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.
A Goose, Turkey, or Leg of Mutton, A-la-daube.
LARD it with Bacon, and half roast it; then take it off the Spit, and put it in as small a Pot as will boil it, put to it a Quart of White wine, strong Broth, a Pint of Vinegar, whole Spice, Bay-leaves, Sweet marj•ram, Winter-savoury, and green Onions. When it is ready, lay it in the Dish, make Sauce with some of the Liquor, Mushrooms, dic'd Lemon, two or three Anchovies; thicken it with brown Butter, and garnish it with sliced Lemon.
