spinage Saffron and Salt boil these with Beef-suet or Marrow or without either these Puddings are excellent to be served up alone in a Dish or good stuffings for boiled or roasted Poultry Kid Lamb or Veal Another excellent boiled Pudding Beat six Eggs into a pint of Cream put it over the Fire and scald the Crum of a Manchet therein then put to it half a pound of blanched Almonds beaten small with Rosewater season it with Sugar Nutmeg and Salt some Dates sliced and cut small some Currans boiled and some Marrow minced beat them all together and bake it Almond Pudding in a Dish Take a pound of Almonds blanch and pound them in a Marble-Morter strain them with a quart of Cream a grated Manchet sierced four Eggs some Sugar Nutmeg grated some Dates and a little Salt boil it and serve it in a Dish with beaten Butter stick it with Wafers and scrape on Sugar Some use this course by taking a pound of Almond-paste some grated Naples-bisket Cream Rosewater yolks of Eggs beaten Cinamon Ginger Nutmeg some boiled Currans Pistaches and Musk boil it in a Napkin and serve it as the former Almond Puddings in guts Take a pound and a half of Almond-paste and put thereto some new Milk or Cream with four or five blades of Mace and some sliced Nutmegs when it is boiled take the Spice clean from it then grate a penny Manchet and sierce it through a Cullender put it into the Cream and let it stand till it be cold then put in the Almonds eight yolks of Eggs Salt Sugar and good store of Marrow or Beef-suet finely minced and therewith fill the guts Cinamon Puddings Take two quarts of Cream and steep therein two French Rolls a dozen yolks of Eggs Dates an ounce of beaten Cinamon and some Almond-paste you may sometimes use Rosewater and boiled Currans either boil or bake it which you please Haggus Puddings Take a Calves chaldron boil it and when it is cold mince it very small then take the yolks of four Eggs and the whites of two some Cream grated Bread Sugar Salt Currans Rosewater some Beef-suet or Marrow sweet Herbs Marjoram Tyme Parsley and mingle all together then having a Sheep-maw ready dressed put in the aforesaid materials and boil it Others take good store of Parsley Savory Tyme Onions and Oatmeal groats chopped together and mingled with some minced Beef-suet with Cloves Mace Pepper and Salt fill the panch sow it up and boil it when it is boiled cut a hole in it and put in some beaten Butter with yolks of the three Eggs. Another very good way Take a Calves chaldron or Muggets boil it tender and mince it small put to it grated Bread the yolks of six Eggs with as many whites some Cream sweet Herbs Spinage Succory Sorrel Strawberry-leaves minced small a little Butter Pepper Cloves Mace Cinamon Ginger Currans Sugar Salt Dates and boil it in a Napkin or Calves-panch being boiled dish it and trim it with scraped Sugar stick it with sliced Almonds and run it over with beaten Butter Chiveridge Puddings Lay the fattest of a Hog in fair Water and Salt to scowr them then take the longest and fattest gut and stuff it with Nutmeg Sugar Ginger Pepper and sliced Dates boil them and serve them to the Table Swan or Goose-pudding Take the blood of either and strain it and put therein Oatineal â—o steep or grated Bread in Milk or Cream with Nutmeg Pepper sweet Herbs minced Beef-suet Rosewater minced Lemon-pill with a small quantity of Coriander-seed This is a very good Pudding for a Swan or Gooses Neck Veal pudding Take some of the raw flesh of a Leg of Veal and mince it very small then mingle it with lard cut into square pieces and â—ince some sweet Herbs as Marjoram Penâ—iroyal c. with some Spice as Nutmeg Ginger Pepper and Salt work or incorporate all together with Cinamon Sugar Barberries sliced Figs blanched Almonds half a pound of Beef-suet finely minced put these into Hog or Sheep-guts well cleansed cut them an inch and a half long tye them and boil them in a Pipkin with Claret wine with large Mace being almost boiled have some boil'd Grapes in small bunches and Barberries in knots then dish them on French Bread being scalded with Mutton Broth or Gravy garnish your dish with sliced Lemon this is a most delicate Pudding Bread Pudding in guts Take some Cream and boil it with Mace and mix therewith some Almonds blanched and beaten with Rosewater then take Cream Eggs Nutmeg Currans Salt and Marrow and mingle them all together with as much grated white Bread as you shall think sufficient and herewith fill your guts Bread Puddings green or yellow Grate three penny-white-loaves and sierce them through a Cullender put them into a deep dish and put to
laid all over it also Mace Cinamon some knots of Barberries and sliced Lemon scraping on some Sugar Plaice boil'd Take good large Plaice and boil them in White wine Vinegar large Mace two or three Cloves and Ginger sliced Being boil'd serve them in beaten Butter with juyce of Sorrel strain'd Bread sliced Lemon Grapes or Barberries Plaice stewed Make choice of the fairest you can get and having drawn wash'd and scotch'd them fry them a little having so done remove them into a Stew-pan putting thereto some White-wine grated Nutmeg Wine-Vinegar Butter Pepper and Salt And thus stew them with slices of Oranges or Lemons Prawns Shrimps or Craw-fish stewed First boil then pick and afterwards stew them in some Claret-Wine sweet Butter Nutmeg and Salt dish them in Scollop-shells and run them over with beaten Butter with juyce of an Orange or Lemon You may for variety sake take any of the aforesaid Shell-fish and stew them in Butter and Cream serving them in Scollop-shells Perches boil'd an excellent way Lay your Perches scotcht in a deep Dish with a pint of the best Sallet Oyl you can get half a pint of White-wine with the like quantity of Wine-Vinegar two races of Ginger sliced some whole Cloves and Mace a Nutmeg sliced and a faggot of sweet Herbs with two Onions cut not very small let these be the seasoning for your Pan then let your Liquor boil up your Fish very quick then blanch them on both sides and dish them on Sippets after this take a little White-wine Gravie and Vinegar with grated Nutmeg and a handful of Oysters cut in pieces put these all over your Fish causing them to boil almost in the Dish before you send it up pour drawn Butter over all and garnish your Dish with Barberries and Lemons Salmon boil'd the best way after the City fashion Having chin'd your Salmon take a side thereof or more and cut the pieces into a reasonable bigness wipe it only from the blood but do not wash it then take no more Wine and Water of each an equal proportion than will cover it Having made the Liquor boil with a handful of Salt and then put in your Salmon making it boil up quick adding a quart of White-wine-Vinegar keeping up a stiff fire it will be boil'd in half an hour then take it off and let it cool keeping it in a broad bottom'd Earthen Pan with the Liquor but if you intend it shall be eaten hot dish it up presently and Sauce it with Butter beaten up thick with Water adding thereto the yolks of three Eggs dissolved therein some of the Liquor grated Nutmeg sliced Lemon poured thereon garnishing the Dish with fine sierced Manchet Barberries sliced Lemons Spices and some greens fryed Salmon stewed Take a Jole or Rand of Salmon and first fry it after that stew it in a Dish on a chafing Dish of Charcoal with some Claret Wine large Mace slic'd Nutmeg Salt Wine-Vinegar sliced Orange and some sweet Butter When enough and the sauce thick Dish it on Sippets lay the Spices on it with some slices of Orange garnish the Dish with some stale Manchet grated and finely sierced Soals boil'd Take the Soals draw and fley them then boil them in Vinegar Salt White-wine and Mace but let the Liquor boil before you put them in being enough dish them up on carved Sippets let your garnish be Mace sliced Lemons Goosberries Grapes or Barberries and beat up some Butter thick with the juyce of Oranges and run it over the Fish For variety sake place all over your Soals some stewed Oysters Soals stew'd a very good way Take a pair of Soals lard them with water'd Salt-Salmon then lay them on a smooth board cutting your lard all of an equal length on each side lair it but short then flower your Soals and fry them in strong Ale till they are half done then put them in a dish with half a dozen spoonfuls of white Wine three of Wine-Vinegar three ounces of sweet Butter some slices of Orange with Salt and some grated Nutmeg cover the Dish whilst they are stewing being enough dish them up with slices of Lemon beaten Butter with the juyce of Oranges Sturgeon boil'd Take a Rand and cut it into square pieces as big as a crown piece stew them in a broad-mouth'd Pipkin with three or four large Onions some large Mace three or four Cloves Pepper Salt some sliced Nutmeg two or three Bay-leaves some White wine and Water Butter and a race of sliced Ginger stew them well together and serve them on Sippets running them over with beaten Butter sliced Lemon and Barberries let the garnish be the same Smelts stewed Take a deep Dish and put your Smelts therein put to them a quarter of a pint of White wine three ounces of Butter some great Pepper a handful of Parsley three or four sprigs of winter Savory and as much of Tyme shredded small with the yolks of three Eggs minced when you put in your Fish let these accompany stewing them together and now and then turning them with the Fish when enough serve them up on Sippets placing a top some bunches of Barberries pickled scraping Sugar thereon Scollops stewed Boil them very well in White wine fair Water and Salt take them out of the shells and stew them with some of the Liquor Elder Vinegar a few Cloves some large Mace and some sweet Herbs chopped very small being throughly enough serve them up in their own shells with beaten Butter and the juyce of Oranges Tortoise stewed Take a Tortoise and cut off his head feet and tail and boil the body in Wine Salt and Water being enough uncase the meat from the shell and stew it in a Pipkin with some Butter White wine some of the Broth a couple of whole Onions Tyme Parsley Winter-savory and Rosemary minc'd when enough serve it on Sippets Turbet boil'd or as some call it Calvereâ— Having drawn your Turbet wash 〈◊〉 clean then take an equal quantity 〈◊〉 Water and Wine with some Salt and boâ—â— it therein not putting it in till the Paâ— boils adding thereto some sliced Onions large Mace a Clove or two some sliceâ— Ginger whole Pepper and a bundle oâ— sweet Herbs scotch the Turbet on thâ— white side very thick overthwart one way only this must be done before you put it in 〈◊〉 Being half boiled put in some Orange-pill being enough dish it up with the Spices Herbs some of the Liquor Onions and sliced Lemons In the like manner you may dress Holy-burt only let your Sauce be beaten Butter sliced Lemon Herbs Spices Onions and Barberries Trouts stewed Take three or four Trouts or more according to their bigness and put them in a Dish with somewhat more than a quarter of a pint of Sack or instead thereof White wine with a piece of Butter about the quantity of a Tennis-ball a little whole Mace some Parsley a little Winter-savory and Tyme minced all together which done put them to the Trouts Let
Oyl and when enough serve it up with the sprigs of those Herbs and Parsley about it in beaten Butter and Vinegar Conger fryed Scald your Conger and cut off the Fins then splat it flower it and fry it in clarified Butter crisp sauce it with beaten Butter and Vinegar juyce of Lemons garnish it with fryed Parsley fryed Ellicsanders or Clary in Butter Crabs broil'd After you have boil'd your Crabs in Water and Salt steep them in Oyl and Vinegar well incorporated by beating then put your Gridiron over a soft fire and put your Crabs thereon as they broil baste them with Rosemary branches being broil'd serve them up with Oyl and Vinegar or Vinegar and beaten Butter with the Rosemary Branches they were basted with Crabs frigassi'd Take out all the meat of the body of your Crabs and breaking the claws mince the meat thereof into the rest and add thereto a little Claret wine some Fennel minced and a grated Nutmeg let these boil then put in a little drawn Butter Vinegar and the yolks of two Eggs then put the meat being enough into its proper shell and garnish it round with the small leggs in the buttering put some Cinamon and Ginger Crabs fryed Boil some large Crabs and take the meat out of the great Claws flowre and fry it then take the meat out of the body strain the one half for sauce and the other reserve for frying and mix it with grated bread Almond Paste Nutemg and Salt with yolks of Eggs fry it in clarified Butter first dipt in Batter then let your sauce be beaten Butter with juyce of Orange and grated Nutmeg beaten up thick with some of the strained meat Then run it over with beaten Butter placing the little leggs about the meat and fryed Parsley round the dish brim Eels roasted or a Spitch-cock Eel Make choice of a large Silver Eel draw it fley it and cut it in pieces somewhat longer than your middle finger then spit it on a small spit placing between every piece a Bay-leaf or instead thereof you may use Sage-leaves spit your pieces cross ways being throughly roasted for otherwise it is dangerous meat serve it with Butter beaten up thick with juyce of Orange or Vinegar and beaten Nutmeg otherwise you may dredge it with beaten Carraway seed Cinamon and grated Bread and serve it up with Venison sauce Eels roasted the best way Strip a good large Silver Eel and cut it into pieces four inches long when you have well dry'd them put them into a Dish then take some Salt and Mace Nutmeg and a little Pepper beaten small with a piece of Lemon-pill two or three Onions and Tyme small minced strow these ingredients all made very small on your pieces of Eel with yolks of Eggs and be sure that you mingle in your seasoning well with your hands then spit your Eel cross ways on a small spit putting a Sage leaf between each piece you may chuse whether you will turn them round constantly letting them stand on the one side till they hiss and grow brown and then turn the other side to the fire save your Gravy in the Dish wherein the Eel was seasoned baste it with drawn Butter then put to your Gravy Claret minced Oysters Nutmeg grated and a pretty big Onion give it a walm with a little drawn Butter and dish up your fish running your lair over it Eels broil'd Splat a large Eel down the back joynting the back-bone being drawn and the blood washed out clean leave the skin on cutting it into four equal pieces Salt them and baste them with Butter broil them on a sort fire being enough serve them with beaten Butter and juyce of Lemon with sprigs of Rosemary round about them Eels broil'd after the best fashion Let your Fish be very dry then wash it over with Butter strowing good store of Salt over that having first cut it into several pieces then having your Gridiron very clean set it over the fire till it be exceeding hot and wash the barrs with Butter then put on your Fish upon the Girdiron with the salted side towards the fire buttering the upper side when you think them enough on the one side turn them upon the other basting still the upper side the extraordinary seasoning will so bind the Fish that it will not break being ready dish it up with beaten Butter and juyce of Orange Ling fryed Take a Jole of Ling boil'd and cold and cut it out into pieces about the bigness of your thumb then make a batter of a very little flower and eight yolks of Eggs your Pan being over the fire with clarified Butter and very hot dip your Ling into the batter and fill your Pan therewith or you may fry it without batter only flowering it and so fry it in clarified stuff being enough dish it up and lay on your Ling half a score patched Eggs then run over the Ling with drawn Butter you may Oyl your Ling instead of Butter if you please Lobsters roasted Take your Lobsters and half boil them then take the meat out of the shells lard the meat of the claws tail and legs with fat salt Eel then spit this meat with some salt Eel on a small spit with Sage or Bay-leaves between every piece stick on the Fish some Cloves with some sprigs of Rosemary let the barrel of the Lobster be roasted whole basting them with sweet Butter let your sauce be made of Claret wine the Gravy of the Fish juyce of Orange Anchovies with some Butter and Nutmeg beaten up thick Lobsters broiled Take the tails of your Lobsters and split them long-ways into two then crack your claws and put them over the Gridiron with the barrel whole salted baste them with sweet Butter Tyme Rosemary Parsley and Savory being enough serve it up with Butter and Vinegar Lobsters fryed Take out the meat of the barrels and put thereto some Claret wine the yolks of two Eggs a little minced Fennel and grated Nutmeg then let it boil up with the meat of the tails and claws with drawn Butter and Vinegar dish them up on Sippets in Saucers on a plate garnish them with Fennel and Bay-leaves Lump fryed Take your Lump and fley him then splat him and having divided him cut each side into two pieces then season it with Salt Nutmeg and Pepper your Pan being hot fry him with clarified Butter and dish it up with slices of Oranges Goosberries Grapes Barberries and Butter Lump roasted Take it and fley it and cleanse it well within then season it with Salt Mace Pepper and Nutmeg put into the belly an Onion and a Bay leaf roast it and serve it up with beaten Butter and slices of Lemon Mullets fryed Let your Mullets be drawn scaled scotched wash'd clean and then wiped dry having flowred them fry them in clarified Butter being enough dish them and sauce them with Claret sliced Ginger grated Nutmeg Anchovies Salt and some sweet Butter beaten up thick together garnish
pour in your sauce and dish it up Hare roasted Having larded your Hare with small Lard and stuck him with Cloves pretty thick then make a Pudding of grated Bread Currans Eggs Sugar grated Nutmeg beaten Cinamon and a little Salt you may do well to add some sweet Cream with this Pudding made pretty stiff stuff the Hares belly and roast her Venison sauce is as proper as any whatever but for variety you may take Nutmeg Ginger beaten Cinamon boil'd Prunes Pepper and Currans strained Bread grated Sugar and Cloves all which you must boil together till they are as thick almost as Custard Some will roast a Hare with the skin on making a stuffing of all manner of sweet Herbs minced very small and wrapt up in Butter made into a Ball this they put into the Hares belly pricking it up very close all the while it is roasting with the skin on it it must be basted with Butter being almost enough then strip the skin off and stick Cloves on his back and sides bread it very well with grated Manchet Flowre and Cinamon then froth it up and dish it the usual sauce is Claret wine Vinegar Sugar Cinamon Ginger boil'd up to a moderate thickness Legs of Pork broil'd Having skin'd part of the Fillet cut it into thin slices and hack it with the back of your knife then take some Pepper and Salt and mingle them with Tyme and Sage minced extraordinary small having season'd your Collops herewith put them on a Gridiron being enough dish them up and sauce them with drawn Butter Vinegar Mustard and Sugar Lambs head roasted Take two or three Lambs heads and having cleans'd them by soaking them in several waters and taking out the brains fill the head with a pudding or what farcing you shall like best your Lambs heads being almost roasted put on as many Lambs tongues with as many sticks of Oysters as you have heads let your tongues be parboil'd blancht and larded and with your tongues and Oysters have Sweet-breads amongst them then having some Gravy drawn with Claret wine put to it two Onions a faggot of sweet Herbs a couple of Anchovies and a large Nutmeg your Tongues being throughly roasted slit them and put them into your Wine and Gravy drawing your Sweet-breads and Oysters at the same time then dish up your heads on Sippets well soaked in strong Broth then lay the sides of your Tongues about the Heads by the sides of your Dish placing your Oysters and Sweet-breads all over your Tongues and Heads then pour on your lair with a ladleful of drawn Butter and serve them up Lamb or Kid whole how to roast Take the Head of your Lamb and prick it backwards over the shoulder tying it down then lard it with Bacon and draw it with Tyme and Lemon-pill this being done make your farcing or pudding of grated Bread sweet Herbs Beef-suet some Flowre some forced meat minced small then season it with Cloves Mace Ginger Cinamon and Salt with some grated Nutmeg add hereunto the yolks of four Eggs and some sweet Cream then wrap this composition in the Caul of the Lamb and stuff the belly thereof with it and then prick it up close when it is roasted enough serve it up with Venison sauce Leverets and Rabbits roasted In the casing your Leverets cut not off neither their ears nor hinder legs but harl one leg through the other and cut a hole in one ear to contain the other in this manner roast your Leveret while it is roasting make your sauce with Winter-Savory sweet Majoram Tyme and Parsley minced very small mince also some yolks of hard Eggs the Liver of the Leveret parboil'd with some Bacon and Beef-suet boil these up well in a strong Broth and Vinegar being boiled put thereunto drawn Butter some Sugar and a grated Nutmeg dish up your Leverets on this sauce with slices of Lemon Mutton a shoulder roasted the best way with Oysters Take a quart of large Oysters and parhoil them in their own liquor having drain'd the liquor from them wash them in White wine then dry them and season them with Salt and Nutmeg stuff the shoulder very thick with these and lard it here and there with Anchovies being at the fire baste it with Claret wine then take the bottoms of eight Hartichokes boiled very tender and cleared from their strings put these into beaten Butter with the Marrow of as many Marrow-bones then set them by the fire that they may not cool putting to them the Gravy of the Mutton some Salt and sliced Nutmeg with the juyce of two Lemons and about a pint of great Oysters being first parboil'd your Mutton being roasted dish it up having added to your sauce an Anchovy some White wine a whole Onion stript Tyme and all boil'd up together Let your Mutton lye in the middle of the dish placing your Hartichokes round the dish brims putting the Marrow and Oysters on the Hartichokes bottoms with some sliced Lemon on the Mutton and thus serve it Mutton shoulder roasted without Oysters Whilst your shoulder of Mutton is roasting make ready your sauce in this manner take the Gravy Claret wine grated Nutmeg Pepper sliced Lemon and Broom-buds put these in a Pipkin together with a little Salt let them stew a little while together then dish up your Mutton and pour in the sauce into the Dish garnish it with Barberries and sliced Lemon Mutton is a common sort of Flesh among the English and because generally fed on in Noblemens houses as well as in those of mean degree there are found out many ways of dressing the several joynts which belong to the sheep fearing I shall be too prolix if I begin to treat thereof I will wave and give you a short account of what sauces are most used and esteemed for Mutton Some are for Gravy Samphire Capers and Salt stew'd together others are for Oyster liquor and Gravy boil'd together with Eggs Verjuyce juyce of Orange and slices of Lemon all over A third sort are for Onions chopped with sweet Herbs Vinegar Gravy and Salt boil'd together A fourth is only for Parsley chopped and mingled with Vinegar A fifth is for Verjuyce Butter Sugar Gravy with minced Parsley or pickled Capers and Gravy or Samphire cut an inch long and Gravy or Onions Oyster liquor Claret Capers pickled Cucumbers Broom-buds Gravy Nutmeg and Salt boiled together Lastly whole Onions stew'd in Gravy White wine with Pepper Capers Mace and slices of Lemon or Water Claret sliced Nutmeg and Gravy boiled up together Mutton a Jegget how to roast Some may be ignorant what a Jegget of Mutton is for their information it is a Leg with half the Loin cut to it you must roast it thus draw it with Tyme and Lemon-pill be sure to save the Gravy that proceeds from it and put thereto a couple of cut Onions two or three Anchovies and a pretty quantity of Elder Vinegar after these have boiled together a little while put to it
into a dish with the skinny side downward so set it before the fire in a dripping-Pan that it may take a gentle heat then turn the other side then take it and lay it on your Gridiron over a soft fire when you think it is enough baste the upper side with Butter then dredge it over with flowre and bread grated then put it over again and froth it and dish it up your sauce must be Vinegar Butter and Mustard with a little Sugar put it into your dish with a little drawn Butter and lay your Goose a top of it garnish it with Lemon laying on Sausages round the brims of the dish Hen roasted Make choice of an indifferent young Hen full of Eggs fit it for the spit and roast it being enough take it up and break it open and taking the brawn from the joynt mince it into small slices but save the wings and legs whole with the rump also stew all in the Gravy with a little Salt after this mince a Lemon into your sauce let the minced brawn of the Hen be laid in the middle of the dish and the legs wings and rump round about it garnish the dish with the yolks of hard Eggs minced small and some slices of Orange or Lemon For a Hen roasted and not broken up the usual sauce is the yolks of four Eggs boiled hard and minced a little drawn Butter some Claret wine Gravy and the juyce of a Lemon Larks roasted with Bacon Pull your Larks and draw them and spit them on a small spit with a slice of Bacon and a Sage-leaf between each Lark being roasted dish them up with a sauce made of the juyce of two or three Oranges Claret and a little sliced Ginger then set it on the fire a little while and beat it up with a piece of Butter and so serve them up With the same sauce you may broil your Larks on a Gridiron opening their breasts and laying them abroad Plover roasted Take half a dozen green or gray Plovers and roast them being enough have some Onions boiled being first sliced in strong Broth add thereunto Gravy and a little drawn Butter or else Gravy boiled up with an Onion a little Nutmeg and Butter Partridges roasted Pull draw and truss them then roast them not too dry sauce them with grated Bread Water Salt and a whole Onion boiled together when it is boiled take out the Onion and in its stead put in minced Lemon and a piece of Butter then dish your Fowl and serve it up with this sauce Partridges frigassied Truss your Partridges and roast them till they are three quarters enough then carve them up after this fry them with an Onion chopped very small add to them half a pint of Gravy three Anchovies some grated Bread drawn Butter and the yolks of two Eggs beaten with white wine boil them till they come to a thickness and dish them up Pullets roasted Roast your Pullet saving the Gravy having before stuft the belly thereof with a little Butter the yolks of two hard Eggs minced some Claret wine the juyce of Lemon and Salt pour your dripping out of the Pan blowing off the fat and boil it up with a little Claret then put to it some drawn Butter and serve it up with your Fowl Pigeons roasted Prepare them to truss then make a farcing with Beef-suet or Marrow mincing it with the Liver of the Fowl very small and mingle it with grated Bread the yolks of hard Eggs minced Mace and Nutmeg beaten the tops of Tyme shred very small and Salt incorporate these together with the yolks of hard Eggs and Verjuyce then cut the skin of the Fowl betwixt the Legs and body before it is trussed then put your finger to raise the skin from the flesh but have a care you do not break the skin then farce it full with this meat trussing the Legs close to keep it in then roast them setting a dish under to save the Gravy which you must mix with some Claret wine slieed Nutmeg a little of that farced Meat and Salt then give it two or three walms on the fire and beat it up thick with the yolk of a raw Egg and a piece of Butter with a little minced Lemon and so serve it up You may for variety use this sauce mince a handful of Parsley very small and wrap it up in a ball of Butter with a grated Nutmeg put this into the belly of your Pidgeons when you spit them adding thereto some minced Bacon with a few Mints take this farcing out when you draw them and put it into Claret wine putting thereto grated Bread and drawn Butter and you may use your Vine leaves roasted and mince them therein Qails roasted Pull your Quails without breaking their skin and roast them with some Vine-leaves or dry the Vine-leaves in a dish before the fire then mince them very small and put them into Claret wine with a little Vinegar small Pepper and Salt being boiled beat it up thick with a piece of Butter and so serve up your Fowls Or you may only take some White wine grated Nutmeg Vine-leaves minced and some drawn Butter Rabbets roasted Spit them not back to back but skuer them up side to side so will they roast much better being roasted enough take Butterand minced Parsley being first boiled or roasted in their bellies and add thereto the Livers minced very small and so serve them up Snipe roasted You may either draw them or not if you do put an Onion into the belly of the Fowls and so roast them with a dish under them in which must be some Claret wine Vinegar an Anchovy Pepper and Salt when your Fowls are roasted put thereto a little grated Bread some Butter shaking them well together and so serve it up This is very good sauce for a wild Duck having first rub'd your dish with a clove of Garlick If you do not draw your Fowl then only take the guts and mince them very small into Claret wine with a little Salt Gravy and Butter Another sauce is thus made take some Onions and boil them and add to them some Pepper and Salt with a little Butter or raw Onions Water Pepper and Salt with the Gravy of any fresh Meat Turkey carbonado'd Your Turkey being roasted almost and carved scotch it with your knife long ways crossing it over again that it may look like Chequer-work then wash it over with Butter strowing Salt thereon then setting it in your dripping-Pan let it take a gentle heat turning it twice or thrice then set it on your Gridiron over a soft Char-coal fire when it is enough take it up and sauce it with Gravy and strong Broth boiled up with an Onion a little grated Bread a sliced Nutmeg an Anchovy and a ladle of drawn Butter adding thereto some Salt then dish up your Turkey and pour your sauce all over it then strow it over with Barberries and garnish it with Oranges or Lemon Or
it up when it is baked liquor it with this Caudle which you must make whilst it is baking take Eggs Vinegar and White wine Sugar and Butter beat these up together till it is ready to boil then opening your Pye pour it all over and serve it up hot Veal a Breast Rack or Loyn how to bake Take which Joynt you please and bone it season it with Salt Nutmeg and Pepper then take some sweet Herbs as Tyme sweet Marjoram Penniroyal Winter-savory c. and mince these small with some Beef-suet stuff your Loyn or Breast of Veal herewith and put it into your Pye close it and bake it in good crust and liquor it with Butter and the juyce of an Orange or Lemon Veal Fillet Pye Cut your Fillet into pieces about the bigness of Walnuts and season them with Cinamon Ginger Sugar and Salt as to the form you may make what choice you please lay in your meat with Chesnuts roasted blanched and quarter'd Dates sliced and the Marrow of two Marrow-bones close it and when baked make a a caudle of White wine Cinamon Sugar and Ginger beaten up together and poured into your Pye The same to be eaten cold Make a Pye of hot Butter paste and fine Flowre then take a Leg of Veal and cut off a large Fillet then divide that into three equal pieces and parboil them when cold season them with Salt beaten Pepper Nutmeg Cloves and Mace then lay in one Fillet and strow on some minced Tyme laying on some slices of Bacon seasoned with Pepper and Sage then lay on the second and so the third Fillet with Bacon over every lay then over all strow some minced Tyme and a little seasoning with some large Mace and store of Butter This done close up your Pye baste it with yolks of Eggs when it is baked and cold fill it up with clarified Butter Forget not to beat your Veal very well with the back of your Cleaver before you season it Vmble Pye made of a Lambs head and Purt'nance Boil your meat reasonable tender take the flesh from the bone and mince it small with Beef-suet and Marrow with the Liver Lights and Heart a few sweet Herbs and Currans season it with Nutmeg Pepper and Salt bake it in the form of an Umble Pye and your Pallate shall hardly distinguish which is which Venison Pye Raise a four square Coffin of hot Butter Paste then take some Oxe-suet minced small and lay in the bottom of your Pye then take your Venison seasoned with beaten Pepper Cinamon Cloves Ginger Salt Mace and Nutmeg pounded be sure to slash your Venison that it may the better entertain the seasoning then lay you meat into your Pye with Butter on the top and some few Cloves let your Walls be substantial when it is baked and that will not be under six hours cut it up and put into it about a quart of Venison Sauce Venison Pasty of a fallow Deer to eat hot or cold Take the side of a Fallow Deer bone it and lard it with great Lard then take Pepper and Nutmeg of each two ounces and a half of Salt five ounces and season it herewith then have a Pasty made of a good thickness and lay some Butter therein upon that lay your Venison the inside downwards coat it thick with seasoning and lay thereon a good quantity of Butter not forgetting to prick on some whole Cloves indore it with Eggs and bake it when it is cold fill it up with clarified Butter Otherwise in the best manner First bake it in its own blood wipe it clean but wash it not then skin it bone it and season it as before expressed then bake it again in fine Paste Puff-paste or short Paste Land-fowl or Sea-fowl of all sorts baked in Pan or Pasty Brand-gees's baked to be eaten cold TAke your Geese and parboil them then take out the Breast-bone with as many other bones as you can with this proviso you do not unshape your Fowl then season them with Pepper and Salt and lard them with good large Lard and put them into a Coffin and bake them when it is cold fill it up with clarified Butter Chicken Pye Take eight Chicken-peepers four sweet-Breads of Veal as many Sheeps Tongues boiled tender blanched and cut into thin slices with the sweet-Breads half a dozen Larks or Sparrows half a score Cocks-combs a pint and a half of great oysters parboil'd and the marrow of four Marrow-bones let all these be seasoned lightly with Pepper Salt and Nutmeg fill your Pye three quarters full with these materials then take some Veal and mince it with as much Marrow a little grated Bread the yolks of three Eggs minced Dates Salt Nutmeg sweet Marjoram work up these with a little Cream and make it into balls and lay them into your Pye with some Gravy bottoms of Hartichokes and some Butter over all lay some Marrow Chesnuts boiled and blanched large Mace and a handful of Goosberries close up your Pye and when baked liquor it with a little Butter juyce of Oranges and Claret wine Or you may bake them thus having trust them season them lightly as before and put them into a Coffin lay on them sliced Dates with the Marrow of four Marrow-bones some large Mace six ounces of Eringo roots some Grapes and Butter close it up and being half baked liquor it with a good quantity of Butter Grapes Verjuyce and Sugar then bake it till it is enough ice it and serve it up Chicken Pyes for Winter Season your Chickens after you have trust them with Cloves Salt Pepper Nutmeg beaten and Mace then take some Parsley and Tyme and mince them small and mould them into a ball with some Butter and some of the aforesaid seasoning stuff the bellies of your Chickens herewith and then lay them into your Pye with sliced Lemons on the top of them and the bottoms of boiled Hartichokes cut into square pieces close it up and when it is baked take the yolk of an Egg a grated Nutmeg White wine Gravy and Butter beaten up together and lair it therewith Chicken Pyes for the Summer Take half a dozen Chicken-peepers and truss them season them with Nutmeg Salt Ginger and whole Mace lay them into your Pye on their backs and cover them with scalded Goosberries or Cabbage Lettice with some Asparagus boiled and Butter when it is baked liquor it with a pint of White wine the yolks of half a dozen Eggs Sugar and a quarter of a pound of Butter beaten up over the fire till it boileth Chickens baked with Grapes Having trust and scalded your Chickens season them with Pepper Salt and Nutmeg and lay them into a Pye with half a pound of Butter when it is baked cut it up and lay on the Breasts of your Chicken some Grapes boiled in Verjuyce Butter Nutmeg and Sugar with the juyce of an Orange or Lemon Capon baked in Pasty-pan Your Capon being roasted and cold take the flesh from the
serve him to the Table with some of the liquor You may in this manner souce any Fish as Soals Mullets Dace Gurnets Pikes Carps Perches Tenches and Roches Mullets souced Having scaled and wash'd them clean lay them in a Dish and throw some Salt upon them some sliced Ginger and large Mace put some Wine Vinegar and two or three Cloves then boil it with as much Wine as Water but put not in the Fish till the Water boils being boiled enough put it into a flat-bottom'd earthen-Pan and pour on the liquor and cover it close Mullet marinated Take a Gallon of Vinegar and a quart of Water a good handful of Bay-leaves as much Rosemary and a quarter of a pound of Pepper beaten small put these together and boil them over a soft fire and season the broth with Salt then fry your Fish in good clarified Butter take them up and put them into a barrel that is but just sufficient to contain them lay the Bay-leaves and Rosemary between every lay of Fish and pour the broth on it when it is cold close up the Vessel Oysters pickled Make choice of your largest Oysters strain them from the liquor and wash them clean then set on as much Water as you think will cover them and when it boileth put them in and but just scald them pour them from the liquor then take some of their own liquor and mingle it with a little of that in which they were scalded some Vinegar large Mace whole Pepper Salt and two or three Bay-leaves boil all these together and when your Oysters are cold barrel them and fill them up with liquor putting thereto if you like it a Clove of Garlick Another way Take a Gallon of very fair large Oysters they are best about the full of the Moon parboil these in their own liquor then take them up and dry them in a clean cloth and put them into a well seasoned barrel then take the Oyster liquor well cleansed from the dregs and boil it with a pint and a half of White wine half a pint of White wine Vinegar four or five blades of whole Mace three quarters of an ounce of Pepper not beaten three ounces of white Salt three races of sliced Ginger and a dozen or fourteen Cloves pour this liquor into your barrel and head it up close Serve them up in a clean Dish with Bay-leaves Barberries and sliced Lemon round about them Oysters marinated Take six quarts of large Oysters parboil them as aforesaid then wash them in warm Water dry them flowre them and fry them in a pottle of sweet Sallet Oyl make them as crisp as you can and keep them warm till you have made a sauce of White wine wine Vinegar half a dozen blades of Mace sliced Nutmeg Ginger sliced a good quantity of Cloves and whole Pepper with some Salt boil all these Spices with a faggot or two of sweet Herbs having dish'd your Oysters pour on the liquor and Spices and garnish it with sliced Lemon Pike souced Having drawn and cleans'd your Pike very well put on your kettle and when your Water boils put in your Pike with some Salt let it boil leasurely with no more liquor than will cover it or you may boil it for keeping a considerable while in as much Wine as Water indifferently seasoned with Salt add thereto a little Vinegar sliced Ginger large Mace Cloves and some Lemon-pill being boiled not too much take it up and lay it by till you have boiled up the liquor to a consistency then lay it in some deep Pan and pour your liquor all over it and cover it up close Salmon how to pickle to keep six months or longer Take the Salmon and cut it in six round pieces then boil it in Vinegar and Water two parts of the former and one of the latter put not in your Salmon till the liquor hath boiled half an hour your Salmon being boiled take it up and drain it then take Rosemary-leaves Bay-leaves Cloves Mace and whole Pepper a good quantity of each and boil them in two quarts of White wine and as much of Vinegar let these boil half an hour your Salmon being cold rub it well with Pepper and Salt and put it up in a barrel with a lay of Salmon and another of Spice that is boiled in the liquor having filled your Vessel pour on the liquor Renew your pickle once a quarter and your Salmon will keep a compleat twelvemonth Salmon pickled in Collers Having cut off some of the tail take the rest of the side wash and dry it then wash it with the yolks of Eggs mince some sweet Herbs and strow thereon with a little Fennel season it with good store of Salt Cloves Nutmeg Mace Ginger and Pepper then bind it up in Collers with broad tape then set over your Kettle with Water Vinegar and Salt and let it boil with a faggot of sweet Herbs sliced Ginger and Nutmeg then lay it when boiled into your Souce-pan and pour some liquor thereon Soals souced Take new caught Soals and scotch them on the White side thick but not too deep then boil them in White wine wine Vinegar Cloves Mace sliced Ginger and Salt not putting in your Fish till your liquor boils which must be no more than will cover them then put in sliced Onions Parsley Tyme Sage Rosemary sweet Marjoram and Winter-savory being boiled enough set your Fish a cooling Soals souced and Coller'd Take out the bone of your Soals and either scrape or skin them but scraping is most proper then take Salmon Oysters Lobsters Shrimps or Prawns and mince these with the yolks of Eggs boiled hard with some Anchovies add to these a handful or what you think fit of minced Herbs season all with Nutmeg Cloves Ginger Pepper and Salt your Soals being dryed and washed over with the yolks of Eggs spread on them the aforesaid materials then rowl up your Soals in Collers binding them hard with Tape when they are boiled pickle them in Wine Water Vinegar Salt Spices and sweet Herbs boiled together Sturgeon pickled Garbidge your Sturgeon if it be a Female keep the Spawn to make Caveer split him down equally on the back cut off your Jole to the body-ward then your first and second Rand very fair let your tail-piece be the least bind up these pieces close with flag or tape and season them with Salt very well let it boil an hour and a half before you take it up and all the while it boils scum off the Oyl and supply it with liquor otherways your Sturgeon will be rusty Sturgeon souced a better way to keep a long time Having drawn your Sturgeon cut down your Sturgeon on the back into equal Sides and Rands then wash it from the blood with Water and Salt then boil it in Water Vinegar and Salt till it be tender then lay it in some place to cool when cold barrel it up close with the liquor it was boiled in Sturgeon marinated Take
the Joles and Rands of Sturgeon and having cleans'd dryed and flower'd them fry them in a large Kettle wherein you must have three Gallons of Rape-Oyl clarified being fryed crisp set them to cool in the mean time make your pickle of a Gallon and a half of White wine two Gallons of wine Vinegar four or five handfuls of Salt a quarter of a pound of large Mace five ounces of whole Pepper two ounces of sliced Ginger and when it is cold pack it up close pouring this pickle upon it Smelts marinated Put a quart of Sallet Oyl or more into a Frying-pan and when it is hot put in your Fish so many as the Oyl will cover as it wastes supply it with more then fry Bay-leaves in the Oyl the Fish was fryed in then put some Claret wine into an earthen Pan and put the fryed Leaves into the bottom thereof and let some of them lye aloft slice an ounce of Nutmeg as much Ginger and Mace a few Cloves and Wine Vinegar then put in your Fish so that the Bay-leaves and Spices cover it when you serve it let it be with Bay-leaves and the Spices Otherways marinated white or red Gill some large Smelts and lay them in a Pan put on them a row of sliced Lemon sliced Ginger Nutmeg large Mace and whole Pepper then a row of Smelts and so continue doing till they are all placed then put to them White wine Vinegar Salt and Bay-leaves thus you must do if you would have them white but if red then must your pickle be Red-wine well mingled with Cocheneil a weeks time will throughly pickle them when you dish them up you must divide them as an Anchovie strowing on Lemon cut four square with Broom-buds and Barberries Turbut souced Having fitted your Fish for the Kettle and your liquor boiling put your Turbut therein season it in the boiling very well with Salt and let it boil leisurely and scum it often If you intend to keep it a good while boil it in as much Water and White wine as will cover it some Wine Vinegar sliced Ginger large Mace some Cloves and some Lemon-pill being boil'd and cold put in a sliced Lemon and keep it for your use in an earthen Pan. Tench souced Draw your Tench at the Gills and cut them off then will they boil the whiter have Water on the fire and season it with Salt Vinegar five or six Bay-leaves large Mace whole Cloves some faggots of sweet Herbs bound up hard together so soon as your liquor-boils put in your Tench wiped clean but not scaled being boiled wash off the loose scales then strain the liquor through a jelly-bag and put to it some Izing-glass being washed and steeped for that purpose and boil it very cleanly dish your Fish in the Dish you intend to send it up in then strain the liquor through the bag pour it on the Fish and let it cool This Jelly will serve to jelly Lobsters Crawfish or Prawns hanging them in some glass by a thread at their full length and filling the glass with the Jelly when it is warm it being cold turn it out of the glass All sorts of Herbs Roots c. pickled with Sallets and Grand Sallets Artichokes WHen your Artichokes are ripe gather them and cut off the stalk within an inch of the Choke wash them clean and boil them in Water and Salt then take them up laying the bottoms upward till they be cold this being done provide a Vessel of clear Water and Salt boiled together and cooled then put the Artichokes into it cover it close and so you may keep them all the year round do not make your Pickle too salt they are good for Pyes at Christmas or for shew Another very good Take your Artichokes not too ripe for then they will be full of strings pare them round to the bottom and boil them tender take them up and set them a cooling then take White wine and stale Beer with good store of whole Pepper so put them into a barrel with a little Salt keep them close and they will serve for baked meats and boiled meats all the year Ashen-keys pickled Having boiled your Ashen-keys put them into a Pot and put thereunto some Vinegar keep it close covered Alexander-buds pickled You must make choice of your Alexander-buds before they run to seed and take off their tops and loose leaves so that the Bud may be intire and firm cut part of the Root to them and parboil them very well in Water and Salt then put them from the liquor and when they are cold put to them Vinegar Salt and some stale Beer when you use them slit them in the middle Bogberries pickled Take some Bogberries and put them into Gallipots then pour into them some Vinegar and Sugar boiled together close the top of your Pots and these will serve for garnish all the year Thus you may pickle Hog-haws if not ripe you must boil them Broom-buds pickled First tye up your Broom-buds in little bags then make a strong pickle of Water and Salt boiling it so long till it will bear an Egg having put your Broom-buds into pots fitting for the purpose pour in your pickle when it is cold there let them lye till they look black then shift them till they look of a bright or green colour after this when occasion shall serve you may take them out and boil them then pickle them in Vinegar Burdock-roots pickled Take Burdock-roots and half boil them having first scraped them very clean then put them up into convenient Vessels and pour into them a like quantity of White wine and wine Vinegar with some Salt and Pepper when you use them slice them thin Barberries pickled Pick your Barberries from the Leaves in clusters when they are ripe and put them into boiling Water there let them lye hot half a quarter of an hour then close them in Gallipots putting a pickle to them of White wine and Vinegar not made too sharp Broom-capers Boil the greatest and hardest Broom-buds in wine Vinegar and Bay-salt scum it clean when it is cold you may put in raw ones also each by themselves laying a weight upon them for all that swim will be black and the raw ones that are pressed down will be as green as grass those that are boiled will change colour Cucumbers how to pickle Cut your Cucumbers in pieces boil them in spring-Water Sugar and Dill a walm or two take them up and let your pickle stand until it be cold The best way is thus After Bartholomew-tide make choice of your smallest Cucumbers by some called Gerkins cleanse them well from all dirt and impurity then put in the bottom of an earthen Pot or Ferkin some Bay and Dill-leaves some whole Pepper blades of Mace and some Cloves then place a laying of Cucumbers thereon then a lay of Bay and Dill-leaves then a lay of Cucumbers till you have filled your Vessel you must thus continue to do then
Cheshire Cheese a clove or two of Garlick and fill your Fowl whether you roast it or boil it Farcings for Turkeys Pheasants and the better sort of Fowl Take Veal and Beef-suet and mince them together and let your seasoning be Cloves Mace a few Currans Salt and the bottoms of Artichokes boiled and cut into small squares mingle these together with Pine-apple-seed Pistaches Chesnuts yolks of Eggs and fill your Fowl herewith Farcings for Sea-fowl boiled or baked Take some of the flesh of a Leg of Mutton and mince the meat small with Beef-suet Penniroyal sweet Marjoram Tyme and other sweet Herbs add thereunto grated Bread Dates Currans Raisins Orange minced small Ginger Pepper Nutmeg Cream and Eggs farce your Fowl herewith and boil or roast them let your sauce be Marrow strong Broth White wine Verjuyce Mace Sugar and yolks of Eggs strained with Verjuyce serve them in on fine carved Sippets and sliced Lemon Grapes c. Farcings for Mutton Cut a pretty big hole in a Leg of Mutton and the flesh that you take from thence mince with Beef-suet or Bacon sweet Herbs Pepper Salt Cloves and Mace and two or three cloves of Garlick raw Eggs two or three Chesnuts work up these ingredients together and farce your Leg therewith when you have prick'd it up either roast it or boil it make sauce with the remainder of the meat and stew it on the fire with Gravy Chesnuts Pistaches or Pine-apples bits of Artichokes Pears Grapes or Pippins and thus serve it Farcings for Lamb. Mince some Lamb with Suet Parsley Tyme Savory Mary-golds Endive and Spinage being finely minced mingle herewith grated Bread grated Nutmeg Currans Dates yolks of Eggs Rosewater and Verjuyce Farcings for Veal Having minced some of a Leg of Veal cut your lard like Dice and put to it with some minced Penniroyal sweet Marjoram Winter-savory Nutmeg a little Cammomile Pepper Salt Ginger Cinamon Sugar and incorporate these together then fill some Beef-guts herewith and stew them in a Pipkin with some Claret wine let not the guts be above three inches long infuse in the stewing large Mace Capers and Marrow being enough serve them on Sippets with sliced Lemon and Barberries and run them over with beaten Butter and scrape on Sugar Farcings for Venison Mince Mutton with Beef-suet Orange-pill grated Nutmeg grated Bread Coriander-seed Pepper Salt and yolks of Eggs mingle all these together and stuff your Venison let your Sauce be Gravy strong Broth Dates Currans Sugar Salt Lemons and Barberries Thus you may farce a Leg or Breast of Veal Loyns of Beef Mutton or any joynt of meat Another good Farcing Mince a Leg of Mutton or Lamb with Beef-suet with all manner of sweet Herbs also Cloves Mace Salt Currans Sugar and fill the Leg with half the meat then make the rest into little Cakes as broad as a half Crown and stew them in a Pipkin with strong Mutton Broth Cloves Mace and Vinegar you may either boil bake or roast the Leg. A Farced Pudding Mince a Leg of Mutton with sweet Herbs put thereto grated Bread minced Dates Currans Raisins of the Sun a little Orangado or preserved Lemon sliced thin a few Coriander-seeds Nutmeg Pepper and Ginger mingle all together with some Cream and yolks of Eggs work it together very well then wrap the meat in a caul of Mutton or Veal and so either boil or bake it A grand farced or forced Dish Boil some Eggs till they be very hard then separate the yolks from the whites and divide them into halves then pound the yolks in a stone Morter with March-pane stuff and sweet Herbs chopped very small add these unto the Eggs with Sugar and Cinamon finely beaten mingle all together with Currans and Salt fill the whites and set them by then have preserved Oranges candied fill them with March-pane-paste and Sugar and set them by then have boil'd Asparagus minced with Butter and a little Sack have next boil'd Chesnuts blanched and Pistaches then Marrow sleeped in Rosewater and fryed in Butter after this have green Codlings sliced mix'd with Bisket-bread and Eggs and fryed in little Cakes next have Sweet-breads or Lambstones and yolks of Eggs dipt in Butter and fryed then have Pigeon-peepers and Chicken-peepers fryed or any small Fowl and some Artichokes and Potatoes boiled and fryed in Butter and some balls as big as a Walnut made of Parmisan dipt in Butter and fryed set these all by severally as you did the first Put all these in a great Charger and place the Chickens or whatever Fowl you have in the middle of the Dish then lay a lay of Sweet-breads then a lay of Artichoke-bottoms and Marrow and on them some preserved Oranges round that place your hard Eggs fryed Asparagus yolks of Eggs Chesnuts and Pistaches then your green Codlings stuffed the Charger being full put Marrow all over with the juyce of Oranges Some do it thus Take two pound of Beef-marrow and cut it as big as great Dice and a pound of Dates cut into small squares then take a pound of Prunes and stone them and a pound of Currans put these aforesaid into a Platter with twenty yolks of Eggs a pound of Sugar an ounce of Cinamon having mingled all these together take the yolks of twenty Eggs more strain them with a little Rosewater a little Musk and Sugar fry them in two Pancakes with a little Butter being fryed yellow lay it in a Dish and spread the former Materials thereon then take the other and cut it into thin slices as broad as your little finger and lay it over the Dish like a Lettice-window set it in the Oven a little then fry it CUSTARDS LEt your paste of your Custards be made up of fine Flowre done up with boiling liquor and made stiff and having made the forms dry them in an Oven then take a quart of Cream half a score Eggs half a pound of Sugar a little Mace half as much Ginger beaten very fine and a spoonful of Salt strain them through a strainer and fill therewith your forms then bake them fair and white draw them dish them and scrape thereon double refined Sugar Almond Custard Take a pound and half of Almonds blanch and beat them very fine with Rose-water then strain them with a pint and half of Cream fifteen whites of Eggs and three quarters of a pound of Sugar which is refined make the Paste as afore specified and bake it in an Oven moderately heated that it may look fair and white then draw it and scrape on Sugar Custard without Eggs. Take three quartes of a pound of Almonds being blanch'd pound them with Rosewater in a stone-Morter then put in some Rice-flowre and beat them well together with some Cloves Mace and Salt let the Spices be beaten with some Ginger and strain them all with some fair spring Water add unto what was strained half a pound of double refined Sugar and a little Saffron your forms being ready dryed lay in the
an Onion sticked with Cloves a faggot of sweet Herbs and a little Salt boil all well together with some crums of Bread and some Butter then pass it through a strainer and preserve it for your use This is a very good Potage for Craw-fish boiling it a while with the shells of your Craw-fish stamped and strained through a linnen cloth by means whereof your Potage will be coloured red afterwards strain all then season your broth and dish it up Pease-broth Steep your Pease twelve hours or more having first pick'd them from such as are worm-eaten then seethe them with Conduit water luke-warm this will make your Pease-broth clear and very good Here note that your Craw-fish must be served with Pease-potage Carps with Pease-broth and Almonds Potage of Herbs with a very little Pease-broth Potage of Tenches with fryed Flowre and a little Pease-broth the Queens Potage with broth of Carp or other Fish-broth and Almonds the Princes Potage with Pease-broth wherein was seethed the Bones of Carps Tortoise with Pease-broth Mushromes with Pease-broth and Soals with the same Smelts with good broth mingled with Almonds Sparagus with Pease-broth and Herbs Lettuce with Pease-broth Cabbidge and fryed Bread or Coleworts and Milk with Pease-broth and a good deal of Butter Potage of Cabbidge or Coleworts with Pease-broth Having steeped your Pease all night boil them the next day with Mace an Onion stuck with Cloves Pepper and Salt when your broth is enough dish it up and garnish it with Cabbidge or Coleworts sodden in Milk with some pieces of fryed Bread boiled therewith Potage of Pumpkin Boil your Pumpkin very well then take some Chibbals fry them and put them into your Pot season your broth with Salt and let it simmer again then serve it up with Pepper and Nutmeg Otherways Boil it very well then strain it through a strainer into a Pan then put to it a pretty quantity of Milk with some Butter then soak your Bread and serve it with Nutmeg Pepper and some beaten Cinamon Potage of Turnips with White-broth Having scraped your Turnips very clean put them in a Pot with Water when they are well boil'd season them with Salt Nutmeg beaten and a bundle of Herbs and take them off the fire and put to them some fresh Butter and stir it then run it over with some Almond broth and serve it Potage of fryed Turnips Scrape them and quarter them blanch and flowre them when they are dry fry them then boil them in Water with a little Pepper and an Onion stuck with Cloves if your broth be not thick enough mingle some Flowre with a little Vinegar and fry it and put it to your broth Potage of Pease-broth Take the clearest of your Pease-broth and put it into a Pot then fry some Sorrel Chervil and a little Parsley with Butter put these into your Pot also then season your broth and let it boil when it is enough serve it with Parsley and Roots sodden together Potage without Butter Take good store of Herbs season them very well seethe them with a crust of Bread stove or soak and serve them up Potage of small Vails Take four or five Loaves and make a hole in the top and take out the crum boil them then fry them in butter being fill'd with Milts of Carps Mushromes and broken Sparagus then soak them leisurely on your Potage and let your garnish be the same with your fillings Potage of Muscles Scrape and wash them well then boil them in a Pan of Water Salt and an Onion when they are boiled take them out and pick them taking off the shell to some and leaving it to others for to garnish after they are thus pick'd pass them in a Pan with some Parsley as for your broth after it is setled leave the bottom lest there be any gravel in it then boil it and when it boils fry into it a little Parsley with some fresh Butter then soak your Bread and garnish it with your Muscles pouring on your broth Potage of Frogs Having broken their bones and trust them blanch them and drain them very well then lay them into a Dish till you have made ready some Pease-broth fry into it a little minced Parsley with Butter having boiled a while put the Frogs into your broth but take them out presently then allay a little Saffron and put it into your Pot having soaked your Bread garnish it with the Frogs Potage of Salmon You must cut your Salmon into pieces and pickle them then pass them in a Pan with some Butter stick them with Cloves then stew them between two Dishes with some Butter a faggot of sweet Herbs Sugar White wine a little Salt large Mace beaten Cinamon and Pepper well beaten then stove or soak them then dry your Bread and stove or soak it also with some other broth garnish it with slices of Salmon Figs Dates or Prunelloes and pour the sauce over it Potage of Bran. Take Wheat Bran the biggest you can procure and boil it very well in Water with one handful of Almonds and a bundle of Herbs then season it well then pass it through a strainer and boil it again soak your Bread and fill your Dish with this broth which you may whiten if you please Potage of Frogs with Saffron Truss up your Frogs and boil them in broth or with Pease-broth and season them with Parsley an Onion stuck with Cloves and a sprig or two of Tyme soak your Bread and garnish it with your Frogs blanched and a little Saffron Potage of Frogs with Almonds Having trust them up Cherry-like fry them and stove them up between two Dishes with a little fresh Butter a drop of Verjuyce the juyce of an Orange or Lemon and season them with a bundle of Herbs then to make your broth boil some with Pease-broth or Water Salt Parsley Chibbals a handful of stamped Almonds after which strain them together soak your Bread upon which you may put a little of the Hosh of a Carp fill up your Dish and garnish it with your Frogs Lemon and Pomegranate Potage of Hops Whilst your Pease-broth is boiling pass some good Herbs in a Pan into it let your Hops boil in your Potage after that they are whitened a little before you serve them take them up and put unto them some Butter Salt Nutmeg Cinamon Vinegar and very little broth when it is well seasoned stove or soak your Bread garnish it with your Hops and fill your Dish Potage of Parsnips Make choice of those that are middle sized scrape and wash them clean then boil them with Butter and a faggot of sweet Herbs and season them with Salt and a few Cloves then take them up and peel them then put them with Butter and stove them then soak your Bread and garnish it with your Parsnips Potage of Leeks with Milk Cut your Leeks very small blanch and dry them then boil them with clear Pease-broth having boil'd a while put in