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
Parboil your capon after it is trussed, then put it into a pipkin with
Mutton Broth and Marrow, and a little Salt, with a quart of White-Wine,
a little Nutmeg and Dates stoned and sliced, then put in a quarter of a
pound of fine Sugar, then take some Pippins stewed with Sugar, Spice and
a little water, and put them in, then lay your Capon into a Dish, and
lay some Naples Biskets for Sippets, then bruise the yolks of eight hard
Eggs and put into your Broth, with a little Sack, and pour it over your
Capon; Garnish your Dish and serve it in.
190. _To boil Chickens with Lettuce the very best way._
Parboil your Chickens and cut them in Quarters, and put them into a
Pipkin with some Mutton Broth, and two or three sweet Breads of Veal,
and some Marrow, and some Cloves, and a little Salt, and a little Limon
Pill; then take good store of hard Lettuce, cut them in halves and wash
them, and put them in; then put in Butter and Sack and white Wine, with
a little Mace and Nutmeg, and sliced Dates, let all these stew upon the
Fire, and when they be enough, serve them in with Toasts of white Bread
for Sippets; Garnish the Dish with Limon and Barberies, and what else
you please; thus you may do Pigeons.
190. [Transcriber's Note: so numbered in original] _To boil a Rabbit
with Grapes or with Goosberries._
Truss your Rabbit whole, and boil it in some Mutton Broth till it be
tender;
Then take a pint of White Wine, and a good handful of Spinage chopped,
the yolks of hard Eggs cut in quarters, put these to the Rabbit with
some large Mace; a Fagot of sweet Herbs and a little Salt and some
Butter, let them boil together a while, then take your Rabbet and lay it
in a Dish and some Sippets, then lay over it some Grapes or Goosberries,
scalded with Sugar, and pour your Broth over it.
191. _To boil a Rabbit with Claret Wine._
Boil a Rabbet as before, then slice Onions and a Carrot root, a few
Currans and a Fagot of sweet herbs, and a little Salt, minced Parsley,
Barberries picked, large Mace, Nutmeg and Ginger, put all these into a
Pipkin with the Rabbet, half a Pound of Butter, and a Pint of Claret
Wine, and let them boil together till it be enough, then serve it upon
Sippets.
192. _To boil a wild Duck._
Truss and parboil it, then half rost it, then carve it, and save the
Gravie, then take Onions and Parsley sliced, Ginger and Pepper, put the
Gravie into a Pipkin, with Currans, Mace, Barberries, and a quart of
Claret Wine, and a little Salt, put your Duck with all the forenamed
things into it, and let them boil till it be enough, then put in butter
and sugar, and serve it in upon Sippets.
193. _To boil a tame Duck._
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