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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![To toil a Cod’s Head.'] Set your Kettle on tht Fire with Water, Vinegar and Salt, a Faggot of fweet Herbs, and a large Onion : when the Liquor boils, put in the Head, on a Fiflv-plate s In the boiling, put in cold Water and Vinegar c when it*s boiled drain it well: and for Sauce, take Gravy and Claret, boiled up with a Faggot of fweet Herbs and an Onion, two or three Anchovies, half a Pint of Shrimps, and the Meat of a Lobfter fhred fine z then put the Head on a Difh, pour the Sauce there¬ on, flick fmall Toafts on the Head, and lay about it the Spawn, Melt and Liver; Garnifh it with Parfley, boiled Barberries and Lemon. To broil Chubs.] When you have fcalded the Chub, cut off his Tail and Filhs, wafh him clean, and flit him through the Middle; then cut it three or four Times on the back, and broil it over Char¬ coal $ while it is broiling bade it with good Butter, mingled with Salt, and fome Thyme fhred fine. To flew Tench ] Cut your Tench and wafh them clean, fr/ them in brown Butter, then flew them with white Wine, Verjuice, a Faggot of fweet Herbs, Salt, Pepper, Nutmeg, a Bay-leaf and 3 little Flour : When the Fifh is enough, put in Oyfters* Capers, Ketchup and Lemon s Garnifh your Difh with crifp Bread. jl Jowl of Salmon boiled.] Take a Faggot of fweet Herbs, a little Lemon-peel, fome Mace, Pep¬ per, Salt and Nutmeg, two Quarts of Water, a Pint of Vinegar, an Onion ftuck with Cloves, and fet thefe over the Fire to boil a good while 5 then put in your Fifh 3 half a Quarter of an Hour boils it $ take it up and drain it : For Sauce take ftrong Broth, two Anchovies boiled and (trained, half a Pm: of CUrer, a little Lemon-juice, a Pound c'f Butter.,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30504193_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
