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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Collared pig’s head, squab pie, Irish stew, bubble $ squeak. they likewise should be flatted ; season them by sprinkling them over with fine spice, salt, and Cayenne pepper; roll it up tight, and put it in a cloth, and finish it in all re- spects the same as collared beef: it ought to be well boiled. Collared Pig’s Head. A bacon hog’s head is the best for this use ; it should be boned and rubbed with salt- petre, and laid on a dish for two days ; then make some salt hot in the frying-pan, and about a quarter of a pound of coarse moist sugar, and rub it all on the head ; it should be in salt about three weeks, and beat with a heavy cleaver before it is tied up; finish exactly the same way as collared beef. A Devonshire Squab Pie. Cover the bottom of the dish with mutton chops, cut from the loin ; cut the bone out, and part of the fat; season it with pepper and salt, then cover the mutton with apples and cucumber, in equal quantities ; then cover them over with mutton chops, and season them as before ; cover the mutton over with apples and cucumber; then lay mutton over them, and season it; put a little good gravy in, and then cover the dish over with puff paste ; and finish it as all other meat pies. Irish Stew. Cut the mutton intended for the stew into chops ; chop one large onion very fine; peel the po- tatoes and cut them in two ; put the chops in the stew- pan, and sprinkle them over with pepper and salt and the chopped onion; then cover the meat over with the potatoes; then put chops over them and season as be- fore, and put potatoes and sprinkle them over with pep- per, Salt, and an onion; put about half a pint of water in the stew-pan, and set it over a slow fire to simmer gently until the potatoes are done: put the meat round the dish and the potatoes in the middle, and the liquor over them; skim the fat off first. Hubble and H<\ueak is made from the remains of boiled salt beef left from a former dinner. Cut the beef in neat slices and put it between two plates till wanted; if