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
Let two small Neats tongues or one great one be tenderly boiled, then
peel them and slice them very thin, season them with Pepper and Salt,
and Nutmeg; then having your Paste ready laid into your baking-pan, lay
some Butter in the bottom, then lay in your Tongues, and one pound of
Raisins of the Sun, with a very little Sugar, then lay in more butter,
so close it and bake it, then cut it up, and put in the yolks of three
Eggs, a little Claret Wine and Butter, stir it well together, and lay on
the Cover, and serve it; you may add a little Sugar if you please.
69. _A Capon with white Broth._
Take a large Capon, and draw him, and truss him, and boil him in water
and a little salt, with some whole Spice:
When you think it is almost enough, put in one pound of Currans well
washed and picked, four Ounces of Dates stoned and diced thin, and when
they have boiled enough, put in half a pound of sweet Almonds blanched
and beaten fine with Rose-water, strain them in with some of the Liquor,
then put in some Sack and Sugar; then lay some thin slices of white
bread into a deep Dish, and lay your Capon in the midst, then pour your
Broth over it.
Garnish your dish with plumped Raisins and Prunes, and serve it in.
70. _To make a Calvesfoot Pie._
Take six Calves feet tenderly boiled, and cut them in halves, then make
some Paste with fine Flower, Butter, cold Cream and the yolk and white
of one Egg, rowl it very thin, and lay it into your baking-pan, then lay
some butter in the bottom, and then your Calves feet with some large
Mace, half a pound of Raisins of the Sun, half a pound of Currans, then
lay more butter and close it and bake it, then cut it up, and put in the
yolks of three Eggs, some white Wine, Butter and a little Salt, and so
serve it to the Table; Garnish your Dish with pretty Conceits made in
Paste, and baked a little.
71. _To make an Artichoke Pie._
Make your Paste as before named, and roul it thin, and lay it into your
baking-pan.
Then lay in Butter sliced thin, and then your bottoms of Artichokes
tenderly boiled, season it with a little Salt, a little gross Pepper,
and some sliced Nutmeg, with a blade or two of Mace and a little Sugar,
then lay in some Marrow, Candied Orange and Citron Pill, with some
Candied Eringo Roots; then cover it with butter, and close it with your
Paste, and so bake it, then cut it up, and put in white Wine, Butter,
and the yolks of Eggs and Sugar; cover it again, and serve it to the
Table.
72. _To make an Oyster-Pie._
Make your Paste as before, and lay it in your Pan, then lay in Butter,
and then put in as many great Oysters as will almost fill your Pan, with
their Liquor strained, some whole Pepper, Mace and Nutmeg; then lay in
Marrow and the Yolks of hard Eggs, so cover them with Butter, close
them, and bake your Pie, then put in White Wine, Anchovies, Butter and
the Yolks of Eggs; cover it again and serve it the Table.
73. _To make a Pig-Pie._
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