to keep them covered while they boyl then take them out and preserve them for your use Another way TAke a dozen or twenty young Peaches part them in two and take out the stones then take as much Sugar as they weigh with some rose-Rose-water put in your Peaches and make a sirrup that it may stand and stick to your fingers boyl them softly a while then lay them in a dish and let them there stay for two or three dayes then set your sirrup on the fire boyl it up put in your Peaches and so preserve them for your use To preserve Quinses TAke of Quinses a pound and core them parboyl and peel off the outermost white skin weigh and add to them a pound of refined Sugar then cover and boyl them over a gentle fire adding to them a stick or two of good Cinamon cut in small pieces and so stir them continually that they may be well coloured on every side and when the sirrup is come to the height of a perfect Jelly then take them off the fire for the higher your sirrup is the better will your Quinses keep Another way to preserve them white or red PAre and core your Quinses that must be white put them in fair water two or three hours take the weight of your Quinses in Sugar put them in as much water as will make the sirrup to cover them let your sirrup boyl a little before you put your Quinses in after let them boyl apace until they are tender and clear then take them out and boyl the sirrup by it self a little while when they are cold put them into your Pots or Glasses for your use if you would have them red put them into your Sugar raw cover them close and boyl them softly until they be red they must not at all be put in cold water To preserve Goos-berries TAke of the largest of your Goos-berries but not through ripe pick all the stalks from them wash them clean take a pound set them on the fire until they be hot then take them off and let the liquor run from them then take ten ounces of hard Sugar and four ounces of Sugar-Candy clarifie it with a pinte of water and the white of an egg and boyl it to a thick sirrup then put in your Goos-berries let them boyl a walm or two so betwixt hot and cold put them up and keep them all the year for your use Another way TAke your Gascoyn Goos-berries which are of the largest sort set a pan of water on the fire and when it is luke-warm cover them close keep them warm half an hour then have other water aforesaid put them into that after the same manner coddle them three times over in hot water until they look green then pour them into a sieve extract all the water from them then add as much clarified Sugar as will cover them let them simper leisurely close covered which will make them look as green as Leeke blades let them stand so for an hour then take them off the fire and let the sirrup stand until it be cold then warm them once or twice take them up and let the sirrup boyl by it self so pot and keep them for your use Another way TAke of your biggest Goos-berries with their stalks on then prick three or four holes in each of them take to every pound of Goos-berries a pound of Sugar and lay the most of your Sugar in the bottom of your preserving-pan lay your Goos-berries one by one thereon then strow more Sugar on them to each pound of Goos-berries add four spoonfuls of water set them on a Chafin dish of hot embers let them stand uncovered a pretty while before they boyl but not too long for it will make them red let them not seeth too fast put the rest of the Sugar upon them as they boyl and it will keep them from breaking when they are enough put them up for your use To preserve Mellacatons STone and parboyl them in water then peel off the outward skin they will boyl as long as a piece of Beef therefore you need not fear the breaking of them when they are boyled make a sirrup of them as you do of other fruit and keep them all the year To preserve Damsins TAke those which are large and well coloured but not through ripe then they will break pick them clean and wipe them one by one weigh them and to every pound of Damsins you must add a pound of Barbary Sugar that is white and good dissolved in half a pinte or more of water boyl it almost to the height of a sirrup then put in your Damsins keeping them with continual scumming and stirring with a silver spoon let them boyl until they be enough on a gentle fire then may you take them up and keep them all the year Another way GAther your Damsins in a fair day and two dayes before you preserve them let none be bruised but all full ripe or else they will not be well coloured put unto every pound of them a pound of fine sugar add to every pound a spoonful of Rose-water put your Damsins one by one in a fair platter then put them on a Chafin-dish with embers not too hot cast on them so much sugar as the rose-Rose-water will melt before you set them on the fire and when your platter is warm cast on half your Sugar let your platter be but as hot as you may suffer your hands on it turn them not until there be as much sirrup as will bear them up and then turn them but let them not seeth when you so do then cast on the rest of your Sugar and they will break on both sides but let them lie in sirrup a little while then turn the broken sides downwards again and let them seeth softly a little while then turn them as often as you will let them seeth until you think they are enough but not boyl too long for it will make them tough and spoyl their colour scum them very clean and when they are cold put them up in glasses putting into it four or five Cloves with as many sticks of Cinamon an inch long thus may you do with any kind of plumbs but you must put no Cloves or Cinamon to your white Plumbs To preserve Grapes TAke them very green stone and cut them into little bunches then take the like quantity of refined Sugar finely beaten and strow a row thereof in your preserving-pan and a laying of Grapes upon it lay more sugar on them put to them four or five spoonfuls of fair water and boyl them up as fast as you can Another way TAke your Grapes when they are almost ripe cut off their stalks and as you stone them put on sugar take three quarters of a pound of sugar to every pound of Grapes also take some Grapes that are not full ripe stamp and strain their juice out of them and put two spoonfuls thereof to a pound
of Grapes set them on the fire but shake them in your pan that they burn not to the bottom when the sugar is melted let them boyl very fast you shall know when they are enough by the clearness of your Grapes and the thickness of your sirrup To preserve Cherries TAke of the best and fairest Cherries about two pound and clip off the stalks by the middle with a pair of sheers wash them clean beware of bruising them then take of fine Barberry sugar set it over the fire in a quart of fair water in the broadest vessel you can get and let it seeth till it be somewhat thick then put in your Cherries and stir them together with a spoon so let them boyl scumming and turning them very gently that the one side may be like the other until they are enough which to know you must take up some of the sirrup with one Cherry so let it cool and if it will scarce run out it is enough rhus being cold you may put them up and keep them for your use Another way TAke your Cherries in the morning before they are too ripe pull off the stalks and lay them in a pan with a little Sugar under them to a pound of Cherries add a pound of Sugar be at very fine as your Cherries boyl up cast sugar on thern scum it not till it be ready to seeth over boyl them with a quick fire for the sooner they are boyled the sourer they will be fear not their breaking for they will close again seeth not above two pound at once the fewer the better boyl them not over-much but rather too little when they are boyled put them into a fair platter if no water comes from them they are enough but if it doth boyl them a little more use a silver spoon that is imployed about nothing else take no ladle or knife that have been used about flesh that will cause mites to breed in it this is the best and approvedest way to preserve Cherries Another way HAve a pound of the smallest Cherries but let them be well coloured boyl them tender in a pinte of fair water then strain away the liquor and take two pound of other fair Cherries stone and put them into your preserving-pan with a laying of Cherries and another of sugar and pour the sirrup of the other strained Cherries over them and with a blazing fire let them boyl as fast as may be that the sirrup may boyl over them and when it is of a good colour something thick and jelly set them a cooling and when they are cold pot them and keep them all the year for your use To preserve Barberries TAke your Barberries very fair and well-coloured pick out every stone of them weigh them and to every ounce of Barberries you must add three ounces of loaf-sugar with half an ounce of the pulp of Barberries and an ounce of red rose-Rose-water you must first dissolve your sugar then boyl it to a sirrup then put in your Barberries and let them boyl a quarter of an hour then take them up and assoon as they begin to wax cool put them up and they will keep their colour all the year To preserve Raspberries TAke those which are fair and ripe but not over-ripe pick them from the stalks add to them weight for weight of double refined sugar and the juice of Raspberries to a pinte of Raspberries take a quarter of a pinte of Raspberry-juice and as much of fair water boyl up the sugar and liquor and make the sirrup scum it and put in the Raspberries stir them into the sirrup but boyl them not too much being preserved take them and boyl the sirrup by it self not too long it will keep the colour being cold pot and keep them thus may you also preserve Strawberries Another way HAve the fairest and best coloured Raspberries pick off their stalks and wash them very clean but in any case bruise them not weigh them and to every pound add six ounces of hard Sugar as much Sugar-Candie clarifie it with half a pinte of fair water and four ounces of juice of Raspberries being clarified boyl it to a weak sirrup then put in your Raspberries stirring them up and down let them so boyl until they are enough using them as your Cherries you may keep them all the year To preserve your Pomcitrons TAke and grate off the upper skin cut them in pieces as you judge requisite let them lie in water twenty four hours then set a posnet on the fire with fair water when it boyls put in your Pomcitrons and shift them until you find the water not bitter take them up and to each pound add a pound and a quarter of Sugar then take a pinte and a quarter of the last water and set it on the fire with the Sugar and take two whites of eggs and beat them with a little fair water and when your sirrup begins to boyl cast in that which riseth from the eggs and let it boyl together then strain it through a fine cloth into a clean posnet set it on the fire and when it begins to boyl put in your Pomcitrons let them boyl softly three or four hours until your sirrup be thick enough keep them never turned alwayes under the sirrup put them into Gallypots or Glasses when they are cold cover them To preserve Oranges and Lemmons TAke them large and well-coloured and take a Rasp of Steel and take the outward rine from them and lay them in water three dayes and three nights then boyl them tender and shift them in their boyling to take away their bitterness and when they be boyled tenderly take two pound of Sugar clarified with a pinte of fair water when your sirrup is made and betwixt hot and cold put in your Lemmons and Oranges and there let them be infused all night in the morning let them boyl two or three walms in your sirrup let them not boyl too long in the Sugar because the rines will be tough take your Lemmons out and boyl your sirrup thicker when it is cold put them up and keep them for your use To preserve Saterion roots TAke of the fairest you can get wash and boyl them upon a gentle fire as tender as a Codling then take them off and pare away the blackest skin from them as you do them put them into fair water and let them stand therein one night then take them out and add to every pound of roots eleven ounces of Sugar finely clarified then boyl it almost to the height of a sirrup then put in your roots let them not boyl too long for then they will grow hard and tough when they are enough set them a cooling until they be through cold and keep them close covered for your use To preserve red Rose-leaves TAke the leaves of the fairest budds half a pound sifted clean from seeds then take a quart of fair water in an earthen pipkin and set it over
not stick to the pan put it into your Marmalade boxes but your Conserve must not be boyled so high in any case for then it will not be good To make Conserve of Borage flowers TAke of the flowers well coloured pick the blacks from them then weigh them and to every ounce of flowers you must add three ounces of Sugar and beat them together in an Alablaster Morter with a wooden pestle until they be very fine so that you cannot discern any Sugar in lumps then take them out and put the Conserve in a pipkin and heat it through hot and having thus done put them up and keep them all the year for your use To make Conserve of Rosemary flowers TAke them fresh and good pick them from the green tusk and weigh them then add to every ounce of flowers three ounces of Sugar-candie beat them very fine together using them in every degree as you did your other Conserves To make Conserve of Bugloss flowers TAke and pick them as you did your Borage flowers weigh them and to every ounce add two ounces of loaf Sugar and one of Sugar-candie beat them together until they become very fine then set it on the fire to dissolve the Sugar and when it is so done and the Conserve hot put it into your Glasses or Gallypots for your use all the year To make Pectoral rolls for the Cough TAke one ounce of your Liquorish powder finely searsed of the spices of Diadragaganthum Frigdium two drams Dragagant in fine powder and Gum-Arabick of each a dram white Starch half a dram Anniseeds in fine powder one ounce mingle it with the rest then take of Sugar six ounces of Pennets an ounce and half Sugar-candie powdered and mingled with the afore-mentioned powder then take Gum-dragagant steeped in rose-Rose-water beat it into a Paste make them into long rolls dry them and keep them for your use To make Conserve of Strawberries SEeth them in water then strain them casting away the water boyl them again in White wine keeping them stirring to a good stiffness when they are almost boyled add to them a convenient quantity of Sugar stirring them all well together then put them up into your pots for your use To make Conserve of Prunes or Damsins TAke of your Damsins one pottle prick them and put them into a pinte of Rose-water or Wine into a pot cover them and let them be well boyled stirring them well together when they are done tender let them cool and strain them with their liquor then take the Pulp and set it over the fire adding to it a sufficient quantity of Sugar then boyl them until they are enough so may you put them up in your Gallypots or Glasses for your use To make Conserve of Red and Damask Roses HAve of them the best coloured budds that can be gotten clip off their whites and to each pound of leaves you must add three pounds of the best clarified Sugar beat them together till they are very fine then with a wooden Spatter take it up and set it on the fire till it be through hot and soon after put it up and it will be of an excellent colour To Conserve Cowslips Marigolds Violets Scabions Sage and Roses c. HAve of the flowers of either of these being picked clean from those which are withered and to every ounce of the flowers add three ounces of Sugar but first let them be stamped very small without the Sugar by themselves as they grow dry put to them rose-Rose-water or the juice of Lemmons and when they are beaten small enough put to them your Sugar and beat them again together until they are well mingled after which you may put them up for your use To make a Pomander TAke of Beazon a dram and an half Storax half an ounce Lignum Aloes in fine powder half a scruple of Labdanum half an ounce powder all these very fine and searse them through Launes then take of Musk one ounce Ambergrease and Civet of each half a scruple and dissolve them in a hot Morter with a little Rose water so make them into a Pomander adding to it six grains of Civet Another way to Conserve Strawberries TAke and strain them when they are full ripe boyl them in wine with a quantity of Sugar until it be stiff enough so may you put them up for your use in a Glass or Gallypot To make Conserve of Cichory flowers TAke them new gathered for if you let them lie but one hour or two at the most they lose their colour and will do you but small service your way is assoon as they are taken to weigh them immediately and to every ounce of them you must take three ounces of double refined Sugar beat them together in an Alablaster Morter with a wooden pestle until they are throughly beaten for the better they are so done the better will your Conserve be Let this be your General rule that being very well brayed you may take them up and put it into a Chafer clean scoured and set it on the fire until it be throughly hot then take it off put it up as you have formerly heard so may you keep it for your use all the year Here follows the Sirrups To make sirrup of Pomcitrons TAke them and cut them in halves juice them but beware you wring them not too hard lest it be slymie add to every pinte of juice three quarters of a pound of the best white Sugar boyl them in an earthen pipkin untill it comes to the height of a sirrup but take heed you boyl it not over too hot a fire for fear it burn and when you see it is enough you may put it up and keep it for your use all the year To make sirrup of Liquorish TAke of Liquorish scraped well and bruised eight ounces add to it of Mayden-hair one ounce Anniseeds and Fennel of each half an ounce let them steep together in a pottle of rain-Rain-water for six or seven hours then set them on the fire and let them there remain until it be boyled half away so done boyl that liquor with a pound and half of the best clarified Sugar until it comes to a sirrup so glass it up and keep it for your use To make sirrup of Hoare-hound TAke thereof two handfuls Coltsfoot one handful Calamint Time and Penny-royal of each two drams Liquorish one ounce and half Figgs and Raisins of the Sun of each two ounces Pyonie-kernels Fennel and Anniseeds of each a quarter of an ounce boyl all these in a gallon of fair water until it comes to a pottle or three pintes then strain it so done take three pound of white Sugar with three eggs and clarifie that liquor so let it boyl to a sirrup and keep it all the year for your use To make sirrup of Hyssop TAke thereof one handful of Dates Raisins and Figgs one ounce French Barley the like half a handful of Calamint boyl them in three pintes of
fair water until it comes to a quart then strain and clarifie it with the whites of two eggs add to it two pounds of white Sugar boyl it to a sirrup when it is enough let it stand till it be cool and put it up in Glasses which may serve for your use all the year To make sirrup of Violets PIck the flowers and weigh them put them into a quart of water and steep them on hot embers until such time as the flowers are turned white and the water as blew as any Violet then add to that quart of infusion four pounds of refined Sugar and boyl it until it comes to a sirrup being boyled and scummed on a gentle fire lest it turns its colour so done put it up and keep it for your use Another rare way TAke and cut away the white of your flowers then scruise out the juice of them and add to every spoonful of juice three of fair water put it into an Alablaster Morter with stamped leaves strain them dry through a cloth then add to it as much of fine beaten Sugar as you judge convenient let it stand ab out twelve hours in a clean earthen pan then take the clearest thereof into a glass with a few drops of the juice of Lemmons it will be very clear and of a Violet colour this is the best and most excellent way to make sirrup of Violets To make sirrup of Mulberries TAke of those which are very ripeâ— press the juice from them through a linnen cloth between two sticks and then to every pinte of juice take a pound of Sugar boyl it to the height of a sirrup so may you keep it all the year long if it wax any thing thinner in a Moneths time after you put it up boyl it again so put it up To make sirrup of Clove-Gillyflowers TAke a peck of the flowers cut off the whites sift away the seeds and bruise them a little then take a pinte of water when it hath boyled let it cool a little and then put in your flowers let them be kept close covered for a day and a night it is best to put on but half your flowers at once for it will make it the stronger then add to it a pound and half of clarified Sugar and let it stand for one night the next day put it into a Gallypot and lay your pot in a pot of fair water and let it boyl therein until your Sugar be totally melted and your sirrup indifferently thick then take it forth and let it stand until it be cold so may you Glass it for your use To make sirrup of Roses solutive TAke your Damask Roses and pull them then have ready a gallon of fair water when it is hot put therein a good many Damask Rose leaves when they look white take them out do this ten times together which will make your water look red then to every pinte of that liquor add the white of an egg and a pound of Sugar clarifie it and boyl it to a sirrup so may you keep it all the year the thicker the sirrup is the better it will keep Another way to make sirrup of Damask Roses YOu may take as much water as you think fit let it be luke-warm then put into it a good quantity of Damask Rose-leaves the whites of them being first cut away let them lye in your water until they look pale then take them out and crush them gently then put in more fresh leaves as aforesaid continuing it so until your water turn to a deep red colour and very bitter which will be done in less then twenty changes of the leaves if you would have it strong do it as often more as you think fit adding to every quart of water two pound of Sugar and seeth it with a soft fire until it be as thick as Honey and of the colour your mind is to have it To keep your liquor of Roses all the year FOr preventing the use of much Sugar you may preserve so much of this liquor as you please before you boyl it you must let it settle so done pour out the clearest into a long necked glass to the neck thereof then put in as much sweet oyl as will fill it up and let it stand in the Sun for certain dayes this will keep good all the year so that if you want any sirrup you may seeth this liquor with Sugar if not you may spare so much Sugar To make sirrup of Cowslips TAke your distilled water of Cowslips and put therein your Cowslip flowers picked clean but the green in the bottom cut away so boyl your sirrup in Sugar as you do other sirrups To make sirrup of Lemmons TAke them and cut them in halves and between your fingers juice them and the liquor that runs from them will be very clear add to every pinte of juice a pound and half of loaf-Sugar being very white so boyl it to a sirrup and it will keep rarely well To make sirrup of Maiden-hair TAke thereof six ounces Liquorish scraped and sliced one ounce steep them twenty four hours together in four pintes of conduit-Conduit-water then set it on the fire and boyl it to a quart then take that liquor and add to it two pound of clarified Sugar and let it boyl upon a gentle fire of Charcoals until it comes to a sirrup being scummed very often that it may be the clearer the more it is so the better it is thus being boyled enough put it up for your use To make sirrup of dry Roses TAke of your best red Roses dryed four ounces infuse them in a quart of fair water on hot embers until the Roses have lost their colour then have a pound and half of Sugar so clarifie your liquor and sugar with two eggs then boyl it to the height of a sirrup but have a special care that you set not your sirrup on too hot a fire for then it will lose its colour and be nothing worth To keep Cherries all the year and to have them at Christmass TAke of the fairest of them you can get but beware that they be not bruised rub them with a linnen cloth so put them into a barrel of hay first place in the bottom of your barrel a laying of Hay then one of Cherries so do until your Vessel be full then must you stop them up that no air may come to them and lay them under a Feather-bed where one doth constantly lie for the warmer they are the better will they keep and so doing you may have Cherries any time of the year Candying To Candie Violet flowers TAke of them which are very good and new being very well coloured weigh them to every ounce of flowers you must add four ounces of refined Sugar which is very white and fair-grained and dissolve it in two ounces of fair running water so boyl it until it comes to a Sugar again you must scum it often lest it be not clear
of sweet sirrup To make a Pie with whole Pippins YOu must pare and core your Pippins and when your Coffin is made take a handful of sliced Quinces and strow over the bottom thereof then place in your Pippins and fill the core-holes with the sirrup of Quinces and put into every one a piece of Orangado so pour on the sirrup of Quinces over your Apples with Sugar and close it these pies will ask good soaking especially the Quince-pie A set Tart. YOu may make your paste rich put in good store of yolks of eggs and warm milk but not too much Butter and drive out a sheet of paste very thin let your borders also be driven out in lengths thin but so as they will stand cut out your borders through your sheet an inch and half high Jagging out one length with your Jagging-iron and another with your knife then take the center of your bottom and set up a tower of about three or four inches high then set your proportions round about some Hearts and some Diamonds so set the outward circumference in what form or figure you please when you have pricked and dryed it you may fill it with your sweet meats Jellies Leaches c. as for example pour in Chrystal Jelly into an Heart and also into the opposite Leach into another and also into the opposite so two of each sort one opposite to another in all your figures RARE RECEIPTS IN COOKERY Part II. To make a Bisk divers wayes TAke a Rack of Mutton and a Knuckle of Veal put them a boyling in a Pipkin of a gallon with some fair water and when it boyls scum it and put to it some Salt two or three blades of large Mace and a Clove or two boyl it to three pints and strain the meat save the broth for your use and take off the fat clean Then boyl twelve Pigeon Peepers and eight Chicken Peepers in a Pipkin of fair water Salt and a piece of interlarded Bacon scum them clean and boyl them fine white and quick Then have a roste Capon minced and put to it some gravy Nutmeg and Salt and stew it together then put to it the juyce of two or three Oranges and beaten butter c. Then have ten Sweet-breads and ten Palats fry'd and the same number of Lips and Noses being tender boyled and blancht cut them like Lard and fry them and put away the butter and put to them gravy a little Anchove Nutmeg and a little Garlick or none the juyce of two or three Oranges and Marrow fry'd in Batter with Sage leaves and some beaten Butter Then again have some boyl'd Marrow and twelve Artichokes suckers and Peaches finely boyl'd and put into beaten Butter some Pistaches boyled also in some wine and gravy eight Sheeps tongues larded and boyled and one hundred Sparagrass boyled and put into beaten Butter or skirrets Then have Lemons carved and some cut like little dice. Again fry some Spinnage and Parslee c. These foresaid materials being ready have some French bread in the bottom of your dish then dish on it your Chickens and Pigeons broth it next your Quails then Sweet-breads then your Palats then your Artichokes or Sparagrass and Pistaches then your Lemon Pomgranat or Grapes Spinnage and fryed Marrow and if yellow Saffron or fryed Sage then round the Center of your boyled meat put your minced Capon then run all over with beaten butter c. 1. For variety clarified with yolks of eggs 2. Knots of eggs 3. Cocks stones 4. Cocks Combs 5. If white strained Almonds with some of the broth 6. Goosberries or Barberries 7. Minced meat in balls 8. If green juyce of Spinnage stamped with Manchet and strain it with some of the broth and give it a walm 9. Garnish with boyled Spinnage 10. If yellow yolks of hard eggs strained with some broth and Saffron and many other varieties To boyl a Capon in Rice BOyl a Capon in salt and water and if you like it you may put into a fair cloth a handful of Oatmeal then take a quarter of a pound of Rice and steep it in fair water and so half boyl it then strain the Rice through a Cullender and boyl it in a Pipkin with a quart of Milk put in half an ounce of large Mace half a pound of Sugar boyl it well but not over thick put in a little rose-Rose-water blanch half a pound of Almonds and beat them in a Morter with a little Cream and Rose-water very fine strain them in a Pipkin by itself then take up your Capon and set your Almonds a little against the fire garnish your dishes as you think fit and lay in your Capon and put your Rice handsomely thereon then broth up your Rice A Bisk another way TAke a Leg of Beef cut into two pieces and boyl it in a gallon or five quarts of water scum it and about half an hour after put in a knuckle of Veal and scum it also boyl it from five quarts to two quarts or less and being three quarters boyled put in some salt Cloves and Mace being through boyled strain it from the meat and keep the broth for your use in a Pipkin then take eight Marrow bones clean scraped from the flesh and finely cracked over the middle boyl in water or salt three of them the other reserve for garnish to be boyld in strong broth and laid on the top of the Bisk when dished again boyl your fowl in water and salt Teals Partridge Pigeons Quails Larks Plovers then have a joynt of Mutton made into balls with sweet herbs Salt Nutmegs grated bread Eggs Suet a clove or two of Garlick and Pistaches boyled in broth with some interlarded Bacon Sheeps tongues larded and stewed as also some Artichokes Marrow Pistaches Sweet-breads and Lamb-stones in strong broth and Mace a Clove or two some white wine and strained Almonds or with the yolk of an Egg Verjuice and beaten Butter and sliced Lemon or Grapes whole then have fryed Clary and Pistaches in yolks of Eggs with carved Lemons all over To boyl a Leg of Mutton the French fashion TAke a fair Legg of Mutton and a piece of suet of the Kidney cut in long slices as big as ones finger then thrust your knife into the flesh of your Legg down as deep as your finger is long and thrust into every hole a slice of the said Kidney suet but take heed one piece touch not another boyl your Legg well but not too much then put half a pint of the broth into a Skillet or Pipkin and put to it three or four blades of whole Mace half a handful of Barberries and Salt boyl them untill the broth be half boyld away then take it off the fire and straight before the broth hath done boyling put in a piece of sweet Butter a good handful of French Capers and a Lemon cut in square pieces like dice with the rind on and a little Sack with the yolks of two hard Eggs
the juice of two Lemmons then also to the white Jelly one race of Ginger pared and sliced and three blades of large Mace to the red Jelly two Nutmegs as much in quantity of Cinamon also as much Ginger to the Turnsole put also the same quantity with a few whole Cloves then to the amber or yellow colour the same spices and quantity then have eighteen whites of Eggs and beat them with six pound of double refined Sugar beaten small and stirred together in a great Tray or Bason with a Rolling-pin divide it into four parts into the four pipkins and stir it to your Jelly broth spice and wine being well mixed together with a little Musk and Ambergrease then have new baggs wash them first in warm water and then in cold wring them dry and being ready strung with pack-thread and sticks hang them on a spit by the fire from any dust and set new earthen pans under them being well seasoned with boyling liquor Then again set on your Jelly on a fine Charcoal fire and let it stew softly the space of an hour or almost then make it boyl up a little and take it off being somewhat cold run it through the bag twice or thrice or but once if it be very clear into the bags of colours put in a sprig of Rosemary keep it for your use in those pans dish it as you see good or cast it into what mould you please As for example these Scollop shells Cockle shells Egg shells half Lemon or Lemonpeel Wilks or Winkle shells Muscle shells or moulded out of a Butter squirt or serve it on a great dish and plate one quarter of white another of red another of yellow the fourth of another colour and about the sides of the dish Oranges in in quarters of Jelly in the middle a whole Lemmon full of Jelly finely carved or cast out of a Wooden or Tin mould or run it into little round glasses four or five in a dish on silver trencher plates or glass trencher plates To bake Apricocks green TAke young green Apricocks so tender that you may thrust a pin through the stone scald and scrape the outside oft putting them in water as you peel them till your Tart be ready then dry and fill the Tart with them and lay on good store of fine Sugar close it and bake it scrape on Sugar and serve it up before you close it cut your lid in branches or works that it may look somewhat open and it will look the greener To make an Oatmeal Pudding STeep Oatmeal in warm Milk three or four hours then strain some blood into it of fish or flesh mix it with Cream and add to it suet minced small sweet herbs chopped fine as Tyme Parslee Spinnage Succory Endive Strawberry-leaves Violer-leaves Pepper Cloves Mace fat Beef suet and four Eggs mingle all together and so bake it To make an Oatmeal Pudding boyled TAke the biggest Oatmeal mince what herbs you like best and mix with it season it with Pepper and Salt tye it strait in a bag and when it is boyled butter it and send it up Oatmeal Puddings otherwise of fish or flesh blood TAke a quart of whole Oatmeal steep it in warm Milk over night and then drain the groats from it boyl them in a quart or three pints of good Cream then the Oatmeal being boyled and cold have Tyme Penny-royal Parslee Spinnage Savory Endive Marjoram Sorrel Succory and Strawberry-leaves of each a little quantity chop them fine and put them to the Oatmeal with some Fennel-seeds Pepper Cloves Mace and Salt boyl it in a Napkin or bake it in a Dish Pie or Guts sometimes of the former Pudding you may leave out some of the herbs and add these Pennyroyal Savory Leeks a good bigg Onion Sage Ginger Nutmeg Pepper Salt either for fish or flesh dayes with Butter or Beef-suet boyled or baked in Dish Napkin or Pie To make white Puddings an excellent way AFter the Hoggs humbles are tender boyled take some of the Lights with the Heart and all the flesh about them picking from them all the sinewy skins then chop the meat as small as you can and put to it a little of the Liver very finely searsed some grated Nutmeg four or five yolks of Eggs a pint of very good Cream two or three spoonfuls of Sack Sugar Cloves Mace Nutmeg Cinamon Carraway-seed a little Rose-water good store of Hoggs fat and some Salt roll it in rolls two hours before you go to fill them in the Guts and lay the Guts in steep in Rose-water till you fill them To make an Italian Pudding TAke a fine Manchet and cut it in square pieces like Dice then put to it half a pound of Beef-suet minced small Raisins of the sun Cloves Mace minced Dates Sugar Marrow Rose-water Eggs and Cream mingle all these together put them in a buttered dish in less then an hour it will be baked when it s enough scrape on Sugar and send it up To make Metheglin TAke all sorts of herbs that are good and wholesome as Balm Mint Rosemary Fennel Angelica wild Tyme Hyssop Burnet Agrimony and such other field herbs half a handful of each boyl and strain them and let the liquor stand untill the next day being setled take two gallons and half of Hony let it boyl an hour and in the boyling scum it very clean set it a cooling as you do beer and when it is cold take very good Barm and put it into the bottom of the Tub by a little and little as to Beer keep back the thick settling that lyeth in the bottom of the vessel it is cooled in when it is all put together cover it with a cloth and let it work very near three dayes then when you mean to put it up skim of all the Barm clean and put it up into a vessel but you must not stop it very close in three or four dayes but let it have some vent to work when it is close stopped you must look often to it and have a pegg on the top to give it vent when you hear it make a noise as it will do or else it will break the vessel sometimes make a bagg and put in good store of sliced Ginger some Cloves and Cinamon boyled or not How to make Ipocras TAke of Grains half a dram take of Cinamon four ounces of Ginger two ounces of Nutmeg half an ounce of Cloves Mace of each a quarter of an ounce bruise all these well in a Morter and infuse them in a gallon of white Wine four or five dayes the vessel being close stopt then put to it a pound and half of Sugar when the Sugar is dissolved put to it half a pint of rose-Rose-water and as much Milk let it stand a night and then let it run through an Ipocras bag then may you put it in a fine new Runlet if you purpose to keep it or if you spend it presently you may put it into certain
of eggs and also yolks of eggs boyled hard and according to the season Artichokes or Oysters in Winter close your pie with Mushrooms in it and butter and make a Lear of strong Broth Gravie Anchovies or as rich as you can with a hogo Very rare and most choice RECEIPTS For all manner of Preserving Conserving and Candying c. To Preserve Pippins TAke and slice them round as thick as half a Crown and some Lemmon-pill in slices amongst them Or else cut like Orange-pill or small Lard being boyled and cut in the same manner then make the sirrup weight for weight that being well scummed clean and clarfied put in your Pippins and boyl them up quick to a pinte of water add a pound of Sugar or a pinte of Claret or White-wine so you may make them of different colours Another way TAke three pintes of Conduit-water nine spoonfuls of Rose-water two pound or more of Sugar boyl all together scum it clean then pare and core them if you intend to keep them long weigh them after they are so done and unto every one of your Apples add a pound of Sugar but if you keep them not long put in as many as your sirrup will boyl and let them seeth being often turned about three hours or more when they are enough the sirrup will be like a Jelly After this way you may preserve all sorts of Apples Another way to preserve them Green TAke them when they are small and green off the tree and pare four or five of the worst cut them all to pieces boyl them to pap in a quart of fair water then pour the liquor from them into a bason and put to them one pound of refined Sugar add to this as many green Pippins unpared as your liquor will cover let them boyl softly and when they are enough or as tender as Codlings take them up and peel off the outermost white skin then will they be green boyl them again in your sirrup until it be thick for your keeping all the year To preserve Apricocks TAke of Apricocks and Sugar of each one pound clarifie your Sugar with a pinte of water and when it is made perfect put it into a preserving-pan together with your Apricocks so let them boyl gently when they are enough and your sirrup thick pot them and keep them for your use In the like manner you may do your Plumb or Pear Another way TAke them when they are green and young that you may thrust a needle through stone and all but all other Plumbs must be taken green and at the highest growth then put them into indifferent hot water to break them let them be close covered therein until it will come off with scraping all this while they will look yellow then put them into another skillet of hot water and let them there remain until they turn perfect green then take them out and weigh them and add to them the like quantity or more of the best refined Sugar with the white of an egg So keep it preserved for your use Another way to preserve them ripe STone and weigh them with the like quantity of Sugar pare them and strow on the Sugar let them remain together until the moysture of the Apricocks hath dissolved the Sugar and are come to a sirrup then set them on soft fire but have a care they boyl not until your Sugar be all melted then boyl them a pretty pace for half an hour keeping them stirred in the sirrup then set them by for two hours and boyl them again until your sirrup be thick and your Apricocks look clear Boyl up the sirrup higher then take it off and when it is cold put in your Apricocks into a Glass or Gally pot being well closed up keep them for your use To preserve Pippins red TAke of the best coloured Pippins being pared with a Pearcer bore a hole through them then make sirrup for them as much as will cover them so let them boyl in abroad preserving pan put into them a piece of Cinamon-stick so let them boyl close covered very leisurely turning them very often or else they will spot and the one side will not be like the other let them thus boyl until they begin to Jelly then take them up and pot them You may keep them all the year for your use To preserve Pears TAke them when they are new gathered being found and mellow put them into your pot with a laying of Vine-leaves dryed in the bottom thereof then put a laying of Pears and on them another of leaves so do until your pot be full then put in some old wine with a weight on the top of your pot to keep them down that the Pears swim not and so preserve them Another way for white Pippins TAke fair large Pippins after Candlemass pare them and bore a hole through them as you did before for the red take a weak sirrup and let them boyl until they be tender then take them up and boyl your sirrup a little higher and put them up in a Gally-pot let them stand all night and the next morning the sirrup will be somewhat weaker then boyl the sirrup again to its full thickness so pot them for your use all the year if you would have them to have a more pleasant taste then the natural Pippin put in one grain of Musk and a drop of Chymical oyl of Cinamon and that will give them a pleasant taste To preserve Medlars TAke the weight of them in Sugar adding to every pound thereof a pinte and half of fair water let them be scalded therein till their skin will come off then take them out of the water and stone them at the head then add your Suggar to the water and boyl them together then strain it and put your Medlars therein let them boyl apace until it be thick take them from the fire and keep them for your use To preserve Peaches TAke a pound of your fairest and best coloured Peaches and with a wet linnen Cloth wipe the white hoar off them parboyl them in half a pinte of White-wine and a pinte half of running-running-water and being parboyled peel off their white skin then weight them and to every pound of Peaches add three quarters of a pound of refined Sugar dissolved in a quarter of a pinte of White-wine boyl it almost to the height of a sirrup then put in your Peaches and let them boyl in the sirrup a quarter of an hour or more if need should require so put them up and keep them all the year for your use Another way TAke your Peaches and put them into scalding hot water till you can pull off the skin then take your Rose-water and Sugar and boyl it until it be thick then put your Peaches therein one by one strowing on Sugar and as they melt strow on Sugar about four or five times more and let them boyl with a soft fire until they be tender Observe
the fire until it be scalding hot and then take a good many of other red Rose-leaves and put them into the scalding water until they begin to look white then strain them and thus do until the water look very red then take a pound of refined Sugar beaten fine put it into the liquor with half a pound of Rose-leaves and let them seeth together until they be enough which to know is by taking some of them up in a spoon as you do your Cherries and so when they be through cold put them up and keep them very close for your use To preserve Enula Campana roots TAke the roots wash and scrape them very clean cut them thin unto the pith the length of your little finger as you cut them put them into water and let them lie therein thirty dayes shifting them twice every day to take away their bitterness weigh them and to every pound of roots you must add twelve ounces of clarified Sugar first boyling your roots as tender as a Chicken and then put them into your sugar aforesaid and let them boyl upon a gentle fire until they be enough so let them stand off the fire a good while and betwixt hot and cold put them up for your use To preserve Currans TAke your Currans and part them in the top then have your preserving-pan put therein a laying of Currans and a laying of sugar boyl them pretty fast scum them but put not in your spoon let them boyl until the sirrup be indifferent thick then take them off and let them stand until the sirrup be cold and put it up for your use To preserve Mulberries TAke the like weight of sugar as there are of your Mulberries wet your sugar with some of the juice thereof stir it together put in your Mulberries and let them boyl until they are enough then take out your Mulberries but let your sirrup boyl a while after then take it off and put it into your Mulberries and let them stand till they be cold for your use To preserve Eringo roots TAke of them fair but not knotty one pound wash them clean so done set them on the fire and boyl them very tender peel off their outermost skin but break them not and as you pare them put them into cold water let them remain there until all be finished you must add to every pound of roots three quarters of a pound of clarified sugar and boyl it almost to the height of a sirrup then put in your roots but look they boyl very gently together with as little stirring as may be for fear of breaking until they be enough when they are cold put them up and keep them for your use To preserve green Walnuts BOyl them till the water be bitter then take them off the fire and put them into cold water then peel the bark off them and weigh them add to them their weight in sugar with a little more water then will wet the sugar set them again on the fire and when they boyl up take them off let them stand two dayes and then boyl them again so keep them for your use To preserve Angelica roots TAke wash and slice them very thin then lay them in water three or four dayes and let the water be changed every day then take them and put them into a pot of water and let it stand in embers a whole night then add to every pound of roots two pound of sugar and a pottle of water boyl it and scum it clean put in the roots then take them out but let the sirrup boyl a little after so keep it for your use The time to preserve green fruits according to other Authors GOos-berries must be taken about Whitsuntide as you see them in bigness the long will be sooner then the red the white Plumb which is ever ripe in wheat harvest must be taken in the midst of July the Pear-Plumb in the midst of August the Peach and Pippin about Bartholomew-tide or a little before the Grape in the first week of September you must observe that to all the green fruits in general that you will preserve in sirrup you must add to every pound of green fruit a pound and two ounces of sugar and a grain of Musk your Plumb Pippin and Peach will have three quarters of an hours boyling and that very softly Keep the fruit as whole as you can Grapes and Goos-berries must boyl half an hour something fast and they will be the fuller observe that to all your Conserves you must add the full weight of sugar then take two skillets of water and when they are scalding hot put your fruit first into one when that grows cold put them into the other changing them until they are ready to peel then peel them afterwards settle them in the same water till they look green then put them into your sugar sirrup and let them gently boyl till they come to a Jelly let them so stand for a quarter of an hour then put them into your Gallipots or Glasses and keep them for your use all the year Here begins your Conserves Conserve of Barberries HAve them which are very red and ripe pick them from the stalks and wash them put to them a pretty quantity of fair water set them on the fire in an earthen pan and so scald them when they are throughly scalded pulp them through a fine searse to every pound of pulp add a pound of powder sugar boyl them till it be enough which you may know when it cuts like Marmalade Another way TAke of the fairest branches you can get pick and wash them clean dry them on a cloth then take more Barberries and boyl them in Claret-wine till they are soft strain them through a strainer bruising them so that the substance may go through boyl it till it comes to be very thick and sweet then take it off the fire and let it stand till it be cold then put your branches of Barberries into your Pots or Glasses filling them up with the cold sirrup so shall you have both sirrup and conserved Barberries for your use To make Conserve of Violets HAve of your Violet Flowers and pick out all the blew ones from them Keep and weigh them add to every ounce of flowers three ounces of refined sugar beat them in an Alablaster Morter till they be very fine then take them up and put them into an earthen pipkin and set them on the fire until they are throughly hot then take them off put them up and keep them for your use To make a Marmalade of Quinses TAke and boyl them tender pare them and cut them to the core then draw the Pulp that is the Quinse through a hair searse and to every pound of Pulp add a pound of clarified Sugar and boyl them together until they come unto a perfect colour adding to them in the boyling a little oyl of Cinamon and when it is boyled enough that it will
enough and when it is boyled to Sugar again take it off and let it cool then put in your Violet flowers stirring them together until the Sugar grow hard to the pan this done put them in a box and keep them for your use To Candie Pears Plumbs Apricocks to look clear c. TAke them and give them a cut in the side but your Plumbs or Apricocks must be cut in the notch to the stone then cast Sugar on them and bake them in an Oven as hot as for Manchet bread let your Oven be close stopt but bake them in an earthen pan or broad platter which is best where they may lie one by one let them stand but half an hour then take them out of the platter and lay them one by one on Glass plates so dry them if you can get Glasses made like Marmalade-boxes to put over them they will Candie the sooner after this manner you may Candie any such fruits To Candie Borage flowers TAke your flowers and pick them very clean weigh and use them in every respect as you do your Rosemary flowers save this that when they be Candied you must set them in a Still so to keep them in a sheet of white paper putting a Chafin-dish of coals every day into your Still and it will be Candied very excellently and that in a very short time To Candie Rosemary flowers TAke of them ready picked and weighed to every ounce of flowers you must add two ounces of loaf Sugar and one ounce of Sugar-Candie dissolved in Rosemary flower water boyl them until they come to Sugar again which done put in your Rosemary flowers when your Sugar is almost cold so stir them together until they be enough then take them out being put in a box keep them for your use To Candie all sorts of flowers after the Spanish way TAke of your double refined Sugar put it in a Posnet with as much Rose-water as will melt it then put it into the Pulp of half a roasted Apple with one grain of Musk let them boyl till they come to the height of a Candie then put your flowers in being pickt clean so let them boyl then cast them on a fine plate and cut them in wayes with your knife spot it with Gold and keep it for your use To make Manus Christi TAke half a pound of refined Sugar with some Rose-water boyl them together till it come to a Sugar again then stir it about till it be somewhat cold so done take your leaf-gold and mingle with it then cast it according to art that is in round goblets so keep them To Candie Goos-berries TAke your fairest green Goos-berries and with a linnen cloth wipe them clean the stalks being picked from them add to every ounce of Goos-berries two ounces of sugar and an ounce of sugar-Candie dissolve them in an ounce or two of rose-Rose-water and so boyl them up to the height of Manus Christi and when it is come to its perfect height let it cool then put in your Goos-berries for if you put them in hot they will shrink so stir them together with a wooden Spatter till they be Candied thus put them up and keep them To dry Apricocks TAke them and stone them when they are ripe then take their rindes off when they are weighed you must add to them half their weight in Sugar finely beaten then take a silver or earthen dish and lay first a laying of Sugar then of the fruit and let them stand a whole night together in the morning the Sugar will be melted then put them into a skillet boyl them apace and scum them well when they grow tender take them from the fire and let them stand in the sirrup two dayes then take them forth and dry them on plates in the Stove for your use To Candie Enula-Campana TAke of your fairest Enula-Campana-roots take them clean from the sirrup wash the Sugar off and dry them again with a linnen cloth weigh them and to every pound of roots you must add a pound and three quarters of sugar clarifie it well and boyl it to the height of Manus Christi when it is so done dip in your roots three or four at once and they will Candie very well so Stove them and keep them all the year for your use To Candie Eringo-roots TAke them and boyl them pretty tender pill pith and lay them together take their weight in sugar and put it in as much water as will melt it then put in your roots and let them boyl softly until such as time the sugar is consumed into the roots then take them and turn them and shake them until the sugar be dryed up then lay them to dry on a Lattice of Wier till they be cold after this manner you may Candie any other roots Another way TAke them when they are ready to be preserved weigh them and to every pound of your roots you must take two pounds of the purest sugar you can get and clarifie it with the whites of eggs exceeding well that it may be as clear as Chrystal for then it will be very commendable so done you must boyl it to the height of Manus Christi and then dip in your roots two or three at once until they be all Candied so put them in a stove and keep them all the year for your use To dry Pippins TAke half a pound of fine sugar boyl it in a pinte of water until it comes to a sirrup clarifie it with the white of an egg and strain it through a linnen cloth then set it on the fire again in another skillet then take eight Pippins being cut in halves and cored and put in each half into the sirrup as you pare them let them boyl until the sirrup be almost wasted away but take the scum off still as it riseth then take out your Pippins lay them on plates and dry them in your stove To Candie Rose-leaves as natural as if they grew on trees TAke of your fairest Rose-leaves Red or Damask and on a Sun-shine day sprinkle them with Rose-water lay them one by one on a fair paper then take some double refined sugar beaten very fine put it in a fine laune searse when you have laid abroad all the Rose-leaves in the hottest of the Sun searse sugar thinly all over them and anon the Sun will Candie the sugar then turn the leaves and searse sugar on the other side and turn them often in the Sun sometimes sprinkling Rose-water and sometimes searsing sugar on them until they be enough and come to your liking and being thus done you may keep them To Candie all sorts of Flowers Fruits and Spices the clear Rock-Candie TAke two pound of Barbary sugar great grained clarified with the whites of two eggs boyl it almost so high as for Manus Christi then put it into a pipkin that is not very rough then put in your Flowers Fruits and spices so put your pipkin
Pork In the second course Pottage Mortrus or Conies or Sew the roasted flesh Mutton Pork Veal Pullets Pigeons Teals Widgeons Mallards Partridge Woodcocks Plovers Bittern Curlew Heron-sew Venison roasted Streat birds Snites Feldfares Thrushes Fritters Chewets Beef with sauce and other baked meats as is aforesaid And if you carve before your Lord or your Lady any boyled Flesh carve away the skin above then carve not too much of the flesh for your Lord and Lady and especially for Ladies for they will soon be angry for their thoughts are soon changed and some Lords will be soon pleased and some not as they be of complexion The Goose and Swan may be cut as you do other Fowls that have whole feet or else as your Lord and Lady would have it Also a Swan with a Chaldron Capon or Pheasant ought to be dressed as it is afore-mentioned but the skin must be taken away and when they are then carve before your Lord or your Lady for generally all manner of whole-footed Fowls that have their living on the water their skins be wholsom and clean for cleanness of water and fish is their living and if they eat any stinking thing it is made so clean with the water that all the corruption is clean gone away from it But the skin of a Capon Hen or Chicken is not so clean for they eat foul things in the street and therefore their skins be not so wholesom for it is not their kind to enter into the River to make their meat void of filth Mallard Goose or Swan they eat upon the Land-fowl meat but after their kind they go to the River and there they cleanse them of their foul stink the skin of a Pheasant as is aforesaid is not wholesom then take away the heads of all field and wood birds as Pheasant Peacock Partridge Woodcock Curlew for they eat in their degree foul things as worms toads and other the like Sewing of Fish First Course TO go to the sewing of Fish Muscalade Minnews in sew of Porpas of Salmon baked Herring with sugar Green-fish Pike Lamprey Salens Porpas roasted baked Gurnard and Lamprey baked Second Course JElly white and red Dates in Confect Conger Salmon Dorey Brit Turbet Halibut for standard Base Trout Mullet Chevine Sole Eeles and Lamprey roasted Tench in Jelly Third Course FResh Sturgeon Bream Pearch in Jelly a Joll of Salmon Sturgion Welks Apples and Pears roasted with Sugar-candy Figgs of Malike and Raisins Dates Capt with minced Ginger Wafers and Ipocrass they be agreeable this being accomplished void the Table Of Carving of Fish THe Carver of fish must see to Peason and Frumenty the Tayl and Liver ye must look if there be a salt Porpas or Sole Turrentine and do after the form of Venison baked Herring and lay it whole upon your Lords trencher white Herring in a dish open it by the back pick out the bones and the roe and see there be Mustard Of salt-fish green-fish salt Salmon and Conger pare away the skin salt-fish stock-fish Marlin Mackrel and Hake with Butter take away the bones and the skins a Pike lay the womb upon his Trencher with sauce enough a salt Lamprey cut in seven or eight pieces and lay it to your Lord a Plaice put out the water then cross him with your knife cast on salt Wine or Ale Gurnard Rochet Bream Chevin Base Mullet Roch Pearch Sole Mackrel Whiteings Haddock and Cod-ling raise them by the back and pick out the bones and cleanse the rest in the belly Carp Bream Sole and Trout back and belly together Salmon Conger Sturgeon Turbuthirbol Thornback Houndfish and Halibut cut them in the dishes the Porpos about Tench in his sauce cut two Eeles and Lampreys roasted pull off the skin and pick out the bones put thereto Vinegar and Powder A Crab break him asunder in a dish and clean the shell so put in the stuff again temper it with Vinegar and Powder them cover it with bread and heat it then set it to your Lord and lay them in a dish A Crevis dress him thus part him asunder slit his belly and take out the fish pare away the red skin and mince it thin put Vinegar in the dish and set it on the Table without heating A Joll of Sturgeon cut it in thin morsels and lay it round your dish French Lamprey baked open the Pastie then take white bread and cut it thin and lay it in a dish and with a spoon take of Gallentine and lay it on the bread with red Wine and Powder of Cinamon then cut a piece of the Lamprey and mince it thin and lay it in the Gallentine then set it on the fire to heat Fresh Herring with salt and wine Shrimps well picked Flounders Gudgeons Minews Mussles and Lampreys Sprats is good in sew Musculade in Worts Oysters in sew Oysters in gravie Minews in Porpos Salmon in Feel Jelly white and red Cream of Almonds Dates in Confects Pears and Quinses in sirrup with Parsley roots Mortrus of Houndfish raise standing Sauces of all fish MUstard is good for salt Herrings salt Fish salt Conger Salmon Sparling salt Eele and Ling Vinegar is good with salt Porpos Turrentine salt Sturgeon salt Thrilpole and salt Whale Lamprey with Gallentine Verjuice to Roach Dace Bream Mullet Flounder salt Crab and Chevin with powder of Cinamon To Thornback Herring Houndfish Haddock Whiting and Cod Vinegar powder of Cinamon and Ginger Green sauce is good with Green-fish and Hallibut Cottel and fresh Turbet put not your Green sauce away for it is good with Mustard An excellent way for making Ipocras TAke of Grains half a dram of Cinamon four ounces of Ginger two ounces Nutmegs half an ounce Cloves and Mace of each half an ounce bruise these well in a Morter and infuse them in a Gallon of White wine four or five dayes the vessel being close stopt add to them a pound and half of Sugar when it is dissolved put to it half a pinte of rose-Rose-water and as much Milk let it stand one night then run it through an Ipocras bag then may you put it into a fine new Runlet if you purpose to keep it if you presently spend it you may put it into certain pots An approved Receipt for a Consumption that hath long remained TAke nine or twelve white Snailes and break away their shells from them then put them into a bowl of water for twelve hours to cleanse them from their slime then change the water and let them remain in the like bowl of running-water for the like space then take them out and put them into half a pinte of white-wine and keep them in it twelve hours then take the Snails out of the wine and put them into a quart of red Cows milk and boyl it until it comes to a pinte then add to it one ounce of Candied Sugar and give the Party diseased to drink every morning and at four in the afternoon but you must not
a piece of Ribb Bacon then take a handful of Brook-lime as many Water-â—…essâ—s Nettle tops Elder budds Violets and Primrose-leaves with young Alexander leaves mince all these very small put them to your 〈◊〉 with a little large Mace so season it with salt and put â—n bâ—tter when you take it off and so serve it to the â—able on faâ—…iâ—g dâ—yes or eat it in the morning fasting It is good to cleanse the blood To make Water-Grewell TAke a pottle of water a handful of great Oatmeal pickt and beat in a Morter put it a boyling when it is half enough put to it two handfuls of Currans washed a faggot or two of sweet herbs four or five blades of large Mace a little sliced Nutmeg let a grain of Musk be infused a little while in it season it with Sugar and Rose-water when it is enough and put to it a little drawn Butter To make Punnado TAke about one quart of Running-water put it on the fire in a skillet then cut a light Roul of Bread in slices about the bigness of a groat and as thin as Wafers dye it in a dish on a few coals then put it into your water with two handfuls of Currans pickt and washed a little large Mace season it with Sugar and Rose-water when it is enough And infuse or rub the bottom of your dish with Musk You must add Salt to this and the above-mentioned To make Barley-Grewell TAke half a pound of Barley and give it one or two walms in two or three waters then put it in a stone Morter and beat it so set it a boyling in a pottle of water or more with two ounces of Harts-horn when it hath boyled about two hours strain it through a strainer then add a little more water to your Barley to get out the heart and strength of it then set your liquor a boyling again with half a pound of Currans a faggot of cold herbs as Sorrel Strawberry and Violet leaves c. also a little Time three or four blades of Mace and when the Currans are boyled enough your broath will be ready then add about a quarter of a pinte of the juice of Sorrel let it boyl one walm take it off the fire and scruise in the juice of sour Lemmons season it with Rose water with Musk infused therein with a little Salt there is nothing better then this to give any one in a I eaver all the time of their sickness if you serve it to the Table leave out cold herbs and add sweet herbs you may also send up the Barley with it but for weak stomacks strain it To make a Pearmane Cawdle MAke a Posset with a quart of Milk and White-wine very clear then slice half a dozen great Pearmanes and boyl them in your Posset when they are boyled enough strain the liquor forth with as much of the Apple as will run lay it on the fire again with two or three blades of Mace when it boyls bear the yolks of three eggs into it to thicken it season it with some Muskified Rose-water and Sugar this is very good to give sick people which are subject to Melancholly To make a Lemmon Cawdle TAke a pinte of White-wine and a pinte of water and let it boyl put to it half a Manchet cut as thin and small as you can put it in with some large Mace then beat the yolks of two eggs to thicken it and scruise in the juice of half a dozen Lemmons season it with Sugar and Rose-water To make a Florendine or Made-dish of Rice THe Paste for your Florendines ought to be a rich cold buttered Paste or Puff paste take a pound of Rice boyl it a quarter of an hour in water then put it out into a Cullender afterwards boyl it half an hour in milk or as long as you can provided your Milk burns not too put four or five sticks of Cinamon in the boyling thereof and let it stand in a deep dish or bason until it is cold and congealed together then take the one half of it or as much as you need break to it the yolks of six eggs and the whites of two put to it half a pound of Beef-suet minced small and almost as many Currans a dozen of Dates minced season it with Cinamon Nutmeg a little Cloves Mace Ginger Salt and a handful of Sugar with a little Rose water so mingle it all up together in a thick batter with a little Cream cover over your dish you intend to bake it in with a sheet of Paste put in your Rice fill it not too full that it rise not over the brims of your dish then jagg a sheet of Puff-paste the breadth of your dish about half an inch broad twist them and lay them over your Florendine from the one side of your dish to the other fastening them to the sheet of Paste in the bottom so cross them over again that they may be Chequer-work then cut your Paste upon the brim of your dish double over all the ends of your cross-bars bake it and stick it in the chequers with Lozenges scrape on Sugar and send it up To Butter Rice TAke Rice that is after the same manner boyled in water then in milk bruise it with your ladle with some sweet Cream amongst it put butter to it and set it on a heap of coals in a dish let it boyl and keep it stirring season it with Cinamon grated Nutmeg Salt Rose-water and Sugar when it is enough dish it on sippits of toasts and stick them with the same or Lozenges of Paste fryed or baked scrape on Sugar and send it up To make a Florendine or Made-dish of Apples PUt on a skillet of water with some Currans a boyling then pare about a dozen of Pippins and cut them from the Core into the said water when they are boyled tender pour them into a Cullender when the water is drained from them put them into a dish and season them but if you have time stay until they are cold lest it melt your Sugar besides it will spoyl your paste with Sugar Rose-water Cinamon and Carraway seeds then role out two sheets of Paste put one in your dish bottom and all over the brims then lay in your Apples in the bottom round and high wet it round and cover it with your other sheet close it and carve it about the brims of your dish as you please prick and bake it scrape on Sugar and send it up for a second course To make a Florendine or a Made-dish of Spinnage TAke almost a peck of Spinnage when your kettle boyls very fast throw it in and let it have half a dozen walms then put it out into a Cullender and let it drain and scruise out all the water mince it very small with a pill or two of Orangado add to it half a pound of boyled Currans season it with Cinamon Ginger beaten Nutmeg and Salt then put it in your
new laid or fresh eggs put them into a dish with as many spoonfuls of Jelly or Mutton Gravie without fat put to it a quarter of a pound of Sugar two ounces of preserved Lemmon-pill either grated or cut in thin slices or very little bits with some salt and four spoonfuls of Rosewater stir them together on the coals and being buttered dish them put some Musk on them with some fine Sugar you may eat these eggs cold as well as hot with a little Cinamon water or without Other wayes dress them with Claret wine Sack or juice of Oranges Nutmeg fine Sugar and a little Salt beat them well together in a fine clean dish with carved sippets and candid Pistaches stuck in them To make Cheese-cakes FOr your Coffins take half a pound of floure a quarter of a pound of fine Sugar beaten in a morter two spoonfulls of Rose-water three or four yolks of eggs make this into a paste with cold butter and two or three spoonfulls of milk roll it into sheets as broad as Trencher-plates and cut them round with a Jagging-iron then take three pints of tender Cheese curds made of new milk pressed exceeding dry from the whey put to them about twelve yolks of eggs and three whites one pint of thick Cream a pound of fine Sugar some Nutmeg and Cinamon beaten exceeding small other wayes oyl of the same three spoonfulls of Rose water and as much or more of Sack bear all these together by adding a pound of sweet Butter melted and so much grated Naples bisket or Maccaroons as will bring it into such a body that when you lay it with your spoon on your sheets of paste it will not so run abroad as to beat down the sides fill your sheets with three or four spoonfuls of each or at your pleasure raise them and close them at the corners and give them a quarter of an hours baking in a gentle Oven you may infuse Musk or Ambergrease in them if you please if this be too thin so that it will run abroad set it on a heap of Charcoals and harden it but alwayes keep it stirring for it must be cold before you use it To make Dowsets TAke two quarts of sweet Cream and infuse a Nutmeg or two cut in pieces two or three sticks of Cinamon and blades of large Mace set it for some time upon the coals but boyl not your Cream at all then take fourteen eggs casting by ten whites and beat them to your Cream blood-warm then run it through a strainer and beat to it about half a pound and upwards of white Sugar four spoonfuls of Rose water if you please a little oyl of Cinamon and Nutmeg you may colour some of your stuff with Cowslips Spinnage Violets or Gilliflowers and so have your varieties at your feast your Coffins are usually after the manner of high cups about four or five inches high some bake them in little cups of Chainie about eight ten or twelve in a dish is enough you may stick your white ones with a sliced Citron and your coloured with sliced Almonds and so serve them up How to make a congealed meat to be eaten cold TAke a Calves head and parboyl it then cut off all the meat from the bones and mince it small season it with minced Sage Time and other sweet herbs and some Onion with them as also beaten Pepper Cloves Mace Nutmeg Anchovies minced and a reasonable quantity of Salt then take a narrow pot or pitcher something high and small and put in two handfuls of the meat into the bottom of the pot then strow in a little Bacon thereon cut in dice then put in two handfuls more as also mince Bacon thereon till all the minced Calves-head is in the pot cram it in hard and stop the pot with a cork and a cloth and let it boyl in a pot up to the neck for the space of six or seven hours then take it off let it stand till it is cold and then break the pot and the congealed colour will be fitting to be sent to the Table whole or to be sliced forth for second course thus may you do Calves-feet or Cow-heels season it high with minced herbs Salt spice and Bacon How to congeal a Turkey or Capon PArboyl either and take the flesh from the bones and mince it the blackest flesh by it self and the whitest by it self then take a great Onion a little horse-Raddish and a little Time minced small season it with this as also Mace Nutmeg and Salt with a handful of fat Bacon cut smaller then Pease and a handful of Westphalia Bacon minced small mingle all these together with your flesh only the white by it self and the black in another parcell then put a handful or more into a Pitcher or narrow Pot as aforesaid then put a handful of the black flesh on it and then the white again so do till all be rammed into the Pot then having a quart of White-wine and nine Anchovies with two ounces of Izinglass boyled to the consuming of half a pinte thereof strain it into the Pot to your aforesaid ingredients and stop it close with a cork and a cloth and boyl it in a pot of water your Pitcher standing up to the neck for the space of six hours when it is cold break your pot and it will be in a coller you may slice it or serve it whole in a coller if you have three little pots you may divide it in three and so serve it in three little collers at a Feast these kind of meats ought to be seasoned high How to make small Pindents to fry for first course TAke one pinte of floure and as much grated bread eight eggs cast away the whites of five thereof beat it to a thick batter with Cream Rose-water and Sack season it with beaten Cinamon Ginger Nutmeg and Mace put to it a handful of parboyled Currans and a handful of minced Marrow if not Beef-suet add Salt then let your pan be hot with clarified Butter or sweet suet then drop it in by spoonfuls and when they are fryed on both sides dish them up on a dish and plate and scrape on Sugar you may add a handful of Sugar to the batter How to make rich Pancakes TAke a pinte of Cream and half a pinte of Sack and the yolks of eighteen eggs and half a pound of Sugar season it with beaten Cinamon Nutmeg Mace beat all these together for a good space then put in as much floure as will make it so thick as it may run thin over the pan let your pan be hot and fry them with clarified Butter this sort of Pancakes will not be crisp yet it is counted a rare way amongst the Gentry Another way to make them crisp TAke the said ingredients only put no Sugar into your batter and put in but fourteen eggs cast away the whites of nine let it be as thin as it can run fry them crisp
into a Still and make a small fire with small-coals under it and in the space of twelve dayes it will be Rock-Candied To Candie Marigolds in Wedges the Spanish fashion TAke of the fair yellow flowers two ounces shred and dry them before the fire then take four ounces of sugar and boyl it to the height of Manus Christi then pour it upon a wet pie-plate and betwixt hot and cold cut it into Wedges then lay them on a sheet of white paper and put them in a stove To Candie all manner of flowers in their natural colours TAke the flowers with the stalks and wash them over with a little Rose-water wherein Gum-Arabick is dissolved then take fine searsed sugar and dust over them and set them a drying on the bottom of a sieve in an Oven and they will glister as if it were sugar-Candie To Candie Ginger TAke your very fair large Ginger pare it and lay it in water a day and a night then take your double refined sugar and boyl it to the height of sugar again and when that beginneth to be cold take your Ginger and stir it well about while your sugar is hard to the pan then take it out Race by Race and lay it by the fire for four hours then take a pot warm it and put the Ginger therein then tie it very close and every second morning stir it about roundly and it will be Rock-Candied in a very short space PASTES To make Paste of Pippins the Genua fashion some with leaves some like Plumbs with stalks and stones in them YOur Pippins being pared cut them in quarters and boyl them in fair water till they be tender then strain them and dry the pulp upon a Chafin-dish of coals then weigh them and add to them the same weight of Sugar and boyl it to Manus Christi and put them together then fashion them upon a pie-plate and put them in an Oven being very slightly heat the next morning you may turn them and put them off the plates upon sheets of paper on a hurdle and so put them into an Oven like heat and there let them remain four or five dayes putting every day a Chafin-dish of coals into the Oven and when they be very dry you may box them and keep them for your use all the year To make Paste of Oranges and Lemmons TAke of your Oranges and Lemmons and boyl them in two several vessells of water shift the water so often until the bitterness be taken away and they begin to grow tender then cut them through in the midle and take out the kernels wring the water from them and beat them in a clean stone Morter with the pulp of three or four Pippins then strain them through a strainer and take the weight of the pap in Sugar and boyl it to the height of a Candie with as much rose-Rose-water as will melt the Sugar then put into the hot sirrup the pap of your Oranges and Lemmons and let them seeth softly being often stirred and when you find it stiff enough you may put it into what fashion you please on a sheet of glass and so set it in a Stove or Oven when it is dry box it up for your use To make Paste of Goos-berries TAke Goos-berries cut them one by one and wring away the juice till you have got enough for your turn boyl your juice alone to make it somewhat thicker then take as much fine Sugar as your juice will sharpen dry it and when it is so beat it again then take as much Gum-Dragon steeped in Rose-water as will serve then beat it into a Paste in a Marble Morter then take it up and print it in your Moulds so dry it in your Stove when it is dry you may box it up for your use all the year Certain old useful Traditions OF CARVING and SEWING c. Terms of a Carver BReak that Deer Leach that Brawn Rear that Goose Lift that Swan Sawce that Capon Spoyl that Hen Trush that Chicken Unbrace that Mallard Unlace that Cony Dismember that Heron Display that Crane Disfigure that Peacock Unjoynt that Bittern Untach that Curlew Allay that Pheasant Wing that Partridge with that Quail Mince that Plover Thigh that Pigeon Border that Pastie Thigh that Woodcock also all manner of small fowl Timber the fire â—ire the Egg Chine that Salmon String that Lampry Splat the Pike Sauce that Plaice Sauce that Tench Splay that Bream Side that Haddock Tusk that Barbel Culpon that Trout Fin that Chevine Transon that Eele Tranch that Sturgeon Undertench that Porpas Tame that Crab Barb that Lobster The Office of the Butler Pantler Yeoman of the Sellar and Eury. FIrst you must have three Pantry knives one knife to square Trencher loaves another to be a Chipper the third shall be sharp for to make smooth Trenchers then Chip your Lords bread hot and all other bread let it be a day old houshold bread three dayes old then look your salt be white and dry the powder made of Ivory two inches broad and three long and look that your saltsellar lid touch not your salt Let your Table-Clothes Towels and Napkins be fair folded in a Chest or hanged on a Perch then see your table Knives be fair polished and your spoons clean and look you have two Tarriots a greater and a less and Wine Cannels of Box made according and a sharp Gimlet and Faucets and when you set a Pipe on broach do thus set it four fingers broad above the nether Chine upward astaunt and then shall the Lees never rise also look you have according to the seasons Butter Cheese Apples Pears Nuts Plumbs Grapes Dates Figgs Raisins Compost green Ginger Chard and Quince serve fasting Butter Plumbs Damsons Cherries and Grapes after meat Pears Nuts Strawberries Hurtleberries and hard Cheese also Blanderles or Pippins with Carrawaies in Confects after Supper roasted Apples and Pears with blanched Powder and hard Cheese beware of Cow-Cream and of Strawberries Hurtleberries Juncate for Cheese will make your Lord sick therefore let him eate hard Cheese Hard Cheese hath this operation it will keep the stomack open Butter is wholesom first and last for it purgeth away all poisons Milk Cream and Juncate they will close the Maw so doth a Posset beware of green Sallets and raw fruits for they will make your Lord sick Set not much by such meats as will set the teeth on edge therefore eat an Almond and hard Cheese Also of divers drinks if their fumosities have displeased your Lord let him eat a raw Apple and the fumosities will cease Take good heed of your Wines every night with a candle both red Wine and sweet Wine and look they reboyl nor leak not and wash the Pipe head every night with cold water and have a Clenching-iron Adds and linnen clothes if need be if they reboyl you will know by the hissing therefore keep an empty Pipe with the Lees of coloured Rose and draw the