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 17, 2024.

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A Sack Posset.

TAke three pints of very good new Cream, and a quarter of a pound of Almonds stamped with some Rosewater, strain it with the Cream, then boil it with a little Ambergriese, then put a pint of Sack into a Bason, and set it over the fire till it be blood-warm, then take the yolks of nine Eggs with three whites, having

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beaten them well, put them into the Sack, then stir them together in the Bason with the Cream; having suffer'd it to cool a little before you put it in, stir so long till you find it as thick as you would have it, then pound Amber small, and mingle it with Sugar, and a little Musk, and strew it on the top of the Posset, it will give it a most delightful taste.

Or thus: take ten Eggs, beat the whites and yolks together, and strain them into a quart of Cream, season it with Nut∣meg and Sugar, and put to them a pint of Canary, stir them well together, and put them into your Bason, then set it over a Chafing-dish of coals, and stir it till it be indifferently thick, then scrape on Sugar and serve it.

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