The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sexWoolley, Hannah, active 1670
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The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670
Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800
Your Salmon being boiled and souced, mince some of it small with Apples
and Onyons, put thereto Oyl, Vinegar, and Pepper; so serve it to the
Table: Garnish your Dish with Limon and Capers.
230. _To rost a Shoulder of Mutton with Oisters._
Take a large Shoulder of Mutton, and take sweet herbs chopped small, and
mixed with beaten Eggs and a little Salt, take some great Oisters, and
being dried from their Liquor, dip them in these Eggs, and fry them a
little, then stuff your meat well with them, then save some of them for
sauce, and rost your Mutton, and baste it with Claret Wine, Butter, and
Salt, save the Gravie, and put it with the Oisters into a Dish to stew
with some Anchovies, and Claret Wine: when your meat is enough, rub the
Dish with a Shelot, and lay your meat in it, and then put some Capers
into your Sauce, and pour over it, so serve it in; Garnish your Dish
with Olives, Capers, and Samphire.
231. _To rost a Calves Head with Oisters._
Split your Calves Head as to boil, and let it lie in water a while, then
wash it well, and cut out the Tongue, then boil your Head a little, also
the Tongue and Brains, then mince the Brains and Tongue with a little
Sage, Oisters and Marrow put amongst it when it is minced, three or four
Eggs well beaten, Ginger, Pepper, Nutmeg, Grated Bread and Salt, and a
little Sack, make it pretty thick, then take the Head and fill it with
this, and bind it close, and spit it and rost it, and save the Gravie
which comes from it in a Dish, baste it well with Butter, put to this
Gravie some Oisters, and some sweet Herbs minced fine, a little white
Wine, and a sliced Nutmeg; when the Head is rosted, set the Dish of
Sauce upon hot Coals with some Butter and a little salt, and the Juice
of an Orange, beat it up thick and Dish your Head, and serve it in with
this Sauce; garnish your Dish with stewed Oisters and Barberries.
232. _Sauce for Woodcocks Snites._
When you spit your Fowl, put in an Onion in the Belly, when it is
rosted, take the Gravie of it, and some Claret Wine, and an Anchovie
with a little Pepper and Salt, so serve them.
233. _To make Sauce for Partridges._
Take grated Bread, Water and Salt, and a whole Onion boiled together,
when it is well boiled, take out the Onion, and put in minced Limon, and
a piece of Butter, and serve them in with it.
234. _To rost Larks with Bacon._
When your Larks are pull'd and drawn, wash them and spit them with a
thin slice of Bacon and a Sage Leaf between the Legs of every one, make
your Sauce with the Juice of Oranges and a little Claret Wine, and some
Butter, warm them together, and serve them up with it.
235. _To make Sauce for Quails._
Take some Vine Leaves dried before the fire in a dish and mince them,
then put some Claret Wine and a little Pepper and Salt to it, and a
piece of Butter, and serve them with it.
This Sauce is also for rosted Pigeons.
236. _To rost a whole Pig without the Skin, with a Pudding in his
Belly._
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