The French cook.: Prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite, or to advance the power of digestion. Also the preparation of all herbs and fruits, so as their naturall crudities are by art opposed; with the whole skil of pastry-work. Together with a treatise of conserves, both dry and liquid, a la mode de France. With an alphabeticall table explaining the hard words, and other usefull tables. / Written in French by Monsieur De La Varenne, clerk of the kitchin to the Lord Marquesse of Uxelles, and now Englished by I.D.G.

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The French cook.: Prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite, or to advance the power of digestion. Also the preparation of all herbs and fruits, so as their naturall crudities are by art opposed; with the whole skil of pastry-work. Together with a treatise of conserves, both dry and liquid, a la mode de France. With an alphabeticall table explaining the hard words, and other usefull tables. / Written in French by Monsieur De La Varenne, clerk of the kitchin to the Lord Marquesse of Uxelles, and now Englished by I.D.G.
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La Varenne, François Pierre de, 1618-1678.
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London :: Printed for Charls Adams, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Talbot neere St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet,
1653.
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Cookery
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"The French cook.: Prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite, or to advance the power of digestion. Also the preparation of all herbs and fruits, so as their naturall crudities are by art opposed; with the whole skil of pastry-work. Together with a treatise of conserves, both dry and liquid, a la mode de France. With an alphabeticall table explaining the hard words, and other usefull tables. / Written in French by Monsieur De La Varenne, clerk of the kitchin to the Lord Marquesse of Uxelles, and now Englished by I.D.G." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A88798.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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30. Tourte of franchipanne.

Take the fairest flowre you can get, and allay it with whites of eggs; presently take the twelfth part of your paste, and spread it untill you may see through it; butter your plate, or tourte panne, spread this first sheet, dresse it up, butter it at the top, and doe the same to the number of six, then put what creame you will, and make the top as the bottome to the number of six sheets; bake your tourte lea∣surely; after it is baked, besprinkle it with water of flowers, sugar it well and serve.

You must have a care to worke up your paste as soone as it is made, because it drieth up sooner then you are aware, and when it is dry, it is unusefull, because your sheets must

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be as thinne as cobwebs, therefore you must choose a moist place.

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