The compleat housewife: or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of several hundred of the most approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month in the year. : To which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, &c. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such publick-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbors.
Smith, E. (Eliza), d. ca. 1732.

To pickle Oysters.

TAKE a Quart of Oysters, and wash them in their own Liquor very well, till all the Grittiness is out; put them in a Sauce-pan or Stew pan, and 〈◊〉 in the Liquor over them, set them on the Fire, and scu them; then put in three or four Blades of Mace, a Spoonful of whole Pepper-cors; when you think they are boiled e|nough, throw in a Glass of white Wine; let them have a thorough Scald; then tak them up, and when they are cold, put them in a Pot, and pour the Liquor over them, and keep them for Use. Take them out with a Spoon.