The Compleat Cook eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 95 pages of information about The Compleat Cook.

The Compleat Cook eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 95 pages of information about The Compleat Cook.

To make fine Pancakes fryed without Butter, or Lard.

Take a Pint of Creame, six new layd Eggs, beat them very well, put in a quarter of a Pound of Sugar, one Nutmeg or beaten mace which you please, as much floure as will thicken them almost as thick as for ordinary Pancakes, your Pan must be cleane wiped with a Cloth, when it is reasonably hot, put in your Butter, or thick or thin as you please, to fry them.

To pot Venison.

Take a haunch of Venison not hunted, and bone it, then take three ounces of Pepper beaten, twelve Nutmegs, with a handfull of Salt, and mince them together with Wine Vinegar, then wet your Venison with Wine Vinegar and season it, then with a knife make holes on the lean sides of the Hanch, and stuff it as you would stuff Beef with Parsley, then put it into the Pot with the fat side downward then clarifie three pound of Butter, and put it thereon, and Past upon the Pot, and let it stand in the Oven five or six hours, then take it out, and with a vent presse it down to the bottom of the Pot, and let it stand till it be cold, then take the Gravy of the top of the Pot and melt it, and boyle it halfe away and more, then put it in again with the Butter on the top of the Pot.

To make a Marchpan; to Ice him, &c.

Take two pound of Almonds blanched, & beaten in a stone Morter till they begin to come to a fine Past, and take a pound of sifted Sugar, and put it in the Morter with the Almonds, and so leave it till it come to a perfect Past, putting in now and then a Spoonfull of Rosewater to keep them from Oyling; when you have beaten them to a perfect Past cover the Marchpan in a sheet, as big as a Charger, and set an edge about as you do about a Tart, and a bottome of wafers under him; thus bake it in an oven or baking pan, when you see your marchpan is hard and dry, take it out and Ice him with Rosewater and sugar being made as thick as butter for Fritters; so spread it on him with a wing-feather; so put it into the Oven againe, and when you see it rise high, then take it out and garnish it with some pretty conceits made part of the same stuff, stick long cumfets uprigh in him so serve it.

To make Jelly the best manner.

Take a Leg of Veale, and pare away the fat as clean as you can, wash it throughly, let it lie soaking a quarter of an hour or more, provided you first breake the bones, then take foure Calves feet, scald off the hair in boyling water, then slit them in two and put them to your Veale, let them boyle over the fire in a brasse pot with two Gallons of water or more acording to the proportion of your Veale, scum it very clean and often; so let it boyle till it comes to three Pintes or little more, then strain it through a cleane strainer, into a Bason, and so let it stand till it be through cold and well jellied, then cut it in peices with a Knife, and pare the top and the bottome of them, put it into a Skellet, take two ounces of Cynamon

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