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
5. A Cold Venison Pasty, or other cold Baked meat.
6. A Dish of Snites.
7. A Quince or Warden Pie.
8. A Dish of Tarts.
9. A Joll of Sturgeon.
10. A Dish of pickled Oysters.
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_A Bill of Fare for Fish Days in Great Houses and at familiar Times._
1. A Dish of Milk, as Furmity, or the like.
2. A Dish of stewed Oysters or buttered Eggs.
3. A boiled Gurnet, or such like.
4. A Dish of Barrel Cod buttered.
5. A Dish of Buttered Loaves or fryed Toasts.
6. A Pasty made of a Joll of Ling.
7. A Potato Pie, or Skirret Pie.
8. A Dish of Plaice or Flounders.
9. A Piece of salt Salmon.
10. A Carp Pie cold, or Lamprey Pie.
_The Second Course to the Same._
1. A Dish of Eels spitchcockt.
2. A Chine of Salmon broiled.
3. A Dish of Oysters fryed.
4. An Apple pie buttered.
5. A Dish of fryed Smelts.
6. A Dish of buttered Shrimps.
7. A Dish of Skirrets fryed.
8. Two lobsters in a Dish.
9. A Dish of pickled Oysters.
10. A Dish of Anchovies.
When all these are taken away, then serve in your Cheeses of all sorts,
and also your Creams and Jellies, and Sweet-meats after them, if they be
required.
Thus I have done with the Bills of Fare in Great Houses, although it be
impossible to name half which are in season for one Meal; but this will
serve you for the number of Dishes, and any Person who is ingenious,
may leave out some, and put in other at pleasure.
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_A Bill of Fare for Gentlemens Houses of Lesser Quality, by which you
may also know how to order any Family beneath another, which is very
requisite._
_The First Course in Summer season._
1. A Boiled Pike or Carp stewed.
2. A very fine Pudding boiled.
3. A Chine of Veal, and another of Mutton.
4. A Calves head Pie.
5. A Leg of Mutton rosted whole.
6. A couple of Capons, or a Pig, or a piece of rost Beef, or boiled
Beef.
7. A Sallad, the best in season.
_The Second Course to the same._
1. A Dish of fat Chickens rosted.
2. A cold Venison Pasty.
3. A Dish of fryed Pasties.
4. A Joll of fresh Salmon.
5. A couple of Lobsters.
6. A Dish of Tarts.
7. A Gammon of Bacon or dried Tongues.
After these are taken away, then serve in your Cheese and Fruit.
_Note_, That this Bill of Fare is for Familiar times.
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_A Bill of Fare for Gentlemens Houses at Familiar Times Winter Season._
_The First Course._
1. A Collar of Brawn.
2. A rosted Tongue and Udder.
3. A Leg of Pork boiled.
4. A piece of rost Beef.
5. A Venison Pasty or other Pie.
6. A Marrow Pudding.
7. A Goose, or Turkie, or Pig.
8. A Sallad of What's in season.
_The Second Course to the same._
1. Two Joints of Lamb rosted.
2. A Couple of Rabbits.
3. A Dish of wild Fowl or Larks.
4. A Goose or Turkie Pie cold.
5. A fryed Dish.
6. Sliced Venison cold.
7. A Dish of Tarts or Custards.
8. A Gammon of Bacon, or dried Tongues, or both in one Dish.
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