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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Sauces, Ragoo, Fricasey, Sfc. balls are a great addition to all made dishes; made thus : take half a pound of veal, and half a pound of suet, cut fine, and beat in a marble mortar or wooden bowl; have a few sweet herbs shred fine, dried mace beat [fine, a small nutmeg grated, or half a large one, a little lemon- peel cut very fine, a little pepper and salt, and the yolks of two eggs ; mix all these well together, then roll them in little round balls, and little long balls ; roll them in flour, and fry them brown. If they are for any thing of white sauce, put a little water in a saucepan, and when the water boils put them in, and let them boil for a few minutes, but never fry them for white sauce. Truffles and Morels good in Sauces and Soups. Take half an ounce of truffles and morels, let them be weH washed in warm water to get the sand and dirt out, then simmer them in two or three spoonfuls of water for a few minutes, and put them with the liquor in the sauce. They thicken both sauce and soup, and give it a fine flavour. To stew Ox Palates. Stew them tender; which must be done by putting them in cold water, and let them stew softly over a slow fire till they are tender, then take off the two skins, cut them in pieces, and put them either in a made-dish or soup ; and cock’s-combs and artichoke- bottoms, cut small, and put in the made-dish. Garnish the dishes with lemon, sweet-breads stewed, or white dishes, and fried for brown ones, and cut in little pieces. To ragoo a Leg of Mutton. Take all the skin and fat off, cut it very thin the right way of the grain, then butter the stewpan, and shake flour in it: slice half a lemon and half an onion, cut them small, with a little bundle^of sweet herbs, and a blade of mace. Put all together with the meat in the pan, stir it a minute or two, and then put in six spoonfuls of gravy, have ready an anchovy minced small; mix it with butter and flour, stir it all together for six minutes, and then dish it up. A In oun Fricasey. You must take rabbits or chicken* and skin them, then cut them in small pieces, and rub