The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private FamiliesEaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
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The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
Cooking, English; Formulas, recipes, etc.; Home economics
FEBRUARY, MARCH.----Meat, fowls and game, as in January, with the
addition of ducklings and chickens.--_Fish._ As the last two months,
except that cod is not thought so good, from February to
July.--_Vegetables._ The same as the former months, with the addition of
kidney beans.--_Fruit._ Apples, pears, forced strawberries.
APRIL, MAY, JUNE.----_Meat._ Beef, mutton, veal, lamb, venison in
June.----_Poultry._ Pullets, fowls, chickens, ducklings, pigeons,
rabbits, leverets.--_Fish._ Carp, tench, soles, smelts, eels, trout,
turbot, lobsters, chub, salmon, herrings, crayfish, mackarel, crabs,
prawns, shrimps.--_Vegetables._ As before, and in May, early potatoes,
peas, radishes, kidney beans, carrots, turnips, early cabbages,
cauliflowers, asparagus, artichokes, all sorts of forced
sallads.--_Fruit._ In June, strawberries, cherries, melons, green
apricots, gooseberries and currants for tarts. In July, cherries,
strawberries, pears, melons, gooseberries, currants, apricots, grapes,
nectarines, peaches; but most of these are forced.
JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER.--Meat as before.--_Poultry._ Pullets, fowls,
chickens, rabbits, pigeons, green geese, leverets, turkey poults,
plovers, wheatears, and geese in September.--_Fish._ Cod, haddock,
flounders, plaice, skate, thornback, mullets, pike, carp, eels,
shellfish, except oysters; mackarel the first two months, but are not
good in August.--_Vegetables._ Beans, peas, French beans, and various
others.--_Fruit._ In July, strawberries, gooseberries, pineapples,
plums, cherries, apricots, raspberries, melons, currants, damsons. In
August and September, peaches, plums, filberts, figs, mulberries,
cherries, apples, pears, nectarines, grapes, pines, melons,
strawberries, medlars, quinces, morella cherries, damsons, and various
plums.
OCTOBER.--Meat as before, and doe-venison.----_Poultry._ Game,
pheasants, fowls, partridges, larks, hares, dotterels, wild ducks,
teal, snipes, widgeon, grouse.--_Fish._ Dories, smelts, pike, perch,
holibets, brills, carp, salmon trout, barbel, gudgeons, tench,
shellfish.--_Vegetables._ As in January, French beans, runners, windsor
beans.----_Fruit._ Peaches, pears, figs, bullace, grapes, apples,
medlars, damsons, filberts, nuts, walnuts, quinces, services.
NOVEMBER.--_Meat._ Beef, mutton, veal, pork, house lamb, doe venison,
poultry and game. Fish as the last month.--_Vegetables._ Carrots,
turnips, parsnips, potatoes, skirrets, onions, leeks, shalots, cabbage,
savoys, colewort, spinach, cardoons, cresses, endive, celery, lettuces,
salad, herbs.--_Fruit._ Pears, apples, nuts, walnuts, bullace, chesnuts,
medlars, grapes.
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