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 stew a Duck with Green Teas.—To roast a Goose. gether over the fire till they are thick and fine, lay the duck or rabbit in the dish, and pour the sauce all over : If a rabbit cut off the head ; cut it in two, and lay it on each side the dish. Or you may make this sauce for change : take a large onion, cut it small, half a handful of parsley clean washed and picked, chop it small, a lettuce cut small, a quarter of a pint of good gravy, a piece of butter rolled in a little flour ; add a little juice of lemon, a little pepper and salt j stew all together for half an hour, then add two spoon- fuls of red wine. This sauce is most proper for a duck ; lay the duck in the dish, and pour the sauce over it. A Duck with Green Teas. Put a deep stewpan over the fire, with a piece of fresh butter; singe the duck, and flour it, turn it in the pan two or three minutes, pour out all the fat, but let the duck remain in the pan : put to it a pint of good gravy, a pint of peas, two lettuces cut small,a bundle of sweet herbs, a little pepper and salt, cover close, and let them stew for half an hour; now and then give the pan a shake ; when they are just done, grate in a little nutmeg, and put' in a little beaten mace, and thicken it either with a piece of butter rolled in flour, or the yolk of an egg beat up with twro or three spoonfuls of cream ; shake it all together for three or four minutes, take out the sweet herbs, lay the duck in a dish, and pour the sauce over it. You may garnish with boiled mint chopped, or let it alone. . Directions for Toasting a Goose. Take sage, wash and pick it clean, and an onion, chop them fine, with pepper and salt, and put them in the belly; let the goose be clean picked, and wiped dry with a cloth, inside and out; put it down to the fire, and roast it brown : one hour will roast a large goose, three quarters of an hour a small one. Serve it in a dish with brown gravy, apple sauce in a boat, and some gravy in another. To stew Giblets. Let them be nicely scalded and picked, cut the pinions in two ; cut the head, neck, and legs in two, and the gizzards in four; wash them very clean ; put