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
Beat all these with the minced meat in a Mortar till it come to a
perfect Paste, then having your Paste ready laid in your baking-Pan,
fill it or them with this meat, then lay on the top some sliced Dates,
and so close them, and bake them, when they are cold they will cut
smooth like Marmalade.
108. _To make fine Custards._
Take two quarts of Cream and boil it well with whole Spice, then put in
the yolks of twelve Eggs, and six Whites well beaten and strained, then
put in these Eggs over the fire, and keep them stirring lest they turn,
then when they are thoroughly hot, take it off and stir it till it be
almost cold, then put in Rosewater and Sugar, and take out the whole
Spice, then put your Custard into several things to bake, and do not let
them stand too long in the Oven; when you serve them in, strew on small
French Comfits of divers colours, or else fine Sugar, which you please.
109. _To make a Stump Pie._
Take a pound of Veal and as much Suet, parboil your Veal, and shred them
together, but not very small, then put in one pound of Raisins, one
pound of Currans, four Ounces of Dates stoned and sliced thin, some
beaten Spice, Rosewater and Sugar, and a little Salt, then take the
yolks of Eggs well beaten, and mix amongst the rest of the things very
well, then having your Pie ready, fill it and press it down, then lid
it, and bake it.
110. _To make Egg-Pies._
Take the yolks of eight hard Eggs, and shred them small with their
weight of Beef Suet minced very small also, then put in one pound of
Currans, four Ounces of Dates stoned and sliced, some beaten Spice,
Limon pill, Rosewater and Sugar, and a little Salt, mix them well
together, if you please, you may put in an Apple shred small, so fill
your Pies and bake them, but not too much, serve them to the Table with
a little Wine.
111. _To make hashed Meat._
Take a Leg or Shoulder of Mutton, lay it down to the fire, and as it
doth rost, cut it off in little bits, and let it lie in the Pan, bast it
with Claret wine and Butter, and a little Salt, and put two or three
Shelots in your Pan, when you have cut off so much as you can, lay the
bones into a Dish over a Chafingdish of Coals, and put your Meat to it
with the Liquor, and two Anchovies, cover it, and let it stew a while;
when it is enough, put in some Capers, and serve it in with Sippets;
Garnish your Dish with Olives and Capers, and Samphire; thus you may do
with any cold meat between two Dishes.
112. _To make a Fricasie of Oysters._
Take a quart of Oysters and put them into a frying pan with some white
Wine and their own Liquor, a little Salt, and some whole Spice, and two
or three Bay Leaves, when you think they be enough, lay them in a dish
well warmed, then add to their Liquor two Anchovies, some Butter, and
the yolks of four Eggs; Garnish your Dish with Barberries.
113. _To make a Fricasie of Eels._
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