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 the Curds of a Sack Posset, the Yolks of six Eggs, and the Whites
of two, with a little fine Flower to make it into a thick Batter, put in
also a Pomewater cut in small pieces, some beaten Spice, warm Cream, and
a spoonful of Sack, and a little strong Ale; mingle all these very well,
and beat them well, and fry them in very hot Lard, and serve them in
with beaten Spice and fine Sugar.
169. _To bake Woodcocks, Black-birds Sparrows or Larks._
Truss and parboil them, then season them with Pepper and Salt, and put
them into a Pie with good store of Butter, and so bake them, then fill
them up with Butter.
170. _To bake a Goose._
Bone your Goose and parboil it, and season it with Pepper and Salt, and
lay it into a deep Coffin with good store of Butter top and bottom, then
bake it very well, and when it is baked, fill up the pie at the
Vent-hole with melted Butter, and so serve it in with Mustard and Sugar
and Bay-Leaves.
171. _To make Pancakes so crisp as you may set them upright._
Make a dozen or a score of them in a little Frying-pan, no bigger than a
Sawcer, then boil them in Lard, and they will look as yellow as Gold,
and eat very well.
172. _To make blanched Manchet._
Take six Eggs, half a Pint of sweet cream, and a penny Manchet grated,
one Nutmeg grated, two spoonfuls of Rosewater, and two Ounces of Sugar,
work it stiff like a Pudding, then fry it in a very little frying-pan,
that it may be thick.
Fry it brown, and turn it upon a Pie-Plate; cut it in quarters and strew
Sugar on it and serve it in.
173. _To make a sierced Pudding._
Mince a Leg of Mutton with sweet herbs, and some Suet, make it very
fine, then put in grated Bread, minced Dates, Currans, Raisins of the
Sun stoned, a little preserved Orange or Limon, and a few Coriander
seeds bruised, Nutmeg, Ginger, and Pepper, mingle all together with
Cream and raw Eggs wrought together like a Paste, and bake it, and put
for Sauce the yolk of an Egg, Rosewater, Sugar and Cinamon, with a
little Butter heat together, when you serve it in, stick it with Almonds
and Rosemary; you may boil it also if you please, or rost some of in a
Lambs Cawl.
174. _To make a Fricasie of Eggs._
Beat twelve Eggs with Cream, Sugar, beaten spice and Rosewater, then
take thin slices of Pomewater Apple, and fry them well with sweet
Butter; when they are enough, take them up, and cleanse your pan, then
put in more butter and make it hot, and put in half your Eggs and fry
them; then when the one side is fryed lay your Apples all over the side
which is not fryed, then pour in the rest of your Eggs, and then turn it
and fry the other side, then serve it in with the Juice of an Orange and
Butter, and Sugar.
175. _To make a_ Cambridge_-Pudding._
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