Domestic Economy, and Cookery: For Rich and Poor; Containing an Account of the Best English, Scotch, French, Oriental, and Other Foreign Dishes; Preparations of Broths and Milks for Consumption; Receipts for Sea-faring Men, Travellers, and Children's Food : Together with Estimates and Comparisons of Dinners and Dishes ... |
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... meat is mean , is founded entirely upon extravagance or bad cookery ; as almost all stewed meats are first braised , fried , or roasted . When soups are served with meats , force balls , & c . nothing shows more inattention or want of ...
... meat is mean , is founded entirely upon extravagance or bad cookery ; as almost all stewed meats are first braised , fried , or roasted . When soups are served with meats , force balls , & c . nothing shows more inattention or want of ...
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... meat , makes an excellent substitute for poultry , turtle - meat , tunny - fish , & c . Mutton , mock venison , tongue , breast , and liver ; draught , opening , lamb's head , draught , and liver , many excellent and cheap dishes : see ...
... meat , makes an excellent substitute for poultry , turtle - meat , tunny - fish , & c . Mutton , mock venison , tongue , breast , and liver ; draught , opening , lamb's head , draught , and liver , many excellent and cheap dishes : see ...
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... meat's coming completely off by the slightest touch . The Conjuror . The conjuror is an excellent contrivance , and no one should travel by sea or land without a couple of them , which should have lamps , by which any thing may be ...
... meat's coming completely off by the slightest touch . The Conjuror . The conjuror is an excellent contrivance , and no one should travel by sea or land without a couple of them , which should have lamps , by which any thing may be ...
Page 108
... meats than by any of the ordinary directions . 1st , If meat is old , it has a coarse separating grain , and it is noticeable that the fibres are tough , and of course dark from compression , which is altogether the reverse in young meat ...
... meats than by any of the ordinary directions . 1st , If meat is old , it has a coarse separating grain , and it is noticeable that the fibres are tough , and of course dark from compression , which is altogether the reverse in young meat ...
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... meat , however well fed it may be . There are many reasons why old meat should not be bought , as great attention and long keeping will hardly make it tender , and it is unfit for roasting or boiling , not having flavour enough for ...
... meat , however well fed it may be . There are many reasons why old meat should not be bought , as great attention and long keeping will hardly make it tender , and it is unfit for roasting or boiling , not having flavour enough for ...
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allspice almonds anchovies apples bacon bain-marie bake beat beef blanch boil bones braise bread brown butter cakes carrots chitterlings clove clove of garlic cold colour cook cover cream crums currants dish dressed eggs excellent farce fillets fire fish flavour flour fowl fresh fricassée fried fruit garlic garnish glaze gravy half a pound jelly juice lard lemon-juice let it cool liver mace marinade meat milk minced mould mushrooms mutton nice nutmeg onions ounces oven oysters parings parsley paste pepper pickle pieces pillau pint port wine potatoes powder Prepare pudding puff paste quantity quart ragoût rasped rice roasted salads salt sauce scallions season serve shalot sift sugar simmer skin slices soup spices spoonful stew stewpan strain strew sugar sweet herbs sweetbreads thicken truffle turnips veal vegetables venison vinegar wine yolks
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Page 12 - When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Page 99 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 21 - Have therefore ever more care that thou be beloved of thy wife, rather than thyself besotted on her ; and thou shalt judge of her love by these two observations: first, if thou perceive she have a care of thy estate, and exercise herself therein ; the other, if she study to please thee, and be sweet unto thee in conversation, without thy instruction; for love needs no teaching nor precept.
Page 99 - Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh ; for the drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Page 543 - Prepared calves-feet, apples, currants, raisins, and sugar, of each a pound ; beef suet, two pounds; with a rasped nutmeg, a quarter of an ounce of cloves, a quarter of an ounce of cinnamon, lemon zest, and a little salt.
Page 1 - SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE OF HIS SHIPWRECK, and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting Events in his Life, from 1733 to 1749. as written in his own Diary. Edited by Miss JANE PORTER.
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