The complete art of cookery : exhibited in a plain and easy manner, with directions for marketing, the seasons for meat, poultry, fish, game, etc / by M.A. Reynolds.

  • Reynolds, M. A.
Date:
[1850?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The complete art of cookery : exhibited in a plain and easy manner, with directions for marketing, the seasons for meat, poultry, fish, game, etc / by M.A. Reynolds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    lean somewhat paler; if young, the dent made with the finger will rise again in a little time. Bull beef is closer grained, deep, dusky red, tough in pinching, the fat skinny, hard, and a rammish rank smell : and for newness, and staleness, this bought fresh has but few signs; the most material is its clamminess, and the rest your smell will inform you. If it be bruised, these will look more dusky, or blacker than the rest. Pork. If young, the lean will break in pinch- ing between the fingers ; and if you nip the skin with your nails, it will make a dent: also, if the fat he soft and pulpy, like lard : if the lean be tough, and the fat flabby and spongy, feeling rough, it is old : especially if the rind be stubborn, aud cannot nip it with your nails. If a boar, though young, or a hog gelded at full growth,-the flesh will be hard, tough, red, aud rammish of smell ; the fat skinny and hard ; the skin thick