The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.

How to Pot up Fowl for to carry to Sea, or otherwise to be spent at home.

Take a good company of Ducks or Mal∣lards, pull them and draw them, and lay them in a tub with a little pepper and salt for twenty four hours, then truss them and roast them, and when they are roasted let them drain from their gravy, for that will make them corrupt, then put them hand∣somly into a pot, and take the fat which came from them in the roasting and good store of Butter, and melt them together in a pot set in a kettle of boyling water, put there∣in good store of cloves bruised a little, some

sliced mace, nu••meg, bayleaves and salt, and let them stew in the butter a while, then while it is hot pour it over your Fowls in the pot, and let the pot be filled so that the Fowls be covered, then lay a Trencher up∣on them, and keep them down with a weight or stone until they be cold, then take of the same kind of spice which you did put into your butter, beat it very fine and strew over it, and lay some bayleaves on the top so cover it up, they will keep a good while, drain your Fowl from the gravy, twenty four hours before you put them into your pot.