Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take Sampire and capers a like quantity and a little scalded parsley
and mince it all together, mix it with white wine wherein anchovise has
been dissolved, a piece of butter a little nutmeg & a blade or 2 of
mace Scauld it together pour it on the fish & Garnish it with lemon and
barberrys.
257. _To make a Quakeing Pudding._
Take a pint of cream boyle a nutmeg cut in pieces in it and a good
quantity of mace, 8 eggs and 4 whites beat them and then mix them with
the cream with a spoonfull of grated bread or biskit & a spoonfull of
fine flour a little salt, a quarter of a pound of Sugar, stir it well
together till tis of the thickness of batter take a thick bag and
wet it and rub it with flour tye it up round and put it into a pot of
boyleing water & turn it up and down at the 1^{st} boyling that it may
not settle thicker in one place than another so let it boyle an hour
the Sause is white wine butter and Sugar & nutmeg.
258. _Pickle for Brawn to last a Quarter of a Year._
Take 9 gallons of water 2 handfulls of baysalt, or other salt an ounce
of cloves and mace, white pepper of each an ounce & of Jamaico pepper,
put it all in whole boyle it an hour boyle it in a quart of milk Scumme
it clean as it boyles, leave the spice in the bottom for the liquor to
feed on & keep it sweet let it stand to cool till the next day and when
cold put in y^e brawn let it stand in a cool place.
259. _To stew Eels._
Cut them into pieces as long as your finger put them into a flagon
without water season them with pepper and salt and nutmeg and large
mace a bundle of sweet herbs & an onion or 2 set the flagon in a
Skillet of water over the fire so let it stue shake the flagon
sometimes softly when they are half stew’d put in a spoonfull or 2 of
white wine, Sider or vinegar & when ready put a good piece of butter
into them and shake them in ye flagon then dish them upon sippets you
may put in shrimps & oysters if you like it.
260. _To bake a Bullocks Head._
Breake all the bones when it is slit then season it well w^{th} pepper
and Salt put it into a pot with some water (& a faget of herbs if you
please) and bake it with houshold bread while it is hot take out all
the bones & place it very close in a small earthen pot that is very
deep, and pour in some of the liquor on it (whilst hot) press it close
and when cold take it out & serve it at 2^d course with mustard and
sugar Garnish it w^{th} lawrell leaves & curles of the Vine.
261. _A Goosberry Fool._
Take a pint of Gooseberrys boyle them and strain them take the yolks of
6 eggs beat them and put them together a little mace sweeten it w^{th}
Sugar to your taste Stir it over the fire till tis thick enough.
262. _To dress Soales a fine way._
Take a large pair of Soales and flay them on both sides lay them in a
Stow pan with some butter, claret wine and anchovise, Stew them close
cover’d and serve them to table with orange or lemon.
263. _A Pasty Crust._
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