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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
Then lay the Beef upon the tosts; throw away the bundle of Herbs and
Onions; and pour the rest of the Liquor upon the Beef, as also the
Oysters, and the Mushrooms, to which add a pretty deal, about half a pint
of Broom-buds: and so let it stand a while well covered over coals to
Mittoner; and to have all the several substances communicate their tastes
to one another, and to have the tostes swell up like a gelly. Then serve it
up. If you want Liquor, you may still recruit your self out of the first
Beef-broth, which you keep all to supply any want afterwards. Have a care,
whiles it is stewing, in the Winy-liquor, to lift the flesh sometimes up
from the bottom of the vessel, least if it should lye always still, it may
stick to the bottom, and burn; but you cannot take it out, for it would
fall in pieces. It will be yet better meat, if you add to it, at the last
(when you add all the other heightnings) some Marrow, and some Chess-nuts,
and some Pistachios, if you will. Put to your Broom-buds (before you put
them in to the rest) some elder Vinegar, enough to soak them, and even to
cover them. If you find this make your composition of the whole too sharp,
you may next time take less. When you put the Beef to stew with the wine
(or a while after) you may put to it a pretty quantity (as much as you can
take in both hands at once) of shreded Cabbage, if it be the season; or of
Turneps, if you like either of these. Carrots make it somewhat flat. If the
wine be not quick enough, you may put a little elder Vinegar to it. If you
like Garlike, you may put in a little, or rub the dish with it.
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