Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take fat and leane veale sliced thin & well beaten with the back of a
knife then lard them if you please put 2 anchoves, nutmeg grated some
pepper & salt into the frying pan with your meat then frye it very
leasurely in fresh butter else it will turn to oyle, when it is enough
pour away the butter then take 6 yolks of eggs well beat with a little
vinegar then have some fresh butter ready drawn up to pour into your
eggs this being done pour it all into your frying pan upon your meat
and so shake and toss and mingle it well together then put it into your
dish squeezing in some juice of lemon & lay some slices over it & serve
it in to be eaten while hot besure to fry the meat very leasurely else
it will be hard.
190. _John Raysies Beefe Collops._
Take fat and lean beefe slice it thin with your minceing knife chop
it tender take an oynion and quarter it and some sweet herbs shred,
fry your meat with the gravie that comes out of it and half a pound of
fresh butter then pour off that gravie from it and let it stew in a
dish for sauce then take another half pound to frye up your meat then
take the meat clean out of the last butter and take out your oynions
season it with some nutmegs & salt before you put in the sauce to ye
meat then put in the sauce & serve it up with lemon as the foregoing
was & to be eaten hot.
191. _The Lady Buttons Melancholy Water._
Take of wall Jilly flowers 4 handfulls, of rosemary flowers 3 handfulls
of Damaske Rose leaves & cowslip flowers a like quantity of burrage
& bugglos flowers of each 2 handfulls a like quantity of primroses
and clove Jilly flowers balme leaves and pinks of each 6 handfulls,
of marygolds 2 handfulls of cinnamon grossly beaten half an ounce 2
nutmegs 3 pennyworth of english saffron 2 orange peels 4 ounces of blew
figs Steep them in Sack enough to cover them, and as you add flowers
add Sack when you have gotten them all together distill them in a cold
still & cover them in the still with Sack & when all is drawn off you
must put into your water before you use it 6 ounces of white Sugar
Candie, it must be stilled with a soft fire or your water will be y^e
smaller it is good for any heaviness of spirits & may be given to
weomen in travell.
192. _The Purge for Winde._
Take a Dram of rubarbe and half as much Sena (if easy to worke)
otherwise as much of the one as the other half a spoonfull of sweet
fennell seed the length of one little finger in liquorish tosed abroad
a pint of white wine as much water infuse it altogether & take half
a pint & dissolve in it an ounce of manna, & drink it when you have
strain’d it from the dregs, drink a small half pint & when it Grumbles
about half an hour after take another half pint before you take any
posset drink when it works you may drink posset as with other phisick &
eat chick or hen for dinner if you like Sirrop of roses better you may
exchange the manna for it and when you expect wormes change y^e fennell
seeds for worme seed keep warme in the taking.
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