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 May 19, 2024.

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Another way in case of necessity.

Having no other Butter in the house than what is turn'd oily in the melting, you must

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then let it settle in some cool place for a little time, then pour out the most oily part, leaving the dregs and whey behind, then add a little broth to the said dregs, and put it on a hot heap of coals, ladle it well till it become to drawn Butter in a body, then take it off the fire, and keep it still stirring; in the mean time pour in the Oily-butter ve∣ry softly, then set it on the fire again, still stirring it till it become strong, thick and white.

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