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 by Hannah Wolley
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away their Heads, gut them, and wash them well, and cut them in pieces,
then boil some white Wine and Water, Salt and sweet Herbs together, with some whole Spice, and when it boils apace, put in your Fish, and when it is enough, take some of the Liquor, two Anchovies, some Butter and some Shrimps taken out of their Shells, and heat all these together, then put in the yolks of two or three Eggs, and heat all together, then lay some Sippets of French Bread into your Dish, and set over a Chafingdish of Coals, and lay your Fish in order upon them, then pour your Sawce all over it, and garnish your Dish with Shrimps, Barberries and raw Parsley, so serve it to the Table very hot. 40. _To roste Eels with Bacon._ Take great Eels and scour them well, and throw away the Heads, gut them, and cut them in pieces, then cut some fat Bacon very thin, and wrap them in it, and some Bay Leaves, and so tie them fast to the Spit, and roste them, and baste them well with Claret Wine and Butter, and when they are enough dredge them over with grated bread, and serve them with Wine, Butter, and Anchovies; Garnish your Dish as you please. 41. _To make a Pie with Eels and Oisters._ Make your Paste, and roul it thin, and lay it into your baking Pan, then take great Eels and flay them, and gut them, cut them in pieces, and wash them, and dry them, then lay some Butter into your Pie, and season your Eels with Pepper, Salt, Nutmeg, Cloves and Mace, and lay them in, then cover them all over with greast Oisters, and put in three or four Bay Leaves, then put in more of your beaten Spices and Salt, then cover |
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