Cookery made easy : being a complete system of domestic management, uniting elegance with economy : to which are added instructions for trussing and carving, with several descriptive plates; method of curing and drying hams and tongues, mushroom and walnut ketchups, Quin's sauce, vinegars, &c., &c., with other necessary information for small families, housekeepers, &c., the whole being the result of actual experience / by Michael Willis.

  • Willis, Michael, active 1825.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Cookery made easy : being a complete system of domestic management, uniting elegance with economy : to which are added instructions for trussing and carving, with several descriptive plates; method of curing and drying hams and tongues, mushroom and walnut ketchups, Quin's sauce, vinegars, &c., &c., with other necessary information for small families, housekeepers, &c., the whole being the result of actual experience / by Michael Willis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    {o Iweiity-foiir. Add :it ])lcasiirc, of wlii'e pepper and alls])icc, ati ounce cacli, powdered fine. When taken from the pickle, wipe it tliorou<'hly dry, cover jt with bran, and smoke it for three weeks or a month. Mutton Ham. Make clioicc of a fine le^, as Larg-e as can be {?ot: Iianj^ it for three days. Boil up together half-a-ponnd of bay-salt, the same of common salt, two ounces of ga'tpcirc, and half-a-ponnd of coarse sugar. Let it lie (|iiile hot when rubbed into the ham. Turn it in the pickle twice a day, and in a week, add from one to two ounces more of common salt : let it be for a fortnight, turning it as before ; take it out and dry it well, and hang it against a cliimney, where wood is burnt, for six days. Simple Mode of purifying Water. Take a large tin, or wooden funnel, and place a few pieces of broken glass at the bottom of the jiipc. liOt the funnel be aboni two-thirds filled with cliarco.il. broken very small, but not reduced to pow- der: |)ut a little more broken glass at the top, to prevent the charcoal from rising; pour the water over; and, even if it bo putrid, it will pass through in a few minutes, perfectly clear and sweet.—'I’lie glass is merely for tlie purpose of keeping the cliar- coal in its place, and to prevent the funnel fi un rhoaking. COSMETICS, &c. To make Soft Pomatum. Beat a pound of fresh lard in common water, then soak and beat it in two rose-waters, drain it, and beat it with a gill ot brandy ; let it drain from this : scent with any essence you please, and keep it in vinalt pots.