The compleat 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, fried, 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.

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The compleat 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, fried, 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.
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London :: printed for William Miller, at the Gilded Acorn, in St. Paul's Church-yard, where gentlemen and others may be furnished with most sorts of Acts of Parliament, Kings, Lord Chancellors, Lord Keepers, and Speakers speeches, and other sorts of speeches, and state matters; as also books of divinity, church-government, humanity, sermons on most occasions, &c.,
1690.
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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 compleat 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, fried, 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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A80290.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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Red Deer baked.

Having taken out the back sinew and boned your side of Venison, season it and lard the Fillets with great Lard; your proper seasoning is Nutmeg and Pepper of each three ounces, and five ounces of Salt, slash your Venison for the better entring in of your seasoning; your Pye or Pasty being made, lay in the bottom some Butter, a quarter of an ounce of Cloves, two or three Bay-leaves, then lay in your flesh, and thereon a few Cloves, and good store of Butter, close it up, and let it soak in the Oven nine hours at least; before you put it into the Oven, baste it with Saffron wa∣ter; when baked, fill it up with clarified Butter.

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