The English and French cook describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigassied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes: together with all manner of the most approved soops and potages used, either in England or France. By T. P. J. P. R. C. N. B. and several other approved cooks of London and Westminster.

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The English and French cook describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigassied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes: together with all manner of the most approved soops and potages used, either in England or France. By T. P. J. P. R. C. N. B. and several other approved cooks of London and Westminster.
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London :: printed for Simon Miller at the Star, at the west-end of St. Pauls,
1674.
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Cookery -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Menus -- Early works to 1800.
Cookery, French -- Early works to 1800.
Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"The English and French cook describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigassied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes: together with all manner of the most approved soops and potages used, either in England or France. By T. P. J. P. R. C. N. B. and several other approved cooks of London and Westminster." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53974.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.

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Jacks, if small, how to stew.

Take your Jacks and cut off the heads of them, then put them into Balls of forced Meat made of Fish, so that the heads may be upright; indore them over with yolks of Eggs and so bake them; drawing them out, cut them in pieces, and stew them up in a Dish with White-wine, Water, Salt, Vinegar, sweet Herbs, some Anchovies, Mace, sliced Ginger and Nutmeg; but put not in your Pike till the liquor boils, and

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then let them be accompanied with some small forced Fish-balls, yellow, green and white, which you may colour with juyce of Herbs; having turn'd them once or twice, take out your Jack-heads so forced, and set them round in the Dish; then take out the bodies with a slice, and place them to the best advantage between and about them all over the Dish: Put Smelts fryed very stiff in the mouths of your Jacks, your forced Meats being round about them; for variety you may make use of fryed Oysters, with other small fryed Fish.

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