Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine

out the strings as you beat it ; then take some clear fat bacon, and beat with the swan, and when ’tis of a light flesh colour, there is bacon enough in it ; and when ’tis beaten till ’tis like dough, ’tis enough; then season it with pepper, salt, cloves, mace, and nutmeg, all beaten fine ; mix it well with your flesh, and give it a beat or two all together ; then put it in an earthen pot, with a little claret and fair water, and at the top two pounds of fresh butter spread over it; cover it with coarse paste, and bake it with bread ; then turn it out into a dish, and squeeze it gently to get out the moisture ; then put it in a pot fit for it ; and when ’tis cold, cover it over with clarified butter, and next day paper it up. In this manner you may do goose, duck, or beef, or hare’s flesh. To make a Poloe : — Take a pint of rice, boil it in as much water as will cover it ; when your rice is half boiled, put in your fowl, with a small onion, a blade or two of mace, some whole pepper, and some salt; when ’tis enough, put the fowl in the dish, and pour the rice over it. io8 Early Receipts. To make a Pulpatoon of Pigeons : — Take mushrooms, palates, oysters, sweet-breads, and fry them in butter ; then put all these into a strong gravy ; give them a heat over the fire, and thicken up with an egg and a bit of butter; then half roast six or eight pigeons, and lay them in a crust of forc’dmeat as follows : scrape a pound of veal, and two pounds of marrow, and beat it together in a stone mortar, after ’tis shred very fine ; then season it with salt, pepper, spice, and put in hard eggs, anchovies and oysters ; beat all together, and make the lid and sides of your pye of it; first lay a thin crust into your pattipan, then put on your forc’dmeat ; then lay an exceeding thin crust over them ; then put in your pigeons and other ingredients, with a little butter on the top. Bake it two hours. To keep Green Peas till Christmas : — Shell what quantity you please of young peas ; put them in the pot when the water boils ; let them have four or five warms ; then first pour them into a colander, and then spread a cloth on a table, and put them on that, and dry Early Receipts. them well in it : have bottles ready dry’d, and fill them to the necks, and pour over them melted mutton-fat, and cork them down very close, that no air come to them : set them in your cellar, and when you use them, put them into boiling water, with a spoonful of fine sugar, and a good piece of butter : and when they are enough, drain and butter them. II.— MEAT PIES AND PUDDINGS. A Battalia Bye: — Take four small chickens, four squab pigeons, four sucking rabbets ; cut them in pieces, season them with savoury spice, and lay ’em in the pye, with four sweetbreads sliced, and as many sheep’s-tongues, two shiver’d palates, two pair of lamb-stones, twenty or thirty coxcombs, with savoury-balls and oysters. Lay on butter, and close the pye. A lear. To make an Olio Pye: — Make your pye ready ; then take the thin collops of the butend of a leg of veal ; as many as you think will fill your pye; hack them with the back of a knife, and season them with IIO Early Receipts.