The director: or, young woman's best companion : Containing ... receipts in cookery ... physick and surgery / [Sarah Jackson].

  • Jackson, Sarah
Date:
1754
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Credit: The director: or, young woman's best companion : Containing ... receipts in cookery ... physick and surgery / [Sarah Jackson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    76. An Orange Pudding. Take three large Seville Oranges, the cleareft Kind you-can get, grate off all the Out-rine; take eight Eggs, (leave out fix of the Whites) Half a Pound of double-refined Sugar, beat and put it to your Eggs, then beat them both together for Half an Hour; take three Ounces of fweet Almonds blanched, beat them with a Spoonful or two of fair Water, to keep them from oiling, Half a Pound. of Butter, melt it without Water, and the Juice of two Oranges, then put in the Rafping of your Oranges, and mix all together; lay a thin Pafte over your Difh, and bake it, but not in too | hot an Oven. 77. To fry Cucumbers for Mutton Sauce. You muft brown fome Butter in a Pan, and cut fix middling Cucumbers, pare and flice them, but not over thin, drain them from the Water, then put them into the Pan; when they are fried brown, put to them a little Pepper and Salt, a Lump of Butter, a Spoonful of Vinegar, a little fhred Onion, a little Gravy, not to make it too thin, fo fhake them well together with a little Flour. 7 ' You may tay them round your Mutton, or they are proper for a Side-dith. 78. To force. a Fowl. Take a good Fowl, pull and draw it, then flit the Skin down the Back, take the Fleth from the Bones, and mince it very well, mix it with a little Beef-fuet, fhred a Gill of large Oyfters, chop a Shalot, a little grated Bread, and fome {weet Herbs, mix all together, feafon it with Nutmeg, Pepper and Salt, make it up with Yolks of Eggs, put it on the Bones, and draw the Skin over it, few up the Back, cut off the Legs, and put the Bones as you do a Fowl for Boiling, tie the Fow] up in a Cloth ; an Hour will boil it. For Sauce, take a few Oyfters, fhred them, and put them into a little Gravy, with a Lump of Butter, a little Lemon-peel fhred, and D a little
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