Bradshaw's family companion. Containing ... five hundred receipts in cookery ... also curious extracts from a famous treatise on the teeth, their disorder and cure / [by Dr. Hoffham, i.e. Friedrich Hoffmann] Together with the Cellar-Man.

Bradshaw, Penelope

Date:: 1753

Credit: Bradshaw's family companion. Containing ... five hundred receipts in cookery ... also curious extracts from a famous treatise on the teeth, their disorder and cure / [by Dr. Hoffham, i.e. Friedrich Hoffmann] Together with the Cellar-Man. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$MuttonJ] When Mutton is young, the Flern will pinch tender, and the Fat part eafiiy from the Lean5 but if old, the one will wrinkle, and remain fo for fome Time, and the other not be pulled off eafiiy, by reafon of a number of little Strings : Old Mutton may alfo be known when the Flefh fhrinks from the Bone?, and the Skin is loofe : In Ewe- Mutton the Flefh is of a paler Colcur than the Weather, and of a clofer Grain. If there happens to be a Rot among the Sheep, the Fat will be yellow, and the Flefh pale, loofe from the Bore, and, if fqueezed, a Dew like Sweat will rife upon it. f'real.] The Flefh of a Bull Calf is more red, and has a firmer Grain than that of a Cow Calf, and the Fat will be harder. You cannot be too careful in examining the Scent, for even what fometimes looks beautiful to the Eye will prove mufty. Laml\\ Houfe-Lamb when good, is very Fat and White, and the Lean of a pale Colour. Grafs Lamb is fomewhat of a higher Colour, but the Fat is White : In a Fore Quarter of either you rouft obferve the Neck-Vein 3 if it looks of a fine light Blue, it is frelh killed 5 but if greenifh or yellow, it is hale. Smell under the Kidney of a Hind Quarter, and try the Knuckle 5 if it be limber, and h2S a faint Scent, do not venture to buy it. cJPork.] If it be young and frefh, the Flefh will be of a fine bright Colour $ but not too Red $ the skin will be thin, and if you nip it with your Nails the Impreihon will remain ; but if the Lean be high coloured, the Fat flabby, and the Rind hard, it is old ; or if any Part feel clammy, it is flale. If jou find many 1 in a 11 Kernels in the Fat, like Hail-$