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Folio page 162r, Scribe's page 347

X To Boyle & Sowce Prawne

Cut your Prawne in as many Collers as you please
wattering it so many days as will make the flesh white
shifting the water once a day, then take it out & scrape
it & wipe it very Cleane & dry then roul it up very hard
with broad nile set all your Collars into a great Kettle
or Copar filled with water & make it boyle softly at first
for 3 hours then let it boyle faster 12 hours more untill
it be so tender that a straw will pass through it euery
way when it isThere is a blot of ink in the space above "is" 3 quarters boyled you must put in 6:
gallons of flet milk have a great care how you
take it up for fear of breaking & set up euery Collar
on one end upon a dresser or board Covered 2 inshes
think with salt & put a great handfull of salt up
on the top of Euery one as it comes hot out of the
Kettle to Let them stand till the Next day
the day before you boyle your Prawne you must make
your sowce drink as follows take so much ale not to
Strong nor small & boyle it with so much salt as will
make it uery salt & lett your Liquor boyle 3 hours
& so sett it to cool in the Tub you intend to sowce
your Prawne & when the Prawn has been 12 hours cold
put it into this Liquor, it will keep good till may or
June & never Frise in winter;