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
Take the Pulp of rosted Apples and beat it well with Sugar and Rosewater
to make it very sweet, then mix it with sweet Cream, and the yolks of
raw Eggs, some Spice and Sack, then having your Paste ready in your
Bake-pan, put in this stuff and bake it a little, then stick it with
Candied Pills, and so serve it in cold.
267. _To dry Pippins about_ Christmas _or before._
When your Houshold Bread is drawn, then set in a Dish full of Pippins,
and about six hours after take them out and lay them in several Dishes
one by one, and flat them with your hands a little, so do twice a day,
and still set them into a warm Oven every time till they are dry enough;
then lay them into Boxes with Papers between every Lay.
268. _To make Snow Cream._
Take a Quart of Cream, and 4 Ounces of blanched Almonds, beaten and
strained, with half a Pint of White Wine, a piece of Orange Pill and a
Nutmeg sliced, and three Sprigs of Rosemary, mix these things together,
and let them stand three hours, then strain it, and put the thick part
into a deep Dish, and sweeten it with Sugar, then beat some Cream with
the Whites of Eggs till it be a thick Froth, and cast the Froth over it
to a good thickness.
269. _To boil Whitings or Flounders._
Boil some White Wine, Water, and Salt, with some sweet Herbs and whole
Spice; when it boils put in a little Vinegar, for that will make Fish
crisp, then let it boil apace and put in your Fish, and boil them till
they swim, then take them out and drain them, and make Sauce for them
with some of the Liquor and an Anchovie or two, some Butter and some
Capers, heat them over the Fire, and beat it up thick and pour it over
them; garnish your Dish with Capers and Parsley, Oranges and Limons and
let it be very hot when you serve it in.
270. _To make a Pie of a Gammon of Bacon._
Take a _Westphalia_ Gammon, and boil it tender with hay in the Kettle,
then take off the Skin and stick it with Cloves and strew it with
Pepper, then make your Pie ready, and put it therein with Butter at the
bottom, then cover your Bacon with Oysters, parboiled in Wine and their
own Liquor, and put in Balls made of Sausage meat, then put in the
Liquor of the parboiled Oysters, some whole Spice and Bay Leaves, with
some Butter, so close it, and bake it and eat it cold, you may put into
it the yolks of hard Eggs if you please, serve it with Mustard Sugar and
Bay Leaves.
271. _To bake a Bulloks Cheek to be eaten hot._
Take your Cheek and stuff it very well with Parsley and sweet herbs
chopped, then put it into a Pot with some Claret wine and a little
strong Beer, and some whole Spice, and so season it well with Salt to
your taste, and cover your Pot and bake it, then take it out, and pull
out the Bones, and serve it upon tosted bread with some of the Liquor.
272. _To bake a Bullocks Cheek to eat cold, as Venison._
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