The Compleat Cook: Expertly Prescribing the Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian,; Spanish or French, for Dressing of Flesh and Fish, Ordering; Of Sauces or Making of Pastry — John Shaqi
The Compleat Cook: Expertly Prescribing the Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian,; Spanish or French, for Dressing of Flesh and Fish, Ordering; Of Sauces or Making of PastryW. M.
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The Compleat Cook: Expertly Prescribing the Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian,; Spanish or French, for Dressing of Flesh and Fish, Ordering; Of Sauces or Making of Pastry
W. M.
Cookbooks; Cooking -- Early works to 1800
Take eighteen Eggs wites and all, taking out the treads, let them be
beaten very well, take a pint of Sack and a quart of Ale boyled, and
scum it, then put in three quarters of a pound of Sugar and a little
Nutmeg, let it boyle a little together, then take it off the fire
stirring the Eggs still, put into them two or three Ladle-fulls of
drink, then mingle all together and set it on the fire, and keepe it
stirring till you finde it thick, then serve it up.
_To make a stump Pye._
Take a Leg of mutton, one pound and a half of the best Suet, mince both
small together, then season it with a quarter of a pound of Sugar, and a
small quantity of salt, and a little cloves & mace, then take a good
handful of Parsly half as much Tyme, and mince them very small, and
mingle them with the rest; then take six new laid Eggs and break them
into the meat and worke it well together, and put it into the past; then
upon the Top put Raisins, Currans and Dates a good quantity, cover and
bake it, when it is baked, and when it is very hot, put into it a
quarter of a Pint of White wine Vinegar, and strow Sugar upon it, and so
serve it.
_To make Mrs._ Leeds _Cheese Cakes._
Take six quarts of milk and ren it prety cold, and when it is tender
come drayn from it your Whey in a strainer, then hang it up till all the
Whey be dropt from it, then presse it, change it into dry cloaths till
it wet the cloth no longer, then beat it in a stone Morter till it be
like butter, then straine it through a thin strayner, mingle it with a
pound and a halfe of butter with your hands, take one pound of Almonds,
and heat them with Rosewater till they are like your Curd, then mingle
them with the yolks of twenty Eggs and a quart of Cream, two great
Nutmegs, one pound and a half of sugar, when your Coffins are ready and
going to set in the Oven; then mingle them together, let your Oven be
made hot enough for a Pigeon Pye, and let a stone stand up till the
scorcthing be past, then set them in, half an hour will bake them well,
your Coffins must be made with Milk and Butter as stiffe as for other
Past, then you must set them into a pretty hot Oven, and fill them full
of Bran, and when they are harded, take them out, and with a Wing, brush
out the Bran, they must be pricked.
_To make Tarts called Taffaty Tarts._
First wet your Past with Butter and cold Water, and rowle it very thin,
also then lay them in layes, and between every lay of Apples strew some
Sugar, and some Lemon Pill, cut very small, if you please put some
Fennell-seed to them; then put them into a stoak hot Oven, and let them
stand an hour in or more, then take them out, and take Rose-water and
Butter beaten together, and wash them over with the same, and strew fine
Sugar upon them; then put them into the Oven again, let them stand a
little while and take them out.
_To make Fresh Cheese._
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