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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 by Hannah Wolley
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Dish being broad brim'd with all kind of Jellies in pretty-fancies, and
several Colours.


279. _To make a Mutton Pie._

Cut a Loin or Neck of Mutton in steaks, and season it with Pepper and
Salt, and Nutmeg, then lay it in your Pie upon Butter; then fill up your
Pie with Apples sliced thin, and a few great Onions sliced thin, then
put in more Butter, and close it and bake it, and serve it in hot.


280. _To poach Eggs the best way._

Boil Vinegar and Water together with a few Cloves and Mace, when it
boiles break in your Eggs, and turn them about gently with a Tin slice
till the White be hard, then take them up, and pare away what is not
handsom, and lay them on Sippets, and strew them over with plumped
Currans, then take Verjuice, Butter and Sugar heat together, and pour
over, and serve them in hot.


281. _A good Sallad in Winter._

Take a good hard Cabbage, and with a sharp Knife shave it so thin as you
may not discern what it is, then serve it with Oil and Vinegar.


282. _Another Sallad in Winter._

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