The frugal housewife; or, experienced cook : wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands with cleanliness, decency, and elegance is explained in five hundred approved receipts ... / originally written by Susanna Carter, but now improved by an experienced cook in one of the principal taverns in the city of London.
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To bake a Calf’s or Sheep s Head. in little thin bits, and set on a pint of drawn gravy in a saucepan, a little handle of sweet herbs, an onion, pepper and salt, a glass of white wine, and two shalots; boil all these together a few minutes, strain it through a sieve, and put it in a clean stewpan with the hash. Flour the meat before you put it in, and add a few mushrooms, a 'spoonful of the pickle, two spoonfuls of catchup, and a few truffles and morels ; stir all together for a few mi- nutes, then beat up half the brains, and stir in the stew- pan, and a little bit of butter rolled in flour. Take the other half of the brains, and beat them up with a little lemon-peel cut fine, a little nutmeg grated, beaten mace, thyme shred small, parsley, the yolk of an egg, and have some good dripping boiling in a stewpan : then fry the brains in little cakes, about as big as a crown-piece. Fry twenty oysters, dipped in the yolk of an egg, toast some slices of bacon, fry a few force-meat balls, and have ready a hot dish; if pewter, over a few coals; if china, over a pan of hot water. Pour in your hash, they lay in your toasted head, throw the force-meat balls over the hash, and garnish the dish with fried oysters, the fried brains, and lemon ; throw the rest over the hash, lay the bacon round the dish, and send it to table. To bake a Calf’s or Sheep’s Head. Take the head, pick it, and wash it clean; take an earthen dish large enough to lay the head in, rub a little piece of butter over the dish, then lay some long iron skewers across the top of the dish, and put the head on them ; skewer up the meat in the middle that it do not lie on the dish, then grate nutmeg all over it, a few sweet herbs shred small, crumbs of bread, a little lemon-peel cut fine, and then flour it all over: stick pieces of butter in the eyes, and all over the head, and flour it again. Let it be well baked, and of a fine brown ; ’you may throw pepper and salt over it, and pnt in the dish a piece of beef cut small, a bundle of sweet herbs, an onion, some whole pepper, a blade of mace, two cloves, a pint of water, and boil the brain= with sage. When the lipad is enough, lay it in a