Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie.

  • Estienne, Charles, 1504-approximately 1564.
Date:
1606
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    while in vcITels made for the purpofe, efpecially whiles the times of greateft heat indure, feeing fachheate is the caufe that butter com¬ meth not and is not made fo foone as at other times. If file will maKe account to fell it,(he (hall (alt it,and put it in pots of earth, fuch as wc fee brought to Paris from Britaine, Normandie and Flaunders. 1 ne butter of a yellow colour is the beft : and that of a white colour is_tne woorlf : but that which is gathered in May is better then either of the As concerning the making of cheefè : (he (hall chooft the mo ft rt < groffeand fatmilke, beingpureand newly.drawne, to make chee(C cbeefe. that (hall keepe a long time, and of fuçh milke (lie ftiall gather nei¬ ther butter nor creame: but fuch as it commeth from thecowe, fuch (ball be put in veflels for to coagulate and turne tocurdes. The way Tomittbt to curdle it,is to mingle therewith of the runnet, of a lambe^ kidde,or v* hare,or the flowers of wilde thiftle, or the feede ot bleiTed thiftle, or the iuice of the figge tree which commeth out of the tree, when one cutteth the greene barke thereof, or the leaues and hoarines which groweth at the IrnaJI end of the artichokes, or ginger, or the inner skin ofa heuft hens llomacke,orthe fpawne egges of a pike, and with theft it is vfuall to make cheele to be eaten in lent : ortheblacke mu¬ table thillle, therefore called Chameleon niger. Let her beware ofca- ftingin any the leaft quantise of vineger,for one onely drop-of vine- gerisfufficient to hinder the turning of the milke into curdes. The pot in which the milke is,muft not be withoutfome quantitie of heate for to keepe it warme : and yet notwithftanding it mull not come neere vnto the fire,as it may not (land ferre off. And when it is curded and gathered togither, it mull: be put prefently into (lices, formes, or fats,for it is profitable that the whay fhould runne out, and ftparate it felfefromthecurd.Butchieflyandaboueall other things itis requi¬ red that the maidens which (hail meddle with the making of cheefe, fhould be cleanly, fit for the purpofe, their (leeues from about their hands and armes foulded vp,and aboueall ferre from being troubled with their termes. In like fore the people of the countrie of Auergnac, which make great reckoning of their cheeledoe choofe the yoong children,that are but offowreteeneyeeresof age, and :ho(e proper, neate and handfomely trimmed vp, not hauing (cabbed or feuruie hands,neithcryetofan vntemperate heate, for they thinkeand per- fwadethemftlues,thatfuchfilthinesof the hands doth hinder the full curdingandioyningtogitherof thecheefe, aridfodoth make them fullofeies. - * If (he determine to drie, harden, and keepe them long, (lie (hall Hardtheefi. the more carefully looke to the ftrayning foorth of the whaie and cleere milke, and after to fet them in rowes vpon fiielues, lattifes, or cheefe-heights fit for the lame, andthatwithaUit beihafellar , or in iom&