ice the apples, put
them in a pot, but more apples, than onions, and bake them with
houshold bread, close up the pot with paste or paper; when you use
them, butter them with butter, sugar, and boil'd currans, serve them
on sippets, and scrape on sugar and cinamon.

_Buttered Sparagus._

Take two hundred of sparagus, scrape the roots clean and wash them,
then take the heads of an hundred and lay them even, bind them hard
up into a bundle, and so likewise of the other hundred; then have a
large skillet of fair water, when it boils put them in, and boil
them up quick with some salt; being boil'd drain them, and serve
them with beaten butter and salt about the dish, or butter and
vinegar.

_Buttered Colliflowers._

Have a skillet of fair water, and when it boils put in the whole
tops of the colliflowers, the root being cut away, put some salt to
it; and being fine and tender boiled dish it whole in a dish, with
carved sippets round about it, and serve it with beaten butter and
water, or juyce of orange and lemon.

_Otherways._

Put them into boiling milk, boil them tender, and put to them a
little mace and salt; being finely boil'd, serve them on carved
sippets, the yolk of an egg or two, some boil'd raisins of the sun,
beaten butter, and sugar.

_To butter Quinces._

Roast or boil them, then strain them with sugar and cinamon, put
some butter to them, warm them together, and serve them on fine
carved sippets.

_To butter Rice._

Pick the rice and sift it, and when the liquor boils, put it in and
scum it, boil it not too much, then drain it, butter it, and serve
it on fine carved sippets, and scraping sugar only, or sugar and
cinamon.

Butter wheat, and French barley, as you do rice, but hull your wheat
and barley, wet the wheat and beat it in a sack with a wash-beetle,
fan it, and being clean hulled, boil it all night on a soft fire
very tender.

_To butter Gourds, Pumpions, Cucumbers or Muskmelons._

Cut them into pieces, and pare and cleanse them; then have a boiling
pan of water, and when it boils put in the pumpions, _&c._ with some
salt, being boil'd, drain them well from the water, butter them, and
serve them on sippets with pepper.

_Otherways._

Bake them in an oven, and take out the seed at the top, fill them
with onions, slic't apples, butter, and salt, butter them, and serve
them on sippets.

_Otherways._

Fry them in slices, being cleans'd & peel'd, eit