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 pot small Birds.—Porcupine of Beef, £fc. into potting-pots, and cover them well with clarified butter. To pot all kinds of small Birds. Pick and gut your birds; dry them well with a cloth; season them with mace, pepper, and salt, then put them into a pot with butter; tie your pot down with paper, and bake them in a moderate oven; when they come out, drain the gravy from them, and put them into potting-pots, and cover them with clarified butter. To make a cold Porcupine of Beef. Salt a flank of/ tj beef the same way as you do a round of beef, and turn it every day for a fortnight at least; then lay it flat upon a table ; beat it an hour, or till it is soft all over, then ‘ rub it over with the yolks of three eggs ; strew over it a quarter of an ounce of beaten mace, the same of nut- meg, pepper and salt to your taste; the crumb of two penny loaves and two large handfuls of parsley shred small ; then cover it with thin slices of fat bacon, and roll vour beef up very tight, and bind it well with pack- }, thread ; boil it four hours ; when it is cold lard it all over, one row with the lean of ham, a second with cu- cumbers, a third with fat bacon ; cut them in pieces ? about the thickness of a pipe shank, and lard it so that it may appear red, green, and white; send it to the table with pickles and scraped horse-radish round it; keep it in salt and water, and a little vinegar.—You may keep ? : it four or five days without pickle. To collar a Breast of Veal. Bone your veal and beat it a little, then rub it over with the yolk of an egg ; strew over it a little beaten mace, nutmeg, pepper, and salt, a large handful of parsley chopped small, with a few sprigs of sw eet marjoram, a little lemon-peel cut exceed- ingly fine, one anchovy washed, boned, and chopped very •■] small and mixed with a few bread-crumbs, then roll i'. , ;.j up very tight ; bind it hard with a fillet, and wrap it in a clean cloth, then boil it two hours and a half in < soft water ; when it is enough hang it up by one end, , and make a pickle for it; to one pint of salt and water