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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Of Roasting, Boiling, fyc. them again, and drudge them with a little flour, and take them up. Sauce for a Goose. For a goose make a little good gravy, and put it in a bason by itself, and some apple- sauce in another. Sauce for a Turkey. For a turkey, good gravy in the dish, and bread or onion-sauce in a bason. Sauce for Fowls. To fowls you should put good gravy in the dish, and either bread or egg-sauce in a bason. Sauce for Ducks. For ducks a little gravy in the dish, an onion in a cup, if liked. Sauce for Pheasants and Partridges. Pheasants and partridges should have gravy in the dish, aud bread-sauce in a cup, and poverroy-sauce. Sauce for Larks. Roast larks, and all the time they are roasting, baste them very gently with butter, and sprinkle crumbs of bread on them till they are almost done ; then let them brown before you take them up. The best way of making crumbs of bread is to rub them through a fine cullender, and put a little butter in a stew- pan : melt it, put in your crumbs of bread, and keep them stirring till they are of a light brown ; put them in a sieve to drain a few minutes, lay your larks in a dish, and the crumbs all round, almost as high as the larks, with pla;n butter in a cup, and some gravy in another. To roast Woodcocks and Snipes. Put them on a little spit; take a round of a threepenny loaf, and toast it brown, then lay it in a dish under the birds: baste them with a little butter, and let the trale drop on the toast. When they are roasted, put the toast in the dish, lay the wood- cocks on it, and have a quarter of a pint of gravy ; pour it in a dish, and set it over a lamp or chafing-dish for three minutes, and send them to table. You are to observe,we never take any thing out of a woodcock or snipe. To roast a Pigeon. Take some parsley shred fine, a piece of butter as big as a walnut, a little pepper and salt; tie the neck end tight; tie a string round the legs and rump, and fasten the other end to the top of the chimney- piece. Baste with butter, and when they are enough,