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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$then take the Fifh out of the Pickle, and let it cool, and when it is cold put your Fifh into the Barrel or Stein you keep it in, firewing Tome Spice and Bay- leaves between every Piece of Fifh ; let the Pickle cool, and fcum off the Fat, and when the Pickle is quite cold pour it on your Fifh, and cover it very clofe. To pickle Lobjlers.] Boil your Lobflers in Salt andWater, till they will eafily flip out of the Shell § take the Tails out w4icle, and juft crack the Claws, and take out as whole pofiiole 3 then make the Pickle half white Wine and half Water 5 put in whole Cloves, whole Pepper, whole Mace, two or three Ray-leaves 3 then put in the Lobfiers, and let them have a boil or two in the Pickle 3 then take them out, and fet them by to be cold, boil the Pickle longer, and when both are cold put them to- gether, and keep them for ufe. Tie the Pot down clofe 3 eat them with Oil, Vinegar, and Lemon. To pickle Ter,cb.~\ When your Tench are cleans’d, have a Pickle ready boiled, half white Wine and half Vinegar, a few blades of Mace, feme fliceci Ginger, whole Pepper, and a Bay-leaf, with a Piece of Lemon-peel and fome Salt 3 fo boil your Tench in ir, and when it is enough, lay them out to coo), and when the Liquor is cold, put them in 3 it will keep but few Days. To pickle Mujcles cr Cockles.] Take your ftefh Mufcles, or Cockles 3 wafh them very clean, and put them in a Pet over the Fire till they opep 3 then take them out of their Shells, and pick them clean, and lay them to cool 3 then put their Liquor to feme Vinegar, whole Pepper, Ginger fliced thin, and Mace, and fet it over the Fire 3 when it is fcalding hot, put in your Mufcles, and let them ftew a little.$