Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take your venison and where it is lean slit it, and then take a bunch
of feathers and a porranger with clarret wine in it and dip your
feathers in it and waish the slits then put in some of your seasoning
and take y^e fat of bacon and cut it as thin as a treble paper and
put it in the slits so doing in all leane places of it then place it
in your pot and bake it up very well, put in more seasoning if you
please after placed in the pot & when you take it out of the oven press
out all the liquor as dry as you well can into a skillet and put in
a faggot of herbs as bays rosemary marjerrom to your liquor in the
skillet then take a stick of wood and measure y^e depth of it and make
a notch in the stick that you may know when tis boyled just half away
then take out the herbs and pour the liquor on your venison in your pot
as hot as you can and keep it in and when tis almost cold then melt up
your butter, to cover it up, but let not your butter be to hot lest
it melt your jelly on your venison, but let your butter be onely warm
enough to pour out to cover up your venison and it will keep thus a
year round and not taint but eat moist and sweet to the last. but if
your butter be strong after long keeping then a day or 2 before you
intend to spend it Set it in an oven but warm enough to melt off your
stale butter and pour away your stale butter from it and pour on fresh
butter upon it and you shall not know it from new baked venison.
41. _To make Cowslip Wine._
Take five gallons of Spring water put it into an earthen pot put to it
a bushell of pickt cowslips flowers and to them 20 pound of malligoe
raisons waished and shred stir them altogether, keep it close cover’d
with a sheet and blanket, let it stand as y^e fire may come to it, but
not to hot, keep it 9 days often stiring it in a day then Strain it
through a hair sive put it in a runlet it will be ready to drink in 14
days.
42. _Another Cowslip Wine._
Take 6 gallons of water and 12 pound of powder Sugar and the whites of
12 eggs well beaten, mix all these together and set it over the fire,
stiring it first then let it boyle one quarter of an hour then take
a bushell of cowslip flowers then bruise them in a stone morter then
scumme the liquor and put it to y^e cowslip; cover it and put 2 lemons
rine and all cut very thin, put as much of ale barme as will make it
worke then tun it up into a runlet and put into it 2 quarts of rennish
wine, and when it hath done workeing stop it up a fortnight, y^{n}
bottle it with a knob of Sugar in each bottle.
43. _To make the Eye Water._
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