The accomplisht cook, or The art and mystery of cookery.: Wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, then hath been publisht in any language. Expert and ready wayes for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish; the raising of pastes; the best directions for all manner of kickshaws, and the most poinant sauces; with the tearms of carving and sewing. An exact account of all dishes for the season; with other a la mode curiosities. Together with the lively illustrations of such necessary figures as are referred to practice. / Approved by the fifty years experience and industry of Robert May, in his attendance on several persons of honour.
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The accomplisht cook, or The art and mystery of cookery.: Wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, then hath been publisht in any language. Expert and ready wayes for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish; the raising of pastes; the best directions for all manner of kickshaws, and the most poinant sauces; with the tearms of carving and sewing. An exact account of all dishes for the season; with other a la mode curiosities. Together with the lively illustrations of such necessary figures as are referred to practice. / Approved by the fifty years experience and industry of Robert May, in his attendance on several persons of honour.
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May, Robert, b. 1588.
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London :: Printed by R.W. for Nath. Brooke, at the sign of the Angel in Cornhill,
1660.
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"The accomplisht cook, or The art and mystery of cookery.: Wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, then hath been publisht in any language. Expert and ready wayes for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish; the raising of pastes; the best directions for all manner of kickshaws, and the most poinant sauces; with the tearms of carving and sewing. An exact account of all dishes for the season; with other a la mode curiosities. Together with the lively illustrations of such necessary figures as are referred to practice. / Approved by the fifty years experience and industry of Robert May, in his attendance on several persons of honour." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A88977.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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The Table.
A
ANdolians, page 23
Almond Pudding 167
Almond Leach 195
Almond Custard 221
Almond tart 231
Almond bread, bisket, and cakes 254
Almond cream 266
Almond cheese 267
Almond caudle 406
Apricocks baked 235
Apricocks preserved ibid
Ambergreece cakes 255
Apple cream 263
Alebury 406
Artichocks baked 246
Artichocks stewed 433
Artichocks fryed 433, 434
B
BArley broth, page 13
Broth stewed 14, 55
Bisk divers wayes 5, 6, 7, 49
Bisk or Battalia pie 196
Beef fillet roasted 100
Beef roasted to pickle 103
Beef collops stewed 104
Beef carbonado'd 106
Beef baked red Dear fashion 108
Beef minced pies 109
Bullocks cheeks souced 185
Boar wilde baked 211
Bacon broild 155
Brawn broild ibid
Brawn souced 178
Brawn of pig 179
Brawn garnisht 180
Bredding of meats and fowls 122
Bacon gammon baked 211
Bread the French fashion 223
Bisket bread 258
Bisquite du Boy 259
Bean bread 260
Bear buttered 407
Barberries preserved 238
Blamanger 284
Blanch manchet in a frying-pan 431
C
CAlves head boild 116
Calves head souced 117
Calves head roasted ibid
Calves head hashed 119
Calves head broild ibid
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Calves head roasted with Oy∣sters. 129
Calves feet roasted ibid
Calves chaldron baked 203
Capons in pottage 70
Capons souc't 183
Calves chaldron in minced pies 204
Capons boild 68, 70, VIII
Capons fillings raw 30
Cocks boild 66
Cock stewed against a Con∣sumption 435
Chicken pie 197
Chickens peeping boild 60
Chickens how to feed them 442
China broth 440
Capilotadoes, or made dishes 4, 5
Collops and eggs 155
Collops like bacon of march∣pane 253
Cowcumbers pickled 149
Collystowers buttered 411
Custards how to make them 220
Custards without eggs 221
Cheesecakes how to make them 273
Cheesecakes without milk 275
Cheesecakes in the Italian Fashion 277
Cream and fresh cheese 278
Codling cream 263
Cast cream 268
Clouted cream ibid
Cabbidge cream 270
Cream tart 232
Cherry tart 230
Cherries preserved 237
Cake a very good one 222
Cracknells 257
Carp boild in Corbolion 287
Carp bisk 289
Carp stewed 291
Carp stewed the French way 292
Carp broth 295
Carp in stoffadd 296
Carp hashed ibid
Carp marinated 297
Carp boild or broild 298
Carp roasted 299
Carp pie 300
Carp pie minced with eels 302
Carp baked the French way ibid
Conger boild 345
Conger stewed 346
Conger marinated ibid
Conger souc't ibid
Conger roasted 347
Conger broild ibid
Conger fryed 348
Conger baked ibid
Cockles stewed 383
Crabs stewed 394
Crabs boiled ibid
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Crabs hashed ibid
Crabs forced 395
Crabs broild ibid
Crabs fryed ibid
Crabs baked 396
Crab minced pies 397
D
DEar red rosted 130
Dear red baked 212
Dear fallow baked 213
Dish in the Italian way 233
Damson tart 231
Dampsons preserved 237
Ducklings how to fat them 443
E
ENtre de Table a French dish 8
Eggs fryed 156
Egg fryed as round as a ball ibid
Egg caudle 406
Eggs dressed hard 419
Eggs buttered 420
Egg bisk 421
Eggs in Moonshine ibid
Eggs in the Spanish Fashion called, Wivos me quidos 422
Eggs in the Portingal Fa∣shion 423
Eggs A la Hugenote ibid
Eggs in fashion of a tansey 424
Eggs and Almonds ibid
Eggs broild ibid
Eggs poached 425
Eggs, grand forced dish 426
Eggs compounded as big as twenty eggs 427
Eggs buttered on toasts 428
Eggs buttered in the Poloni∣an way 429
Egg minced pies 430
Eggs or Quelque-shose ibid
Egg fricasie 432
Eels boild 336
Eels stewed 337
Eels in stoffado 338
Eels souced or jellyed 339
Eels hashed 341
Eels broiled ibid
Eels roasted 342
Eels baked 343
Eel minced pies 344, 345
F
FRitters how to make them 156
Fritters in the Italian fashi∣on 157
Fritters of arms ibid
Fryed dishes of divers forms 159
Fryed pasties, balls, or toasts ibid
French tart 232
French barley cream 273
Florentine of tongues 244
Florentine of partridge or ca∣pon 245
Florentine without paste 246
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Flounders calvered 332
Frogs baked 401
Furmenty 403
Fowl hashed 40
Fowl forced 28
Forcing in the Spanish Fashi∣on 33
Forcing French bread called Pinemolet 35
Fricase a rare one 69
Flowers pickled 150
Flowers candied 151
G
GRapes and gooseberries pickled 150
Grapes preserved 238
Gooseberries preserved ibid
Gooseberry cream 265
Ginger bread 260
Geese boild XII
Goose giblets boild XIV
Goslings how to order them 443
Geese old ones to fat them ibid
H
HAshes all manner of wayes 39, 40, 41
Hashes of Scotch collops II
Hare hashed 47, 64
Hares roasted 133
Hares four baked in a pie 205
Hares three in a pie 206
Hare baked with a pudding in his belly ibid
Hens rosted 135
Hip tart 230
Herring minced pies 366
Haberdine pies 367
Hogs feet jellyed 187
Herns to nourish and fat them 444
I
IElly christal 188
Jelly of several colours ibid
Jelly as white as snow 191
Jellies for souces 192
Jelly of harts horn 193
Jelly for a Consumption ibid
Jelly for a Consumption of the Lungs 438
Jelly for weakness in the back 194
Jamballs 256
Italian chips 258
Ipocras 261
L
LAmbs head boild 121
Lambs head in white broth 120
Lambs stones fryed 154
Land or sea-fowl boiled 74, 75, 76
Leach with almonds 272
Lamprey how to bake 334, 335
Links how to make 83
Lemons pickled 150
Loaves buttered 411
Lump baked 349
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Ling pies 367
Lobsters stewed 385
Lobsters hashed 386
Lobsters boild ibid
Lobsters forced 387
Lobsters marinated ibid
Lobsters broild 388
Lobsters rosted 389
Lobsters fryed 390
Lobsters baked ibid
Lobsters pickled 391
Lobsters jellied 392
M
MArrow pies 3, 4
Marrow puddings 24
Maremaid pie 204
Madde dish of tongues 245
Made dish of spinage 247
Made dish of barberries 248
Made dish of frogs 249
Made dish of marrow ibid
Made dish of rice ibid
Made dish of blanchmanger 251
Made dish of butter and eggs ibid
Made dish of curds 252
Made dish of oysters 381
Marchpane 253
Mead 261
Metheglin 262
Makeroons 258
Melacatoons baked 235
Melacatoons preserved 237
Medler tart 230
Minced pies of veal, mutton, beef, &c. 216
Minced pies in the French Fashion 217
Minced pies in the Italian Fashion ibid
Mutton legs forced 31
Mutton shoulder hashed 61
Mutton shoulder rosted, 123 124
Mutton loyn stewed 15
Mutton shoulder stewed I
Mutton or veal stewed 54, 55
Mutton chines boild 11
Mutton carbonadoed 152
Mutton boild 52, 53
Mustard how to make it 142
Mustard of Dijon 143
Mustard in cakes ibid
Musquedines 257
Mullet souc't 326
Mullet marinated 327
Mullet broild 328
Mullet fryed 329
Mullet baked ibid
Mushrooms fryed 322
Mushrooms in the Italian Fa∣shion ibid
Mushrooms stewed ibid
Mushrooms broild 383
Muskles stewed 384
Muskles fryed ibid
Muskle pie ibid
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N
Neats tongue boild 43, 92
Neats tongue in stof∣fado 93
Neats tongue stewed ibid
Neats tongues in Brodo Lar∣diero 96
Neats tongues rosted 97
Neats tongue hashed 42
Neats tongues bak't 98, 99
Neats feet larded and rosted 113
Norfolk fool 283
O
OLio podrida 1
Olines of beef 105
Olines of a Leg of Veal 128
Oline pie 208
Olines how to feed them 446
Oatmeal caudle 406
Omlets of eggs 414, 415
Onions buttered 310
Oysters stewed the French way 364
Oysters stewed otherwayes 369
Oyster pottage 370
Oysters hashed 371
Oysters marinated 372
Oysters in stoffado ibid
Oysters jellyed 373
Oysters pickled ibid
Oysters souc't 374
Oysters rosted 375
Oysters broild 376
Oysters fryed 377
Oysters bak't 378
Oyster mince pies 379
Oxe cheeks boild 84
Oxe cheeks in stoffado 85
Oxe cheeks baked 202
P
PArtridges hashed 63
Partridge how to feed them 447
Paste how to make it 241
Paste royal 242
Paste for made dishes in Lent ibid
Puff paste 243
Paste of Violets, Cowslips, &c. 252
Paste for a Consumption 438
Pallets of Oxe how to dress them 87
Pallet pottage 89
Pallets rosted ibid
Pallets in jellies 90
Pallets bak't 91
Pancakes 160
Panado's 407
Pap 283
Pease tarts 229
Pescod dish in Puff Paste 248
Pease pottage 404
Peaches preserved 236
Pewets to nourish them 444
Pheasants how to feed them 447
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Pheasant baked 199
Pinemolet 9
Pie extraordinary, or a Bride pie 218
Pie of pippins 227
Pippins preserved 228
Pig rosted with the hair on 131
Pig rosted otherwayes 132
Pig souc't 180
Pig jellied 182
Pig distilled against a Con∣sumption 436
Pigeons boild XVI, 79
Pigeons baked 199
Pike boild 305
Pike stewed 307
Pike hashed 310
Pike souc't 311
Pike jellyed 313
Pike rosted 314
Pike fryed 315
Pike broild ibid
Pike bak't 316
Plumb cream 264
Plaice boild or stewed 333
Plovers how to feed them 445
Pork broild 154
Pork rosted 131
Pottages 80
Pottage in the French fashi∣on 81
Pottage without sight of herbs 82
Pottage called skink 102
Pottage of ellicksanders 404
Pottage of onions 405
Pottage of almonds ibid
Pottage grewel 402
Pottage of rice 403
Pottage of milk ibid
Potato's baked 246
Portingale tarts for Banquet∣ting 252
Posset how to make it 279
Posset of sack 280
Posset compounded 408
Posset simple ibid
Posset of herbs ibid
Posset the French way 409
Prawns stewed 385
Preserved green fruits 239
Pudding of several sorts 21, 22, 23
Puddings of Turkey or Ca∣pon 24
Puddings of liver 26
Puddings of heifers udder ibid
Puddings black 113, 176
Pudding in a breast of veal 127, 171
Pudding boild 163
Pudding of cream 164
Pudding of sweet herbs ibid
Pudding in haste 165, 166
Pudding quaking ibid
Pudding shaking ibid
Pudding of rice 168
Pudding of cinamon 169
Pudding haggas 25, 169
Pudding cheveridge ibid
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Pudding Liveridge 170
Pudding of swan or goose ibid
Pudding of wine in guts 171
Pudding in the Italian fa∣shion 172
Pudding the French way ibid
Pudding of swines lights 173
Pudding of oatmeal ibid
Pudding pies of oatmeal 174
Pudding baked 175
Puddings white 177
Pullets stewed against a Con∣sumption 436
Pyramides cream 272
Q
QƲinces pickled 149
Quince pies 224
Quince tarts 226
Quince cream 264
Quinces buttered 411
Quodling pie 232
Quails how to feed them 447
R
RAsberries preserved 239
Rabbets hashed 48, 64
Restorative for a weak back 441
Rice tart 230
Rice cream 271
Rice buttered 411
Roots forced 27
S
SAuce for green geese XV
Sauce for land fowl XVI 137
Sauce for roast mutton 125
Sauce for roast veal 130
Sauce for red dear ibid
Sauce for Rabbits 134
Sauce for Hens 135, 136
Sauce for Chickens 136
Sauce for pigeons 137
Sauce for a goose 138
Sauce for a Duck 139
Sauce for sea fowl ibid
Sauce for roast salmon 324
Sauce for veal, lamb, or mut∣ton 184
Sausages 37, 38, 82
Sausages Bolonia 114
Sausage for Jelly 194
Salet grand of minc't fowls xv
Sallet grand of divers com∣pounds 144, 145, 146
Sallet of scurvey-grass 148
Sallet of ellicksander buds ib.
Scotch collops of mutton 62
Salmon calvered 317
Salmon stewed 318
Salmon pickled 319
Salmon hashed ibid
Salmon marinated 320
Salmon in Stoffado ibid
Salmon fried 321
Salmon roasted 322
Salmon broild or roasted in Stoffado 323
Salmon baked 324
Salmon chewits, or minced pies 325
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Salmon lumber pie 326
Sack cream 269
Stone cream 270
Snow cream 265
Scollops stewed 384
Sea fowl bak't 201
Sillabub an excellent way 281
Shell bread 260
Snails stewed 398
Snails fried 399
Snails hashed ibid
Snails in pottage 400
Snails bake't ibid
Snites boild 65
Soals boild 349
Soals stewed 350
Soals souc't 351
Soals jellied ibid
Soals roasted 352
Soops of spinage 409
Soops of carrots ibid
Soops of artichocks 410
Sparagus to keep all the year 195
Sparagus buttered 410
Spinage tart 231
Steak pie 209
Steak pies the French way 210
Strawberry tart 230
Sturgeon boild 353
Sturgeon buttered 354
Sturgeon hashed ibid
Sturgeon marinated ibid
Sturgeon forced 355
Sturgeon whole in Stoffado ibid
Sturgeon souc't 356
Sturgeon broild 357
Sturgeon fried ibid
Sturgeon roasted 358
Sturgeon olines of it 358, 359
Sturgeon baked 359, 360, 361
Sturgeon minced pies 363
Sturgeon lumber pie 364
Sturgeon oline pie ibid
Sturgeon bak't with forcings 365
Sturgeon olio 366
Sugar plate 257
Swans how to fat them 444
Sweetbread pies 215
T.
TAnsey how to make 160
Taffety tart 231
Tart stuff of severall colours 234
Tortelleti, or little pasties VI, VII
Toasts how to make them 161
Toasts cinamon 162
Toasts the French way ibid
Tortoise how to dress it 397
Tripes how to dress them 114
Trotter pie 226
Triffel how to make it 278
Turkish dish of meat 103
Turkey baked 199
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Turkies how to fat them 444
Turbut boild 330
Turbut souc't 331
Turbut stewed or fried. 332
V
VEal breast forced 20
Veal breast boild ibid
Veal breast roasted 127
Veal breast, Loin, or rack, ba∣ked 209
Veal leg boild 18
Veal leg forced 19
Veal chines boild 10
Veal loin roasted 128
Veal broild 123
Veal hashed 47, 64
Veal forced 28, 29, 31
Venison broild 154
Venison tainted how to pre∣serve it 214
Ʋdders baked 111
Verjuyce how to make it 142
Vinegar to make it 140
Rose Vinegar 141
Pepper Vinegar ibid
Ʋmble pies 215
W
WArden tarts 229
Water for a Con∣sumption 438
Wassel to make it 283
Wheatears how to feed them 447
Whip cream 271
White leach of cream ibid
White pot to make it 281
Woodcocks boild 65, X
Woodcocks roasted 134
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