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 steic Turkey, Fowl, Knuckle of Veal, §c. mushrooms and pickles, force-meat balls dipped in the yolks of eggs, oysters stewed and fried, to lay round and at the top of the dish, serve it up. If for a brown ragoo, put in red wine ; if white, white wine, with the yolks of eggs beat up with two or three spoonfuls of cream. To boil a Leg of Lamb. Let the leg be boiled very white. An hour will do it. Cut a loin in steaks, dip them in a few crumbs of bread and egg, fry them nice and brown; boil a good deal of spinach, and lay in the dish ; put the leg in the middle, lay the loin round it; cut an orange in four, and garnish the dish, and have butter in a cup. Some love the spinach boiled, then drained, put in a saucepan with a piece of butter, and stewed. To stew a Turkey or Fowl. Let a pot be very clean, lay four skewers at the bottom, and a turkey or fowl on them, put in a quart of gravy ; take a bunch of celery, cut it small and wash it clean, put it in the pot, with two or three blades of mace, let it stew softly till there is just enough for sauce, then add a piece of butter rolled in Hour, two spoonfuls of red wine, two of catchup, and just as much pepper and salt as will season it; lay the fowl or turkey in the dish, pour the sauce over it, and send it to table. If the fowl or turkey is done enough before the sauce, take it up, till the sauce is boiled enough, then put it in, let it boil a minute or two, and dish it up. To stew a Knuckle of Teal. Be sure let the pot or sauce- pan be clean, lay at the bottom four wooden skewers, wash and clean the knuckle very well, lay it in the pot with two or three blades of mace, a little whole pepper, a little piece of thyme, a small onion, a crust of bread, and two quarts of water. Cover close, make it boil, then only let it simmer for two hours, and when it is enough take it up, lay it in a dish, and strain the broth over it. To force a Surloin of tieef. When it is quite roasted, take it up, and lay it in the dish with the inside upper- most, with a sharp knife lift up the skin, hack and cut the inside very fine, shake pepper and salt over it, with