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 some Puff-paste, and roule it very thin, and lay it in the bottom
of your baking-pan, then lay in a Lay of preserved Rasberries, then some
more Paste very thin to cover them, then some Currans preserved, and
then a Sheet of Paste to cover them, then Cherries, and another Sheet to
cover them, then any white Sweet-Meat, as Pippins, white Plumbs or
Grapes, so lid it with Puff-paste, cut in some pretty Fancy to shew the
Fruit, then bake it, and stick it full of Candied Pills, and serve it in
cold.
278. _To make Ice and Snow._
Take new Milk and some Cream and mix it together, and put it into a
Dish, and set it together with Runnet as for a Cheese, and stir it
together, when it is come, pour over it some Sack and Sugar, then take a
Pint of Cream and a little Rosewater, and the Whites of three Eggs, and
whip it to a froth with a Birchen Rod, then as the Froth arises, cast it
upon your Cream which hath the Runnet in it, till it lies deep, then lay
on Bunches of preserved Barberries here and there carelesly, and cast
more Snow upon them, which will look exceeding well; then garnish your
Dish being broad brim'd with all kind of Jellies in pretty-fancies, and
several Colours.
279. _To make a Mutton Pie._
Cut a Loin or Neck of Mutton in steaks, and season it with Pepper and
Salt, and Nutmeg, then lay it in your Pie upon Butter; then fill up your
Pie with Apples sliced thin, and a few great Onions sliced thin, then
put in more Butter, and close it and bake it, and serve it in hot.
280. _To poach Eggs the best way._
Boil Vinegar and Water together with a few Cloves and Mace, when it
boiles break in your Eggs, and turn them about gently with a Tin slice
till the White be hard, then take them up, and pare away what is not
handsom, and lay them on Sippets, and strew them over with plumped
Currans, then take Verjuice, Butter and Sugar heat together, and pour
over, and serve them in hot.
281. _A good Sallad in Winter._
Take a good hard Cabbage, and with a sharp Knife shave it so thin as you
may not discern what it is, then serve it with Oil and Vinegar.
282. _Another Sallad in Winter._
Take Corn Sallad clean picked and also well washed, and clear from the
water, put it into a Dish in some handsom form with some Horse Radish
scraped, and some Oil and Vinegar.
283. _To make Sorrel Sopps for Green Geese or Chickens, or for a Sick
Body to eat alone._
Take a good quantity of French Sorrel clean picked, and stamp it in a
Mortar, then strain it into a Dish, and set it over a Chafing dish of
Coals, and put a little Vinegar to it, then when it is thick by wasting,
wring in the Juice of a Limon and sweeten it with Sugar, and put in a
little grated bread and Nutmeg, then warm another Dish with thin slices
of white bread, and put some butter to your Sorrel Liquor, and pour over
them, serve them in with Slices of Limon and fine Sugar.
284. _To make Green Sauce for a powdred Leg of Pork, or for a Spring._
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