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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
Take a cold Turky, Capon or cold Veal. Shred it very small; and put almost
as much Beef-suet as your meat, and mince it very small. Then put Salt and
Nutmeg grated, half a pound of Currants; a little grated-bread, and a
little Flower. Then put in three yolks of Eggs, and one of the whites,
beaten very well. Then take so much Cream, as will wet them, and make them
up as big as a Bon-christian pear; and as you make them up, take a little
flower in your hand, that they may not cling. Then put in little sticks at
the bottom like the stems of Pears; or make them up in Balls. Butter the
dish very well, and send them up in the same dish you bake them in. They
will be baked in about half an hour: I think the dish needeth not to be
covered, whiles it baketh. You may make minced Pyes thus: and bake them
with Puff-past in a dish like a Florenden, and use Marrow instead of Suet.
MARROW-PUDDINGS
Take the pith of Beeves; a good spoonful of Almonds very small beaten with
Rose-water: beat the pith, when the skin is taken off very well with a
spoon; then mingle it with the Almonds, and put in it six yolks of Eggs
well beaten, and four spoonfuls of Cream boiled and cold, it must be very
thick; put in a little Ambergreece, and as much Sugar, as will sweeten
them; a little Salt, and the Marrow of two good bones, cut in little
pieces. When your Beefs-guts are seasoned, fit them up and boil them.
TO MAKE RED DEAR
Take a piece of the Buttock of Beef, the leanest of it, and beat it with a
rowling-pin the space of an hour, till you think you have broken the grain
of it, and have made it very open both to receive the sowsing-drink, and
also to make it tender. Then take a pint of Vinegar, and a pint of
Claret-wine and let it lie therein two nights, and two days. Then beat a
couple of Nutmegs, and put them into the sowsing-drink; then Lard it. Your
Lard must be as big as your greatest finger for consuming. Then take
Pepper, Cloves, Mace and Nutmegs, and season it very well in every place,
and so bake it in Pye-paste, and let it stand in the oven six or seven
hours. And when it hath stood three hours in your oven, then put it in your
sowsing-drink as is aforesaid; and you may keep it a quarter of a year, if
it be kept close.
TO MAKE A SHOULDER OF MUTTON LIKE VENISON
Save the blood of your sheep, and strain it. Take grated bread almost the
quantity of a Peny loaf, Pepper, Thyme, chopp'd small; mingle these
Ingredients with a little of the blood, and stuff the Mutton. Then wrap up
your shoulder of Mutton, and lay it in the blood twenty four hours; prick
the shoulder with your Knife, to let the blood into the flesh, and so serve
it with Venison Sawce.
TO STEW A RUMP OF BEEF
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