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 large Rabbit, truss it and boil it with a little Mutton Broth,
white Wine and a blade of Mace, then take Lettuce, Spinage, and Parsley,
Winter-Savory and sweet Marjoram, pick all these and wash them clean,
and bruise them a little to make the Broth look green, thicken it with
the Crust of a Manchet first steeped in a little Broth, and put in a
little sweet Butter, season it with Verjuice and Pepper, and serve it to
the Table upon Sippets; Garnish the Dish with Barberries.
156. _To boil a Teal or Wigeon._
Parboil either of these Fowls and throw them into a pail of fair Water,
for that taketh away the Rankness, then rost them half, and take them
from the fire, and put sweet herbs in the bellies of them, and stick the
Brests with Cloaves, then put them in a Pipkin with two or three ladles
full of Mutton broth, very strong of the Meat, a blade of whole Mace,
two or three little Onions minced small; thicken it with a Toast of
Houshold bread, and put in a little Butter, then put in a little
Verjuice, so take it up and serve it.
157. _To boil Chickens or Pigeons with Goosberries or Grapes._
Boil them with Mutton Broth and white Wine, with a blade of Mace and a
little Salt, and let their bellies be filled with sweet herbs, when they
are tender thicken the Broth with a piece of Manchet, and the yolks of
two hard Eggs, strained with some of the Broth, and put it into a deep
Dish with some Verjuice and Butter and Sugar, then having Goosberries or
Grapes tenderly scalded, put them into it, then lay your Chickens or
Pigeons into a Dish, and pour the Sauce over them, and serve them in.
158. _A made Dish of Rabbits Livers._
Take six Livers and chop them fine with sweet herbs and the yolks of two
hard Eggs, season it with beaten Spice, and Salt, and put in some
plumped Currans, and a little melted Butter, so mix them very well
together, and having some Paste ready rouled thin, make it into little
Pasties and fry them, strew Sugar over them and serve them.
159. _To make a Florentine with the Brawn of a Capon, or the Kidney of
Veal._
Mince any of these with sweet Herbs, then put in parboiled Currans, and
Dates minced small, and a little Orange or Limon Pill which is Candied
shred small, season it with beaten Spice and Sugar, then take the yolks
of two hard Eggs and bruise them with a little Cream, a piece of a short
Cake grated, and Marrow cut in short pieces, mix all these together with
the forenamed Meat, and put in a little Salt and a little Rosewater, and
bake it in a Dish in a Puff-Past, and when you serve it strew Sugar over
it.
160. _A Friday Pie without Fish or Flesh._
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