butter
and flour, with some cockles and capers.
43. _To boil a_ LEG _of_ LAMB, _with the_ LOYN _fry'd about it_.
When your lamb is boil'd lay it in the dish, and pour upon it a little
parsley, butter and green gooseberries coddled, then lay your fried
lamb round it; take some small asparagus and cut it small like peas,
and boil it green; when it is boil'd drain it in a cullender, and lay
it round your lamb in spoonfuls.
Garnish your dish with gooseberries, and heads of asparagus in lumps.
This is proper for a bottom dish.
44. _A_ LEG _of_ LAMB _boil'd with_ CHICKENS _round it_.
When your lamb is boil'd pour over it parsley and butter, with coddled
gooseberries, so lay the chickens round your lamb, and pour over the
chickens a little white fricassy sauce. Garnish your dish with sippets
and lemon.
This is proper for a top dish.
45. _A Fricassy of_ LAMB _white_.
Take a leg of lamb, half roast it, when it is cold cut it in slices,
put it into a stew-pan with a little white gravy, a shalot shred fine,
a little nutmeg, salt, and a few shred capers; let it boil over the
stove whilst the lamb is enough; to thicken your sauce, take three
spoonfuls of cream, the yolks of two eggs, a little shred parsley, and
beat them well together, then put it into your stew-pan and shake it
whilst it is thick, but don't let it boil; if this do not make it
thick, put in a little flour and butter, so serve it up. Garnish your
dish with mushrooms, oysters and lemon.
46. _A brown Fricassy of_ LAMB.
Take a leg of lamb, cut it in thin slices and season it with pepper and
salt, then fry it brown with butter, when it is fried put it into your
stew-pan, with a little brown gravy, an anchovy, a spoonful or two of
white wine or claret, grate in a little nutmeg, and set it over the
stove; thicken your sauce with flour and butter. Garnish your dish with
mushrooms, oysters and lemon.
47. _To make_ PIG _eat like_ LAMB _in Winter_.
Take a pig about a month old and dress it, lay it down to the fire,
when the skin begins to harden you must take it off by pieces, and when
you have taken all the skin off, draw it and when it is cold cut it in
quarters and lard it with parsley; then roast it for use.
48. _How to stew a_ HARE.
Take a young hare, wash and wipe it well, cut the legs into two or
three pieces, and all the other parts the same bigness, beat them all
flat with a paste-pin, season it with nutmeg and salt, then
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