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 a leg of young Pork, two pound of Beef-suet, two handfuls of Sage,
two loaves of white bread, Salt and Pepper to your tast, halfe the pork,
and halfe the suet, must be very well beat in a stone Morter, the rest
cut very small, be sure to cut out all the gresles and Lenets in the
pork, when you have mixed these altogether, knead them into a stiffe
past with the yolks of two or three Eggs, so rowle them into Sausages.
_To dresse a Pike._
Take a Male Pike, rub his skin off whil'st he lives, with bay salt,
having well cleared the outside, lay him in a large Dish or Tray, open
him so as you break not his gall, cut him according to the size of the
fish, in two or three peices, from the head to the taile must be slit,
this done, they are to be layd as flat as you can, in a great Dish or
Tray, poure upon it halfe a pint of White wine-Vinegar, more or lesse,
according to the size of the Fish, then strew upon the inside of the
Fish, white Salt plentifully, Bay salt beaten very small is better,
whilest this is a doing, let a Skellet with a sufficient quantity of
Renish Wine, or good white Wine be pat over the fire, with the Wine,
Salt, Ginger, Nutmeg, an Onion, foure or five Cloves of Garlick, a bunch
of sweet herbs, _viz_. Sweet Marjoram, Rosemary, peel of halfe a Lemon,
let these boyl to the heighth, put in the Pike, with the Vinegar, in
such manner as not to quench or allay, if possibly the heat of the
Liquor, but the thickest peece first that will aske most boyling, and
the Vinegar last of all; while the Pike boyles, take two quarters of a
pound of Anchoves, one quarter of very good butter, a Saucer of the
Liquor your Pike was boyled in, dissolved Anchoves. Note that the
Liquor, Sauce, the Spice, and the other ingredients must follow the
proportion of the Pike; if your Sauce be too strong of the Anchoves,
adde more faire water to it. Note also that the Liquor wherein this Pike
was dressed, is better to boyle a second Pike therein, then it was at
the first.
_To dresse Eeles._
Cut two or three Eeles into pieces of a convenient length, set them
end-wayes in a pot of Earth, put in a spoolful or two of Water, and to
them put some Herbs and Sage chopt small, some Garlick Pepper, and Salt,
so let them be baked in an Oven.
_To boyle a pudding after the French fashion_.
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