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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$( >8 ) . . . fide is over done. When you think it is near enough, make your Fire burn brisker, in order to brown it. Rub a good deal of Salt upon it before you lay it down, and while it is roading bade it often with its own Dripping, and flour it well. The Time for reading is the fame with that of boiling, a Quarter of an Hour to every Pound of Meat. Mutton.] All Joints of Mutton, except a Leg, requires a brisker Fire than Beef. Bade it with Butter, and flour it often ; but if it be very large, and you fufpeft it to be Ram Mutton bade it well on fird laying it down with plater and Salt, and that will take off the Ranknefs. You mud abate fomewhat of a Quarter of an Hour of each Pound, efpecially when you road a Shoulder or Neck .Lamb or V?al ~\ All young Meats, as before ob- ferved, ought to be thoroughly done, therefore do not take either Lamb or Veal off the Spit till you fee they drop white Gravy. fPorkf] Pork fhould lie Twelve Hours at lead in Salt, before you put it down to road : then flour it well, but very little hading will ferve, except you road it without cutting the Skin, and then you mud keep it bading and turning very fad, as you would do a Pig, to preferve it from blidering, or parting from the Flefh. This is a very Iufcious Meat, and requires the fame Time as Beef, and a ffrong Fire $ for it will be pernicious if earen with Gravy in it that has the lead TinHure of Redncfs. The common, as well as the mod wholefome Sauce, fs Apple-Sauce and Muflard, ‘JPig.J Take Sage, fined very fmsll, grated Bread, Salt, a little Pepper, and the Yolk of fgur Eggs, wet them well with white Wine, till they to a Corfidency j then put them into the Belly of$