The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of ... recipts ... in cookery [etc.] ... to which is added a collection ... of receipts of medicines ... / by E--- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith].

  • Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.
Date:
1739
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of ... recipts ... in cookery [etc.] ... to which is added a collection ... of receipts of medicines ... / by E--- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pretty thick, ftirring it all the while ; then pour it in a pan, and ftir in it half a pound of frefh butter, and a quarter of a pound of fugar, or fweeten it to your tafte *, when’tis cold, grate in a nutmeg, and beat fix eggs, with a fpoonful or two of fack, and beat and ftir all well together; put a little fine pafte at the bottom of your difh, and bake it. To make a Ratafia Pudding. AKE a quart of cream, boil it with four or five laurel-leaves •, then take them out and break in half a pound of naplesbifket, half a pound of butter, fome fack, nutmeg and fait; take it off the fire, cover it up *, when ’tisalmoft cold, put in two ounces of almonds blanched, and beaten fine, and the yolks of five eggs; mix all well together, and bake it in a moderate oven half an hour s ferape fugar on it as it goes into the oven. BOIL five ounces of Vermicelly in a quart of milk till Stis tender, with a blade of mace, and a rind of lemon or Sevil orange, fweeten it to your tafte ; the yolks of fix eggs and four whites; have a difh ready covered with pafte, and juft before you fet it into the oven, ftir in half a pound of melted butter, a very little fait does well, if you have no peels put in a little orange-flower-water. All Sorts of P A STR Y. To make a Tureiner. TAKEa china pot or bowl, and fill it as fol¬ lows : At the bottom lay fome frefh butter ; then put in three or four beef - fteaks larded with bacon } then cut fome vealfteaks from the