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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$( 5-y . ) between every Layer of Fi(h, Pep,per, Nutmeg, Mace, Cloves and Salt, well mix’d, and four Bay- leaves, powder'd Cochineal, and Petre-falt, beat and mix’d with Spice ; boil red Wine Vinegar enough to cover them, and put to them when quite cold. To pickle cPigeons.~\ Boil them with whole Spice, in three Pints ot Water, and a Pint of Vinegar, and when boiled enough take them up, and when they are cold, keep them in this Pickle. To pickle Herrings or Mackarel.~\ Take the Fifh, and cut off the Heads and Tails, and gut them, wadi them and dry them well ; then take two Ounces and a half of Salt-petre, three Quarters of an Ounce of Jamaica Pepper, and a Quarter of white Pepper, and p<>und them fmall 5 an Ounce of fweet Marjuam and Thyme chop’d fmall : Mix them all together, and put fome within and without the Fifh ; lay them in an earthen Pan, the Roes at top, and cover them with white Wine Vinegar; then fet them into an Oven, nut too hot, for two Hours. This is for Fifteen, and after this Rule do as many as you pleafc. To pickle Jlfparagus to keep the whole Tear] Break the Heads off, and put them up in white Wine Vinegar, and Salt, according to Difcretion, fo that they be well c >ver’d ; then take them our, and boil the Pickle, and fcum it very well ; if there be Occafion, renew it with Vinegar and Salt, and when cold, put them in again, and they will keep a whole Year ; ufe them when you will ; only boil them tender, and eat them with Butter. To pickle Tork.] Take'the principal Pieces of the Pork, and Salt them lightly, with ordinary Salt ; then lay them hollow, that the Blood may drain from it, with the flefhy Side downwards ; let it lie two or three Days among!! the Salt $ put fome beaten$