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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