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 quantity of French Sorrel picked clean and washed, boil it with
water and a little Salt, and when it is enough, drain it and butter it,
and put in a little Vinegar and Sugar into it, then garnish it with hard
Eggs and Raisins.
143. _To make good cold Sallads of several things._
Take either Coleflowers, or Carrots, or Parsneps, or Turneps after they
are well boiled, and serve them in with Oil, Vinegar and Pepper, also
the Roots of red Beets boiled tender are very good in the same manner.
144. _To make the best sort of Pippin Paste._
Take a pound of raw Pippins sliced and beaten in a Mortar, then take a
pound of fine Sugar and boil it to a candy height with a little fair
water, then put in your Pippins, and boil it till it will come from the
bottom of the Posnet, but stir it for fear it burn.
145. _To make Sauce for a Leg of Veal rosted._
Take boiled Currans, and boiled Parsley, and hard Eggs and Butter and
Sugar hot together.
146. _To make Sauce for a Leg of Mutton rosted with Chesnuts._
Take a good quantity of Chesnuts, and boil them tender, then take the
shells off, and bruise them small, then put to them Claret Wine, Butter
and a little Salt, so put it into the Dish to the Meat, and serve it in.
147. _To keep Quinces white, either to preserve whole, or for white
Marmalade or Paste._
Coddle them with white Wine and Water, and cover them with sliced
Pippins in the Codling.
148. _To make little Pasties with sweet Meats to fry._
Make some Paste with cold water, butter and flower, with the yolk of an
Egg, then roul it out in little thin Cakes, and lay one spoonful of any
kind of Sweet meats you like best upon every one, so close them up and
fry them with Butter, and serve them in with fine Sugar strewed on.
149. _To boil a Capon on the French fashion._
Boil your Capon in water and salt, and a little dusty Oatmeal to make it
look white, then take two or three Ladles full of Mutton Broth, a Faggot
of sweet herbs, two or three Dates cut in long pieces, a few parboiled
Currans, and a little whole Pepper, a little Mace and Nutmeg, thicken
it with Almonds; season it with Verjuice, Sugar, and a little sweet
Butter, then take up your Capon and lard it well with preserved Limon,
then lay it in a deep Dish, and pour the broth upon it; then Garnish
your Dish with Suckets and preserved Barberries.
150. _To Souce a Pike, Carp or Bream._
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