Wellcome Collection: Receipt-Book, 17th-18th century (MS.4054) (Early modern recipe books)

Wellcome Collection: Receipt-Book, 17th-18th century (MS.4054)

Collection of receipts for cordials, preserves, cookery and medicines.

By several hands.

Contents: Receits for preserving (pp. 1-61); stilling (pp. 71-92); [cosmetics (etc.)] (pp. 109-115); surgery and phisick (pp. 120-176); to make wine and other liquors (pp. 180-193); for syrups (pp. 204-207); for cookery (pp. 214-249).

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249. Cookery. To fry hartichocks bottoms. Boile them tender, and dippe them in eggs with pepper, & Venigar and ginger for sawce. How to sowce Eeles. Take the Eeles & splitt them & take out the bones & lay them in Water to take out the blood, & rowle them & tye them as you doe brawn, but first take some mace pepper and salt & strow it within them, Rowle them up & boile them in water & salt Venigar and a litle rosmary, Winter savory & thime some half an houre & Keep them in the Same liquor.