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To Frigacy Chickens --- Mrs.. Williams
Take two Chickens, and cut 'em in small peices, then wash 'em in hot water, when done put 'em into your stew pan, With a bit of butter, and a little dust of flower, Then fill it up - with cold water, with Sweetbreads - Artichoke bottoms, with morells and fresh Mushrooms, a gill of white wine, an Onion and a bunch of Sweet herbs, and when cold enough, take out your herbs, and Onion, Then take the yolks of 4 eggs and half a pint of cream, beat 'em up together with the juce of a lemmon, when you have skin'd the fatt off - the Chicken, then put in your Eggs and cream, stir 'em - about well - Season it with pepper and salt to your taste and let it have a little boil up. line To prevent. -- D o
Take Rue, Lavender, Sage Wormwood, rosemary, of each an handfull, chopt small and put into a pint of white - wine vinegar, Let it stand in the the Sun nine days. Then strain it and add two ounces of Camphire.
To make Wiggs -- D o
line Take 3 pounds of flour, and 1 p d of butter, rub the butt very well into the flour. 6 oz. of sugar, 4 eggs, a pint of Baum, and as much new Milk as will make it into a liquid paste, Let it stand an hour before the fire to rise then make 'em up, and put 'em into a quick oven - Half an hour will bake 'em -- put in a few carryway seeds.
XM1 MS A117 045 Note:The addition of the er in butter, in To makes Wiggs, is cofirmed by the manuscript
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To make Ginger Bread D o Take a p d of treacles a p d of powder sugar, half a pint of brandy candied orange, Lemon, and Citron cutt small 2 o half an o of ginger beat, and sifted half an o Coriander seeds, and half an o carryway seeds beat and sifted, mix all these together, and work in as much fine flour, as will make of it a stiff paste, role it out cut in cakes as you like, put it on Tin. It will bake after the bread is drawn
To make balm Wine Mrs Winslow To a gal n of Water put 2 p ds 1/2 loaf Sugar clarify'd with the white of an egg When it is rather warmer than beer to work pour it upon a double handfull of balm pickt from the stalks - To which add an Orange or Lemon slice'd rind and all - Let it stand till it is milk warm - Then put in a toast dip'd in yeast - Let it stand two days to work and then Tun it altogether - Before it is tun'd you must take out the Toast
A Certain Cure for the Hooping Cough Take two o of Honey, 2 o Treacle a few carryway seeds and as much flower of Brimstone as will lie on a shilling mix them well together and give the Child a spoonfull six different times in the day.
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Oxford Saucsagies Mrs Caps
Take of Pork and Veal an equall quantity - Let it be free from skin and Sinews beat it well - Then add to it as much as half the weight of Beef Suet - Chop it together till the Suet is fine - Then Season it with pepper Salt Mace some sage and thyme chopt Small - when you use it work it up with two or three Eggs.
Sausages another way ---- D o
Take a pound of lean pork beat it as fine as you can Then pick out all the grissle - put to it one pound and a quarter of beef Suet chopt pretty small - Season it with pepper Salt a little sage cut fine - four Eggs but one of the whites - mix altogether - Then roll them up and frye them
To pickle Hog's Heads or Hams
Four Gall 6 ozs. Saltpetre, 3 p ds coarse Sugar, put it over the fire and let it boil half a quarter of an hour, skiming it all the while -- This Rec t will do for 4 heads or 2 hams turning the heads every day in the pickle for a Month The heads or ham must be put in when the pickle is cold
s Water, 2 p ds Bay salt, 2 p ds common Salt.