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Eliza Smith

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The Compleat Housewife : or, Accomplifh'd Gentlewoman's Companion

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What you will find in the following Sheets, are Directions generally for dressing after the best, most natural and wholesome Manner,

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You may keep a collar of beef of two months in a liquor made of one quart of cyder and two stale small beer, boil'd with a handful of salt;

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When you have nicely picked and washed your greens, lay them in a cullender to drain, for if any cold water hang to them they will be tough;

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To marinate Smelts. Take your smelts, gut them neatly, wash and dry them, and fry them in oil ; lay them to drain and cool,

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And have in readiness a pickle made with vinegar, salt, pepper, cloves, mace, onion, horse-radish ; let it boil together for half an hour;

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To pickle mushrooms. Rub your mushrooms with a pice of flannel in a little water, and as you clean them, put others into your pot you design

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Eels to collar. SPLIT them down the belly, and take the bones out clean, make a seasoning with spice powder'd, and herbs chopt fine ;

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Stew it in, and roll them up, and sew a cloth over each eel, so boil them in a pickle as for tench, and when they are boiled enough,

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To make white Jelly of Quinces. Pare your quinces, and cut them in halves; then core and parboil them; when they are foft, take them up.....

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Cufh them through s ftrainer, but not too hard, only the clear juice. Take the weight of the juice in fine fugar; boil the fugar candy high,

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And put in your juice and let it scold a while, but not boil; if any froth arife, fkim it off and when you take it up, have ready a white...

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Preferved quince cut in fmall flices, laying them in the bottom of your glaffes, and pour your jelly to them; it will candy on the top....