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To Make Mince pyes 72

Your meat must be muten or veall or both together which is better, it must
be free from Sinews of Skins— cut into lumps & pareboyled alitl
so that it will cut; then Laye it to coole & Sred it by its selfe
as allso the Sheuet by it Selfe, to 4 pd of meat you must have 4 pd
of beef Sheuet or [further] more, 2 pd pf reasens, 2 of Curance, a q^r
of an ounce fine ment, half an ounce of clovs & mace, & half
an ounce of nutmegs, halfe a pd of Shugar, a Sponefull of rose
water & Som lemmond peall & a litell salt to this you may
ad 6 sharp apells Sred Small. when its all well mingled keep
it all close coverd in an erthen pan tell you fill your pyes

To pickle pigeons 73

Take 24 Pigeons of the largest bone 12 of them & take the meat of the
Other dozen as free from the skins & strings as you can cutting off with
a knife & chop it small then shred a handfull of Lemmon tyme a handfull
of Marjoram a little parcely a little Common time & a little winter Savory
& put your herbs to the meat of your pigeons then take pepper & salt &
mace & nutmeg & season it to your tast then your boned pigeons & stuf
them with your seasoned meat & for your picle take water and salt
& whole peper season your water well & put the bones of all the pigeons into
& let them boil on the fire half an hour then put your stufed pigeons in
& let them boil an hour an half then take them out & drain them & when
your pigeons & pickle as Cold, put them together boil your pigeons in a
linnen bag sewn up round that no scum may get to your pigeons add
Common apill to your Stufing if you please you may keep them all winter
till new pigeons. Come—

To brown Butter 74

Take half a pound of Butter brown it in a frying pan very brown
you must melt the butter & boil it till it be very bown then put
in half a handfull of flower and put it over the fire again & keep
it stiring till it be brown take Care that it burns not too this
browned butter does finely mingle the Ingredients & gives the stufd fish
a high relish----

To joyn an earthen vessel 75

Take wax Rosin Brimston of each one ounce boil them together
& stir them well then heat the peeces of earthen ware against the fire
& joyn the stuff with a feather—