The perfect cook: being the most exact directions for the making all kinds of pastes, with the perfect way teaching how to raise, season, and make all sorts of pies, pasties, tarts, and florentines, &c. now practised by the most famous and expert cooks, both French and English. As also the perfect English cook, or right method of the whole art of cookery, with the true ordering of French, Spanish, and Italian kickshaws, with alamode varieties for persons of honour. To which is added, the way of dressing all manner of flesh, fowl, and fish, and making admirable sauces, after the most refined way of French and English. The like never extant; with fifty five ways of dressing of eggs. / By Mounsieur Marnettè.

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Title: The perfect cook: being the most exact directions for the making all kinds of pastes, with the perfect way teaching how to raise, season, and make all sorts of pies, pasties, tarts, and florentines, &c. now practised by the most famous and expert cooks, both French and English. As also the perfect English cook, or right method of the whole art of cookery, with the true ordering of French, Spanish, and Italian kickshaws, with alamode varieties for persons of honour. To which is added, the way of dressing all manner of flesh, fowl, and fish, and making admirable sauces, after the most refined way of French and English. The like never extant; with fifty five ways of dressing of eggs. / By Mounsieur Marnettè.
Author: Marnettè, Mounsieur, 17th cent.
Publication: [London] :: Printed at London for Nath. Brooks at the Angel in Cornhil,; 1656.
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The Tenth manner of eating Poached Eggs.

Cause good fresh butter to be mel∣ted in a dish over an indifferent hot fire, after which you may break your eggs, and having taken out the white, you may put all the yolks in∣to a porrenger by themselves, and after that you may pour them one by one into the said melted butter, and when your said butter shall be∣gin to boyl take your dish off from the fire, and so you may adde there∣unto a little powdered cinamon and sugar if you please.