The compleat cook: or, the whole art of cookery Describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigacied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes. Together vvith 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 compleat cook: or, the whole art of cookery Describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigacied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes. Together vvith 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, and sold by G. Conyers at the Golden Ring in Little-Britain, over against Bartholomew's-Close-Gate,
1694.
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Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800.
Cookery, French -- Early works to 1800.
Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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"The compleat cook: or, the whole art of cookery Describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigacied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes. Together vvith 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/A80288.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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Mullets boil'd.

Take a large Mullet, having trust it round, put it in your Kettle, adding to your Water Salt, and a handful of sweet Herbs, making your Water boil before you put in your Fish, which must be tyed up in a clean cloath: having put in with your Fish a pint of White wine Vinegar, let it boil

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till your Fish swim; then take the Rivet and a pint of great Oysters, and as much Vi∣negar as their Gravie, four blades of Mace, with a little gross Pepper, boil all these in a Pipkin together, till your Oysters are enough, then strain the yolks of four Eggs, with half a pint of Sack; having put in a little Butter and Sugar, put in also your Wine and Eggs, then serve it on Sippets, pouring on the Broth, scrape on Sugar and eat it hot. With this Broth you may boil a Pike, nay, a Capon, if you will but add some roasted Chesnuts steept in Sack.

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