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 11, 2024.

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Tench souced.

Draw your Tench at the Gills, and cut them off, then will they boil the whiter, have Water on the fire, and season it with Salt, Vinegar, five or six Bay-leaves, large Mace, whole Cloves, some faggots of sweet Herbs bound up hard together; so soon as your liquor boils, put in your Tench wiped clean, but not scaled, being boiled wash off the loose scales; then strain the liquor through a jelly-bag, and put to it some

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Izing-glass, being washed and steeped for that purpose, and boil it very cleanly, dish your Fish in the Dish you intend to send it up in, then strain the liquor through the bag, pour it on the Fish and let it cool.

This Jelly will serve to jelly Lobsters, Crawfish or Prawns, hanging them in some glass by a thread at their full length, and filling the glass with the Jelly when it is warm; it being cold, turn it out of the glass.

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