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 two fair Carps, and scowr them very well from slime with water and
a little salt, then lay them in a Dish and open their bellies, take away
their Guts, and save the Blood and Rows in the Dish, then put in a Pint
of Claret Wine, some whole Spice and some Salt, with a little
Horse-Radish Root, then cover them close, and let them stew over a
Chafingdish of Coals, and when they are enough, lay them into a Dish
which must be rubbed with a Shelots, and Sippets laid in, then take a
little of the Liquor, and an Anchovie or two, with a little Butter, heat
them together, and pour it over them, then garnish your Dish with
Capers, Oranges or Limons, and serve it in very hot.
97. _To make Fritters._
Take half a Pint of Sack and a Pint of Ale, a little Yest, the yolks of
twelve Eggs, and six Whites, with some beaten Spice and a very little
salt, make this into thick Batter with fine Flower, then boil your Lard,
and dip round thin slices of Apples in this Batter, and fry them; serve
them in with beaten spice and sugar.
98. _To pickle Coleflowers._
Take some white wine Vinegar and salt, with some whole Spice, boil them
together very well, then put in your Coleflowers, and cover them, and
let them stand upon Embers for one hour, then take them out, and when
they are cold, put them into a Pot, and boil the Liquor again with more
Vinegar, and when it is cold, put it to them, and keep them close from
the Air.
99. _To preserve Orange or Limon Pills in thin slices in Jelly._
Take the most beautiful and thickest Rinds, and then cut them in halves,
and take their Meat clean out, then boil them in several waters till a
straw will run through them, then wash them in cold water, and pick them
and dry them:
Then take to a Pound of these, one quart of water wherein thin slices of
Pippins have been boiled, and that the water feels slippery, take to
this water three pounds of Sugar, and make thereof a Syrup, then put in
your Pills and scald them, and set them by till the next day, then boil
them till you find that the Syrup will jelly, then lay your Pills into
your Glasses, and put into your Syrup the Juice of three Oranges and one
Limon; then boil it again till it be a stiff Jelly, and put it to them.
100. _To make Cakes of the Pulp of Limons, or rather the Juice of
Limons._
Take out all the juice part of the Limon without breaking the little
skins which hold it, then boil some Sugar to a Candy height, and put in
this Juice, and stir it about, and immediately put it into a warm Stove,
and put in fire twice or thrice a day; when you see that it doth Candy
on the one side, then turn them out of the Glasses with a wet knife on
the other upon a sleeked Paper, and then let that candy also, and put
them up in a Box with Papers between them.
101. _To make good minced Pies._
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