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
Put two or three Partridges into a Pipkin with as much water as will
cover them, then put in three or four blades of Mace, one Nutmeg
quartered, five or six Cloves, a piece of sweet Butter, two or three
Toasts of Manchet toasted brown, soke them in Sack or Muskadine, and
break them, and put them into the Pipkin with the rest, and a little
Salt, when they are enough, lay them in a Dish, and pour this Broth over
them, then garnish your Dish with hard Eggs and sliced Limon, and serve
it in.
209. _To boil a Leg of Mutton._
Take a large Leg of Mutton and stuff it well with Mutton Suet, Salt and
Nutmeg, boil it in water and Salt, but not too much, then put some of
that broth into another Pot, with three or four blades of Mace, some
Currans and Salt, boil them till half be consumed, then put in some
sweet Butter, and some Capers and a Limon cut like Dice with the Rind
on, a little Sack, and the yolks of two hard Eggs minced; then lay your
Mutton into a Dish upon Sippets, and pour this Sauce over it; scrape
Sugar on the sides of your Dish, and lay on slices of Limon and
Barberries.
210. _To stew Trouts._
Put two Trouts into a fair dish with some white Wine, sweet butter, and
a little whole Mace, a little Parsley, Thyme and Savory minced, then put
in an Anchovy and the yolks of hard Eggs; when your Fish is enough,
serve it on Sippets, and pour this over it, and garnish your Dish with
Limon and Barberries, and serve them in: you may add Capers to it if you
please, and you may do other Fish in this manner.
211. _To boil Eels in Broth to serve with them._
Flay and wash your Eels and cut them in pieces about a handful long,
then put them into a pot with so much Water as will cover them, a little
Pepper and Mace, sliced Onions, a little grated bread, and a little
Yest, a good piece of sweet butter, some Parsley, Winter Savory and
Thyme shred small; let them boil softly half an hour, and put in some
Salt, with some Currans; when it is enough, put in Verjuice and more
Butter, and so serve it; Garnish your Dish with Parsley, Limon and
Barberries, put Sippets in your Dish.
212. _To boil a Pike with Oysters._
Take a fair Pike and gut it and wash it, and truss it round with the
tail in the mouth, then take white Wine, Water and Salt, with a bundle
of sweet herbs, and whole Spice, a little Horse-radish; when it boils,
tie up your Pike in a Cloth, and put it in, and let it boil till it
swims, for then it is enough; then take the Rivet of the Pike, and a
Pint of great Oysters with their Liquor, and some Vinegar, large Mace,
gross Pepper, then lay your Pike in a Dish with Sippets, and then heat
these just named things with some Butter and Anchovies, and pour over
it; garnish your Dish as you please.
213. _To make a grand Sallad._
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