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 broil Crimp Cod, Salmon, Mackerel, fyc. nish with lemou notched, horse-radish, and parsley crisped in a plate before the fire. Lay one slice of le- mon on the head, and serve it up hot. To broil Crimp Cod, Salmon, Whiting, or Haddock. Flour it, and have a quick clear fife, set the gridiron high, broil it of a fine brown, lay it in a dish, and for sauce have good melted butter. Take a lobster, bruise the spawn in the butter, cut the meat small, put all together in the melted butter, make it hot, and pour it into your dish, or into basons. Garnish with horse-radish and lemon. Oyster Sauce is made thus. Take half a pint of oysters, and simmer them till they are plump, strain the liquor from them through a sieve, wash the oysters clean, and beard them ; put them in a stcvvpan, and pour the liquor over, but mind you do not pour the sediment with the li- quor ; add a blade of mace, a quarter of a lemon, a spoon- ful of anchovy-liquor, and a little bit of horse-radish, a little butter rolled in flour, half a pound of butter melted, boil it up gently for ten minutes; takeout the horse- radish, the mace, and lemon, squeeze the juice of the lemon in the sauce, toss it up a little, then put it into your boats or basons. To dress Lillie Fish. As to all sorts of little fish, such as smelts, roach, &c. they should be fried dry, and of a fine brown, and nothing but plain butter. Garnish with lemon. And to boil salmon the same, only garnish with lemon and horse-radish. And with all boiled fish, you should put a good deal of salt and horse-radish in the water, except mackerel, with which put salt and mint, parsley and fennel, which chop to put. in the butter; some love scalded goose- berries with them. Be sure to boil your fish well; but take great care they do not break. To hr ml >Mackerel. Clean them, split them down the back, season with pepper and salt, mint, parsley, and fennel, chopped fine, and flour them : broil of a light brown, put them on a dish and strainer. Garnish with parsley; 3auce, fennel and butter in a boat.