cookery

How to Make Spiced Wine, 1559

Cinnamon, an ounce and a half. Ginger, iii drams.

Waffles are made in four ways. First, beat eggs in a bowl, then add salt and wine…

How to Dress a Peacock With All Its Feathers, So That When Cooked, It Appears To Be Alive…

The bachelor women in their cosy little city apartments…

To make Turnip Wine. Take a good many turnips, pare, slice, and put them in a cyder-press…

In cutting up all manner of small Birds, it is proper to say, Thigh them…

To make a Yorkshire Christmas-Pie. First make a good standing crust, let the wall and bottom be very thick…

To make Frayse appear like Rashers of Bacon. Take of fine Flowre half a peck…

Anne Vallayer-Coster, Still Life with Lobster (1781)

To make that Chicken Sing when it is dead and roasted, whether on the spit or in the platter…

Get a chicken or any other bird you want, and pluck it alive cleanly in hot water…

To make a Hedge-Hog. Take a Quart of New Cream and boil it, then beat an Egg and put into it…

To make a Pompion-Pie. Having your Paste ready in your Pan…

Take the buds of all good sallets herbs, capers, dates, raisins, almonds, currans, figs, orangado…

First, heat the pan thoroughly with oil, butter, or another grease as you wish…

French Toasts. Cut French Bread, and toast it in pretty thick toasts on a clean gridiron…

Sicilian Macaroni. Make a dough of the whitest flour, one egg white and rosewater…

We must now particularize the preparation of this Drink made with Coffee…

To make a pink-coloured Pancake. Boil a large beet root tender…

The Right Dutch-Wafer. Take four Eggs, and beat them very well…