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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
Scrape well three or four good large roots, cleansing well their outside,
and cutting off as much of the little end as is Fibrous, and of the great
end as is hard. Put them into a possnet or pot, with about a quart of Milk
upon them, or as much as will cover them in boiling, which do moderately,
till you find they are very tender. This may be in an hour and half, sooner
or later, as the roots are of a good kind. Then take them out, and scrape
all the outside into a pulpe, like the pulpe of roasted apples, which put
in a dish upon a chafing dish of Coals, with a little of the Milk, you
boiled them in, put to them; not so much as to drown them, but only to
imbibe them: and then with stewing, the pulpe will imbibe all that Milk.
When you see it is drunk in, put to the pulpe a little more of the same
Milk, and stew that, till it be drunk in. Continue doing thus till it hath
drunk in a good quantity of the Milk, and is well swelled with it, and will
take in no more, which may be in a good half hour. Eat them so, without
Sugar or Butter; for they will have a natural sweetness, that is beyond
sugar, and will be Unctuous, so as not to need Butter.
Parsneps (raw) cut into little pieces, is the best food for tame Rabets,
and makes them sweet. As Rice (raw) is for tame Pigeons, and they like it
best, varying it sometimes with right tares, and other seeds.
CREAM WITH RICE
A very good Cream to eat hot, is thus made. Into a quart of sweet Cream,
put a spoonful of very fine powder of Rice, and boil them together
sufficiently, adding Cinnamon, or Mace and Nutmeg to your liking. When it
is boiled enough take it from the fire, and beat a couple of yolks of
new-laid Eggs, to colour it yellow. Sweeten it to your taste. Put bread to
it, in it's due time.
GREWEL OF OAT-MEAL AND RICE
Doctor Pridion ordered my Lord Cornwallis, for his chief diet in his
looseness, the following grewel, which he found very tastefull.
Take about two parts of Oat-meal well beaten in a Mortar, and one part of
Rice in subtile powder. Boil these well in water, as you make water-grewel,
adding a good proportion of Cinnamon to boil also in due time, then strain
it through a cloth, and sweeten it to your taste.
The yolk of an Egg beaten with a little Sherry-sack, and put to it, is not
bad in a looseness. At other times you may add Butter. It is very tasteful
and nourishing.
SAUCE FOR A CARP OR PIKE. TO BUTTER PEASE
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