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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Collared beef and calf's head. SUPPER AND OTHER DISHES, AND RECEIPTS, NOT INCLUDED IN THE PRECEDIN6 COURSE. Collared Beef. Bone the flat ribs; sprinkle the meat with bay-salt, saltpetre, and coarse brown sugar, and leave it so three days; then make a pound of salt hot iu the frying-pan, and rub it well into the beef; let it lie in salt about ten days ; wash it over with the pickle every second day, and turn it; put a few bay-leaves in the pickle, and sprinkle the beef over with fine spice, about three or four days before it is boiled ; before it is tied up in the cloth to boil, beat it with the heaviest cleaver you have got, both for the sake of making it tender, and keeping its shape the better when boiled ; it should be boiled until quite tender : when done, wring the ends of the cloth, and tie them quite tight; then set it in a press yvitii q heavy weight upon it. If you have no press, put if on q dish, and prop it up as well as you can, and put a weight upon it. Collared Calf’s Head, in imitation of Brawn. The calf’s head should be scalded, and should be as white as possible bone four feet, and season them with salt, Cayenne pepper, and fine spice ; bone the calf’s head, and season it the same as the feet; put all on a dish, and turn them every day, and rub them over with a little saltpetre and bay-salt; they should remain in that state for about one week, if in wiuter ; but not so long in summer: when ready for dfressing, cut fat and lean ham, or gam- mon of bacon, in long square pieces, about the same size as is used for daubing; beat the head and feet with file beef-steak flatter ; lay the ham, first lean, and then fait, all over the head, then the calf’s feet over the ham;