The art of cookery, made plain and easy : to which are added one hundred and fifty new receipts, a copious index and a modern bill of fare for each month, in the manner the dishes are placed upon the table / By a lady [Mrs. H. Glasse].

  • Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770
Date:
1788
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of cookery, made plain and easy : to which are added one hundred and fifty new receipts, a copious index and a modern bill of fare for each month, in the manner the dishes are placed upon the table / By a lady [Mrs. H. Glasse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    peaches take a quarter of a pound of fugar, .clarify it, pour it over your peaches, and fill the bottles with bran- dy. Stop them clofe, and keep them in a clofe place* A feeond way to preferve peaches'* Make your fyrup as above, and when it is clear juft dip in your peaches, and take them out again, lay them on a diih to cool, then put them into large wide-mouth- ed bottles, and when the fyrup is cold pour it over them ; let them (land till cold, and fill up the bottle with the beft French brandy. Obferve that you leave room enough for the peaches to be well covered with brandy; and cover the glafs clofe with a bladder and leather* and tie them clofe down. ^ To make quince cakes. You muft let a pint of the fyrup of quinces with a quart or two of rafpberries be boiled and clarified over a clear gentle fire, taking care that it be well fkimmed from time to time : then add a pound and a half of fu- gar, caufe as much more to be brought to a candy height, and poured in hot. Let the whole be continu- ally ftirred about till it is almoft cold, then fpread it on plates, and cut it out into cakes. CHAP. XIX. To make anchovies, vermicelli, catchup, vinegar; and to keep artichokes, French beans, &c. To 77iake anchovies. TO a peck of fprats, two pounds of common fait, a quarter of a pound of bay fait, four pounds of faltpetre, two ounces of fal-prunella, two pennyworth of cochineal, pound all in a mortar, put them into a ftone pot, a row of fprats, a layer of your compound, and fo on, to the top alternately. Prefs them hard down, cover them clofe, let them hand fix months, and they