it boile for the spare of halfe an houre and when it is halfe boiled put into it thrée or foure ounces of good swéet Butter and so serue it with casting spice vpon it To make a kind of Leach Take the yolkes of foure egges halfe an ounce of Sinamon foure ounces of Sugar two ounces of Rosewater and foure ounces of the iuice of Orenges beate all these thinges together and boile them and make it somewhat yellow this is common in summer time To make a kind of made meat in flesh time Take a pound of old chéese and a little new chéese and a pound of the belly or panch of a fat Hog or a Cowes Vdder sod then take good hearbes well beaten Pepper Cloues and Ginger adding thereto the flesh of the breast of a Capon wel beaten and all these thinges being well tempered and mixed together then make good past and lap all this in the past and make them no bigger then halfe a Chestnut then fry them in Capons grease or other fat broth and make thē yellow with Saffron let them not boile aboue the space of thrée Pater nosters then dish them and straw them ouer with grated Chéese mixed with other spices The like may bee made of Feisants Partridges and other Foule To make a past or meat of floure Temper thy past as aforesaid and break it into diuers péeces then set it to dry in the sun it will continue two or thrée yeare when you will séeth it it must be sodden in flesh broth or broth of a fat Hen for the space of an houre But if it be not flesh time séeth them in almond milke or Goats milke with Sugar and because this milke will not boile as much as this past requireth boile them first in clean water as Rice is boiled your past also should be baked These past meates would likewise be yellow with Saffron except when they are boyled in milke To make meat of young Beanes with flesh or otherwise Take Beanes and blanch them with whot water like almonds then set them to boile and when they are boiled put to them a little Parsely and Mints well beaten and seeth them with salt Béefe or Bacon let it be somewhat gréen and it is the better The like may be done with pease and other fruits when they are gréene To fry pease with Bacon Take the Pease cod and all as they are boyle them and take a little Bacon larded with fat and cut it into Collopes then fry it a little with the aforesaid pease adding thereto a little Veriuice Sugar or sirope of Mulberies and a little Sinamon In this sort also are white pease fried To make meat of Melts with broth of Pullets or other flesh Séeth the melt with flesh broth let it boile softly stirring it and let it not smell of the smoke and make it yellow with Saffron but it would first be well washed with whote water like Rise To make a certaine kind of meat of Capers with flesh Take a pound and a halfe of Caper and boile them vntill they begin to open then take a pound and a halfe of blanched Almonds well beaten and put them to the said Capers beat them well againe with the crums of a white loafe and temper them with the broth of some good meat then straine it and set it to boile vpon a soft fire stirring it with a spoon then put into it a pound of Sugar halfe an ounce of Ginger Saffron and rose-Rosewater with good spice To make meat of floure and how it is sodden or dressed The floure is to bee boiled in good Caponbroth or other flesh and it must bee put into the broth by little and by little stirring it alwaies with a spoone and boile it the space of half an houre vpon the coales with a soft fire that it smell not of the smoke then dish it and cast chéese and spice vpon it In Lent boile it in Almond milke Sugar and Rosewater To make meat of grated bread Boile the grated bread in good broth then take grated chéese and beat it with Egges and the bread being boiled let it coole then put the said Egges and chéese in the bread and mingle it well together and make it yellow with saffron To make a meat of yong Roses Boile them in broth and when they are almost sodden put to them a little Parsely and Mint small shred and if the broth be ouerthinne straine it with a few crummes of bread and when it is sodden put spice vpon it To make meat of Parsely Take Parsely rootes and pull out the string or pith which is within them and make them very cleane and boile them very well in flesh broth with Pepper and saffaron this may likewise be done with oile To make meat of Fennell The Fennell is sod like Coleworts but it would bee cut smaller and shorter with a little Pepper Bacon or oile To make meat of Quinces Séeth thy Quinces in broth of leane flesh then stampe them and temper them with Almond milk made with broth of Pullets or flesh and if time serue straine them and put them into a pipkin with sugar ginger sinamon and a little saffron set them to boile on a soft fire because it should not smell of the smoke and stirre them with a spoone And it shall be the better if you put a little fresh butter into it and when they are boiled cast spice vpon them To make broth of Bettonie Take a few Bettonie leaues and a little burrage and put them to boile in cleane séething water then take them out and beat them with your knife then take a little Parsely and Mint and beat them with the said hearbes then stamp them all in a morter and put them in a pipkin of fat broth and let them boile and if you will you may put a little Pepper to it this may also be sodden in oile To seeth Gourdes after the Catalonian fashion Take the iuice of the Gourd and make it very clean then put it into a pipkin with good larde or oyle and set the pipkin on the coales vpon a soft fire and make it to boile stirring it with a spoone it should séeth for the space of foure houres then take fat broth coloured with saffron put into the Gourdes adding thereto sugar spice and a little Veriuice according to the tast You may also put to it a few yolkes of egges beaten together with a little old chéese To make a Cullesse of Capon Feisant Partridge Kid or wild Pigeon Take of these Birds and make them very cleane and if you would séeth a Capon til it consume and make two dishes thereof take a pipkin that holdeth foure pints of water and breaking all the capons bones put it therein and set it on the fire and withall séeth a péece of leane Bacon with thirtie or forty grains of brused Pepper a little sinamon grosse beaten a few cloues thrée fiue or sixe sage leaues
broth To make broth of pease You may séeth pease likewise with Almond milk in Lent time as aforesaid To fry pease Take Pease in the huskes and boile them then take good oyle and fry it a little wherein you shal put the pease and fry them in it adding veriuice new wine or sugar To make pottage of Beanes Take Beanes a little broken make them very cleane and set them on the fire and when the water boileth cast it away and put more water that it may bee higher then the Beanes by two fingers then casting in some salt set them to séeth vpon the coales on a soft fire couering them and let them boile well that done dry them and stampe them in a morter then boile them againe in a pipkin with good oyle and let them séeth well but burne them not then take a little sage and sigges or apples cut small and put it into the Oyle with Onyons and softy them then dish them and put some of the oyle and other mixtures vpon them with good spices To fry Beanes in a pan Take Beanes Sage Onions and Figges as aforesaied with other good hearbes and mingle them together then frie them in a frying pan with oyle and make it like a pancake and when it is baked take it out and cast spice vpon it To make ten messes of good broth made of red Pease or Cicers Take two pound of pease and wash them in whote water and put them into a pipkin first drying them put to them an ounce of floure oyle salt Pepper and a little Sinamon well beaten stirre all with a spoone Then put to them three quarts of water or more with a little Sâ—ge Rosemary and Parsely rootes and let them boile together till it bee consumed to the quantity of tenne messes and when it is almost boiled adde to it a little more oile but if you make it for a sick person you shall put neither oyle nor spice into it To make a deuised meat of Almonds Take two pound of Almonds and stampe them well tempering them with cold water least they bee oily then take crummes of white bread and soke it in veriuice then take the Almonds crummes of Bread iuice of Orenges and rose-Rose-water and temper all together adding an ounce of sinamon and a pound of fine sugar and straine all this together making it yellow with saffron And set it to boile in a pipkin vpon coales with a soft fire and let it not take smoke stirring it often with a spoone and so let it boile for the space of halfe a quarter of an houre To make ten messe of a compound broth First take two pound of Almonds stamped with a few elder floures and temper them with fresh water then straine them and when they are strained put them in a pipkin to séeth then take a quart of raw milk and put into it thrée ounces of Dill and crummes of white bread this you shall beate togither with a pound of sugar and set it to séeth when it beginneth to boile you shall mingle them with the other compound but stirre it not and when it is mixed waxeth thick then dish it strawing spice vpon it To make twelue messes of pottage of elder flowers Take two pound of Almonds and stampe them as aforesaid then take foure ounces of dry elder floures and let them soke in clean water for the space of an houre then wring theÌ„ out of the water and stampe them with the Almonds adding to it the crummes of a white loafe and a pound of sugar And if you will haue them yellow cast saffron in them then strain it and set it to séeth as aforesaid and being on the fire cast some of the said flowers whole vpon it and when it is boyled spice it well If you will make this broth in flesh time you must adde yolkes of egges with fat broth of a Pullet or other good broth and straine it with sugar and other spices and the floures of elders as aforesaid and being halfe boiled put into it thrée ounces of swéet butter To make meat of Egges beaten which shall shew like pease Séeth your Egges a little then take them out of the broth and to make the broth somewhat thicke take the crummes of a white loafe and straine it through the water or else take the broth of Pease it selfe if you can get it for it is better and in any of these two brothes you shall séeth your egges again with some spice saffron parsely and Mint minced very smal To make a deuised dish of meat or broth of hearbes and Almonds Take hearbes and boyle them but let the water boile before you put them in then take them out and lay them on a Table or a trencher and cut them small with a knife then beat them in a morter and then boile them in almond milke adding sugar vnto it To make a dish of hearbes without milke Boile your hearbes as aforesaid and with some fat or lean broth as time serueth make your dishes as you thinke good To dresse Gourds with Almond milke or with other milke Séeth the Gourdes in water then presse the water out of them and straine them then séeth them with almond milke or other milke with sugar and a little veriuice as you thinke good To fry Gourdes or Pompeons Take Gourdes and make them very cleane then cut theÌ„ in thinne péeces and let them boile one waume then take them out and dry them and salt them rouling them in floure that done fry them in good oile theÌ„ take them off the fire and take a little Garlike and crummes of bread and stampe them together with a little Veriuice then straine it and put this sauce vpon the Gourds it will be good if you put nothing but Veriuice Fennell séed and a little bafill and if you will haue it yellow cast saffron into it To make pottage of Lettuce which shall seeme to be Gourd Take the white inward part of Lettuce which is in the middle of them and séeth them with onyons Veriuice pepper and saffron if you wil make it in flesh time boile them in flesh broth as is aforesaid with egges and veriuice To make pottage of Coleworts after the manner of Rome Open the Coleworts and cut the leaues as it is vsually done and boile them in water and when they are halfe boyled take them out and cast that water away put the Coleworts into a quantity of oyle first letting them dry and being in the oyle stirre them with a spoone then take fish broth and boile them in it as much as you think good but if you wil séeth them in flesh time boile them in flesh broth with salt flesh or bacon for they would be fat To dresse mushromes Make the Mushromes very cleane and séeth them with two or thrée heads of Garlike and crummes of bread this is done because naturally they are venomous theÌ„ take them vp and let
your composition and then the Eeles and so couer them againe with the composition till all the stuffe bee wasted then couer it with paste and bake it leisurely with fire both ouer and vnder it and when it is halfe baked take a little Veriuice Rosewater and Sugar and pricking holes in the lid put it into the Tart and so let it stand vntill it be baked To make Tartes of Dates Almonds and other things Take two pounds of blanched Almonds and stamp them with fish broth and a little Rose water then straine it and let it be somwhat thick then take halfe a pound of clean Dates a fewe Currans and dried Figges and beat all in a morter then take a little Spinage Parsely and Margerum and frie them all in oyle stir it with a knife adding to these hearbs certaine fat liuers and good fish beaten therewith then take two ounces of the kernels of Pine apples very cleane which you shall kéepe to straw and sticke vpon the Tart when it is made and put it in the crust then take Reasons of the sunne and a pound of Sugar Sinamon Ginger and a little Saffron and mingling all this together you must temper it with one ounce of fine flower and a few Spawnes of a Pike and mixe it with the other composition aforesaid and make the crust or paste as aforesaid and so let it bake at leisure strawing Sugar and Rosewater vpon it you must not make it too thicke To make a Tart of Rice Take two pounds of blanched Almonds well stamped with a little Rosewater and Rice broth when it is almost sodden and temper Almonds therewith and straine it then take a pound of Rice and beate and temper it well with the Almonds then put to it two ounces of white leauened dow a little flower or else a few Spawnes of a Pike and straine it as aforesaid with a pound of Sugar and an ounce of the kernels of Pine apples broken in a morter but not stamped and when it is halfe baked put a fine thin couer or lid vpon it and being full baked straw it with Sugar and Rosewater but let it not be too drie baked To make a Tart of red garden pease Séeth red Garden Pease and being sodden stampe them and temper them with their broth and a little Rosewater then straine them and take blanched Almonds according to the quantity you will make and stampe them but they must not bee strained and with them stampe thrée ounces of Currans and some dry Figges and two ounces of Pine kernels not too much beaten adding thereunto Sugar Rosewater Sinamon and Ginger mingle all this together and thicken it with flower and the spawne of a Pike and so bake him with a crust and when it is almost baked straw it with Sugar and Rosewater and let it drie vpon it This Tart would not be thicke To make a Tart of the liuer of fishes and of the fish it selfe Séeth the fish with the Liuers then take sodden Pease and stamp and strain them and likewise stampe the fish and the liuers taking out all the bones and if you can get the Spawne of a Trout or Tench it will bée good to stamp with them then take Parsely and Margerum and choppe it very small and stampe it in a morter with Sugar Sinamon and Ginger as much as sufficeth mingle all these together with Rosewater and let it bake softly when it is baked obserue the order aforesaid You may make all these kind of Tarts of diuers colours and seuerall meates in one pan as time serueth deuiding them into quarters or otherwise as you think good To make Marchpanes Blanch thy Almonds and stampe them very small but straine them not and to make the Almonds whiter of better tast and swéeter you must lay them for the space of a day and a night in faire water that they may blanch of themselues betwéene your fingers and stamping them you shall put in Rosewater that they bee not oiley and if you make a very good Marchpane put as much fine Sugar in it as there are Almonds in equall weight with an ounce or two of rose-Rose-water thē temper them together then take Wafers or dow mixed with sugar and temper it with Rosewater then knead it and lay the composition vpon it in spreading it on sprinckle it with Rosewater then straw it with fine Sugar small beaten and disperce it with a spoone so bake him in an ouen very softly and let it not burne neither bee ouerdrie and it would not be thicke To make an Italian meat called Caliscioni Take Marchpane stuffe or such as is spoken of in other places prepare the paste Sugar and Rosewater then fill it with the stuffe and if you haue a mould print it therewith to make it the fairer thē bake it in a pan or ouen like a Marchpane but burne it not To make Curds of Almonds in Lent Take blanched Almonds and stampe them with Rosewater then with two ounces of Sugar ten ounces of Rosewater and halfe a pint of Pike or Tench broth for the broth of other sea or fresh water fish is not good and let not the broth be very salt but somewhat thicke temper them together and straine it so hard that there remaine no part of the substance of the Almonds in the strayner let this Curd stand for the space of one night and put it in a dish or other vessell and in the morning you shall find it curdy like curds of Milke And if you will you may put them into gréene leaues or other hearbes like Chéese curds or let it stand in the dish strawing it with Sugar or Annyséed Comfigs you may adde thereto a little flower because it bindeth To counterfet Lenten Cheese Curds Take a pound of blanched Almonds and stampe them as aforesaid then take four ounces of Sugar an ounce of rose-Rose-water and a glasse full of fish broth as aforesaid and of the same fishes broth then temper them together strain them thicke then forme them and send them to the Table in a dish or vpon a plate strawing it with Sugar and Annyseed comfets To counterfeit Butter Take a pound of blanched Almonds as aforesaid stamp them and straine them with halfe a glasse of Rosewater and to make them curdy put a little flower or half a glasse of Pike or Tench broth with four ounces of Sugar and a little Saffron to make it yellow straining it thick then make it in fashion of a dish of butter and set it all night to thicken against morning in a cold place To counterfeit Egges Take Almonds and blanch them well and stampe them tempering them with Rosewater that they bee not oiley adding some Pike broth that is fat and strain them like milke then take halfe a pound of clean Rice according to the quantity you will make which séeth in halfe the milke made of the Almonds take also thrée ounces of the best whitest flower
the space of halfe an hour and when it is boiled put to it three ounces of Rosewater then make your messes or couer the flesh of the Capon or other bird therewith and send it to the table and for the better grace or shew whē you send it to the table straw it ful of the kernels of a Pomgranet And if you will haue this meat of two colours take the yolke of an egge and a little Saffron and mingle them together with a part of the meat and make it somewhat sharper of Veriuice then the rest of the meate that is feast white and in that sort it is called brome flowers and if you haue two Capons couer the one with the white and the other with yellow To make twelue kinds of white meat after the Catalonian manner Take a pot ful of Goats milk and eight ounces of flower of fine Rice and boile it in the milke then take the flesh of the breast of a Capon new killed and let him be halfe boiled then pull it in small péeces as big as threds and put it into a morter to beat but giue it but two stampes and when the milke hath boiled halfe an hour put the said Capons flesh into it with a pound of Sugar and let them boile for the space of halfe an houre or there abouts and stirre it well as long as it standeth on the fire and to know when this is boyled take out thy spoone and it will séeme fresh then put rose-Rose-water into it as aforesaid and dish it strawing Sugar vpon thē and so send them to the table To make white meats after the manner of Catalonia Take a pound and a halfe of Almonds well blanched and stamped which being tempered with the broth of a Pullet and strained set them to boile in an earthen pipkin then put into it two ounces of Rice floure first tempered with the Almond milke which you shall boile for the space of halfe an houre stirring it with a spoone then put to it a pound and a halfe of Sugar and a little of the flesh of a Capons breast wel beaten which Capons flesh should be soddē with the almond milke as soon as it is set set vpon the fire and when this composition is well sodden you shall adde thereto a little rose-rosewater thē dish it and strawing a little fine sugar vpon it send it to the Table To seeth Rice in flesh or Capons broth To make ten dishes of brothes take a pound of Almonds well blanched and a pound of rice which you shal wash twise or thrise in warm water then set it on the fire in boiling water and let it séeth and being boiled let it stand in the water that it may swell then stampe the Almonds wetting them with fresh water because they shall not bee oily tempering them with Capons or other broth then strain them set the milke to séeth in an earthen pipkin putting therto a pound of Sugar and when they begin to boile put the Rice into them and set them in a pipkin vpon the coales not to néer the fire stirring it with a spoone that it smell not of the smoke In like manner you may séeth Rice in Goats milke or in other milk and note that such kinde of brothes doe easily smell of the smoke Which if it happen the remedy first to take the broth out of the pipkin but looke you touch not the bottome thereof and put it in another clean pipkin then take a péece of linnen cloth folded in thrée or foure folds and wet it in fresh water then wring out the water and lay the said péece of linnen so doubled vpon the pipkin of broth and let it stand so for a quarter of an houre then wet the cloth againe and put it on if néed be and by this meanes the sauour of the smoke wil be taken away I neuer found a better way then this to take it away and it is very good To make broth of leane flesh Take the leane flesh of a Calfe sodden in water and salt beat it well and let it boile in fat broth putting vnto it crums of Whitebread and a little Pepper and Saffaron and let it boile halfe an houre then let it coole a little that done take Egges grated Chéese Persely Margerum Mints well stamped together with a little Veriuice then beat them all together with the foresaid flesh and stirre them with a spoon this kind of broth would bee thicke and in this manner you make liuerings To make a kind meat of guts The Guts would be well washed and made very cleane and then sodden with a bone of Bacon to giue them a good tast and without salt because they may be the whiter when they are boiled cut them into smal péeces and mixe thē with Parsely Mint Sage salt and Pepper then again giue them a boyling and so dish them and straw thē with a little Chéese or spice which you thinke good To make meat of wheat sodden with broth of flesh Capon Hate or Pigeons First take a pound and a halfe of Wheat wash it clean then séeth it in broth of Capon fat Pullet or other good flesh and let it boile wel stirring it with a spoone and when it is sodden put to it Pepper and yolkes of Egges and mingle them together you must make it yellow with Saffron To make meat of Turneps Make the Turneps cleane and cut them in péeces then séeth them in fat flesh broth that done stamp them and strain them and so let them séeth againe in fat broth with a little Béefe or Bacon with Pepper and Saffron To make broth of a Gourd Make them cleane as they ought to bée then séeth them in flesh broth or else with water alone adding thereto certaine Onions as you thinke good and when it is boiled take it out then either bruse it small or stampe it and straine it through a Cullander and then againe set it to séeth in a pipkin with fat broth and a little Veriuice and let them bee somewhat yellow with Saffron and when they are sod take them off the fire and set them to coole then take yolkes of Egges according to the quantity and beat them with a little old chéese and put them to the said meat stirring it with a spoone least it smell of the smoke then dish it and cast spice vpon it To make yellow broth Take a pound and a half of Almonds vnblanched stamp them well then take the flesh of the breast of a Capon or other birds rosted or sodden whether you wil with the yolk of Egges beat them all with the said Almonds adding vnto them a pound of Sugar Sinamon Ginger and a little Saffron and temper them with the broth of a Pullet or other fat broth and a little Veriuice and straine them and set them to boile on the coales with a soft fire that they smell not of the smoke and stirre it with a spoone and let
broken in thrée péeces and some bayleaues let it boile in a pipkin vntill it consume to the quantity of two or thrée dishes of broth and lesse if you will haue it good but put no salt into it and if it bee for a sicke man you must put no Bacon to onely a little spice and this is good both for the sicke and whole To make tenne dishes of broth Take twenty yolkes of Egges good veriuice flesh broth or Capon broth which is better a little Saffron and some Spice mingle them together and straine them then put theÌ„ into a pipkin and set it on a soft fire stirring it with a spoone and when you sée it sticke to the spoone take it from the fire and forget not to stirre it then dish it and straw it with spice It should be swéet with sugar or sharpe with veriuice as you thinke good To make white broth Take a pound of Almonds blanch them and stampe them in a morter wherein you shall put a little faire water that they be not oily then take the white of twenty Egges a few crummes of white bread a little veriuice some broth of flesh or of a Capon with a little white Ginger beate them altogether and straine them with the Almonds then séeth it well as I said in the other broth To make greene broth Take all the things set downe in the first broth Saffron excepted and adde to them Bettonie Parsely and gréen corn if it be to be had beat all this together and straine them and then séeth them as aforesaid To make a deuised broth Take twelue Egs and a pound of good chéese wel grated and mingle them together then take a pipkin full of broth of leane meat coloured with saffron and set it on the fire and when it beginneth to boile put these things into it and stirre it with a spoone and when it beginneth to bee thicke take it from the fire and put spice vpon it To make white pottage Take Almonds stamped in a morter and straine them with broth then take grated white bread and the white of Egges and put it into a pipkin stirring it often and then dresse it as I said before To make greene meat Doe as I said before Saffron excepted adding that which is aforesaid of the gréene broth To make greene yellow or other coloured meat in little peeces or morsels To make meat in small péeces or morsels of gréen or yellow make them as aforesaid according to the colour you wil haue but somewhat harder then take a little spoon and with it make the meat into morsels as big as a Beane and when the broth beginneth to séeth put one by one into the broth and being dished straw spice or sugar on theÌ„ which you will To make a deuised meat after the Romane manner Take white floure and make paste of it somewhat thicker then a pancake and roule it about a staffe then take out the staffe then cut the past in péeces of the length of thy little finger whereby they will bee hollow like a pudding and round or close then séeth them in fat broth or in water as time serueth but the broth or water must boile when you put them in And if you séeth them in water put a little swéet Butter and salt in it and when they are sod dish them with Chéese Butter and spices The same another way Make the past as before and séeth them with the broth or water aforesaid but make the paste somewhat thicker and cut it smal and then they are called Trite you may cut them also into greater péeces and séeth them in the same manner To make golden sops Cut slices of white bread without crust and make them square and tost them a little before the fire then take Egges very well beaten with a spoone and a little Rose-water and then put the said slices to soke therin then take them out and fry them in a fryingpan with a little Butter turning them very oft for feare of burning thâ—n put them in a dish and cast a little rose-rosewater on them coloured yellow with saffron and sugar and so send them to the Table To make a fried meat of Turneps Rost the Turnops in the embers or else séeth them whole then cut or slice them in péeces as thicke as halfe the haft of a knife which done take chéese and cut it in the same form and quantity but some what thinner then take Sugar Pepper and other spices mingled togither and put them in a pan vnder the péeces of chéese as if you would make a crust vnder the chéese and on the top of them likewise and ouer it you shall lay the péeces of Turneps couering them ouer with the spices aforesaid and plenty of good Butter and so you shall doe with the said chéese and Turneps till the pan bée full letting them fry the space of a quarter of an houre or more like a Tart and this would be one of your last dishes The third Booke Shewing how to dresse fish hearbs and many other things in Lent time To make tenne messe of white meat in Lent TAke a pound and a halfe of blanched Almonds and stampe them and the crums of a white loafe stéeped in broth of white pease If you haue no pease broth you may séeth the breadin water for the space of halfe an houre making it soft theÌ„ take some good sea fish or Pike taken out of the riuer sodden then take halfe a pound of the white meat of the fish and stampe it with the Almonds sodden bread a litle broth and the iuice of Orenges if you haue no Orenges take Veriuice with some rose-Rosewater and half a pound of cleane white Ginger and halfe a pound of sugar all these tempered together and strained you shall set them to séeth in a pipkin with a soft fire for the space of half a quarter of an houre and let it not smell of the smoke but stirre it often To seeth Rice pottage in Lent Take a pound of blanched Almonds and a pound of rice washed twise or thrise in luke warme water and set them on the fire in cleare water make it séeth as is aforesaid in the second chapter of meat made of Rice but you shal not séeth it with flesh broth To make eight messes of Almond broth Take two pound of blanched Almonds and stampe them well and temper them with cold water because they shal not be oily put to them the crummes of a white loafe then strain them and set them to boile in a pipkin vpon the coales and let it boile for halfe a quarter of an houre putting into them a pound of fine sugar This Almond broth would bee somewhat liquid by adding a little Rosewater to it and it will bee so much the better and so send it to the Table To make broth of Hempe-seed You shal follow the order aforesaid only that you shal not vse flesh broth but fish or pease
the cloth and the oftener it is strained the better and clearer it is then prepare your flesh of Pullets Capon Rid or Veale very well sodden pulling off the skins that it may bee faire and white and so dry it betwéene two linnen clothes then dish it and lay the Gealie vpon it and set them in a cold place that it may harden and congeale To make Gealy of fish Take Water Wine and Vineger and that it may continue long take but a little water and good store of Spice as aforesaid the best fish for this purpose is Tench and Pike and the greater the better these fishes should be opened but not scraped very fresh and sodden in a little broth onely as much as will couer them because the broth may be the stronger and when you thinke the fish is well sodden take it out and flay it and then lay it aside but séeth the skinne a little in the broth and when it is well sod straine it obseruing the order aforesaid in Gealie of flesh aswell in making it yellow as in all other thinges And you may in like sort put any sea fish sodden and cut in quarters into this Gealie To make Gealie in a little basket Prepare the decoction in good order then take a new basket and put the Capon Pullet or other flesh into it that you would put in Gealie as in a platter you must likewise haue another vessell ready wherein you may put the basket putting the foresaid decoction vpon it and set it in a cold place to congeale and when it is well congealed take a whote knife and raise the Gealie round about within the basket that it may easily come out and make cleane the vessel with a cloth in euery place and so you may carry this Gealy whether you will The like you may do in Lent putting whole fish into it which shall séeme aliue and it will be very faire To make Fritters of Cheese Egges and Elder flowers Take new and a little old Chéese and stampe them well putting to it a little fine flower and White of Egges according to the quantity you will make with a little Milke and good store of Sugar stamp them all together then take it out of the morter and put Elder flowers as your discretion serueth neither beaten nor stamped This composition would not bee too soft nor liquid that it may bee wrought with the hand in any forme you will then frie them in good Suet butter or Oyle and send them whote to the Table To make Fritters of the white of Egges and of flower and Cheese Obserue the order aforesaid only not putting therto milk nor Elder flowers To make fritters of Creame and Curds Take the Curds and hauing cut them straine out the water or whay and that which remaineth in the strainer mingle it with fine flower white of Egges Sugar and Rosewater according to the quantity you will make it would not be too much congealed make them great or little with a spoone as you thinke good and frie them in suet or good Butter To make fritters of Sage and Bay-leaues Take a little fine flower and temper it with Egges Sugar Sinamon Pepper and a little Saffron to make it yellow and take whole sage leaues and roule them in this composition one by one and frie them in Butter or Suet. Do the like with Bayleaues and in Lent frie them in oyle without Egges and Suet. To make fritters of Apples Part them and séeth them or rost them and take out the coates and stampe them putting to them a little fine flower and a little leauen and frie them in good Oyle you may cut them also into small péeces and take out the coare and make the composition aforesaid in the last chapter of Sage Bay-leaues To make fritters of Almonds with the brawne or flesh of a Henne Take Almonds and stampe them with Rosewater and a little milke and straine them then take the brawne or flesh of the brest of a Pullet boyle it and stampe it apart from the Almonds then take a little flower and whites of Egges according to the quantity you will make and a little Sugar mingle all this together and make your fritters in what quantity you will and frie them in Suet or Butter and set them not be ouermuch baked To frie Cheese in a pan Take Chéese which is not too old nor too salt and cut it into small square péeces or in what sort you will take a pan in the bottome whereof put some Butter or Suet and holding it ouer the fire put the said péeces of Chéese into it and when it is soft turne it and cast Sugar and Sinamon vpon it and send it presently to the Table it is to bee eaten whote after meate You may dresse it another way that is make tosts of bread and when they are tosted lay them in the pan and on euery tost a péece of Chéese of the same greatnesse but somewhat thinner then couer the pan and heat it vntill the Chéese curd then cast Sugar Sinamon and Ginger vpon them To make Pancakes in Lent and first of Elder floures Take Almonds and stampe them or else Pine apple kernels and straine them with Rosewater and Pease broth then take a little leauen floures of Elders and some flower and temper them together and this would bee made ouer night against morning and so they will be the lighter in the morning put good store of Sugar on them and make them in in what forme you will and fry them in Oyle To make fritters of bitter hearbes Take fine flower and a little leauen and temper it with the hearbes chopped smal and Currans and then frie them this composition would not be too tender fry thē in Oyle and cast Sugar and Honny on them To make fritters of Rice Séeth the Rice well and when it is sed drie it vpon a Table and if you will not haue it whole you may stamp it then take Almonds and stampe and straine them with a little of the same Rice broth and let this Almond milk be very thick then take a little fine flower and Sugar and mingling it all together frie them in good Oyle in what fashion you will To make fritters of Figges Take a few Almonds and pine kernels as many as you will and stampe them let them bee very white adding therevnto two drie Figges and Currans with Spice and if this stuffe be too thick put a little Rose water to it then take Figs and make a hole in ech Figge hard by the stalke and fil them with this stuffe then frie them in oyle and cast Sugar on thē To make fritters of Fish Séeth the fish and stampe the whitest part thereof then take Almonds well stamped and strained and a little fine floure with Sugar and Sinamon and temper all this with a little common water then frie it in oyle in what forme you will To make fritters like fishes
Blanch thy Almonds and take meat of fish without bones and stampe them together with Currans Sugar Parsely and Margerum chopped small with good Spice and Saffron then haue in a readinesse a fine paste and making it in what forme you wil you may fill them with this composition then frie them in oile they make likewise be baked dry in a frying pan and when they are baked they will shew like fishes To make them another way Stampe Almonds and temper them with Rosewater and Sugar then take flower tempered with common water and good store of Sugar this being made in past make what form of fish you will deuise also you may bake them dry in a pan like a Tarte To make fritters in another sort You shall make a composition like the aforesaid Almonds flower and Sugar and thereof make thy fritters To make another sort Take Almonds blanched Pine kernels or Nuts or any of them stampe them wel with Currans or Figges putting to them the meat or liuers of fishes with Parsely Margerum and good Spices and make it yellow with Saffron then forme them and frie them with oyle To make fritters of Rice like little Pies Séeth the Rice and stamp your Almonds and strain them as thicke as you can with a little Rosewater and mixe the Rice well with the Almonds and with Sugar Sinamon and a little flower and make it in forme of Pies and fry them in oyle To make fritters full of wind or pust fritters Take fine flower water Salt and Sugar and make a fine soft past and roule it on a Table very thinne and cut it into small péeces and frie it in oyle and take heed they be not knotty and they will puffe vp and séeme to bee full and yet there is nothing in them and cast Honny vpon them To make them in another manner Make your paste like that I spake of before to make fritters of curds and Creame then take Fennell when it is blowne and if you will mixe it and all the stuffe together or breake euery branch by it selfe one by one and roule them in the said stuffe and frie them in oyle To frie Pistinachie Nuts Make them very clean and take out the hard matter within them then séeth them and when they are sod roule them in flower and frie them in oyle To dresse Egges all manner of waies and first to make a Pancake First you shall beat the Egs together with a little milke and water to make them tender and a little grated Chéese and then frie them in good Butter that they may bee the fatter to make them good they would not be turned nor much baked and so send it to the Table To make a greene Pancake Take the things aforesaid and adde thereto the iuice of Bettonie Parsely good store of burrage Mints Margerum Sage a little and straine this iuice through a cloth and so make the Pancake To make another Pancake of hearbes Take the foresaid hearbes and cutting them small frie them in Butter or Oyle mingling them with Egges and other thinges aforesaid then make the Pancake and frie it well and let it be thicke but not ouerbaked To dresse Egges another way Put oyle in the pan and breake new laid Egges in it and frie them softly and as they frie stirre them and when they congeale and waxe thicke and white they are fried but frie them not too drie To poche Egges Let the water be whote and breake new laied Egges into it and when they are thicke take them out because they may be tender then put Sugar Rosewater and a little iuice of Orenges or Veriuice on them or if you will throw grated Chéese and spice vpon them To poche them in milke or wine Doe as aforesaid onely that you shall straw no Chéese on them To dresse and fill Egges Séeth new Egs in water vntill they be hard then péele them and cut them in the middle and take out the yolks and doe not breake the white and stamp some part of those yolks with a few Currans Parsely Margerum and Mint chopped very small with two or thrée whites of Egs with what spice you thinke good And when they are mixed together colour it with Saffron and fill the Egges therewith and frie them in oyle and for sauce take a fewe of those yolkes which remaine vnstamped with a few Currans and stampe them well together and temper them with a little Veriuice and straine them putting thereto Sugar Cloues and good store of Sinamon let this sauce boyle a little and when you will send the Egges to the Table put this sauce vpon them To rost Egges vpon a gredyron Beat two or thrée new laied Egges together and heat an empty frying pan very well and put these beaten Egges into it and let them spread about the frying pan as thinne as paper and when they are baked cut them in foure péeces and lay them on the gredyron and breake ouer them as many new Egges as will lie vpon them and make a soft fire both vnder and ouer them like a Tart and straw them with Sugar and Sinamon and when the Egges are thick take them off the gredyron in that maner and send them to the Table To rost Egges on a spit Heat your spit very whote and tie the Egges longwaies or otherwise vpon it and rost them like meat and when they are rosted take out the meat and send them to the Table To frie Egges Put good Butter in the Pan and heat it a little then take the yolkes of Egges and frie them with Sugar and Sinamon and make a moderate fire as to a Tarte then put the iuice of Orenges or Rosewater vpon them To rost them in whote embers Put them into the whote embers turning them oft on euery side and when they sweat they are rosted To seeth Egges with the shell Put them in cold water and make it boyle a Pater noster while and then take them out To dress them after the manner of Florence Take new â—â—ied Egges and breake them one by one in a pan and let the oyle be very whote and as soone as you haue put them into the oyle stirre them together with a spoone or some other thing and make them as round as may bee and turne them oft vntill they change colour and yet let them not be hard within nor ouerbaked but rather soft tender Another kind of dressing them Take whole Egges and lay them into the embers then strike them with a small sticke vntill they breake and so let them rost and when they are rosted take them out and cast a little Vineger and Parsely vpon them Another way Dresse them in the Florentine manner as aforesaid then straw Sugar Spice and Salt on them and so put them into paste as you would doe Turneps and fry them or séeth them you may dresse them also in pie paste with the foresaid stuffe adding a little Veriuice baking them like Tartes or frying them but let them not bee ouerbaked because they will bee the harder and so much the worse To prepare Hogges grease Take fresh larde or fat of a Hog and cut it like to Chestnuts and salt it well then stampe it well and let it stand for the space of a day then set it on the fire and if it bee an hundred pounds put in it tenne or twelue quartes of water to it and let it séeth vntill it be congealed then skim it and straine it and put it into a vessell in a fresh and cold place and by this order it will continue a whole yeare or more To make wine of water Take the grapes of a wild vine and drie them in the son then beat them into powder and put them into water and it will haue the tast and colour of wine if the grape be white it will haue the same colour if red the like To make sweet white Wine Take good swéet Apples according to the quantity of the Wine and stampe them well and put halfe as much Honny as Apples and mingle them together then put it into the wine in the vessell and mingle it well and this is done best with new wine that boyleth in the Vate or else boyle these things in some vessell with some new wine then put it to the other and stirre them together To make meat for Nightingales Take a dramme of Almonds two drams of Pease floure a dramme of fresh Butter two drammes of Honny a little Saffron and two yolkes of Egges mixe them together and set them to the fire in a pipkin giue it to the Nightingales To make a composition of Pompeons or Mellons The Pompeons or Mellons would bee scoured and made cleane in Vineger and not in water and so stand a moneth or more in Vineger and if néed be the vineger may be changed and then put them in Honny like vnto a Gourd and they are made To make a Composition of Figs very cordiall First prepare your Figs ready in a cleane vessell which are to bee conserued then boyle the Honny and skim it well and being whote put it on the Figges and let them stand in it till it bee cold this you shall doe foure or fiue times the last time take new Honny and boyle it well and put to it Ginger Sinamon and Cloues then put the Figges in the pot wherein they shall remaine being conserued these Spices must bee beaten small and set the Figges in a vessell in the sunne and now and then put Honny mixed with the Spices aforesaid and so the Figges will be conserued To make strong Vineger and quickly Take a pound of Pellitory well stamped and put it in four pottles of wine then take the foresaid Pellitory and boyle it in foure or fiue quarts of strong Vineger and so boyling put it into the caske and in twelue daies it will be good 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