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
Draw your Fish, but scale it not, and save the Liver of it; wash it very
well, then take white Wine, as much water again as Wine, boil them
together with whole Spice, Salt and a bundle of sweet Herbs, and when
boiles put in your Fish, and just before it a little Vinegar; for that
will make it crisp: when it is enough, take it up and put it into a
Trey, then put into the Liquor some whole Pepper, and whole Ginger, and
when it is boiled enough, take it off and cool it, and when it is quite
cold, put in your Fish, and when you serve it in, lay some of the Jelly
about the Dish sides, and some Fennel and Sawcers of Vinegar.
151. _To boil a Gurnet on the French fashion._
Draw your Gurnet and wash it, boil it in water and salt and a bundle of
sweet herbs; when it is enough, take it up and put it into a Dish with
Sippets over a Chafingdish of Coals; then take Verjuice, Butter, Nutmeg
and Pepper, and the yolks of two Eggs, heat it together, and pour over
it; Garnish your Dish as you please.
152. _To rost a Leg of Mutton on the French fashion._
Take a Leg of Mutton, and pare off all the Skin as thin as you can, then
lard it with sweet Lard, and stick it with Cloves, when it is half
rosted, cut off three or four thin pieces, and mince it with sweet
herbs, and a little beaten Ginger, put in a Ladle full of Claret wine,
and a little sweet butter, two sponfuls of Verjuice and a little Pepper,
a few Capers, then chop the yolks of two hard Eggs in it, then when
these have stewed a while in a Dish, put your bonie part which is rosted
into a Dish, and pour this on it and serve it in.
153. _To rost a Neats tongue._
Chop sweet herbs fine with a piece of raw Apple, season it with Pepper
and Ginger, and the yolk of an Egg made hard and minced small, then
stuff your Tongue with this, and rost it well, and baste it with Butter
and Wine; when it is enough, take Verjuice, Butter, and the Juice of a
Limon, and a little Nutmeg, then Dish your Tongue and pour this Sauce
over it and serve it in.
154. _To boil Pigeons with Rice._
Take your Pigeons and truss them, and stuff their bellies with sweet
herbs, then put them into a Pipkin with as much Mutton broth as will
cover them, with a blade of Mace and some whole Pepper; boil all these
together until the Pigeons be tender, and put in Salt:
Then take them from the fire, and scum off the Fat very clean, then put
in a piece of sweet Butter, season it with Verjuice, Nutmeg and a little
Sugar, thicken it with Rice boiled in sweet Cream. Garnish your Dish
with preserved Barberries and Skirret Roots boiled tender.
155. _To boil a Rabbit._
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