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Project Launch and 18th Century British Baking Challenge
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View the Original Manuscript
Bibliography
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To Make a Dish of Scotch Colops [collops]
A recipe for veal fried with butter and spices and stewed in gravy.
To pickele pidgions [pickle pigeons]
A recipe for boiled pigeon stuffed with herbs and spices and pickled with vinegar.
To Make the Oyster loaves
A recipe for stewed oysters cooked with French bread
To Calver & Pickel [pickle] Salmon
A process for pickling and calvering salmon (a method of preparing fresh salmon) with vinegar, spices, herbs, and onion.
To roste [roast] a Shoulder of Mutton in the Blood
A recipe for preparing mutton shoulder using sheep's blood and herbs
To boyle Flownders [boil flounder]
A recipe for a flounder cooked in a sauce of wine, spices, lemon, and onion
To Pickele Barberys [barberries]
A method for pickling barberry fruit in salt water
To Make sausiges [sausages]
A method for making pork sausage in natural casing with suet, spices, herbs, bread, and eggs,
To Make a Frigesey [fricassee] of chickens
A recipe for preparing chicken with butter, onion, and herbs and a sauce made of egg yolks, blood, and wine
To Pot Lobster
A recipe for cooking and preserving lobster in butter with onion and spices
To Make a Frigisy [fricassee] of Sheep Tongues
A recipe for frying sheep's tongue in wine, spices, and herbs and making a pan gravy.
To [Suse] a Turkey
A recipe for turkey by boiling with salt and herbs and preparing a broth with wine and vinegar.
How to make Salt Hams
A method for curing ham using salt, saltpeter (potassium nitrate), and salt prunella / sal-prunella (another form of saltpeter).
To make stuffing for boiled Turkey or Fowls or a [illegible] Pike
A recipe for stuffing made from blanched almonds, cream, breadcrumbs, suet, butter, mace, nutmeg, shredded lemon peel, an egg, and an anchovy.
[Recipe for beef, dredged and fried in flour with mushrooms and red wine]
An untitled recipe for beef, dredged and fried in flour with mushrooms and red wine.
To Make a Cabage Puding [cabbage pudding]
A recipe for a "cabbage pudding," using minced veal, beef fat, herbs and spices, and wrapped in cabbage leaves before boiling.
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