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The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
Digby, Kenelm
Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665; Liquors; Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800
When the Capon, Chickens, or Fowl, have been long enough before the fire,
to be through hot, and that it is time to begin to baste them: baste them
once all over very well with fresh Butter; then presently powder it all
over very thin with Flower. This by continuing turning before the fire,
will make a thin crust, which will keep in all the juyce of the meat.
Therefore baste no more, nor do any thing to it, till the meat be enough
rosted. Then baste it well with Butter as before, which will make the crust
relent and fall away; which being done, and that the meat is growing brown
on the Out-side, besprinkle it over with a little ordinary white Salt in
gross-grains; and continue turning, till the outside be brown enough.
The Queen useth to baste such meat with yolks of fresh Eggs beaten thin,
which continue to do all the while it is rosting.
SAVOURY COLLOPS OF VEAL
Cut a Leg of Veal into thin Collops, and beat them well with the back of a
Knife. Then lay them in soak a good half hour in the yolks of four eggs,
and the whites of two very well beaten, and a little small shreded Thyme
mingled with it; then lay them in the Frying-pan, wherein is boiling
Butter, and pour upon them the rest of the Eggs, that the Collops have not
Imbibed, and carry with them, and fry them very well, turning them in due
time. Then pour away all the Butter, and make them a Sauce of Gravy
seasoned with Salt and Spice, and juyce of Orange at last squeesed upon
them.
A FRICACEE OF LAMB-STONES, OR SWEET-BREADS, OR CHICKEN, OR VEAL, OR MUTTON
Boil the meat in little pieces (if Chicken, flead and beaten) in the Pan
with a pint of fair-water, with due seasoning. When it is very tender, put
some Butter to it, and pour upon it a Liquor made of four yolks of Eggs
beaten with a little white wine and some Verjuyce; and keep this in motion
over the fire, till it be sufficiently thickened. Then pour it into a warm
dish, and squeese some juyce of Orange upon it, and so serve it up. If you
would have the meat first made brown and _Rissole_, fry it first with
Butter, till it be brown on the outside; then pour out all the Butter, and
put water to it, in which boil it, and do all as before. If you like Onions
or Garlike, you may put some to the water. Fresh broth may be used (both
ways) instead of water, and maketh it more Savoury.
A NOURISHING HACHY
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