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 a Joul of Salmon, or a Tail, or any other part, or any other Fish
which you like, put it into a Pot or Pan, with some Vinegar, Water and
Salt, Spice, sweet herbs, and white Wine; when it is enough, lay it into
a Dish, and take some of the Liquor with an Anchovie or two, a little
Butter and the yolks of Eggs beaten; heat these over the fire, and poure
over your Fish; if you please, you may put in shrimps, but then you must
put in the more Butter; Garnish your Dish with some Limon or Orange, and
some Shrimps.
89. _To make Loaves to Butter._
Take the yolks of twelve Eggs, and six Whites, a little Yeast, Salt and
beaten Ginger, wet some Flower with this, and make it into a Paste, let
it lie to rise a while, and then make it into Loaves, and prick them,
and bake them, then put in white wine and butter and sugar, and serve it
in.
90. _To make a Calves Chaldron Pie, and Puddings also of it._
Take a fat Calves Chaldron boiled tender, and shred it very small, then
season it with beaten spice and salt:
Then put in a pound of Currans and somewhat more, and as much Sugar as
you think fit, and a little Rosewater; then having your Pie ready, fill
it with this, and press it down; close it and bake it, then put some
Wine into it, and so eat it.
If you will make Puddings of it, you must add a little Cream and grated
bread, a little Sack, more Sugar, and the yolks of Eggs, and so you may
bake them, or boil, or fry them.
91. _To make Rice-Cream._
Boil a quart of Cream, then put in two handfuls of Rice Flower, and a
little fine Flower, as much Sugar as is fit, the yolk of an Egg, and
some Rosewater.
92. _To make a Pompion-Pie._
Having your Paste ready in your Pan, put in your Pompion pared and cut
in thin slices, then fill up your Pie with sharp Apples, and a little
Pepper, and a little Salt, then close it, and bake it, then butter it,
and serve it in hot to the Table.
93. _To fry Pompion._
Cut it in thin slices when it is pared, and steep it in Sack a while,
then dip it in Eggs, and fry it in Butter, and put some Sack and Butter
for Sauce, so serve it in with salt about the Dish brims.
94. _To make Misers for Children to eat in Afternoons in Summer._
Take half a Pint of good small Beer, two spoonfuls of Sack, the Crum of
half a penny Manchet, two handfuls of Currans washed clean and dried,
and a little of grated Nutmeg, and a little Sugar, so give it to them
cold.
95. _To fry Toasts._
Take a twopenny white Loaf, and pare away the Crust, and cut thin slices
of it, then dip them first in Cream, then in the yolks of Eggs well
beaten, and mixed with beaten Cinamon, then fry them in Butter, and
serve them in with Verjuice, Butter and Sugar.
96. _To boil or rather stew Carps in their own Blood._
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