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.

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THE Compleat Housewife: OR, The Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's COMPANION.

COOKERY, &c.

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To pot a Swan.

BONE and skin your Swan, and beat the Flesh in a Mortar, taking out the Strings as you beat it; then take some clear fat Bacon, and beat with the Swan, and when 'tis of a light Flesh Colour, there is Bacon enough in it; and when 'tis beaten till 'tis like Dough, 'tis e|nough; then season it with Pepper, Salt, Cloves, Mace, and Nutmeg, all beaten fine; mix it well with your Flesh, and give it a Beat or two all together; then put it in an Earthen Pot, with a little Claret and fair Water, and at the Top two Pounds of fresh Butter spread over it; cover it with coarse Paste, and bake it with Bread; then turn it out into a Dish, and squeeze it gently to get out the Moisture; then put it in a Pot fit for it; and when 'tis cold, cover it over with clarify'd Butter; the next Day paper it up. In this Manner you may do Goose, Duck, or Beef, or Hare's flesh.

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